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
Sameena Zehra Stands Up
It's a brand new season and excitingly episode one was recorded live with a small but mighty studio audience as part of the Listen to This: Live Podcast Festival at Bats Theatre in Well…
Hardworking Louisa Wall
In the final of Season One of Showy Ovaries we have tenacious MP, Rugby Black Fern, Netball Silver Fern, and all round social justice amazon; Louisa Wall. Initially perplexed as why her…
Not So Plain Jane Caro
Walkley Award winning Jane Caro has opinions and I was delighted to hear them. Australian feminist icon, lecturer, novelist, non-fiction star, thinker, atheist, stirrer, mother and gran…
Honest Carolyn Harris
Carolyn Harris, deputy leader of Welsh Labour, is searingly honest about her struggle with grief, depression and Strictly Come Dancing. Floundering in the dark with what she now realise…
Marvellous Michele A'Court
All round funny feminist Michele A'Court chats fibroids, cysts and the sisterhood. Raised with frank conversations and laughter around the kitchen table, Michele was determined to pass …
Educational Ella Henry
AUT Associate Professor Dr Ella Henry, (Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa, Ngāti Kuri, Te Rārawa) regales me with tales of skiing in bikini tops, getting expelled from High School, oh and menopaus…
Pharmaceutical Anna Sophia
Once she finally realised she was in the grip of menopause, cake addled Anna Sophia didn't take it lying down. Mainly because she had to go to the toilet six times a night. After listen…
Menopause World - The Bitchiest Place on Earth
Yes we have heard of hot flashes but what about electric shocks? Thinning hair? Stress incontinence? In this minisode I investigate the symptoms of menopause for Showy Ovaries News Netw…
Shirley's Coda
A bonus minisode all about Shirley's journey with her body, particularly her head. Hair loss, hippy times, a wig's life expectancy and the wonder of teenage kindness.... not.
Symphonic Shirley Serban
This week I chat to the YouTube parody sensation that is Shirley Serban. In lockdown 2020, the Lake Brunner School's principal uploaded a Covid parody of Do-Re-Mi and in 3 days had 3 m…
Fabulous George Fowler
Strap in for my sweariest episode yet with Drag King, Pun King and House of Drag Winner Hugo Grrrl, aka George Fowler. Having lived as a trans man for two years, George candidly filled …
Legendary Jennifer Ward Lealand
Jennifer Ward Lealand, Aotearoa's queen of the stage and screen, NZer of the Year 2020 and star of The Unruly Tourists, joins me to discuss menopause, intimacy coordination and the pure…
Terrific Tusiata Avia
A multiple award winning poet of the stage and page, Tusiata shared with me her ongoing menopause journey, including her increasing epileptic seizures, her struggles with her body imag…
Anjum is So Extra
Anjum had so much to say it has overflowed into a bonus extra minisode. Here's a snippet I snipped out to make sure the full episode didn't rival the Lord of the Rings, but I loved her …
Awesome Anjum Rahman
It's a Bonus World Menopause week extra episode! Today we have the menopause story of the fabulous Hamilton raised social justice advocate, Anjum Rahman. From her decision to wear a hij…
The Inimitable Pinky Agnew
Showy Ovaries is born! The delightful and extremely honest Pinky Agnew shares her Menopause, Gastric Bypass and Love story. From playing Jenny Shipley, to HRT and the funniest breast co…
Opening Minisode
What the hell is Showy Ovaries all about? In this opening minisode, comedian and pre-menopausal Penny Ashton explains her mission; to find out what will happen when THE CHANGE smacks he…