Sara Pascoe on self worth, detachment and reflecting on separated parents

Changes with Annie Macmanus

Annie Macmanus

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sara Pascoe has a magic ability to take life’s absurdities and turn them into comedy gold, but how does she approach change?

Sara’s quick, intelligent wit has seen her competing on many of the UK’s most popular comedy panel shows such as QI and Taskmaster and she also hosts ‘The Great British Sewing Bee’. Not only is she one of the country’s foremost comedians, Sara is a bestselling author too, having written three books - ‘Animal’, ‘Sex Money Power’ and her debut novel ‘Weirdo’, which is out on paperback now. She’s also a book fan and co-hosts the podcast ‘Sara and Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club’ with her friend, and previous guest on Changes, Cariad Lloyd.

In this refreshing and light hearted conversation, Sara opens about her untraditional upbringing, her transition to vegetarianism at a young age and her changing relationship with her parents after her Dad left when she was seven. Reflecting on her latest novel, "Weirdo,", Sara also discusses her evolving relationship with her own confidence, detachment from show business as a new mum and her self-worth as a comedian.

Buy 'Weirdo' here:

https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/weirdo-unlike-many-debut-novels-this-one-will-stick-with-you-for-a-long-time-guardian-main/sara-pascoe/paperback/9780571374540.html

Listen to Cariad Lloyd's Changes episode here:

https://podfollow.com/changeswithanniemacmanus/episode/59c1bc1991700462b988d47248a3ce8831095b5b/view

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0:00.0	In his powerful moving memoir, Ben Goldsmith tells the story of how, when struggling to cope with the grief of losing his teenage daughter, he found solace in nature, and in immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm. in Wise and wonderful by Stephen Frye,
0:23.2	God is an octopus, is published by Bloomsbury Wildlife
0:27.2	and is available now wherever books are sold. Changes is brought to you by electoral dysfunction, a new weekly politics
0:39.7	podcast from Sky News. This podcast is hosted by three political powerhouses.
0:45.0	Sky's Beth Rigby, Laborers Jess Phillips, and Conservative Pier Ruth Davidson.
0:50.0	It's an all-female, no-nonsense, straight talking podcast that explains what's really going on in Westminster and beyond.
0:58.0	Every Friday they unravel the spin and explain the week in politics, with a current MP, former party leader and a journalist who has interviewed them all,
1:07.0	the women have seen politics from every angle and they bring their own personal approach to every topic.
1:13.5	This is a hugely important year for elections,
1:16.0	with more than half the global population going to the polls.
1:19.3	With so much at stake, Beth, Ruth and Jess work through and explain which politicians are coming out on top, and who is having an electoral dysfunction.
1:29.0	The best name ever. Listen to electoral dysfunction now, wherever you're listening to this, new episodes drop every Friday.
1:36.0	Hello and welcome to changes, it's Annie here and today I am so excited to be speaking
1:46.8	with one of the UK's leading stand-up comedians and best-selling author Sarah Pasco
1:51.9	Sarah has a brilliantly clever and unique way of looking at life's absurdities
1:56.0	and turning them into comedy gold. You'll have seen her on many of the UK's most popular comedy panel shows,
2:01.2	which is QI and Taskmastermaster and she's also host of the
2:04.4	BBC hit TV show The Great British Sewing Bee. Sarah has written three books
2:08.7	her first two animal and the Sunday Times Best Seller Sex, Money, Power, both fearlessly tackle issues of feminism,
2:16.1	sexuality and societal norms, blending personal anecdotes and social commentary with her signature humour.
2:25.7	Then last year Sarah published her debut novel, Weirdo, which is out on paper back now and was described by Marion Keynes, previous
2:30.8	guest on changes, as intense, also brilliant, funny and
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