Lessons From Our Mothers
What’s the most important thing you’ve learnt from your mum? How have the maternal figures in your life shaped you? In Lessons from Our Mothers, sisters Isabella and Cressida explore the wisdom, love, and lessons passed down through generations. They speak with remarkable people like Kate Winslett, Mary Berry, Alain de Botton and Dr Shefali about the maternal figures - biological or not - who influenced them. The life lessons they’ve carried forward, the things they’ve chosen to leave behind, and how certain experiences have informed the way they parent. Whether they had a strong relationship or a more complicated one, they reflect on how that bond - or absence of it - helped shape who they are today. Thoughtful and heartfelt, these conversations uncover the power and importance of motherhood in all its forms.
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- Sarah Hoover: “ I was allergic to being a mother. It was the worst thing that could have happened to me, and I felt monstrous for thinking that way” 08.06.2025
- Jonathan Haidt: “All of these things are designed to take over your child's life” 01.06.2025
- Camila Alves McConaughey: “Finding the balance of giving them everything I think they deserve and also what I think I deserve, is a challenge” 25.05.2025
- Mishal Husain: “She really liberated me - she said, your life is completely different from mine, you've got to pursue the talents God's given you” 18.05.2025
- Alain de Botton: “Children will smell their parents' compromises, neuroses - to force the parent towards maturity" 11.05.2025
- Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice: “We'd have to do 10 of these recordings to really get into the many different things she's done for us” 04.05.2025
- Giovanna Fletcher: “I don't remember my mum playing with us…you might not be the one chasing kids around, but you are creating their safe spaces” 27.04.2025
- Dr Shefali: “Allow your child to be who it is they are” 20.04.2025
- Mary Berry: “ She died at 105, and how lucky was I that she still had her mind?” 13.04.2025
- Karl Lokko: “I started to understand the mother I had the first time I got arrested” 06.04.2025
- Clover Stroud: "Motherhood destroys who you are, yet completely makes you" 30.03.2025
- Trailer: Lessons From Our Mothers 19.03.2025
