In my second conversation with Lisa, she tells the story of being in New Zealand with her family as the pandemic emerged near her home in Shanghai. After extending their holiday for a few weeks, they return home and adjust to living alongside covid-19 in China.

Series 1 of the Motherworldly podcast is about feminist issues in motherhood.

Andrea Freeman is Associate Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law. Freeman writes and researches at the intersection of critical race theory and issues of food policy, health, and consumer credit.

She talks to Karen about her book, Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice, the story of the exploitation of the Fultz quadruplets in 1940s America.

The lockdown miniseries of the Motherworldly Podcast explores how the pandemic is affecting the lives of women.

Jenny Harmer is a Heath Visitor/breastfeeding specialist in South London and one half of the I am a Health Visitor Podcast. Prior to health visiting she was a paediatric A&E nurse. She lives with her husband & three children (two human one greyhound!) and has rediscovered cross-stitch during lockdown.

This is the lockdown miniseries: how is the pandemic impacting on the lives of women all over the world?

Nicola Sheldon lives in Thatcham and is an active member of her local community, volunteering in several organisations supporting women and babies. She has three young boys and is a full time carer to her second child Thomas who has complex disabilities.

This mini-series is about families in lockdown. How are people coping with the challenges, and what moments of celebration do they find?

Bronwen Wilson Rashad has done many weird and wonderful things but is currently Head of Enterprise and Training at OTR Bristol, a youth mental health service. She's got three children and lives happily on her own in the Wye Valley.

Series 1 of the Motherworldly Podcast is about feminist issues in motherhood.

Louise and I talk about being a woman in science and industry, being a northerner, and being in the Women's Equality Party.

Series 1 of the Motherworldly Podcast is about feminist issues in motherhood.

Dr Sophie Harman is Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary's University of London. She has written recently about the government response to the coronavirus pandemic and its implications for women. In this interview she points out how women are upholding the economy both in their paid and their unpaid labour, and we do manage to find a few positives in the situation

Series 1 of the Motherworldly Podcast is about feminist issues in motherhood.

Lisa is one of my oldest friends, living the high life in Shanghai. She talks about the adjustments she and her family have had to make in the last few weeks, and their impact on her work and family life.

Series 1 of the Motherworldly Podcast is about feminist issues in motherhood.

Rahila Gupta talks about her epic work The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong, fighting for the rights of her disabled child, and creative writing with BAME survivors of domestic violence.

Series 3 of the Motherworldly podcast is about books: reading them, writing them, not writing them.

Anyone with any connection at all to academia will find this fascinating. Petra writes about being well in academia (actually that's the title of the book!) and we talk about this with specific reference to students and staff returning to school and uni after lockdown.