Help Me! Newsletter

I'm bisexual, unmarried and 'woo woo'. After a break up I found myself renting a room from my local vicar. We eat Nando's on the sofa…

Louise Bromby: I spent my twenties attempting to fit into the “monogamous, life all planned out, it’s FINE” lifestyle.

Aug 12 • Marianne Power

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The Unconventional Woman: Sangeeta Pillai

I grew up watching my mother being battered by my father every night. My earliest childhood memories are of my father bashing my mother’s head against…

Aug 5 • Marianne Power and Bad Daughter

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July 2026

MANY WAYS TO LIVE AND LOVE: In our sixties we sold our three bedroom house and gave away 90 per cent of our possessions to live on a boat.

Karen Bent: I feel as if I’m only just starting to be ‘me’ at the age of 68

Jul 29 • Marianne Power

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I make myself rich by making my wants few...

Is that sanity or playing small? And other things we talk about on The Programme

Jul 24 • Marianne Power

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The Unconventional Woman: Erin Kelly

On my 30th birthday Nana Mac gave me a cheque for fifty quid and wrote, ‘If you save this amount of money every month from now on, you will have enough…

Jul 22 • Marianne Power

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June 2026

The Programme: Substack live today midday

Hipster ice cream, boobs and vibrators for 12 year olds?

Jun 1 • Marianne Power

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May 2026

Live with Anna Wharton, Marianne Power and Jennifer Cox

A recording from Marianne Power and Anna Wharton's live video

May 18 • Marianne Power, Anna Wharton, and Jennifer Cox

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What if exhaustion is the correct response?

On breakdowns and burnouts being a sane reaction to an insane world

May 10 • Marianne Power

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April 2026

Me, mum, Gary and the end of the world as we know it...

Watching the new Grayson Perry doc about the future and we don't feel fine.

Apr 21 • Marianne Power

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The joy of being alone... with somebody

on sending people to sleep, our on stage and backstage selves - and having the posture of a prawn

Apr 6 • Marianne Power

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March 2026

Friendship: The Greatest Love of All? Live with Anna Wharton, Jennifer Cox and Marianne Power

PLUS BUNNETONE, CHAPPELL ROAN, MANOSPHERE AND A HOLIDAY IN CORFU

Mar 25 • Marianne Power, Anna Wharton, and Jennifer Cox

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I thought it would be torture. It was a relief.

A week of no Instagram, no news, no podcasts.

Mar 23 • Marianne Power

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