Author: kellycrichton

‘Have You Frozen Your Eggs Yet?’ launches

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It’s here! A podcast project I’ve been working on for a few months with another Edinburgh-based producer Louise Mason. The podcast‘s focus is on being a woman, the annoying questions we are asked and surviving ALL the expectations that are placed on us.

It’s taken us a few months to get it off the ground but I am delighted it’s out in the world and feedback so far has been great. We even made it into the Culture Magazine in the Sunday Times!

Fertility is an important topic and we want to use it as a jumping off point to explore all sorts of things that affect women today. In fact, we dropped the first two episodes this week and the content of the second episode was completely unforeseen as Louise dealt with a shocker of situation in her love life. We weren’t expecting an emergency episode so early in the series but here we are.

We’re already doing what we set out to, simply sharing the load with our listeners and starting conversations. If you’d like to learn more you can find us on Instagram, Tik Tok and YouTube. Episodes drop on a Tuesday and you’ll find them wherever you get your podcasts from 🎙️🎧

Now, time to finish off the documentary I’m working on for Newstalk…

New documentary airs on Newstalk

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My new radio documentary ‘Tainted Blood’ lays bare the devastating impact of infected blood products on the Irish Haemophilia Community

In 1982 the first case of HIV was recorded in Ireland. By 1985 all people with haemophilia were being tested for the disease. More than one third of them were found to be HIV positive having contracted the disease through infected blood products that were made up of pooled plasma from thousands of donors, much of which had been imported. 

At this time there was little or no government response to HIV. Support groups for those affected by the crisis such as the gay and haemophiliac communities were essentially left to deal with this crisis on their own. 

This new documentary ‘Tainted Blood’, aired on Documentary on Newstalk on Sunday 6th August and shared the heartbreaking story of how this community was plunged into desperation and the actions that had to be taken to secure justice.