Women in Focus
Join our host Helen Berriman for Women in Focus, a podcast dedicated to celebrating and empowering women through naturism.Each episode features a variety of women sharing their stories - the challenges, benefits, and realities of living clothes-free.
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Helen talks to Ronnie Belfitt (opens the original)
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Helen talks to Ronnie Belfitt, who has been a naturist for as long as she can remember. Starting with a childhood where nudity in the home was completely normal, it was a teenage canoeing trip down France's Ardèche river that gave her her first proper look at naturism out there in the world. She and her husband joined British Naturism in 2008, drawn in by BN's now-retired weekend takeovers of Alton Towers waterpark. She and Helen compare notes on the Women in Naturism holidays; the first all-wom
Helen talks to Dr Victoria Bateman (opens the original)
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Helen talks to Dr Victoria Bateman, a Fellow in Economics at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and the economist and author who has spent over a decade using her own naked body for art and in political protest. Victoria explains how she broke free of what she calls the "cult of female modesty" in her thirties, the story behind the Anthony Connolly nude portrait that caused a media storm in 2014 , and the "Brexit leaves Britain naked" protest she staged in Cambridge the day after the 2016 refe
Helen talks to Michelle Perry (opens the original)
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Helen talks to Michelle Perry, a British Naturism member from the Brighton area who spent most of her life covering up a body she felt sure would be judged, even wearing long shorts on the beach. Michelle shares how an ex-boyfriend's casual invitation to a naturist beach, and a menopausal "enough is enough" moment in her mid-fifties, first got her there - and how the Everybody festival , a couple of years later, sealed the transformation completely. She and Helen talk candidly about lipedema and
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