My Mum's Bad Diaries
by Jenny Ackland and Lilika May
Latest episode
Happy happy happy (Vol.7, 1984)
Happy happy happy (Vol.7, 1984)
About this podcast
You're invited to eavesdrop as a mother reads out her teenage diaries to her daughter. Funny, candid, poignant and brave, this podcast is both living memoir and an investigation into what makes (and breaks) a woman. No scripts, no prep; just 40-year-old (diary) gold being unearthed. Even Jenny doesn't know what's going to come up as she lays bare her inner teen world to her daughter Lilika. Their motto is 'we go there', so what could possibly go wrong?
Episodes
The newest 20 of 171 episodes
- Happy happy happy (Vol.7, 1984) · 1 h 1 min · Season 5 Episode 16Guess what! We are onto volume SEVEN!!! It's February 1984 and mum is living in the new terrace in Burnley with Patrick. We start the episode strong with a bullet point list that…
- SIDE CHAT (mr cefalu) · 9 min · Season 5 Episode 15oh it's another man and more talk about men. enjoy? We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
- SIDE CHAT (lily's proposal requirements) · 9 min · Season 5 Episode 15first stop for any beaus, listen in and take notes We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
- SIDE CHAT (jackie) · 12 min · Season 5 Episode 15listen to learn about lily's best friend jackie. We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
- The shift part 2 (Vol.6, 1984) · 1 h 18 min · Season 5 Episode 15We continue straight on with the reading in this, our part 2 of The Shift. Mum reads out a Christmas card from Doriane, and we talk about how we first learn about romantic…
- The shift (Vol.6, 1983) · 1 h 15 min · Season 5 Episode 14Hello and welcome to part 1 of this mega recording, which has spawned two episodes plus multiple side chats lol. We start by chatting about my 30th birthday and where I am in the…
- SIDE CHAT (mr bali - the denouement) · 58 min · Season 5 Episode 13welcome to part 2 of the mr bali side chat which we've had sitting in drafts for ages, since recording it november last year. long-time listeners will know that there was a boy…
- SIDE CHAT (mr bali) · 14 min · Season 5 Episode 12this is a short side chat we recorded back on 20 October last year while i was in a romantic whirlwind. facetiming for hours each night, dreaming of the future. as it turns out…
- Erroneous zones (Vol.6, 1983) · 1 h 40 min · Season 5 Episode 11Welcome to our next episode, it's a biggie and I'm patching in from old London-town, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Mum recorded a note at the beginning, about the…
- The Snap (Vol.6, 1983) · 44 min · Season 5 Episode 10We're straight into the reading and it's a short ep this time around! Sorry but we were pressed for time and needed to just get it DONE. Mum has her waitressing gig at the Palais…
- Initiation (Vol.6, 1983) · 43 min · Season 5 Episode 9Is it possible to spend a whole 20 mins chatting about MESS? We say yes, absolutely. We open up by talking about the problem of 'stuff' and our ongoing inability to find specific…
- Wunderbar Part 2 (Vol.6, 1983) · 1 h 7 min · Season 5 Episode 8And we're back, straight into the reading with part 2 to Wunderbar. Mum is seeing a lot of Patrick; there's kebabs, hot dogs, Maccas and Pizza Hut, and we remark on how our girl…
- Wunderbar Part 1 (Vol.6, 1983) · 1 h 19 min · Season 5 Episode 7This is Part 1 of a mega recording sesh. First we have an old person catch up (all things health including mum's knee and her new laser acupuncture appointments) and then it's…
- Enter... Patrick (Vol.6, 1983) · 1 h 14 min · Season 5 Episode 6We start recording while I'm out back sunning myself and mum is in studio, she understands how I like to multitask. We talk about health stuff then Summer House, and then it's…
- Rob me two times baby (Vol.6, 1983) · 1 h 13 min · Season 5 Episode 5We're straight out of the gate into the reading, back in September 1983, as this is part 2 of our mega-recording sesh. Mum has a sore throat and is feeling 'rotten' so no Golden…
- Snack attacks (Vol.6, 1983) · 1 h 8 min · Season 5 Episode 4Content note: we talk about food, diets and bodies + We start with a position of the planets catch up because this is an astrology podcast now. But mum isn't the only one…
- SIDE CHAT (ladies of london) · 14 min · Season 5 Episode 3Apologies to Margot, we call her 'nipples' during this side chat. Martha Sitwell is our new icon. ex eife of a baronet (who she cheerfully says rests at the bottom of the…
- Mum is broke (Vol.6, 1983) · 1 h 28 min · Season 5 Episode 3It's September 1983 and mum is counting coin, that's 1c and 2c pieces! But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Our intro, we range across some TV catch-ups including a quick…
- SIDE CHAT ('wuthering heights', hamnet) · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 2Strap yourselves in because we get our scathe on in this side chat which is possibly our longest! We wonder if Emerald is okay. We talk about how this is a scrapbook of a film, a…
- Vol-au-vents (Vol.6, 1983) · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 2And we're out of the gate with a quick acknowledgement that we're both feeling better than we did 2 weeks ago, mum is reducing her coffee, it's an ongoing odyssey for some…
