Funny Mummies

On the Show today host  Hatty Ashdown is joined by Sara Barron ( Live At the Apollo) and your fav regular Comedian Gemma  Beagly. This one is  not for the easily offended !!They all laughed and raged on in the shared experience of having to home school primary BOYS ! Warning there are swears - We discuss Parents  that ask for more work , Patience,  Teachers,  and why does 'do what you can' get's G...

Host Hatty Ashdown is joined by two of her oldest pals  Actress Jessica Claire (Peep Show , Pennyworth ) Writer Vicky Donoghue ( Mudlarks, The Gift & The Piper BBC radio 4 ). It's a lovely warm, fun and honest show as Hatty chats to friends she's known since before becoming a mum and show biz, so there's no hiding for Hatty. In a shift back to our original panel show format they discuss the to...

Host Hatty Ashdown and Gemma Beagley are joined by Actress Laura Checkley ( King Gary, Detectorists,In my skin,  Military Wife's )- The last in our series of celebrating TV mums and what a way to end  the series with the multitalented  actress Laura Checkly, who plays mum Terri in  BBC's comedy  King Gary. We talk Pauline Quirk Academy, Stealing a G&T Glass,  Fav TV mum - Barbra Royal, plastic...

Host Hatty Ashdown and Gemma Beagley are joined by Comedy legend Josie Long -  An Award winning comic, Film maker, writer and Presenter of BBC 4 S hort Cuts, regular TV panellist for many shows  News Quiz, QI, Celebrity Master Chief, Bear Grills, recently Won The Chase and is mum of one daughter .  Now a regular to the show we had lots of laughs discussing our love for super market  shopping- espe...

Host Hatty Ashdown and Gemma Beagley are joined by stand up and actor Michelle De Swarte co-star of the new Netflix Series The Dutchess Staring and created by Kathern Ryan . They talk Botox , Peggy Mitchelle and Mums that make Smash.  Michelle is a comedian, TV presenter and actress. She plays Katherine Ryan's best friend 'Bev' and mum of four  in new Netflix series  The Duchess . Her TV presentin...

Host Hatty Ashdown and Gemma Beagley are joined by award winning comedian and writer Holly Walsh (writer of TV's Motherland and The Other One) to talk mum wine o'clock, creepy kids and writing. Holly Walsh is an award winning comedian and writer. Winner of the Chortle Newcomer Award, Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee, has appeared on Live at the Apollo, QI, Have I Got News For You and many more shows...

For our Mums on TV series Hatty & Gemma are  joined by Actress Tanya Moodie -   Motherland , Star wars, Discovery of Witches and Olivier nominated . Tanya joined the hit BBC  comedy  about mums in its second series and this year picked up a RTS award for best break through artist for her role as Meg. This was such a fun high octane chat we all needed -  They discussed takeaway choices/ dealing...

We are so excited to bring you this new series titled MUMS ON TV !  Host Hatty Ashdown is joined by regular panellist  Gemma Beagly as they chat about some of their favourite Mums from American and British TV past and present . Why they love them , how maybe they shaped them as mums and Hatty shares a cringing anecdote about re-acting a scene from one her favourite mums in a Drama school audition...

Host Hatty Ashdown and her podcast birthing partner Gemma Beagly bring the Birth stories series to a close with their last guest in the series . Writer and Actress lizzie Bates (  Boom Jennies, Winner of the BAFTA Rocliffe sitcom competition, BBC Radio 4 sitcom Mission improbable). They talk having a baby in lockdown, IVF, trying to write comedy when your heart broken and night swimming . Plus our...

Host Hatty Ashdown and Gemma Beagly dial up over zoom with Actress , writer, single mum of one Alexis Strum( ITV'S Time wasters, SK'S  Wannabe, Funny Women Survival Guide podcast) . We find out about her positive  birth experience of a relatively stress free pre planned C-Section . We also chat confidence post baby , keeping busy in the pandemic, how she handles the highs and lows of the unpredict...

BIRTH STORIES ( *TRIGGER WARNING ) Host Hatty Ashdown is delighted to be joined by the French and Fabulous single mum of one award winning comedian Arielle Souma ( BBC New Comedy Award '"She is just what the comedy industry needs and should be forced upon every audience until they buckle under her spell "- Frankie Boyle.  Arielle takes us back 23 years ago when Natalie Imbruglia was number 1 in th...

Host Hatty Ashdown is happy once again to be back recording this episode at Soho radio in a lovely studio with a  real life Esther Mantio in front of her - Comedian, Writer and mum of two  (  Arab woman of the year nominee, BBC  New Comedy award winner, , Published author of 'Don't Panic I'm Islamic)    Esther has performed at our club Screaming with laughter ( lunch time comedy club where baby ca...

  (Trigger warning ) In this short series Host Hatty Ashdown talks to guests about their birth experience, so to kick us off we  ofcourse had to hear first from  our regular guest Gemma Beagly and our host Hatty This episode is an extra long show as we manage to squeeze in three births , lots of bus trips , lots of poos,  water , hair clips, tears, mums and stitches . All held together with a wate...

Host Hatty Ashdown is so excited to be back in the studio again she's having party, and she's invited  regular  co-host Gemma Beagly . With the Pandemic Many a mums have breathed a sigh of relief that  atleast the pressure is off to have a  big party for your kids. We talk the benefits of  lock down birthdays, our own childhood parties , school disco out fits and slow dances. All in all not giving...

This week Hatty is excited to be back in the Soho Radio studio with funny mummy Victoria Emes (Instagram @victoriaemes). They talk boobs, bottles and being sucked dry, as well as Instagram and selecting their favourite Northern Soul tracks for the show.     This episode was recorded on 23/07/2020 (full episode broadcast on Soho Radio 20/08/2020) in association with Screaming With Laughter comedy c...

Series Two- Chapter 2 as we come kicking out of the lock in !    Join Hatty and Gemma as they catch up with FM favourite Margret Cabourne-Smith ( Miranda,Catastrophe, The Hustle , DTRT podcast). We chatted about clip on fringes , School swimming lessons , not being picked for net ball , the pain of watching your kid struggle at sports and does not being able to throw a shot put or run really matte...

Welcome to Series 2- our check in on the lock in special , where we catch up with Funny mummies in the pandemic .    Its taken a pandemic for Host Hatty Ashdown and Gemma Beagly to finally secure   the very hard working  stand up , writer and mum of three Sindhu Vee( Live at the Apollo, Sky Arts,BBC Radio 4 )  to the Funny Mummies table. Sindhu talks about  corona virus, taking pain relief in birt...

Weekly series special  as we check in on our funny mummies in the lock in! This week Hatty and her comedy partner Gemma Beagly manage to get hold of stand-up, writer, improviser and mum of one  Athena Kugblenu (BBC new comedy award finalist, BBC Radio 4 news quiz, ,loose ends, guilty feminist co-host and Keeping Athena Company Podcast )  We go through Athena's birth story and how waiting two weeks...

Series 2 - Check in on the lock in series special  Hatty and funny mummy Gemma call up journalist, author and fellow podcaster Viv Groskop ( How to Own the Room ) to speak about her latest book Lift as You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition . In this week's episode, Viv talks about her inspiration for the book, what it means to push yourself forward and how to do it without stepping on other wom...

Hatty and Gemma check in with comedian, writer and actor ( Edinburgh Award nominee, Live at the Apollo, Motherland and her podcast Hoovering ) Jessica Fostekew. They discuss lock down eating; take aways; Jess' shares her sons magical moment; the frustration when kids wont even try stuff; what Jess has learnt from her podcast about peoples eating habits; The exhaustion of bad eating habits and how...

Welcome to this new weekly series of the Funny Mummies Podcast, where hosts Hatty and Gemma check-in on the lock in with a different Funny Mummy each week .  This week Hatty Ashdown and comedy chum Gemma Beagly are joined by the very articulate, down to earth writer, and stand up Jenny Laville. All this time with the same people could definitely be testing our patience, but will it make us more pa...

Series 2  The Funny Mummies Special Check in on the lock in .  In this new series we check in with some of our past Funny mummies to see how they are In this pandemic and meet some new ones  : May 2020    Episode 17  Lucy Frederick - Holding your sh*t  in as a Step Mum    Hatty Ashdown is joined by regular panellist Gemma Beagley and guest  Lucy Frederick ( Edinburgh show ‘Famtastic ‘, Funny Women...

THE FUNNY MUMMIES SPECIAL - CHECK IN ON THE LOCK-IN To kick off our weekly lock in specials, host Hatty Ashdown and her favourite Funny Mummy, Gemma Beagly, caught up over video call with Bafta nominated actor Kerry Howard ( Him and her, Witless, Give out Girls ) about being a single mum. From moving into a new home just weeks before lock down, home schooling (what the hell is a split diagrah?), t...

Episode 15 ADVICE Join host, Hatty, and Gemma Beagly with guest panellist Margret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda, Motherland, Do The Right Thing Podcast) in a fantastic show which was recorded live at the Bedford in Balham . We dispel old wife’s tales true or false. The best advice is how to take advice! Margaret stuns us to silence with two stories, one about a huge baby and the other about some of the w...

The show you’ve all been waiting for. Join Hatty Ashdown and Gemma Beagly (just the two of them!) as they discuss friendship. The struggle to find fellow female comedy friends in the old days when lineups were low on fannies. Is masturbation an icebreaker with new mum-mates? Is the mark of a good friend just someone that you don’t even have to say anything to? Are soulmate-mates more important tha...