Making Lemonade

About Making Lemonade

Welcome to Making Lemonade! A podcast where I'll be sharing stories of the lemons life has given to people, and the wonderful lemonade they've made from them. Featuring some well known names and others with extraordinary experiences. Hosted by Mark O'Sullivan, presenter of C4's RTS Award-winning My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom, and creator of Lee and Dean (C4) and Tell Me Everything (ITV). New episodes every Wednesday. For shownotes, more information, and to support the Making Lemonade Podcast, visit https://buymeacoffee.com/making.lemonade (https://buymeacoffee.com/making.lemonade) If you have a story to share, or a question to ask, please contact us using info@makinglemonade.uk (mailto:info@makinglemonade.uk) or through our social media links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Mark O'Sullivan

Category

health & fitness · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

13 Dec 2024

Latest episode

24 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 25 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   24 Sept 2025

   Jacqueline Duffy - Bridget

   Comedian and writer Mark O'Sullivan interviews Jacqueline Duffy about how her great aunt Bridget profoundly influenced their lives, offering insights into finding strength after trauma.

2. 

   16 Sept 2025

   Ashley John-Baptiste

   Host Mark O'Sullivan interviews BBC Journalist Ashley John-Baptiste about his experiences growing up in care and its profound impact on his life and career.

3. 

   9 Sept 2025

   A little look back

   Comedian and writer Mark O'Sullivan reflects on the profound impact of transforming trauma into positivity across the first 20 episodes of Making Lemonade.

Inside a recent episode

Nick Mulvey

Published 3 Jun 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's quite an exciting place to be, a sort of a place of possibilities. Is that an accurate way of describing it? Yeah, it is actually a place of potential. I think I do acknowledge previous beginnings. There has been significant steps to my career. I launched my first album 11 years ago, 2014, and that had a good arrival in the world through British music industry and it really launched my career and grew my audience. I've released two albums since and several EPs, but I think one of the reasons that I feel like I haven't yet achieved what I'm here to do and therefore I'm still at the beginning of something. […]

Who has been a guest on Making Lemonade

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jacqueline Duffy
• Ashley John-Baptiste
• Jacob Nordby
• Kyle Kittleson
• Estelle

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

27 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

64

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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