The Clearing Podcast Ad-Free: Caitlin Moran

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Hello,

Caitlin Moran is something of an icon here in the UK. Growing up as the eldest of eight children in a three-bed council flat, home educated from the age of 11, she became a published author at just 16 and a TV presenter not long after that. A long-time columnist for The Times, she has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the UK’s funniest writers. She is also a massive fan of Wintering - so much so her new book contains an entire chapter devoted to it.

Caitlin joins me for a conversation that was never going to be anything but brilliantly bonkers. We discuss her plan to rid the world of evil billionaires that basically involves being a madam; why she would pay a thousand pounds to hear the sound of a blackbird from Wolverhampton in the 1980s and ask; grottos - the Temu of caves?

Her unique vision of splendour for her escape to The Clearing, involving ‘the greatest building that humans have ever come up with’, provokes a particularly visceral reaction from me.

Just to warn you, this being Caitlin, the episode contains a spot of swearing.

Links from the episode:

Caitlin’s new book How to Be Hopeful

Caitlin’s Outsiding Podcast

Caitlin’s Instagram

Production Credits

Guest Booker and Admin Support - Meghan Hutchins

Substack Manager - Rebecca Armstrong

Producer - Alice Lloyd

Music - The Leaf Library theleaflibrary

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