Media & Podcasts
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A Hot Cup of Tea With Hollie McNish
Hollie has a cup of tea and honest chats about birth, sex and parenthood with a host of mates, family and new friends.
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The Female Lead
What are the moments that shape us? In this podcast from The Female Lead, brilliant women talk about the key moments that have made them who they are.
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Meet Me At The Museum
Jackie takes Hollie to Glasgow Women’s Library, where they delve into a rich collection of artefacts, artwork and materials tracing women’s history through the ages.
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Something Borrowed
A beautiful podcast created by Harry Baker featuring an interview between Harry and Hollie and readings from them both.
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Shakespeare And Company
Poetry, class, and radical performance, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen.
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How To Be Sad
Helen Russell talks all things sadness, grief and grandmothers with poet Hollie McNish.
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Radio 4 Night Watch
Four women from different parts of Britain share stories of street harassment. Woven through this feature is a new, specially commissioned poem by Hollie McNish called Streetlights.
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How to Own the Room
Viv Groskop talks to poet Hollie McNish about the value of working out your own way to do something – even if it takes time. Hollie discusses her efforts to unlearn society’s unhelpful lessons about being female, including frank conversations with her grandmother.
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Irish Times: The Women's Podcast
In this episode, McNish talks to Róisín Ingle about her life and career, women’s bodies, her amazing grandmothers, her posh Cambridge education and growing up in the same village as Kate Middleton. Hollie also performs two brilliant poems from Slug.
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Hollie unpicks her memories of how girls were shamed at school if they admitted to masturbating. She talks about why it’s so important to be honest about sex, pleasure and consent when talking to your children, and the dark and dangerous places shame can lead us.
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Open Book
Johny Pitts talks to poet Hollie McNish about her new book Slug and other things I've been told to hate. A collection of Hollie's poetry and prose continues her exploration of the human condition: from birth to death, parenthood, and the female body.
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The Therapy Edit
On this episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna chats with poet Hollie McNish and asks her for her One Thing. Hollie’s One Thing is that as mothers we shouldn’t pass on our feelings of shame to our children. Listeners of this episode will be treated to Hollie reading aloud her poetry on the subject.
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Getting Personal
Your weekly dose of emotional conversations as journalist Daphne Bugler and early years educator Isabella Hobbs chat with your favourite faces about the highs and lows of life. Guest Hollie McNish.
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School for Mothers
Finding power in the things we’re told to hate. We explore my upcoming book “SLUG and other things I was told to hate” and SO much more. We talk masturbation, grief, feminism, being blunt and of course, poetry.
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Griefcast
Griefcast is a podcast that examines the human experience of grief and death - but with comedians, so ir’s cheerier than it sounds. Hollie McNish talks to Cariad Lloyd about her Gran, dressing up and the original Santa. Warning: avoid listening to this around kids who believe in Santa.
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Spinning plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Hollie talk here about touring and mothering, the highs, lows, practicalities of tour management and how sometimes, it all goes a bit to pot!
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We, The Poets
Hollie McNish talks about creativity, criticism (including that PN Review moment), why simplicity in writing takes real craft, and how Hollie balances poetry and motherhood (including the story of her daughter quietly sitting behind the curtain at gigs).