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Annie Mac. Plus the Thursday Theme: tidying.

Jo chats to DJ Annie Mac about her new debut novel Mother Mother, which is a story about family ties, addiction and the bond between a mother and a son.
Plus the Thursday Theme.

Jo chats to DJ Annie Mac about her new debut novel Mother Mother.

Mother Mother is the debut novel of Annie Macmanus, aka Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac. She describes the book as being β€œa story about family ties, addiction, the resilience of women and the teflon-strength bond that can exist between a mother and a son. It is about the cost of unconditional love, but also about finding light in the darkest of places.”

Mother Mother follows a young woman, Mary McConnell. Mary has lived in the same Belfast house her whole life, caring for everyone around her to the detriment of herself; but one morning, her 18-year-old son TJ awakes to find her missing. As his search for her becomes increasingly desperate, he begins to discover what has led her to this point.

The story asks an important question - if you spend your life giving everything to the ones you love, do you risk losing yourself along the way?

Plus Jo has the Thursday Theme - songs relating to tidying to mark the start of the Great British Spring Clean - Keep Britain Tidy’s annual clean-up campaign. Send all your cleaning-related song suggestions to jo.whiley@bbc.co.uk

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 27 May 2021 19:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • VC Pines

    See You Soon

    • See You Soon.
    • Theory Records.
    • 1.

  • Hot Chip

    Over and Over

    • EMI.

  • Laura Mvula

    Got Me

    • Pink Noise.
    • Atlantic.

  • Lana Del Rey

    Blue Bannisters

  • The Velvet Underground

    Sweet Jane

    • Lou Reed - NYC Man.
    • BMG.

  • Gaspard AugΓ©

    Force Majeure

    • Force Majeure.
    • Ed Banger / Because Music.
    • 1.

  • Vampire Weekend

    A-Punk

    • Vampire Weekend.
    • Beggars Banquet Records Ltd.
    • 3.

  • David Bowie

    Sound And Vision

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Fryars & Rae Morris

    Moscow

    • God Melodies.
    • Fiction Records.

  • Suede

    Trash

    • (CD Single).
    • Nude Records.

  • George Formby

    When I'm cleaning windows

    • Box Of Laughs (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

    Rubbish

    • Rubbish.
    • Chrysalis.
    • 1.

  • Dream Warriors

    Wash Your Face In My Sink

    • (Single).
    • 4th And Broadway.

  • Christina Aguilera

    Dirrty

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • X‐Ray Spex

    Germ-Free Adolescents

    • Virgin.

  • OutKast

    So Fresh, So Clean

    • BMG.

  • The Wombles

    The Wombling Song

    • Wombling Songs.
    • Dramatico.
    • 12.

  • Dusty Springfield

    I Only Want To Be With You

    • Dusty- The Silver Collection.
    • Philips.

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 May 2021 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2