Curious about the latest form of contraception? Is your friend’s husband mansplaining ironing to you? Wondering how on earth you can look sexy in just sixty minutes?

This week the Hags are going back to 1973 to explore a very mysterious magazine called Eve. Not to be confused with Eve magazine that ran from 2000-2008 or for that matter with Eve magazine that ran from 1926 til 1955. This Eve was a weekly magazine that ran from… well, actually we don’t know. There doesn’t appear to be any record of it anywhere.

Unfazed, we dive headlong into its features which, on closer examination, seem to ALL about about family planning. We debate the pros and cons of having kids, get a firsthand account of an IUD insertion (very newfangled back then), and get some very dubious skincare tips.

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LINKS

Read: Jack Hutton’s obituary in The Observer, 2008

CHAPTERS

02:06 - Introduction to Eve, November 1973

14:00 - Would you like a baby, maybe?

28:03 - *An ad break from 1973*

29:56 - Living with someone else’s husband

42:18 - Fashion and beauty tips from 1973

47:17 - The IUD and me

56:47 - What's Hot and What's Not in November 1973

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Editing and audio production by Franki Cookney.

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