The Family podcast

The Family Podcast: Older mums

Dr Luisa Dillner and India Knight join Miranda Sawyer to discuss mums in their 40s, unusual Christmas celebrations and author Lemn Sissay's playlist

Audio | The Family Podcast: Lesbian mothers

Miranda Sawyer is joined this month by the Guardian's Jon Henley and writer and performer Rachel Mars to discuss gay parents, James Ellroy's memoirs and the technology gap between parents and kids

The Family Podcast: Childhood freedom

Miranda Sawyer is joined this month by the prize-winning author and former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo, veteran agony aunt Anna Raeburn and actor Simon Pegg

The Family podcast: Working with kids

Karen Mattison, the co-founder of Women Like Us, a company specialising in part-time recruitment for working mothers joins Miranda Sawyer in the studio

Audio: The Family Podcast - the evil stepmother myth

Debunking the myth of the evil stepmother, inside a household helped by a male au pair, and Nitin Sawhney's family playlist