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Dr Jen Gunter on menopause, mental health and why we all need a meno-party
Season 4 Episode 38
The best way I can think of to describe this week’s guest is that she’s a women’s health vigilante. (A vagina vigilante if you will!) Dubbed twitter’…
4 years, 9 months ago
Esther Freud on motherhood, guilt and upending your life in your 50s
Season 4 Episode 37
How does it feel to come from a family with a legend? If you’re today’s guest, novelist and playwright Esther Freud (daughter of painter Lucian Freud…
4 years, 10 months ago
Kate Mosse: why caring is a feminist issue (from the archives)
Season 4 Episode 36
This is a replay of an episode published at the start of the year in which Kate Mosse talked about her experience of caring for both her own elderly …
4 years, 10 months ago
Pragya Agarwal on shame, surrogacy and the many faces of motherhood
Season 4 Episode 35
This week’s guest is the behavioural and data scientist, Dr Pragya Agarwal. A passionate campaigner for gender and race equality, Pragya is the autho…
4 years, 10 months ago
Annie Mac on turning 40 and why middle aged women are a force to be reckoned with
Season 4 Episode 34
My guest this week is a business woman, broadcaster, curator, tastemaker and DJ. She headlines festivals, hosts one of BBC Radio 1’s flagship shows, …
4 years, 10 months ago
Mona Eltahawy on anger, ambition and ageing disgracefully
Season 4 Episode 33
The phrase force-of-nature was created to describe this week’s guest. Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy has been fighting back and refusing …
4 years, 10 months ago
Alison Bechdel on her search for inner and outer strength. Plus tarot
Season 4 Episode 32
My guest this week is the cartoonist Alison Bechdel. Probably best known for the Bechdel test - a tongue in cheek method she came up with in the 80s …
4 years, 11 months ago
Anya Hindmarch on beating self doubt and why fashion needs to take some responsibility
Season 4 Episode 31
Entrepreneur and fashion designer Anya Hindmarch is the queen of practicality. The bags for which her eponymous label is famous have long been adore…
4 years, 11 months ago
Tamsin Calidas: the truth about the "escape to the country" dream
Season 4 Episode 30
This week’s guest is a writer, photographer, sheep rearer (pretty sure that’s not the right word for it), crofter and expert at the dark art of being…
4 years, 11 months ago
Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke’s world, hormones and going statement grey
Season 4 Episode 29
Like many 80s kids, I grew up with today’s guest. Tracey Thorn started early, forming The Marine Girls (once described as looking like they would “br…
4 years, 11 months ago