Why Susannah Fielding Believes Every Parent Should Learn Attachment Theory
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week Gi reunites with her old friend Susannah Fielding! You’ll know Susannah from This Time with Alan Partridge, Man vs Baby, and Wolf Hall — but her most important role is being mum to her two-year-old son Alfie.
Susannah opens up to Gi about growing up with a single mother and an intermittently absent father, how those experiences shaped her relationships, and why she’s so focused on breaking cycles and not passing trauma on to her own child.
She also shares the story of her planned home birth that turned into an emergency C-section, the challenges she faced with breastfeeding, and what it’s been like returning to the theatre as a mum.
You can catch Susannah starring opposite Adrian Lester in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Noël Coward Theatre from 13th June.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum. |
| 0:09.0 | Today's guest is actually someone who was in my life about 18 years ago. |
| 0:13.6 | I'd done a play with someone that she knew and we started hanging out for a little while |
| 0:18.0 | and then life happened as it does. |
| 0:20.2 | So when her name popped up in my diary, I was so happy to see that we were going to be having |
| 0:25.3 | this chat. It's Susanna Fielding. She's an amazing actress. It was in theatre. A lot, got a lot |
| 0:30.6 | of awards for her theatre stuff, then went into a lot of TV work and is now going into |
| 0:36.5 | rehearsals for Serrano de Bergerac. |
| 0:39.1 | Now that's what I say it, common old meat. |
| 0:41.1 | She says it much more fancier and she also does it at the end of the French accent, which is amazing. |
| 0:46.6 | So it's worth listening to this episode just to hear saying Serrano de Boisurac in her French accent, if I'm honest. |
| 0:53.2 | In all of my research for this chat, |
| 0:56.3 | Susanna's not really spoken about, |
| 0:58.7 | well, she hasn't spoken about motherhood. |
| 1:00.3 | We could find zilch. |
| 1:02.5 | So much so that lovely producer Alex had to just make sure that she did have a child. |
| 1:06.7 | I knew that she had a child. |
| 1:08.2 | But she's just not spoken about it. |
| 1:09.9 | And that was really fun, |
| 1:11.7 | actually, going into this chat, knowing that, you know, she is someone I have a history with, |
| 1:17.2 | a very happy history with, and that I was going to learn about this whole area of her life, |
| 1:22.4 | along with you, about how motherhood has presented itself, I guess, in the last few years. We talk a lot about |
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