Gabby Logan

There are so many things I want to talk about, but particularly taking on a huge challenge like this and a big career change in the period of life that only a couple of decades ago we'd got used to seeing women disappear completely from our screens.

Let's meet Cathy.

Welcome to the Midpoint.

Thank you.

Great to be here.

Well, you've got a lot going on at the moment.

You're a very busy woman.

And in your introduction, I talked about the fact that actually a couple of generations ago, this move, this huge career move that you're making right now in this week, I know you've already left Channel 4 and you're about to start your show on Sky.

In fact, this might be going out just after you've started.

Yeah.

It might not have happened because you probably would have been off the screen.

The visibility of women over the age of 50 has increased dramatically in the last couple of days.

And it still feels lovely that we are lucky enough to be in the generation that are here.

And your kids are older, so the responsibility of that day-to-day parenting, which tends to still fall on women's shoulders, even if you do split it completely evenly,

kind of orchestrator of the boss.

The choreographer of the family diary in the house as well seems to matter less and less, doesn't it?

So you've got a freedom.

But you should have been equipped for this period of life because in looking at various things to do with your kind of family life and past, your husband wrote the manual, literally.

I mean, this is a guy who was preparing for the future because he must have been in his 30s when he wrote this.

So was that kind of something that was concerning you quite a lot in your 30s, how midlife was going to run?