Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
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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 men...
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Horror-ific Dr Erin Harrington
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Hello 2026! Lovely to be in you AND lovely to welcome today's podcast star Dr Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer Above Bar at Can...
Unapologetic Sonya Renee Taylor
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Global juggernaut for body positivity, US Slam Poet champ poet and zen mistress repping for the Scorpio Dragons, Sonya Renee Ta...
Felicitous Susannah Fullerton - For the Love of Jane Austen
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Hoorah! Showy Ovarians, grab your bonnets and pop the kettle on because today, December 16th 2025, we’re throwing a literary bi...
Wokezilla
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Way back in March Penny performed this poem at WOMAD spurred on by some political bullshit by a well known "church" attacking a...
Pink Science Rockstar Siouxie Wiles
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2021 New Zealander of the year, microbiologist and award winning science communicator, Siouxie Wiles cycled to Penny's west Auc...
Superstar Morgana O'Reilly
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It's another Showy Ovaries Live and this time from New Plymouth's beautiful Pukekura Park for WOMAD Aotearoa. Penny was delight...
Award Winning Bronwyn Turei
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Wellington Theatre's 2024 Co-Actor of the year Bronwyn Turei (Ngāti Porou) drops into Penny's house to discuss all things flesh...
Jodie Rimmer is Back
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National Treasure Jodie Rimmer invited Penny to her whare to chat all things actorly. From her launching straight from school o...
Tickled Pinky Agnew - The Queen of Downloads Returns
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The Inimitable Pinky Agnew has been top of the Showy Ovarian pods ever since it was recorded as the first ever episode back in...
HRT & Poetry
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With a husband catching the FLiRT variant and subsequent laying low, Penny decided to bust out an ovum with her WOMAD poem all...
Brainy Niki Bezzant
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To coincide with the launch of her new book today; The Everything Guide: Hormones, health and happiness in menopause, midlife a...
Full Noise Angela Barnett
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Writer, journalist, redhead advocate and PR specialist; Angela Barnett swung by Penny's house to discuss inter generational bod...
Magical Amanda Kennedy
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Waaaay back in August 2023 Penny dropped in on Amanda Kennedy's house in West Auckland to discuss her body, her dewy complexion...
Penelope Patchstart
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The time has come, the research is in, the arse is too sore, the foot annoying, the new upper belly is sticking out too far......
Brightest Amy Spark
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After her ballet teacher wouldn't let a very young Amy dance purely on on foot, she readjusted her life ambitions to being a pa...
Show-busy Lizzie Tollemache
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Performer, director, side show starlet, writer and all round showbiz whiz Lizzie Tollemache may have been travelling the world...
Showy Ovaries Live - Tenacious Justine Smith
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Hello lovely Showy Ovarians, Penny's back with another Showy Ovaries Live! This time with her comedy compatriot, fellow tenacio...
Excellently Accomplished Eilish Moran
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Queen of Christchurch's Court Theatre stage, Eilish Moran took some time out of her packed schedule to chat to Penny about her...
Showy Ovaries Live - The "O" Show
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Hello all you wondrous Showy Ovarians, Penny Ashton is back for Season Three! Yes release the fireworks and say huzzah Showy da...
A Very Covid Xmas
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It's a surprise Xmas Special for Showy Ovaries! Tune in to hear Penny chat to her husband Matt from different rooms in their ho...
My Body My Voice
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In the very last little dribble of Showy Ovaries Season Two, here's one last ovum all about your hostess with the most chest's...
Showy Ovaries Unleashed
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To end Showy Ovaries Season Two we have the raucous, ribald, squirty and hilarious recording of Showy Ovaries Live taken at the...
Excellent Local Body Judene Edgar
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The deputy mayor of Nelson until a matter of weeks ago, Judene Edgar was happy to beam into Penny's office to celebrate no long...
The Cult of Tusiata Avia aka Tusiata Two - The Sequel
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It's World Menopause Day and what better guest to revisit than the very woman who told Penny that the day existed in the first...
The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Anna Fifield
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This week Penny is welcoming current Dominion Post and Stuff Wellington editor Anna Fifield, who moved back to NZ in 2020 after...
NZ Woman Jenene Crossan
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In March 2020, NZ Girl and Powered by Flossie co-founder, Jenene Crossan, (Ngai Tahu) flew back to NZ from London and a pesky s...
Tardis Pilot Dr Huhana Hickey
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NZ's very own Dr Hu took some time out from her Multiple Sclerosis and disability advocacy to chat to Penny about her incredibl...
Taboo Terminator Sarah Connor
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Freelance writer Sarah Connor was 46 when her usually trustworthy body started misbehaving. Anxiety, panic attacks, loss of joy...
Action Hero Kate Billing
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When perimenopause came knocking at Kate Billing's door with all its insomnia and anxiety she had no idea what the hell was hap...
Meticulous Geri McLeod
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Dr Geri McLeod is a senior research fellow in the Otago University’s Department of Psychological Medicine, and recently publish...
Energetic Lori Dungey
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Penny's theatre wife Lori Dungey, dropped into her house to chat about her virtually non-existant menopause. Despite working to...
Trailblazing Lynda Chanwai-Earle
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Today Penny is talking and laughing with the prolific and inspiring award-winning writer; Lynda Chanwai-Earle. Lynda is the ori...
Punk Princess Yvette Parsons
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Former punk icon and current witch, Yvette Parsons is one of the most prolific actresses working in NZ today. From What We Do i...
Vulva News Network (VNN) Special - Vulvodynia
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In a break from menopause, Penny invites two of her globe trotting performer buddies to drop in and spill their souls about the...
A Hot Pink Haggis
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Wooohoooo. Here is a bonus documentary to honour of all Penny's good friends currently battling in the Edinburgh Fringe Festiva...
Not At All Evil Elisabeth Easther
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Shortland Street's first ever murderer drops in on Showy Ovaries to discuss her blood letting onscreen and in life. Having abs...
One Eyed Cantabrian Lianne Dalziel
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Ōtautahi born and bred, former MP, soon to be former mayor, but still current mayor Lianne Dalziel, beamed into Penny's Covid i...
Fifth Generation Jenny Agnew
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Fifth Generation Kiwi, Jenny Agnew, welcomed fellow 5th Generation Kiwi Penny into her home to chat all about what it is to be...
Fucking Covid
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Wellllllllll it finally caught up with Penny. The Vid, the Rona, the virus that's the least desirous, and it has a bit of a sto...
Gender Queer Ren Lunicke
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*Sorry for the delay Ovarians, covid finally got me.
Ren Lunicke has lived many lives and tackled each wholeheart...