Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Comedian Penny Ashton is on a voyage of discovery into the hormonal hocus pocus of menopause. So what better way to learn about her moisture moving from inside her body to perspiring out her face, than by talking to a series of wondrous women and owners of ovaries about their own lives and their menopause journeys. A series of frank and funny interviews all about what to expect, when expecting the change. Warning: salty language, and not just from the night sweats. Season Three and beyond is opening up wider to include women and trans individuals of all ages and bodily functionings.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 77
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Anna Fifield
This week Penny is welcoming current Dominion Post and Stuff Wellington editor Anna Fifield, who moved back to NZ in 2020 after a glittering 20 year career as a globe-trotting foreign c…
NZ Woman Jenene Crossan
In March 2020, NZ Girl and Powered by Flossie co-founder, Jenene Crossan, (Ngai Tahu) flew back to NZ from London and a pesky spiky virus hitched on for the ride. Developing Covid a few…
Tardis Pilot Dr Huhana Hickey
NZ's very own Dr Hu took some time out from her Multiple Sclerosis and disability advocacy to chat to Penny about her incredible life. From having her whakapapa stripped from her birth …
Taboo Terminator Sarah Connor
Freelance writer Sarah Connor was 46 when her usually trustworthy body started misbehaving. Anxiety, panic attacks, loss of joy and lack of sleep saw her undertake an investigation into…
Action Hero Kate Billing
When perimenopause came knocking at Kate Billing's door with all its insomnia and anxiety she had no idea what the hell was happening. Once armed with a diagnosis she was pissed off, an…
Meticulous Geri McLeod
Dr Geri McLeod is a senior research fellow in the Otago University’s Department of Psychological Medicine, and recently published findings around supplements, which she describes as exp…
Energetic Lori Dungey
Penny's theatre wife Lori Dungey, dropped into her house to chat about her virtually non-existant menopause. Despite working together for 22 years this is the first time they have reall…
Trailblazing Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Today Penny is talking and laughing with the prolific and inspiring award-winning writer; Lynda Chanwai-Earle. Lynda is the originator and performer in Ka Shue - Letters Home, which was…
Punk Princess Yvette Parsons
Former punk icon and current witch, Yvette Parsons is one of the most prolific actresses working in NZ today. From What We Do in the Shadows, to The Luminaries to The Power of the Dog t…
Vulva News Network (VNN) Special - Vulvodynia
In a break from menopause, Penny invites two of her globe trotting performer buddies to drop in and spill their souls about their troublesome bits. Both diagnosed with a condition they …
A Hot Pink Haggis
Wooohoooo. Here is a bonus documentary to honour of all Penny's good friends currently battling in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival trenches. She produced it way back in the Jurassic perio…
Not At All Evil Elisabeth Easther
Shortland Street's first ever murderer drops in on Showy Ovaries to discuss her blood letting onscreen and in life. Having absolutely no symptoms Elisabeth thought this podcast would b…
One Eyed Cantabrian Lianne Dalziel
Ōtautahi born and bred, former MP, soon to be former mayor, but still current mayor Lianne Dalziel, beamed into Penny's Covid isolation at her parent's house to chat about various thing…
Fifth Generation Jenny Agnew
Fifth Generation Kiwi, Jenny Agnew, welcomed fellow 5th Generation Kiwi Penny into her home to chat all about what it is to be a Chinese New Zealander. A descendant of Choie Sew Hoy who…
Fucking Covid
Wellllllllll it finally caught up with Penny. The Vid, the Rona, the virus that's the least desirous, and it has a bit of a story so Penny thought she'd overshare it. For a change. Co…
Gender Queer Ren Lunicke
*Sorry for the delay Ovarians, covid finally got me.
Ren Lunicke has lived many lives and tackled each wholeheartedly. Deeply uncomfortable within their evangelical upbringing, they wen…
Refuge Giving Jan Logie
Green Party MP and self described lefty feminist lesbian, Jan Logie beamed into Penny's office during a recess in that hive of human activity that is the NZ Parliament. Penny divulged t…
Top Chick Stephanie Tauevihi
Penny had a bloody hilarious time getting honest AF with Stephanie Tauevihi, aka Shortland St's crack paramedic and iconic character Donna Heka. Of Danish and Niuean heritage, Steph spo…
Dr Dame Margaret Sparrow
2020 Senior New Zealander of the year, Dame Margaret Sparrow, delighted Penny by agreeing to chat about her very minor menopause plus her very major life's work in freeing NZ's women fr…
Brave Caitlin Smith
It's the queen of Jazzy Ovaries this week, who shares her journey of suddenly losing her voice on tour thanks to menopause's effects. Caitlin opens up as wide as a pharynx to regale for…