Author Marcy Dermansky on being a writer and single mum
What’s it like to raise a seven-year-old daughter singlehandedly while writing and editing novels? We talk to Marcy Dermansky, author of critically acclaimed The Red Car, about writing, motherhood and...
View ArticleThe best three podcasts you’ll ever hear
It’s a bit like a story tape – lulling, engaging – but you can listen on your phone, making podcasts the ideal early morning companion. Robert Knight talks us through his top three… (This was...
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Life through a lens: Jenny Lewis, photographer
“My first rolls of film were shot when I was 17 – so before university – volunteering in a Romanian orphanage. Their raw honesty still make it hard for me to look at them.” Photographer Jenny Lewis on...
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Daddy Style: a white shirt, styled three ways
Daisy Horswill was menswear senior stylist at asos for seven years and is now freelancing for various menswear retailers. She shares tips for how to wear a casual white shirt three ways, daddy style…...
View ArticlePoem: Raising a boy, as a feminist
On the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the editor Annie Ridout was in hospital having just given birth to a baby boy. Here, she reflects on what it means to be raising a boy in 2017… I couldn’t...
View ArticleBrigid McConville: Tales of new fatherhood
Brigid McConville is director of The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood UK and an award-winning writer. Here, she shares stories from her book On Becoming a Mother about the father’s role in...
View ArticleEarly Learning: LGBT Books for Kids
He takes traditional fairytales and introduces homosexual, transgender and racially diverse characters, as well as wheelchair users. We meet Olly Pike to talk early mornings, equality and LGBT books...
View ArticleEarly Music: Rosalind Plowright, opera singer
Internationally acclaimed opera singer Rosalind Plowright was on Desert Island Discs in 1984. Over thirty years later, the mother-of-two is still performing. Here, she discusses childhood music and...
View ArticleThe Museum of London Docklands’ Toddler takeover
If you’re looking for a fun, creative weekend with your family, head to the Museum of London Docklands on 20 & 21 May for their Toddler takeover family festival. Jungle sensory, storytelling and...
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“Single mums are portrayed in a very particular, very negative way”
Libby Liburd, the writer of one-woman theatre piece Muvvahood, discusses why she decided to create her show, the stigma attached to single mums and how she makes her performances inclusive of other...
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