Kathy Burke, Menopause, Kajal Odedra

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Kathy Burke: actor, comedian, theatre director and for many people, a national treasure. She's got a new TV series starting next week which explores what it means to be a woman today. It looks at attitudes to beauty, motherhood and relationships. So what's she learnt from the experience?

There's been a lot of publicity this week around a surgical procedure designed to delay the menopause by 20 years. Today we discuss whether the menopause really needs fixing. To talk about it, we have Dr. Melanie Davies who's a Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician; Emma Hartley who's a journalist who's written about the procedure recently, and Allison Pearson who's written a novel about the menopause called How Hard Can It Be?

If you're passionate about making a change, how do you persuade others to follow you? What do you have to do to create a winning campaign and why are some of the most successful ones started by young women? We hear from Kajal Odedra, author of ‘Do Something: Activism For Everyone? We also speak to Bella Lack, who's a 16 year old environmental campaigner.

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds.
0:30.0	BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts.
0:35.0	Hi, this is Jane Garvey and welcome to the Women's Ad Podcast Friday the 9th of August 2019.
0:41.6	What have we got today?
0:42.4	We have a lot of Kathy Burke who went down really well.
0:46.0	She's talking about her documentary series which starts next week.
0:50.0	In the light of all the talk there's been in the newspapers and online over the last week about
0:54.3	delaying the menopause, we'll talk about that too, and you can hear about female activists in the company
1:00.4	of the teenage campaigner Bella Lach and Cargill Odedra who's the UK
1:04.9	director of Change.org. First then to Kathy Burke she's known these days as a
1:11.6	director but she's been a noted actor of course in the past as well.
1:15.4	She's made these documentaries for Channel 4.
1:17.8	They're called All Woman.
1:19.1	There are three programs.
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