My Mum's Bad Diaries
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?
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 141
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
SIDE CHAT (hemingway)
Lily asks who is writing weird fic these days, Jenny mentions Ali Smith
Also chat about:
A biography Jenny just finished reading Everybody Behaves Badly, Lesley MM Blume (on Hemingway writing The Sun A…
Get bent, maaan (Vol.3, 1982)
I find out about Mum’s first doobie...
This episode we chat about the potential of me and Seth maybe moving in together, bad boys, the changing tattoo culture, William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying- a har…
SIDE CHAT (long dream, invisible boy)
Content note: contains mention of sexual assault (r*pe)
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SIDE CHAT (ep 8 debrief)
We chat about last week’s episode, about some issues and challenges, and how we're going to proceed with recording
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The Psych Guy!!! (Vol.3, 1982)
Content note: there is mention of sexual assault (r*pe) as well as food and dieting talk
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I find out that in the 80s you really had to just sit by the phone waiting for a guy to ring...
We start thi…
The black dog (Vol.3, 1982)
I find out that the Adam Ant obsession has only been going for one year...
Seriously how this that possible?! But it's true, this episode marks the one-year anniversary of Mum discovering Adam in Apri…
The boots are BOUGHT! (Vol.3, 1982)
Content note: negative self-talk, weight, body talk
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I find out what ‘hair that moves’ is...
We start this episode with a Very Important Announcement: I've cut all my hair off! All gone! It feels wei…
What the f*** is a flexipop!? (Vol.3, 1982)
I find out that INXS played O-Week at Melbourne University...
We start off discussing current world politics and my obsession with the Parisian riots and their storming of a Louis Vuitton shop -- th…
Dear John (Murfet) (Vol.3, 1982)
I find out that Pretenders tickets used to cost only $20…
This episode we chat (again) about AI (our new fave topic of obsession) and discuss the merits of Bing vs ChatGPT—seriously this has turned in…
When Dee kissed Braveheart (Vol.3, 1982)
I find out that Mum met Mel Gibson in a nightclub...!?
We start this episode with a correction after my best friend Jackie reminded me that I had in fact met a sailor...HER (though I will say that I w…
Write I shall (Vol.3, 1982)
I find out what an acoustic couplers is (or was)...
Mum is back in Melbourne and is still on the hunt for THE BOOTS, can’t find them and so naturally comforts herself by buying another leather belt fr…
Quiche with a K (Vol.3, 1982)
Content note: again this episode has some insensitive language around race.
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I find out that Mum doesn’t know how to spell quiche...
It’s 1982 and we’re still in Hong Kong as Mum waits for her Year 1…