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Your Mum

Laura Smyth sits down with some incredible guests to find out about their mums and explore the many faces of ‘motherhood’.

Radio 4,6 episodes

Episodes

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1. Janine Harouni and Russell Kane
Mob moss mums and helicopter parenting.
25 Jun 2025,28 mins
2. Jess Fostekew and Bobby Mair
From child prodigies to college orgies.
25 Jun 2025,28 mins
3. Helen Bauer and Thanyia Moore
Gangsters, ghosts and international disgrace.
25 Jun 2025,28 mins
4. Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Olga Koch
Farming, fist-fights and freaky fad diets.
25 Jun 2025,28 mins
5. Iain Stirling and Arlene Phillips
Breaststroke, babying and boxed wine.
25 Jun 2025,28 mins
6. Jo Brand and Eshaan Akbar
Renouncing Catholicism and sweet-talking soldiers.
25 Jun 2025,28 mins