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Hello, I'm James Reynolds.
Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
In BBC OS Conversations, we bring people together to share their experiences.
This time, Women discuss perimenopause and brain fog.
Earlier this month,
my colleague tech editor Zoe Kleinman was about to go live on TV to explain a global outage affecting dozens of websites and apps.
Millions would be watching.
But Zoe kept forgetting a key technical phrase.
I'm standing there on my own.
There's a camera on me.
There's big lights on me.
Everything is completely silent.
And I just kept thinking, I don't think I'm going to remember this phrase.
And if I don't remember it, then I'm not going to be able to say anything else.
And at the last minute, I just thought, do you know what?
I have spent 20 years broadcasting without notes.