About this episode

Caitlin Moran joins Alan for a fascinating chat about various topics including Japan, gardening, and her new book.

Caitlin Moran joins Alan for a fascinating chat about Japan, her new gardening podcast with Adam Frost Outsiding, the incredible British history of Oak trees, Liz Taylor and Caitlin's brilliant new book How to be Hopeful which is out in September. Don't miss this flight's quite literal climax at the end! Listen to/watch - Outsiding: https://open.spotify.com/show/033CJY22Urz2BLJK792QRZ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Alan Carr

Guest: Caitlin Moran

Topics covered

• gardening
• British history
• Japan
• literature
• podcasting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Outsiding

Books & works: How to be Hopeful

Places: Japan, Oak trees

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