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Friday I'm in Bed

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by Gemma Seager and Kate Beavis

33 episodes

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Friday, I’m In Bed is a weekly culture and current affairs podcast for midlife women living their best life, but in bed by 10. Pop culture, news, menopause, feminism, and the cultural moments everyone’s talking about, plus the ones we probably should be, taken on with the warmth and dry humour of your group chat. Hosted by Gemma Seager (40-something, childfree, personal trainer, cocktail lover, two spoiled pugs) and Kate Beavis (50-something menopause coach, anti-ageism campaigner, mum navigating grown-up family life), it’s where the news cycle, the trend cycle and the menopause discourse get talked about the way you’d talk about them with friends. Honest, warm, irreverent, unfiltered. A podcast for elder millenial, xennial and Gen X women and beyond who want cultural commentary, not coaching. Not advice. Not wellness. Just the chat you wish you were already in. New episodes every Friday.

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July 3, 2026

It's Friday I'm Reading With My Cat: The Pressure on Childfree Women to Be Impressively Productive

Kate's off sunning herself in Spain, so this week Gemma's joined by Laurie from the Female Childfree Collective for a one-topic special. We're talking about a very modern pressure: the idea that if you're childfree, you should be visibly, impressively productive about it. Five businesses, six holidays a year, a new hobby every fortnight. When did freedom stop meaning you get to choose and start meaning you have to optimise? We make the case for lying on the sofa with a book and a pug instead. Follow us<ul><li>The show: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fridayiminbedpodcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@FridayImInBed</a></li><li>Gemma: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gemmaseager" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@GemmaSeager</a></li><li>Kate: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fearlessat50/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@FearlessAt50</a></li><li>This week's guest: the Female Childfree Collective, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/femalechildfreecollective" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@femalechildfreecollective</a> (events in London and Manchester via Instagram and Meetup)</li></ul>Topics covered Childfree by choice, childfree women, midlife, pronatalism, falling fertility rates, hustle culture, the pressure to optimise, workplace bias, representation, building community.

June 26, 2026

It's Friday I'm Reading Smut on the Train: Romantasy, Female Rage & the Broadsheet Pearl-Clutching

This week we ask why new research has named UK women the angriest, saddest and most worried in Europe, and whether medical misogyny, the pay gap and invisible labour might have something to do with it. Then we get into romantasy and the moral panic over Bad Girl Books, Britain's first romantasy bookshop. Why is fantasy treated as high art when men write it and trash when women do? Expect dragons, smut, the 250-year panic about women reading, and the question of whether everything really has to be Proust. Topics covered: female rage, women's anger, medical misogyny, NHS waiting lists, gender pay gap, invisible labour, romantasy, Sarah J Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing, Bad Girl Books, BookTok, moral panic, midlife women

June 19, 2026

It's Friday I'm Not Gucci: Hannah Spencer's Charity Shop Shirt, Leftover Women and Childless Cat Ladies

This week, the Hannah Spencer "Gucci" shirt that wasn't. A patterned blouse in Parliament got branded a £2,000 designer piece online, when it was really a £15 charity-shop find, so we get into why women's clothes draw scrutiny men's never do, and how one post hardens into "fact". Then to China's so-called "leftover women", the label the state coined for educated, single women in their late twenties, and the brilliant way women have flipped it from leftover to victorious. From Christmas cakes to pickles to childless cat ladies, we ask why a single woman keeps getting branded as food past its date. Follow us<a href="https://www.instagram.com/fridayiminbed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@FridayImInBed</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gemmaseager" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@GemmaSeager</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fearlessat50" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@FearlessAt50</a>Topics covered: Hannah Spencer, Gucci shirt, charity shop, women in politics, misinformation, leftover women, sheng nu, China leftover women, reclaiming language, childless cat ladies, JD Vance, birth rate, pronatalism, spinster, midlife women, feminism

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What is Friday I'm in Bed?: Friday, I’m In Bed is a weekly culture and current affairs podcast for midlife women living their best life, but in bed by 10. Pop culture, news, menopause, feminism, and the cultural moments everyone’s talking about, plus the ones we probably should be, taken on with the warmth and dry humour of your group chat.

Hosted by Gemma Seager (40-something, childfree, personal trainer, cocktail lover, two spoiled pugs) and Kate Beavis (50-something menopause coach, anti-ageism campaigner, mum navigating grown-up family life), it’s where the news cycle, the trend cycle and the menopause discourse get talked about the way you’d talk about them with friends. Honest, warm, irreverent, unfiltered.

A podcast for elder millenial, xennial and Gen X women and beyond who want cultural commentary, not coaching. Not advice. Not wellness. Just the chat you wish you were already in.

New episodes every Friday.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Information about guest appearances is not available.

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