Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.

On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based

information and advice about both the perimenopause and the

menopause.

Today in the studio I'm very delighted to introduce to you Dorothy Byrne, who some of you might know

already and you'll all know by the end of this podcast who she is.

But I was introduced to her a few years ago by Kate Muir, who is the inspiration behind the

Divina programme and Kate and I are very good friends. We have been for a long time. And she said

to me a while ago, you've got to meet Dorothy. And I did. And I've been completely inspired

by her work. And it's

incredible what she's doing. Dorothy, welcome today to the studio. Thank you very much indeed.

So you're doing a different role now from when I first met you, which we'll talk about us in a minute.

But when I met you, you were working for Channel 4, weren't you? So do you mind

explaining what you were doing then and also how you got to your job as well?

So previously I was the head of news and current affairs at Channel 4 television for about 15 years.

And I've had a career in television spanning 40 years and still in fact work

executive producing television programs. So, you know, I ran Channel 4 news and dispatches,

but quite a long time ago, I was a television producer-director

on a program called World In Action. And I've made programs about all sorts of different subjects,

but I've always felt it was important as a woman

to make programs about issues that were important to women. I've sometimes heard women say in TV,

oh, don't make programs about women if you're a woman, because you'll get

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