Kat Lister's guest appearances

Kat Lister

Griefcast

The Breakup Monologues with Rosie Wilby

The Art of Losing Podcast

OwlTail

Hal Cruttenden

Zoe Lyons

Rebecca Humphries

Sangeeta Pillai

In a brief break between live episodes, Rosie presents some recent highlights recorded at Brighton Spiegeltent, Poplar Union and Green Man festival. Please note that the clip of Kat Lister at Green Man is a little quieter than the others due to the nature of recording at festivals.    You can now follow The Breakup Monologues on Instagram @breakupmonologues and buy The Breakup Monologues book from all good bookshops: https://linktr.ee/breakupmonologues   The Breakup Monologues will also be recording live episodes at Norwich Arts Centre on 27 July: https://norwichartscentre.co.uk/event/the-breakup-monologues/

In a brief break between live episodes, Rosie presents some recent highlights recorded at Brighton Spiegeltent, Poplar Union and Green Man festival. Please note that the clip of Kat Lister at Green Man is a little quieter than the others due to the nature of recording at festivals.    You can now follow The Breakup Monologues on Instagram @breakupmonologues and buy The Breakup Monologues book from all good bookshops: <a href="https://linktr.ee/breakupmonologues" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/breakupmonologues</a>   The Breakup Monologues will also be recording live episodes at Norwich Arts Centre on 27 July: <a href="https://norwichartscentre.co.uk/event/the-breakup-monologues/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://norwichartscentre.co.uk/event/the-breakup-monologues/</a>

Bonus Highlights Episode with Hal Cruttenden, Zoe Lyons, Rebecca Humphries, Sangeeta Pillai and Kat Lister 

In a live episode recorded in Einstein’s Garden at Green Man Festival, Rosie shares a chapter from The Breakup Monologues book and chats to author Kat Lister and comedian Meryl O’Rourke about untangling the differences and similarities between a breakup and a bereavement, how time feels elastic when we experience grief, how humour can help us after loss, the fetishisation of young widows, how and when to start dating again and reclaim your sexuality after a bereavement, how the physicality of sex can sometimes help in times of grief… and finding out that the person who you thought had ghosted you was actually deported for stealing body parts. Recorded at Green Man Festival on 21 August 2022. You can now follow The Breakup Monologues on Instagram @breakupmonologues and buy The Breakup Monologues book from all good bookshops: https://linktr.ee/breakupmonologues The Breakup Monologues will also be recording a live episode at Rich Mix on September 24 as part of Fringe! Queer Film &amp; Arts Fest: https://richmix.org.uk/events/live-podcast-recording-the-breakup-monologues/ Follow Kat on Twitter: @Madame_George Follow Meryl on Twitter: @MerylORourke

In a live episode recorded in Einstein’s Garden at Green Man Festival, Rosie shares a chapter from The Breakup Monologues book and chats to author Kat Lister and comedian Meryl O’Rourke about untangling the differences and similarities between a breakup and a bereavement, how time feels elastic when we experience grief, how humour can help us after loss, the fetishisation of young widows, how and when to start dating again and reclaim your sexuality after a bereavement, how the physicality of sex can sometimes help in times of grief… and finding out that the person who you thought had ghosted you was actually deported for stealing body parts. Recorded at Green Man Festival on 21 August 2022. You can now follow The Breakup Monologues on Instagram @breakupmonologues and buy The Breakup Monologues book from all good bookshops: <a href="https://linktr.ee/breakupmonologues" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/breakupmonologues</a> The Breakup Monologues will also be recording a live episode at Rich Mix on September 24 as part of Fringe! Queer Film &amp; Arts Fest: <a href="https://richmix.org.uk/events/live-podcast-recording-the-breakup-monologues/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://richmix.org.uk/events/live-podcast-recording-the-breakup-monologues/</a> Follow Kat on Twitter: @Madame_George Follow Meryl on Twitter: @MerylORourke

Live from Green Man Festival 2022  - with Kat Lister and Meryl O’Rourke

My guest on this episode is author and journalist Kat Lister (Sunday Times Magazine, Vice, Vogue). Her first book - The Elements: A Memoir of Grief, Loss and Transformation will be published by Icon Books in September 2021. It is a "powerful investigation of grief and loss" framed around her experiences of becoming a widow in her mid-thirties. Part exploration of grief theories and cultural attitudes towards death, part memoir, "What emerges is an idea of grieving as an elemental change". Last year I spoke to Kat about the loss of her husband in August 2018, writer and editor Pat Long, as we talked about anticipatory grief in the face of a terminal diagnosis, and the very physical manifestations of loss on the female body.