Here's Looking at You, Parents!

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At home, surrounded by their own parenting paraphernalia, comedy couple Josie Long and Jonny Donahoe leap into the fictional and factual world of parenting to discover what lessons we can learn or lose from our TV and Radio counterparts. Script writers from every generation have embraced parents, and the misadventures of mums and dads have kept TV and Radio in business for decades. In the early days, it was all about showing us how it 'should' be done, but in recent years writers have reflected back to us what we’re really like! But as family set ups have evolved from mum and dad, to mum and mum, dad and dad or mums or dad, the writers have followed suit. Parents have provided them with a seemingly endless source of material which in turn has provided us with ideas on better parenting or simply reassured us that we’re not the only ones doing it badly. From 'Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em' to 'Motherland', sit back, relax and enjoy a journey of parenting mayhem and memories that will unite us all! Featuring: * TV writer and critic, Michael Hogan * Jennifer Traig, author of Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting * Dr Charlotte Faircloth, Lecturer in Sociology of Gender at UCL. Producer: Nicola Humphries First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2019.