Summary: Wait for the live show, but for now the interview at the end of the book is well-worth a read/listen.

'Feminism means equality' - an inspiring message in an excellent interview between Harry and her co-readers towards the end of the audiobook of Gender Rebels. The discussion was a highlight, combined with the very fact of a compendium of inspiring gender-bending women, old and new.

In the interview, the role if humour is mentioned. We are told that male authors would tend towards the dry and dusty, whereas women often take a more playful approach. I may therefore be self-condemning myself to charges of patriarchy by saying that I didn't find the jokes landed. Often it felt like padding. Beneath the stale styrofoam beads of Dad (Mum?) jokes was a neat little nugget of history. The job was finding it under the weighty false-levity of all those words.

Who is the audience for the book? At first I thought I'd picked up a Horrid Histories for the under 10s (no bad thing, and I'd have adjusted expectations). Then I thought it was for late teens or early 20s. Then the Spice Girls and Alanis references came, and I wondered whether I was the right age group. None of which matters, beyond how it suggests the jokes didn't make it more accessible, they just made for a distraction.

At the end, it was mentioned that Harry is a performer. Actually, I think this could make a great stand-up show. I'm imagining an overhead projector, and panel- or sofa-based format loosely modelled on Loose Women. I'd buy a ticket, and if it was in Nuneaton I'd get the train back home after.