Episodes 98
Avg. Duration 46m
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Since Mar 2020
Latest Episode Jul 2025

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Alonement is a podcast about the positive side of spending time alone. When being alone isn't lonely, it's alonement: finding joy and value in solitude. Each week, host Francesca Specter asks a new guest about the time they spend by themselves – and why it matters to them.

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Recent Episodes

S10E6 Creating Community When You Live Alone, with Marianne Power

Jul 29, 2025 42m

This week I’m chatting to journalist & bestselling author, Marianne Power. Marianne’s first book, Help Me, where she takes a deep dive into the world of self-help, was published in 25 languages…

S10E5 Solo Travel and How to Master the Art of Packing for One, with Lizzie Frainier

Jul 21, 2025 1h 4m

My guest this week Lizzie Frainier, author of Main Character: Lessons from a Real Life Rom-Com and associate travel editor at The Times. In this episode, she shares what she’s learnt from over a…

S10E4 Carving Out Space and Time for Yourself, with Penny Wincer

Jul 08, 2025 32m

Penny Wincer is the author of Home Matters: How Our Homes Shape Us and We Shape Them, her second non-fiction book, and host of the podcast, Not Too Busy to Write, where she interviews writers on…

S10E3 Strengthen Your Solitude Skills, with Thuy-vy Nguyen

Jun 30, 2025 40m

This week's guest, Thuy-vy Nguyen, PhD, is one of the world’s leading researchers on solitude, and an associate professor at Durham University’s dedicated research lab, Solitude Lab. Her interest is…

S10E2 How to Cook for One, with Eleanor Wilkinson

Jun 23, 2025 44m

Struggle to cook for one? We've got you - our guest Eleanor Wilkinson, recipe developer and author of One Pot, One Portion, has dedicated her career to overcoming some of the most common hurdles…

S10E1 Cat Ladies of the World, Unite! With Comedian Katie Norris

Jun 16, 2025 46m

Welcome to season 10 of Alonement! Katie Norris, an award-winning comedian and confirmed cat-cherlorette (OK, I came up with that) is my guest on the first episode of this season. Katie adopted her…

S9E8 Maggie Smith: Financial Independence, Relearning Vulnerability & Dating After Divorce

Jan 09, 2024 42m

Maggie Smith is a poet & writer who found overnight fame when her poem, ‘Good Bones’, went viral on social media in 2016. Later on, her life was to take a further change when her husband of 19…

S9E7 Alice Vincent: A Garden of One's Own

Jan 02, 2024 43m

There are certain rites of passage that take place after a major break-up. For some, it’s a hair-cut or a big solo trip, or a regrettable rebound with someone the polar opposite of your ex. My guest…

S9E6 Leslie Stephens: The Joy of Living Alone, Plus How To Design a Home for One

Dec 26, 2023 49m

Leslie Stephens is the writer behind Morning Person, a top 10 Substack newsletter that chronicles her life in Portland, Oregon. In August last year, shortly after her 30th birthday, Leslie announced…

S9E5 Max Dickins: On Male Friendship & Overcoming Weekend Loneliness

Dec 19, 2023 42m

Getting engaged to your partner is typically a time for celebration. But for today’s guest Max Dickins, it was …. more complicated. As he prepared to propose to his girlfriend, Naomi, he had an…

S9E4 Anita Bhagwandas: Finding a Social Balance When You Live Alone

Dec 12, 2023 49m

My guest this week is Anita Bhagwandas, an award winning beauty director, and more recently the author of Ugly: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards, a book that examines the damaging impact of narrow…

S9E3 Jessica Pan: The Introvert's Guide to Socialising

Dec 05, 2023 50m

In this episode, Jessica Pan discusses her book 'Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come' and her journey of embracing extroversion. As we discuss on the show, Jessica is almost the opposite to me…

S9E2 Poppy Jay: From Arranged Marriage to Falling in Love with Singlehood

Nov 28, 2023 42m

My guest on this week’s episode is Poppy Jay, best known as the co-host of Brown Girls Do It Too, which won Podcast of the Year at the British Podcast Awards 2020. She’s also a BAFTA-nominated…

S9E1 Thomas Curran: The Dark Side of Perfectionism

Nov 21, 2023 43m

'That's the root of perfectionism: that chronic deficit thinking, the belief that we're not good enough. That we're not attractive enough, smart enough, fit enough, whatever it might be. In order to…

S8E9 Vex King: How To Practise Self-Love Through Your Actions

Aug 17, 2023 49m

You can’t really love anyone until you love yourself. While we see this a lot on Instagram, it’s something that actually requires a lot of exploration – and it’s my guest this week, the bestselling…

S8E8 Ruby Warrington: My Marriage Wouldn't Work With Children

Aug 10, 2023 49m

My guest this week is Women Without Kids author, Ruby Warrington. We're are at a fascinating time in history – where, both in the UK, US, and across almost every developed nation like Switzerland,…

S8E7 Donna Lancaster: Alone Is Where I Meet Myself

Aug 03, 2023 49m

Donna Lancaster is a coach and therapist, best known as the co-creator of The Bridge, a retreat designed to help attendees navigate grief and loss, and the author of a book of the same name. More…

S8E6 Naoise Dolan: Autism, (Un)happy Couples & The Joy Of Being A Foreigner

Jul 27, 2023 42m

This week’s guest is author Naoise Dolan. I am absolutely thrilled to have Naoise on this season – she’s widely consider of the millennial generation’s most talented writers, ever since her Sunday…

S8E5 Caggie Dunlop: Overcoming Anxious Attachment In A Relationship

Jul 20, 2023 48m

My guest for this week’s episode is podcaster and author Caggie Dunlop, whom you might also recognise as a former cast member on the rather well known reality show called Made in Chelsea. Caggie has…

S8E4 Adam Gopnik: Solitude And The City, Edward Hopper & The Joy Of Being Alone In A Crowd

Jul 13, 2023 40m

This week's guest is Adam Gopnik, a long-standing staff writer at the New Yorker, and the award-winning author of a frankly intimidating number of books, most recently The Real Work: On the Mystery…

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