Sally Wainwright
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Podcast Appearances
Amazing.
Riot Women was really personal.
It was a really personal show.
I don't know whether it was conscious when I started, but it was kind of my own response to...
realizing that I was starting to go through the menopause.
And when was that?
So I started, well, the idea of it came to me about 10 years ago.
Okay.
There are a number of things that brought it about.
First, the show is a conflation of two ideas.
It's a female rock band, and it's about, I hesitate to say it's about the menopause.
It's more about the female experience when you get to 50.
Menopause is part of the story.
No, exactly.
It's kind of touched on and it's an aspect of what these women are dealing with.
But really it's about everything that women deal with when you get to a certain part of your life.
And it doesn't have to be 50.
It can be earlier or it can be later.
But for me, it was personal on a number of levels.
The idea started basically when my mum was starting to develop dementia.