Kate Muir on the menopause experience that turned her into an activist

The Shift with Sam Baker

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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My guest today is the writer, film-maker and women’s health campaigner Kate Muir. Until perimenopause struck, Kate was the chief film critic of The Times, then all hell broke lose (as anyone who’s found themselves in the midst of the peri-maelstrom will understand). Her life and her job underwent massive turmoil. Now out the other side, she has produced two smash-hit documentaries for Channel 4 about the menopause, with Davina McCall, and followed that up with Davina McCall’s Pill Revolution. Alongside that she has written two books Everything You Need To Know About the Menopause (but were afraid to ask) and now Everything You Need to Know About the Pill (but were ALSO afraid to ask). In short, she’s a woman on a mission - to demystify, educate and empower women to have agency over their own body. A lifelong troublemaker, Kate joined me to talk about the menopause bomb that made her upend her life, going to film school at 50(ish), the story of her mum’s last period and the HRT/Alzheimers equation. We also discuss the fatberg of gender bias consuming women’s healthcare, why her daughter’s contraception experience made her turn her attention to the pill and the chameleon power of ageing. * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at The Shift bookshop on Bookshop.org, including Everything You Need to Know about the Menopause and Everything You Need to Know About The Pill by Kate Muir and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me. * If you enjoyed this episode and you fancy buying me a coffee, pop over to my page on buymeacoffee.com • And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Juliette Nicholls @ Pineapple Audio Production. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.4	Hello and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds about being a woman post-40,
0:41.7	created and hosted by me, writer and broadcaster, Sam Baker.
0:46.4	My guest today is the writer, filmmaker and women's health campaigner Kate Muir.
0:52.4	Until perimenopause struck, Kate was the chief film critic of the times.
0:56.9	Then, all hell broke loose, as anyone who's found themselves in the midst of the Perry Maelstrom
1:02.6	will understand.
1:04.1	Her life and her job underwent massive turmoil.
1:08.3	Now at the other side, she has produced two smash-hit documentaries for Channel 4
1:12.4	about the menopause with Davina McCall and followed that up with Davina's pill revolution.
1:18.6	Alongside that, she has written two books. Everything you need to know about the menopause, but we're
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