During her impressive year TV career, presenter Anna Richardson has never shied away from sharing the ups and downs of her life, on and off-screen. From discovering she had low fertility while making a documentary in her thirties, to facing a barrage of online abuse over her recent series, Naked Education , the year-old leaves nothing off the table.
There is a degree of shame and embarrassment. For some women, menopause is difficult. But no one is talking about this final taboo.
For Anna, who was in a long-term relationship with presenter Sue Perkins until , sex in her fifties has been a revelation. Actually, I can experience amazing sex like I had in my twenties. Sharing personal experiences has never been an issue for the broadcaster β and neither has speaking up for what she believes in.
The series involved frank discussions with teenagers about sex, relationships and body image and divided viewers. Anna tells us she and her co-hosts received a barrage of online abuse after it aired, while Ofcom was deluged with almost 1, complaints.
So does she regret making it? Even though I tried my best at the time and was using contraception, I still got pregnant. So if I lived through that trauma 30 years ago, imagine what teenagers are going through now. While the teens in Naked Education might have been on a steep learning curve, it was Anna herself who had her eyes opened when making her series, The Sex Education Show.
