Anniki Sommerville

Anniki Sommerville is co-founder of The Hotbed – a podcast that focuses on sex and relationships after kids and has featured Rose McGowan, Meg Matthews, and Jess Philips. The podcast has run for three series and reached number 5 in the iTunes chart. She is co-author of The Hotbed book More Orgasms Please (Squarepeg, 2019) and is also the author of Motherwhelmed (Harper Fiction, 2019). Her podcast ‘How To Be A Boss At Ageing’ was released in June 2020. In each episode she tackles a different aspect of growing older, with interviewees such as Cariad Lloyd and Sali Hughes. She has her own monthly radio show on Soho Radio and regularly speaks on panels on topics such as motherhood, the changing nature of work, relationships and ageing. She has written for the Telegraph and Independent and used to edit the successful parenting blog Selfish Mother.