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Welcome to Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues, where the shimmering heat of real-life truths meets the crackling sparks of creative fantasy. This is not your mother’s menopause manual, nor is it a collection of dreary statistics to send you scrambling for the nearest sage tea. Instead, it’s a brazen celebration of a universal experience that so often goes unspoken, unexplored, and underestimated. This podcast series features monologues collected from the book series ”The Menopause Monologues” written by Helena Jevons, dramatised and performed by actors all with lived experience of menopause. From stories inspired by real-life women to imagined experiences from history and fiction, it’s an emotional rollercoaster - not unlike menopause itself. Look out for bonus episodes, interviews and live events as HOT FLASHES warms up... A Soundliness Production 2025
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"The PTA Queen" - She's terrifyingly organised, she can be everywhere at once, she's always smiling! And then... something snaps and it's the cake stall that suffers.
Loosely based on the true story of midwife Ursula Kemp, "Witch!" speculates that hard-working older women of the 1500s – if they lived that long – may have also suffered the mood swings and physical changes of menopause. And angry, outspoken women were often branded with one, powerful word.
Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues features two dramatised monologues each week and the writer's inspiration behind each one.
"The PTA Queen" is performed by Laura Shavin and "Witch!" is performed by Kate Heavenor.
The Menopause Monologues are written by Helena Jevons. For more about the books (available now), events and the podcast, visit hotflashes.info
Music from Artlist.
Hot Flashes is produced by Helen Quigley and is a Soundliness production.
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