Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues
Welcome to Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues, where the shimmering heat of real-life truths meets the crackling sparks of creative fantasy. This is not your mother’s menopause manual, nor is it a collection of dreary statistics to send you scrambling for the nearest sage tea. Instead, it’s a brazen celebration of a universal experience that so often goes unspoken, unexplored, and underestimated. This podcast series features monologues collected from the book series ”The Menopause Monologues” written by Helena Jevons, dramatised and performed by actors all with lived experience of menopause. From stories inspired by real-life women to imagined experiences from history and fiction, it’s an emotional rollercoaster - not unlike menopause itself. A Soundliness Production 2025
Episodes
The Panel Discussion: Recorded live after the Hot Flashes Menopause Monologues performances, Em Anastasi of In The Flow, Louise Harman, artist and social impact advocate, Mo Kanjilal of Watch This Space and of course Helena Jevons, chat to panel host and Hot Flashes actor Natalie Chisholm about the origins of the monologues, the people impacted by menopause from minority communities and the need for further conversations and aware...
For one night only, Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues took to the stage at Ironworks Studios in Brighton to perform a selection of the monologues live! Going behind the scenes on the day of the show, this episodes takes you right up to when the doors open; with interviews, clips and light-up-letter Wordle. Or at least the mischievous potential for it...
Keep listening, as Part Two is the post-show discussion panel where Natalie Ch...
Well, we know how these things start. A conversation began between two perimenopausal friends. One an Audio Producer, the other a Creative Branding Expert. What happened next was inevitable...
In this first episode of Hot Flashes, find out how and why writer Helena Jevons was compelled to write The Menopause Monologues. Talking to Producer Helen Quigley, Helena describes how her experiences and conversations with friends manifested...
"Quork-X7" - An alien visitor to Earth reports back to their senior management about a little green planet utterly baffled by the weird biological process called "menopause" which half of its human population endures.
Author Helena Jevons steps behind the mic to record "NuVag TM", a rebranding of the intimate reconstruction process required when giving birth later in life...
Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues features two dramati...
"The PTA Queen" - She's terrifyingly organised, she can be everywhere at once, she's always smiling! And then... something snaps and it's the cake stall that suffers.
Loosely based on the true story of midwife Ursula Kemp, "Witch!" speculates that hard-working older women of the 1500s – if they lived that long – may have also suffered the mood swings and physical changes of menopause. And angry, outspoken women were often branded w...
"Rosie the Riveter's Sister" - You might know of a certain pin-up wartime icon. But what if she had an older, perimenopausal sister?
Watch out, they're coming for your hormones! When a pandemic, high demand and a departure from the European Union all collide to create some infuriating shortages, in "Brexit Heist".
Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues features two dramatised monologues each week and the writer's inspiration behind e...
"Free Dive" - Lena is a professional free diver, but age and perimenopause have impacted her fitness and ability to do the sport she loves. But one thing that will never change is her love of the ocean.
Woe betide anyone who encounters Bethan in her shop on a bad day... In "We've Got Biscuits" she relates the challenges of its running becoming much harder work than it used to be - and don't you dare move the custard creams.
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"From PMS to WTF" - Even though we know it's coming, perimenopause can still be a surprise.
The female reproductive system can deliver a lifetime of pain and trauma. In "The Silent Garden", menopause was expected to be a hoped-for welcome relief.*
*Some listeners may find this monologue upsetting.
March 2025 is Endometriosis awareness month. For more information regarding Endometriosis support, visit Endometriosis UK, The Endome...
In this episode released in the week of International Women's Day on 8th March, a perimenopausal woman has more hormones than she knows what to do with as they channel themselves into her libido in "Awakening the Fire".
Then a young woman senses the growing isolation from her peer group as she learns she’s entered an irreversible early menopause in "Not the Same Clock". Some listeners may find this monologue upsetting.
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"Out, Damned Menopause" - Anxiety and insomnia force Lady Macbeth to wander the halls of the castle. But is she wracked with guilt or is it perimenopause?
"The Soy Secret" is no secret at all. For Yumi, it's a lifestyle, not a menopause miracle cure-all.
Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues features two dramatised monologues each week and the writer's inspiration behind each one.
"Mirror Mirror" is a realisation that fairy tale evil stepmothers might not be evil - perhaps they're just too hot, irritated and lacking sleep?
"Memory Lane is Closed for Repairs" charts a day in the life of brain fog and a head full of so many things, that they fall out indiscriminately.
Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues features two dramatised monologues each week and the writer's inspiration behind each one.
Some welcome menopause, learn from it and accept it - It's an act of "Rediscovering Joy".
"Seven Equal Dabs" is a tirade about the difficulties in getting hold of testosterone on prescription for use during menopause isn’t just difficult – it’s a battle.
Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues features two dramatised monologues each week and the writer's inspiration behind each one.
"Seven Equal Dabs" is performed by Natalie Chisho...
"The Menopause Creation Myth". Taking advantage of her church pulpit, a woman outlines who is to blame, in detail, for exactly what's coming.
"The Red Sea" describes the horror of discovering that just as you’ve reached an age where you’ve finally got used to your periods, menopause delivers some epic - and unwelcome - bonus content.
Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues features two dramatised monologues each week and the writer's i...
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