Anne Mayer Bird's guest appearances

Anne Mayer Bird

The Book Club

Sam Harris

Daniel Kahneman

Steven Pinker

Craig Wright

Siri Hustvedt

Michael Pollan

Seamus Heaney

David Brooks

Frank Dikötter

Lynda La Plante

Colm Toibin

Naomi Klein

Sebastian Faulks

Claire Tomalin

Carlo Rovelli

OwlTail

Catherine Mayer

My guests on this week's Book Club podcast are the writer and Women's Equality Party co-founder Catherine Mayer, and her mother, the arts publicist Anne Mayer Bird. They are mother and daughter -- but a year ago they became 'sister widows', as both lost their husbands within a few weeks of one another. Their new book is called Good Grief: Embracing life at a time of death, and they join me to talk about grief in the time of Covid, how social perceptions of widowhood put pressure on the bereaved, and what they think needs to change at a societal and personal level with regards to how we treat death and bereavement.

My guests on this week's Book Club podcast are the writer and Women's Equality Party co-founder Catherine Mayer, and her mother, the arts publicist Anne Mayer Bird. They are mother and daughter -- but a year ago they became 'sister widows', as both lost their husbands within a few weeks of one another. Their new book is called <em>Good Grief: Embracing life at a time of death</em>, and they join me to talk about grief in the time of Covid, how social perceptions of widowhood put pressure on the bereaved, and what they think needs to change at a societal and personal level with regards to how we treat death and bereavement.

Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird: Good Grief