NEW EPISODES OF THE TRAP DOOR PODCAST INCLUDE TAMARA HARVEY AND
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE
The Trap Door podcast today announces upcoming episode guests, including West End director Tamara Harvey on May 15, and comedian Marcus Brigstocke on June 12. Other announced guests include Paul Ready and Harry Peacock.
On the next episode, Tamara Harvey sits down with host Sophie Black to talk about having children later in life, and the challenges of beginning her tenure as Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd as a brand new mum: “I suddenly realised I was in the very privileged position of having a job and therefore not worrying about whether people weren’t going to employ me in the immediate future because of being a mum. Therefore, probably, I had a responsibility to talk about it, and to breastfeed in auditions, and to breastfeed in board meetings, and to talk about those challenges. And it’s something’s that continued to feel important to continue to talk about it… it just feels like all of us have got to start talking about it more.”
Fighting daily with the chaos, joy and absurdity that only parenting can bring, seasoned radio producer Sophie Black launched the podcast The Trap Door, talking to comedians, actors, writers and other people in the public eye about the emotional impact of having children, and how it has altered the relationships with their partners, families, careers and sense of self.
Recently released episodes include BAFTA winning actress Katherine Parkinson, star of the Oliver Award-winning production Home, I’m Darling; and actress and comedian Hayley Jayne Standing.
Katherine Parkinson talked to Sophie about balancing motherhood with being in a West End show, and pursuing acting opportunities as a new mother (https://bit.ly/2DztCip): “When my youngest was born I decided to get quite fat in pregnancy and enjoy myself because I was looking forward to a long period off, and then this big sexy job came through, Humans, and I was like literally sort of in a bowl of triple choc M&S cereal, breastfeeding her thinking ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to be on camera in a few minutes!”
Hayley Jayne Standing spoke about her struggles in getting pregnant, and working throughout the traumatic experience of terminating her non-viable pregnancy (https://bit.ly/2Vl94oR): “I was booked in to this BBC writers’ week away to Preston… I had the termination on the Saturday and I still went on this writing thing on the Monday to Thursday where you were like pitching your ideas and stuff, and I didn’t tell anyone what had happened. I just went to this thing in the middle of nowhere and just kept it to myself. I felt it was the right thing to do because I thought it was a good opportunity for work and I didn’t want to turn it down! But actually, it was a bit crazy because I’d dealt with something quite emotional and yet I was pitching for Cbeebies and CBBC shows”
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From May 15, The Trap Door will be sponsored by Bea & Co., a unique London members’ agency specialising in providing families and organisations with excellent child care from the highest quality creative people.
Sophie Black regularly produces the highly successful podcasts Nick Clegg’s Anger Management and Remainiacs and frequently contributes audio stories for BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts. She has worked as a radio producer for almost 20 years starting off at BBC GLR and leaving there to help launch BBC 7 in 2002. Since then she has produced radio programmes, podcasts and short-form content across all the major BBC radio networks and independent outlets including the award-winning Prison Radio Association. In 2014 she produced Raw Meat Radio, a 3 hour Chris Morris special for BBC Radio 4 Extra which received much critical acclaim.
Sophie is also a comedy writer – she was nominated for the Edinburgh Best Newcomer Award in 2006 as part of a sketch group called Fat Tongue and went on to appear in TV shows such as 10 O’Clock Live, Anna & Katy, The Royal Wedding Crashers, Lee Kern’s Celebrity Bedlam and Comedy Shuffle. She also wrote, starred in and produced the film Single White Feline for the BBC which went on to get over 3 million hits online.
Artwork by Henry Petrides
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