A View From A Bridge

To Be, or Not To Be, a Parent

Oct 14, 2025 · 37 min · Season 1 · Episode 1
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To be or not to be a parent...That is the question - which everyone in today’s episode has asked themselves. 


  • The birth of Alexandra’s first child didn’t go as planned. She tells us about it and why she won’t be doing it again.
  • Jonathan, an Oscar nominated documentary maker, thought he was making a film about Vasectamies. It turned out he was starting a worldwide movement.
  • Lead singer of the band Franz Ferdinand, Alex Kapranos speaks on having his first child at 50.
  • Musician Rebecca Lucy Taylor, otherwise known as Self Esteem, muses on one of nature’s cruelest gender dividers; the body clock.