Now dear listeners we're taking you on a bit of a diversion because your favorite podcast is about to be hijacked.

We have been taken over by a youngster.

Lorraine and I are having the tables turned on us because in honour of International Day of the Girl which takes place on the 11th of October,

we've invited a young aspiring journalist to host the show.

Yes, throughout our careers in women's magazines and newspapers and now in the dizzy heights of

podcasting we've always both been vocal advocates of empowering nurturing and

supporting the women who are coming up behind us it's that idea of being a

leader and leaving the ladder drop down behind you and helping

somebody else. And we're delighted to be supporting the charity Plan International's campaign,

which you'll hear more about in a minute. My family and I have been supporting

Plan International since my two eldest girls were born, and Trish, you've had a long-standing relationship

with the charity, haven't you?

Me, for my Mary Claire days, actually, we always work very closely with Plan and as Ava's going to explain,

Plan supports children from deprived and challenging backgrounds and really advocates the global equality for girls.

But I actually did a trip with the plan team

to see the work that they were doing in Ghana

for Marryker's 30th anniversary

and it was really incredible

because Ersney Kane, she, my daughter Ersney came, she was only 14 and the idea was that she was going to meet 40 year old girls in Ghana who were on the program and we met some amazing women and one of them

Angela she was she had a one-year-old baby so it was quite an eye-opener but she was

been kept in school due to the plan program which was really amazing and of course so we sponsor and support

plan too. That's brilliant well I think it's time to bring in someone I'm going to call the new

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