Daisy Dunn

Hats (and knickers) off to the hosts: The Naked Podcast reviewed

Plus: the myth of the introvert and extrovert

The Naked Podcast goes vulva casting. Image: BBC 
issue 15 August 2020

I spent half an hour this week listening to a woman make a plaster cast of her vulva. Kat Harbourne, co-host of The Naked Podcast on BBC Sounds, opened a recent episode by buzzing her bikini trimmer over the microphone before squatting over a British Airways peanut dish.

Jenny Eells, her partner in crime, stood close by offering to hold up her dress. ‘I feel a bit like a voyeur, almost,’ she said, as if surprised at herself. ‘Thanks for letting me be a part of it.’ Then the mould-maker, Phoebe, put a porridgy alginate in Kat’s dish, and Jenny thought it looked ‘tasty’.

Jenny and Kat are used to seeing each other naked. Most weeks, they invite on a female guest, and encourage her to strip off with them so that they can have a chat in the nude. ‘What are you taking off?’ they’ll ask her, so that we can be a part of it too.

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