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Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Poorna Bell on grieving, powerlifting and racism in journalism

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week's guest is journalist, author and powerlifter Poorna Bell. We discuss the challenges of breaking into the journalism and publishing industries as a south Asian woman, why she decided to become a competitive powerlifter and navigating dating in your 40s. Original music by Matt J Brown.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a Global Player Original Podcast.

0:11.8

All right, lovers.

0:14.1

And a White House here.

0:16.6

Eyebrow.

0:17.9

I sounded like the beginning of the generation go.

0:20.8

And a White House here. Found founder of Dirty Motherpucker.

0:23.8

Did you sound very, very game show?

0:26.0

Thank you.

0:26.5

I'm in, I'm in.

0:27.8

And I'm joined by my best mate, Polly.

0:30.3

Hi, hi.

0:31.3

Hi.

0:32.5

We haven't reiterated this for a while.

0:35.5

But the irony of this being called Dirty Motherpaca is not lost on us because we are not dirty. I know, it's so sad. It's tumbleweeb out there. It really is. I mean, get us to that sex club. It's fronto. I love how we've done the interview, but we're not going to step a toe in that sexual water yet. Not yet. You need to build up to it. Oh, I have had the worst thigh rub today.

0:58.5

Well, it is flipping hot out there.

1:00.5

We are in the heat wave.

1:03.3

Yeah.

1:03.8

Or, as I saw, the Daily Mail headline said,

1:08.0

The Heat Rave, because obviously everyone's working from home and like kicking back

1:13.2

and not working right right guys pipe down anyway um got my thigh thigh rub and uh i couldn't walk it was

1:20.3

that debilitating or it's painful it is bad and uh i have started using my husband's boxes

1:26.5

right yeah so i've got them on now i I'll show you. Oh, well, underneath your dress. Yeah, yeah, underneath the dress. Oh, actual boxer shorts. Yeah, no word of my. She'll hear the ping on that waistband. She has got her husband's boxes on and they're not like branded, are they're they from where are they from gap gap like

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