Making Trouble with Molly Naylor

It's our final episode! Of season 3. Don't worry, there will be more Making Trouble - soon (ish). Please keep supporting the pod until then, (via Patreon, by sharing it, by posting/talking about it or rating/reviewing on your podcast app) it means everything and it helps us keep going! We sign off the season with a special listener questions episode. Musician and comedian Grace Petrie joins Molly to help provide As to your brilliant Qs. Check out Grace's music and merch here. There's a bit of death/grief chat during the first 20 minutes, so skip that if you're not in the right place for it.HUGE THANKS TO YOU FOR LISTENING - BE BACK SOON XXXJoin Molly's mailing listFollow Making Trouble on InstagramSupport the podcast on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s Troy Cabida (Neon Manila) day!Troy Cabida is a London-based Filipino poet. He is a former member of the Barbican Young Poets and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Join Molly and Troy for a conversation about collaboration. We talk about the highs, the lows, and the things we need to have in place to make it work. We discuss collaboration as making something that ends up being more than the sum its parts (if all goes well), and about collaboration as being in community with other artists. We unpack how we might approach navigating and sharing that creative space.Troy’s debut collection Neon Manila is published by Nine Arches Press, and is available now!This is the penultimate episode of season 3. Next week, we'll be doing a special Q & A episode. If you have a question you'd like us to discuss, please send it via Instagram direct message, or email it here.Join Molly's mailing listFollow Making Trouble on InstagramSupport the podcast on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we welcome Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, A Spot of Bother, The Porpoise) to the podcast for a chat about people-pleasing. Find out where Mark's people-pleasing tendencies come from, what people-pleasing gives us versus what it takes away, and why artists might be particularly prone to it. We also chat about the impact of having a keen sense of smell on dating, how to write for yourself as well as other people, and why the word 'playwright' is spelled like that. Mark talks about his struggle with long covid, and we discuss how he learned to breathe properly.You'll also find out who Mark thinks is the best person on Instagram, and why he likens them to a camp vicar. Buy Mark's hilarious and heartbreaking new memoir (in full colour!) LEAVING HOME. Or wet your whistle with this Guardian extract.Join Molly's mailing listFollow Making Trouble on InstagramSupport the podcast on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A treat for the ears! It's Anna Jordan (Yen, Lost Atoms, Succession, Killing Eve)! Anna made her name as a scriptwriter, but has now also published her debut poetry collection DECADE. She co-runs runs Support Playwrights with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm; a group of theatre artists finding ways to support playwrights and create community - which can be found on Substack.Join Anna and Molly for a conversation about CREATIVE FLOW. Find out what the optimum conditions are to find and help us figure out how to maintain it. Hear Anna's theory on 'us' writers versus 'them' writers. We also discuss alcohol, painting, approaches to planning and how to have a hobby over the age of 40. Lovely stuff! Enjoy! Buy Decade this week - it's brilliant. Generous, visceral and darkly comic. I love Anna’s huge-hearted writing — Sara PascoeThese poems of love, of loss, and of longing are at once extraordinarily moving and exhilarating. There is an energy in the language and a richness of feeling that consistently move you forward and lead you inexorably from poem to poem. It’s called Decade for a reason but this collection seems to encompass lifetimes. I found it totally compelling — Timberlake WertenbakerJoin Molly's mailing listFollow Making Trouble on InstagramSupport the podcast on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.