Catherine Anne Davies is better known by her stage name The Anchoress.
She is a musician, producer and a former academic, which results in her providing a fascinating reading list with her art pop albums, of poems and other writing that inspired her.
After many losses, Catherine had a successful 7th pregnancy and her daughter is now 5 years old.
She told me how becoming a mum radicalised her, and also how she kept her new motherhood a secret for two and a half years.
Catherine told me how work offers became less when people knew she had a child, inspiring one of her new album’s tracks to be called ‘I Had a Baby, Not a Lobotomy’!
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones.
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