Award-winning broadcaster and journalist Emma Barnett loathes her period. But there’s something she loathes even more: not being able to talk about it.

In conversation with Rachel Johnson, Barnett draws on female experiences that will make you laugh, weep and (possibly) squirm, in a fierce rallying cry to smash this ridiculous taboo once and for all. Because it’s about bloody time. Period.

Emma Barnett is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist. She presents The Emma Barnett Show on BBC Radio 5 Live, Newsnight on BBC 2 and hosts Late Night Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4. Period is her first book.

Rachel Johnson is an author, journalist and presenter.