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NEW EPISODE: Jo Hamilton – the Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life
"We have to look after each other, because they won't. It's shameful."
Jun 17
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NEW EPISODE: Jo Hamilton – the Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life
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NEW EPISODE: Olia Hercules – my periods stopped the day Russia invaded Ukraine
"A gynaecologist told me I had the egg follicles of a 40-year-old woman. I was 25."
Jun 10
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NEW EPISODE: Olia Hercules – my periods stopped the day Russia invaded Ukraine
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NEW EPISODE: Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy
"People pleasing is people using. I think I've just been manipulating people this whole time, thinking I was being good."
Jun 3
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NEW EPISODE: Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy
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NEW EPISODE: Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder
"I don't want to still be sitting in the newsroom at 70"
May 27
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NEW EPISODE: Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder
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"We've turned burnout into a neat, momentary drama, but it was a slow dismantling"
Talking cognitive dissonance, finding your way back to yourself and building a whole new life after a breakdown, with Kathy Slack
May 22
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"We've turned burnout into a neat, momentary drama, but it was a slow dismantling"
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NEW EPISODE: Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controversy
"The friendships I developed during that time were forged in fire. These are women I will never be without."
May 20
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NEW EPISODE: Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controversy
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NEW EPISODE: Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing – and growing some boundaries!
"It's not our job to go quietly. It's our job to make a lot of noise and to say, this is wrong and this is doing harm."
May 13
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NEW EPISODE: Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing – and growing some boundaries!
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood
"I'm feeling a power and a strength that I find really incredible."
Apr 29
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world & going statement grey
"We've all had our hormones used against us."
Apr 22
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world & going statement grey
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, giving voice to women's stories and not being "the marrying kind"
"We know almost nothing at all about [Shakespeare's wife].. .and yet it doesn't stop historians and scholars and writers rushing forward to fill this…
Apr 15
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, giving voice to women's stories and not being "the marrying kind"
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"How many women's stories are not being told because they have been warned against it?"
Talking life, love, your mother lying about your age and learning to give yourself permission, with Elissa Altman
Apr 10
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"How many women's stories are not being told because they have been warned against it?"
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act
"We think of what happens in midlife as a crisis, but I think it's the opposite, more of a recovery or a return... It's like a reappearing act."
Apr 8
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act
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