Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Episodes
Horror-ific Dr Erin Harrington
16 Feb 2026
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Send a textHello 2026! Lovely to be in you AND lovely to welcome today's podcast star Dr Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer Above Bar at Canterbury...
Unapologetic Sonya Renee Taylor
22 Dec 2025
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Send us a textGlobal juggernaut for body positivity, US Slam Poet champ poet and zen mistress repping for the Scorpio Dragons, Sonya Renee Taylor invi...
Felicitous Susannah Fullerton - For the Love of Jane Austen
15 Dec 2025
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Send us a textHoorah! Showy Ovarians, grab your bonnets and pop the kettle on because today, December 16th 2025, we’re throwing a literary birthday ...
Wokezilla
05 Nov 2025
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Send us a textWay back in March Penny performed this poem at WOMAD spurred on by some political bullshit by a well known "church" attacking ...
Pink Science Rockstar Siouxie Wiles
08 May 2025
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Send us a text2021 New Zealander of the year, microbiologist and award winning science communicator, Siouxie Wiles cycled to Penny's west Aucklan...
Superstar Morgana O'Reilly
24 Mar 2025
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Send us a textIt's another Showy Ovaries Live and this time from New Plymouth's beautiful Pukekura Park for WOMAD Aotearoa. Penny was deligh...
Award Winning Bronwyn Turei
18 Mar 2025
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Send us a textWellington Theatre's 2024 Co-Actor of the year Bronwyn Turei (Ngāti Porou) drops into Penny's house to discuss all things fle...
Jodie Rimmer is Back
27 Feb 2025
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Send us a textNational Treasure Jodie Rimmer invited Penny to her whare to chat all things actorly. From her launching straight from school onto the s...
Tickled Pinky Agnew - The Queen of Downloads Returns
27 Nov 2024
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Send us a textThe Inimitable Pinky Agnew has been top of the Showy Ovarian pods ever since it was recorded as the first ever episode back in 2021. Her...
HRT & Poetry
25 May 2024
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Send us a textWith a husband catching the FLiRT variant and subsequent laying low, Penny decided to bust out an ovum with her WOMAD poem all about her...
Brainy Niki Bezzant
13 May 2024
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Send us a textTo coincide with the launch of her new book today; The Everything Guide: Hormones, health and happiness in menopause, midlife and beyond...
Full Noise Angela Barnett
26 Mar 2024
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Send us a textWriter, journalist, redhead advocate and PR specialist; Angela Barnett swung by Penny's house to discuss inter generational bodily ...
Magical Amanda Kennedy
25 Feb 2024
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Send us a textWaaaay back in August 2023 Penny dropped in on Amanda Kennedy's house in West Auckland to discuss her body, her dewy complexion and...
Penelope Patchstart
11 Feb 2024
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Send us a textThe time has come, the research is in, the arse is too sore, the foot annoying, the new upper belly is sticking out too far... it is tim...
Brightest Amy Spark
29 Oct 2023
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Send us a textAfter her ballet teacher wouldn't let a very young Amy dance purely on on foot, she readjusted her life ambitions to being a pathol...
Show-busy Lizzie Tollemache
07 Aug 2023
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Send us a textPerformer, director, side show starlet, writer and all round showbiz whiz Lizzie Tollemache may have been travelling the world hammering...
Showy Ovaries Live - Tenacious Justine Smith
15 Jun 2023
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Send us a textHello lovely Showy Ovarians, Penny's back with another Showy Ovaries Live! This time with her comedy compatriot, fellow tenacious b...
Excellently Accomplished Eilish Moran
15 May 2023
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Send us a textQueen of Christchurch's Court Theatre stage, Eilish Moran took some time out of her packed schedule to chat to Penny about her body...
Showy Ovaries Live - The "O" Show
24 Apr 2023
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Send us a textHello all you wondrous Showy Ovarians, Penny Ashton is back for Season Three! Yes release the fireworks and say huzzah Showy days are he...
A Very Covid Xmas
24 Dec 2022
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Send us a textIt's a surprise Xmas Special for Showy Ovaries! Tune in to hear Penny chat to her husband Matt from different rooms in their house....
My Body My Voice
30 Oct 2022
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Send us a textIn 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
30 Oct 2022
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Send us a textTo end Showy Ovaries Season Two we have the raucous, ribald, squirty and hilarious recording of Showy Ovaries Live taken at the Suter Th...
Excellent Local Body Judene Edgar
23 Oct 2022
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Send us a textThe deputy mayor of Nelson until a matter of weeks ago, Judene Edgar was happy to beam into Penny's office to celebrate no longer b...
The Cult of Tusiata Avia aka Tusiata Two - The Sequel
17 Oct 2022
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Send us a textIt's World Menopause Day and what better guest to revisit than the very woman who told Penny that the day existed in the first plac...
The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Anna Fifield
16 Oct 2022
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Send us a textThis week Penny is welcoming current Dominion Post and Stuff Wellington editor Anna Fifield, who moved back to NZ in 2020 after a glitte...
NZ Woman Jenene Crossan
09 Oct 2022
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Send us a textIn March 2020, NZ Girl and Powered by Flossie co-founder, Jenene Crossan, (Ngai Tahu) flew back to NZ from London and a pesky spiky viru...
Tardis Pilot Dr Huhana Hickey
02 Oct 2022
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Send us a textNZ's very own Dr Hu took some time out from her Multiple Sclerosis and disability advocacy to chat to Penny about her incredible li...
Taboo Terminator Sarah Connor
25 Sep 2022
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Send us a textFreelance writer Sarah Connor was 46 when her usually trustworthy body started misbehaving. Anxiety, panic attacks, loss of joy and lack...
Action Hero Kate Billing
18 Sep 2022
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Send us a textWhen perimenopause came knocking at Kate Billing's door with all its insomnia and anxiety she had no idea what the hell was happeni...
Meticulous Geri McLeod
11 Sep 2022
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Send us a textDr Geri McLeod is a senior research fellow in the Otago University’s Department of Psychological Medicine, and recently published find...
Energetic Lori Dungey
04 Sep 2022
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Send us a textPenny's theatre wife Lori Dungey, dropped into her house to chat about her virtually non-existant menopause. Despite working togeth...
Trailblazing Lynda Chanwai-Earle
28 Aug 2022
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Send us a textToday Penny is talking and laughing with the prolific and inspiring award-winning writer; Lynda Chanwai-Earle. Lynda is the originator a...
Punk Princess Yvette Parsons
21 Aug 2022
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Send us a textFormer punk icon and current witch, Yvette Parsons is one of the most prolific actresses working in NZ today. From What We Do in the Sha...
Vulva News Network (VNN) Special - Vulvodynia
14 Aug 2022
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Send us a textIn a break from menopause, Penny invites two of her globe trotting performer buddies to drop in and spill their souls about their troubl...
A Hot Pink Haggis
06 Aug 2022
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Send us a textWooohoooo. Here is a bonus documentary to honour of all Penny's good friends currently battling in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival tr...
Not At All Evil Elisabeth Easther
31 Jul 2022
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Send us a textShortland Street's first ever murderer drops in on Showy Ovaries to discuss her blood letting onscreen and in life. Having absolu...
One Eyed Cantabrian Lianne Dalziel
24 Jul 2022
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Send us a textŌtautahi born and bred, former MP, soon to be former mayor, but still current mayor Lianne Dalziel, beamed into Penny's Covid isol...
Fifth Generation Jenny Agnew
17 Jul 2022
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Send us a textFifth Generation Kiwi, Jenny Agnew, welcomed fellow 5th Generation Kiwi Penny into her home to chat all about what it is to be a Chinese...
Fucking Covid
15 Jul 2022
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Send us a textWellllllllll it finally caught up with Penny. The Vid, the Rona, the virus that's the least desirous, and it has a bit of a story s...
Gender Queer Ren Lunicke
12 Jul 2022
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Send us a text*Sorry for the delay Ovarians, covid finally got me. Ren Lunicke has lived many lives and tackled each wholeheartedly. Deeply uncomfort...
Refuge Giving Jan Logie
03 Jul 2022
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Send us a textGreen Party MP and self described lefty feminist lesbian, Jan Logie beamed into Penny's office during a recess in that hive of huma...
Top Chick Stephanie Tauevihi
26 Jun 2022
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Send us a textPenny had a bloody hilarious time getting honest AF with Stephanie Tauevihi, aka Shortland St's crack paramedic and iconic characte...
Dr Dame Margaret Sparrow
19 Jun 2022
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Send us a text2020 Senior New Zealander of the year, Dame Margaret Sparrow, delighted Penny by agreeing to chat about her very minor menopause plus he...
Brave Caitlin Smith
12 Jun 2022
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Send us a textIt's the queen of Jazzy Ovaries this week, who shares her journey of suddenly losing her voice on tour thanks to menopause's e...
Award Winning Angela Bloomfield
05 Jun 2022
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Send us a textTo celebrate the 30th anniversary of Shortland St, NZ's longest running soap opera, Penny headed to see one of the longest stars of...
Chief Correspondent Samantha Newman
29 May 2022
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Send us a textHawkes Bay founder of The Female GP, Dr Samantha Newman, joined Penny to share her passion for vaginas, vulvas and all thing science. A ...
Ain't Nothing Like Dame Catherine Healy
22 May 2022
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Send us a textWhen Catherine formed the NZ Prostitute's Collective (now the Sex Worker's Collective) with her co-workers back in 1987, she n...
Breezy Jeanette Thomas
15 May 2022
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Send us a textThis week's guest is the very gorgeous Jeanette Thomas, co-host of one of Auckland's most popular breakfast radio shows on The...
Sunny Astar
08 May 2022
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Send us a textThis week it's Good Morning's doyenne of the daisy and dazzler of the doily, Astar, so fabulous she only needs one name. She e...
Mother/Daughter Besties Carolyn and Meg
07 May 2022
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Send us a textFor a Mother's Day special here's Showy Ovaries' first mother/daughter combo with TV director Carolyn Sylvester and artis...
Govermental Judith Tizard
01 May 2022
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Send us a textVeteran politician Judith Tizard welcomed Penny into her home to talk about her life, her body and her menopause. A part of the Tizard d...
Jazz Handy Jackie Clarke
24 Apr 2022
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Send us a textNew Zealand's cabaret superstar Jackie Clarke, dropped into Penny's house with two hot buns to talk all about her sweaty knees...
Sparkling Miriama Kamo
17 Apr 2022
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Send us a textShowy Ovaries is thrilled to welcome one of the busiest TV presenters and authors in Aotearoa, Miriama Kamo, to share her fertility jour...
Irrepressible Lana Schwarcz
10 Apr 2022
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Send us a textFormer Muppet wrangler at Henson Studios, Lana Schwarcz, joins Penny from Melbourne to talk about her medically induced menopause follow...
What's the HRT?
09 Apr 2022
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Send us a textA minisode with a brief and not at all peer reviewed history and explanation of HRT - Hormone Replacement Therapy. It can sound as dry a...
Purple-tastic Threesome with Jacki Morris and Denise Astill
03 Apr 2022
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Send us a textIt's Shaky Ovaries! In a belated Purple Day Special (Epilepsy Awareness Day on March 26th) Penny chats to fellow ladies with epilep...
Bestselling Niki Bezzant
27 Mar 2022
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Send us a textThis week it's bestselling brainbox Niki Bezzant whose book This Changes Everything: The Honest Guide to Menopause and Perimenopaus...
Outrageously Fortunate Robyn Malcolm
20 Mar 2022
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Send us a textAward-winning NZ acting queen Robyn Malcolm was NZ's sexiest woman 2007, though she grew up feeling anything but. Her teenage years...
Glossy Geeling Ching
13 Mar 2022
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Send us a textDavid Bowie's China Girl is all woman now and still as fabulous as ever. Having always felt incredibly lucky, Geeling told Penny ta...
International Man Behind the Woman Day - Matthew Harvey
10 Mar 2022
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Send us a textWhat better way to celebrate International Women's Day Week than by getting a man in. Penny's husband celebrates her everyday ...
Novel Nicky Pellegrino
07 Mar 2022
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Send us a textIt's a bonus episode on International Women's Day! Best selling juggernaut Nicky Pellegrino joins Penny Ashton to chat all ab...
Terrifically Tasty Peta Mathias
06 Mar 2022
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Send us a textQueen of the catwalks AND the kitchen, it's NZ living treasure and HRT devotee Peta Mathias. Her culinary travel wings may have bee...
Alison "Not Taking it Any" Mau
27 Feb 2022
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Send us a textShowy Ovaries is in the presence of journalism royalty this week with Voyager Media Award Winning Reporter of the Year, Alison Mau. A jo...
Showy MP's
20 Feb 2022
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Send us a textIn late 2021 Penny Ashton stormed parliament, but in a much more fabulous way. In Season Two's first minisode you can hear the sp...
Sameena Zehra Stands Up
20 Feb 2022
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Send us a textIt's a brand new season and excitingly episode one was recorded live with a small but mighty studio audience as part of the Listen ...
Hardworking Louisa Wall
29 Dec 2021
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Send us a textIn the final of Season One of Showy Ovaries we have tenacious MP, Rugby Black Fern, Netball Silver Fern, and all round social justice am...
Not So Plain Jane Caro
21 Dec 2021
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Send us a textWalkley Award winning Jane Caro has opinions and I was delighted to hear them. Australian feminist icon, lecturer, novelist, non-fiction...
Honest Carolyn Harris
14 Dec 2021
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Send us a textCarolyn Harris, deputy leader of Welsh Labour, is searingly honest about her struggle with grief, depression and Strictly Come Dancing. ...
Marvellous Michele A'Court
07 Dec 2021
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Send us a textAll round funny feminist Michele A'Court chats fibroids, cysts and the sisterhood. Raised with frank conversations and laughter aro...
Educational Ella Henry
30 Nov 2021
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Send us a textAUT Associate Professor Dr Ella Henry, (Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa, Ngāti Kuri, Te Rārawa) regales me with tales of skiing in bikini tops...
Menopause World - The Bitchiest Place on Earth
23 Nov 2021
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Send us a textYes we have heard of hot flashes but what about electric shocks? Thinning hair? Stress incontinence? In this minisode I investigate the ...
Pharmaceutical Anna Sophia
23 Nov 2021
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Send us a textOnce she finally realised she was in the grip of menopause, cake addled Anna Sophia didn't take it lying down. Mainly because she h...
Shirley's Coda
16 Nov 2021
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Send us a textA bonus minisode all about Shirley's journey with her body, particularly her head. Hair loss, hippy times, a wig's life expect...
Symphonic Shirley Serban
16 Nov 2021
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Send us a textThis week I chat to the YouTube parody sensation that is Shirley Serban. In lockdown 2020, the Lake Brunner School's principal up...
Fabulous George Fowler
09 Nov 2021
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Send us a textStrap in for my sweariest episode yet with Drag King, Pun King and House of Drag Winner Hugo Grrrl, aka George Fowler. Having lived as a...
Legendary Jennifer Ward Lealand
02 Nov 2021
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Send us a textJennifer Ward Lealand, Aotearoa's queen of the stage and screen, NZer of the Year 2020 and star of The Unruly Tourists, joins me to...
Terrific Tusiata Avia
26 Oct 2021
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Send us a textA multiple award winning poet of the stage and page, Tusiata shared with me her ongoing menopause journey, including her increasing ep...
Anjum is So Extra
25 Oct 2021
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Send us a textAnjum had so much to say it has overflowed into a bonus extra minisode. Here's a snippet I snipped out to make sure the full episod...
Awesome Anjum Rahman
19 Oct 2021
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Send us a textIt's a Bonus World Menopause week extra episode! Today we have the menopause story of the fabulous Hamilton raised social justice a...
The Inimitable Pinky Agnew
17 Oct 2021
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Send us a textShowy Ovaries is born! The delightful and extremely honest Pinky Agnew shares her Menopause, Gastric Bypass and Love story. From playing...
Opening Minisode
14 Oct 2021
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Send us a textWhat the hell is Showy Ovaries all about? In this opening minisode, comedian and pre-menopausal Penny Ashton explains her mission; to fi...