Laura Marling’s Wild Second Home Birth: "My Daughter Was Downstairs Watching Paddington!"

About this episode

Laura Marling discusses her experiences with home births and her new children's music project.

This week Giovanna welcomes legendary singer-songwriter Laura Marling to the studio! Laura tells Gi about her early fears that becoming a mother might stifle her creativity, and shares her experiences of having two home births. She also discusses her mission to create children's music that parents can genuinely enjoy, and introduces her new venture, 'Laura Sings Raffi,' a 17-track cover album of beloved children's songs. Each song is brought to life with videos illustrated by Laura and animated by Rob Shuttleworth. Out now at Laurasings.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Giovanna Fletcher

Guest: Laura Marling

Topics covered

• home birth
• motherhood
• creativity
• children's music
• parenting

Keywords

• home birth
• Laura Marling
• children's music
• parenting
• creativity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Laura Sings Raffi

Books & works: Paddington

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