Between the Ears - Other Mothers

Between The Ears Other Mothers Parenthood isn't just about watching your kids. Sometimes it's about watching each other. The writer Kate Clanchy asked women across the country to talk about the other mothers around them: "Other mothers never spend the day watching Spongebob." "Other mothers walk past me without a glance." "Other mothers get what one of those days is." The result is a dark, funny radio poem which explores our deepest divides - and our brightest areas of unity. with Adjoa Andoh and Zita Sattar. Research by Matilda James. Additional material by Emily Waples. Produced by Jonquil Panting Kate Clanchy won both the 2009 BBC National Short Story Award and the VS Pritchett Memorial Award with THE NOT-DEAD AND THE SAVED. Her books include ANTIGONA AND ME, a bruisingly perceptive account of the political and domestic fallout of her friendship with a Kosovan refugee which won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Book of 2008, and three award-winning collections of poetry: SAMARKAND, SLATTERN and NEWBORN. She is also a frequent broadcaster, a regular contributor to The Guardian and has written several notable plays for Radio Four, including THE CURRS; MICHAL, SAUL'S DAUGHTER and ABISHAG THE VIRGIN (Part of the Kings serieS); ALL THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, THE TRUELOVE FILE, and a dramatisation of Dorothy Porter's verse novel THE MONKEY'S MASK. For the BBC Poetry Season, she co-presented with fellow poet Paul Farley an exploration of Larkin's verse on a train through 'Larkinland' in CHILDREN OF THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS.