Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.

About Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.

Comedian Penny Ashton is on a voyage of discovery into the hormonal hocus pocus of menopause. So what better way to learn about her moisture moving from inside her body to perspiring out her face, than by talking to a series of wondrous women and owners of ovaries about their own lives and their menopause journeys. A series of frank and funny interviews all about what to expect, when expecting the change. Warning: salty language, and not just from the night sweats. Season Three and beyond is opening up wider to include women and trans individuals of all ages and bodily functionings.

Publisher

Penny Ashton

Category

comedy · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

14 Oct 2021

Latest episode

16 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

81 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Feb 2026

   Horror-ific Dr Erin Harrington

   Send a text Hello 2026! Lovely to be in you AND lovely to welcome today's podcast star Dr Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer Above Bar at Canterbury University. An academic at Penny's alma mater (which apparently means nourishing mother...) Erin is one of Showy Ovaries' cleverest interviewees yet, keeping Penny on her toes following her quicksilver brain. Her specialist topics are horror, gynaehorror (horror regarding women's bodies), children's stories (of course!) and cultural activism....

2. 

   22 Dec 2025

   Unapologetic Sonya Renee Taylor

   Send us a text Global juggernaut for body positivity, US Slam Poet champ poet and zen mistress repping for the Scorpio Dragons, Sonya Renee Taylor invited Penny into her West Auckland Air BnB to chat all thing Body. Friends for 20 years they initially reminisced about the UK Poetry tour that brought them together, complete with Penny's diary comments from 2006 on Sonya's "delight" at sharing a room with three poetesses and three wigs. From there, they dive into Sonya’s groundbreaking book and...

3. 

   15 Dec 2025

   Felicitous Susannah Fullerton - For the Love of Jane Austen

   Send us a text Hoorah! Showy Ovarians, grab your bonnets and pop the kettle on because today, December 16th 2025, we’re throwing a literary birthday bash! Jane Austen turns a whopping 250 and what better excuse for a Showy Bonnets Special? And who better to to spill the tea on all things Austen than NZ's other Janeite of notoriety, the head of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for 30 years; Kiwi Susannah Fullerton. Susannah is a global Jane Austen powerhouse. A writer, academic...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

31

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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