The Price of Happiness

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Comedy. Stand-up poet Kate Fox explores some of the things she does not want in life.

Quizzical everywoman and stand-up poet Kate Fox explores some of the things she does not want in life and how much she has saved emotionally and financially in the process.

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Stand-up poet Kate Fox and an audience draw up a list of pros and cons of having children.

Stand-up poet Kate Fox and the audience draw up a list of pros and cons of having children and parenthood. From 2015.

Stand-up poet Kate Fox explores some of the things she doesn't want and has cheerfully failed to achieve in life, despite feeling society constantly reminds her that, as a woman, she should.

Kate kicks off with a look at the subject of children. 

Are we all wired to be baby-making machines? Not always, no. Some of us would rather spend our hard earned cash in Mango than Mothercare. Prospective parents are plagued by questions - Would I be a good parent? Would a child change my life beyond all recognition? Would having a child mean I could legitimately buy myself Lego and eat jelly?

Can legislation across the world be used to either encourage or discourage parenthood? And what's the cost of feeling you have to want the same things as everybody else? Kate and the audience draw up a list of pros and cons of having children, and work out whether the average cost of raising a child could be better spent making our lives more fun and meaningful in other ways.

Kate Fox is a comedian and poet from the North East of England. She has contributed poems and comic pieces to many Radio 4 shows including "Saturday Live", "Wondermentalist Cabaret", "From Fact to Fiction", "Woman's Hour" and "Arthur Smith's Balham Bash".

Producer: Lianne Coop
An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.

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