Miriam sits down with comics artist Karrie Fransman to discuss what Karrie’s life may have looked like if her IVF treatment had failed and she’d never managed to conceive a child. Along the way they talked about the mismatch between our perceptions and the reality of motherhood, Karrie’s obsession with communes; and the beauty of animatronic storytelling machines.  Karrie Fransman is a comic creator. Her comics strips and graphic stories have been published in The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, The Young Vic, Psychologies Magazine, The Arts Council Create Magazine, The Goethe Institute and The British Red Cross. Her latest illustrated book, Gender Swapped Fairy Tales (Faber), was co-created with her husband Jonathan Plackett was chosen as Book of the Month by the Bookseller and WHSmith. It is currently on its fifth reprint.Make sure to subscribe to hear the rest of Season 1 – in each episode, Miriam Robinson interviews a guest about a path their life might have taken and together, step by step, they write the stories of their unlived lives.Produced by Tess Davidson#MyUnlivedLife Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.