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Episode 189: Catherine Anne Davies aka The Anchoress

July 06, 2026

Catherine Anne Davies is better known by her stage name The Anchoress. She is a musician, producer and a former academic, which results in her providing a fascinating reading list with her art pop albums, of poems and other writing that inspired her.After many losses, Catherine had a successful 7th pregnancy and her daughter is now 5 years old. She told me how becoming a mum radicalised her, and also how she kept her new motherhood a secret for two and a half years. Cather...

Episode 188: Honey Spencer

June 29, 2026

Honey Spencer is a wine expert who has two little boys aged 6 and 1. She and her husband Charlie run a neighbourhood restaurant called ‘Sune’ in Hackney in East London, which she describes as feeling ‘wholesome and right’.Honey told me that Georgia is the birthplace of wine, and how she is a fan of ‘skin contact’ wine. She also described how vineyards are like the ‘canary in the coal mine’ of climate change.Honey has written a book about natural (organic) wines and is the wine director o...

Episode 187: Lisa Oxenham

June 22, 2026

Lisa Oxenham is a mum to Eliza who’s 10 and to Wolfgang who’s nine and a half months old. She started out as beauty editor at More magazine and then worked for Marie Claire magazine for 20 years concentrating on beauty and, later, on wellness too.Lisa became a mum for the second time at the age of 50 and she now has her own YouTube channel concentrating on wellness and motherhood.She told me how she hit fertility problems in her 40s but her determination to have a sibling for Eliza meant...