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This summer's best current affairs podcasts

This summer's best current affairs podcasts

Week 31 Podcasts Julia Gillard

A Podcast of One's Own

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The former prime minister of Australia, now Founder and Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London and the Australian National University in Canberra, sits down to share challenges and triumphs with fellow trailblazers

What is the mission for A Podcast of One’s Own?

It’s to share the stories of people from around the world working to advance gender equality. Our guests have included Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan, film-maker and activist Beverley Ditsie and author Elif Shafak. Any earnings from the podcast go towards the work of the Institute for Global Leadership to bring together research, practice and advocacy into a powerful force for change.

How does communicating through your podcast differ from other platforms you’ve had, and what does it bring you?

As a politician, I spent so much of my life being interviewed, so in my post-politics life it’s been really nice to flip the roles and be the one asking the questions! I get to speak with incredible women.

And you already have your own spin-off series?

I’ve always been a voracious reader, and we now have a monthly book club conversation. My co-hosts are the author Kathy Lette and the poet Sarah Holland-Batt. We recently read Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis – it was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Podcasts have proved to be an effective medium for celebrating women’s achievements in different fields. What separates your programme from the pack?

A Podcast of One’s Own is unique in that it has consistently kept a focus on how our interviewees’ lives, careers and experiences have been shaped by gender – whether that’s the norms they experienced growing up, barriers they faced in the workplace, or their experience online and on social media. In celebrating our guests’ achievements, we gain so many insights for our listeners about the challenges they have dealt with. Each story is unique and yet we also have many shared experiences as women that we can all relate to and learn from.

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BBC News political editor and co-host Chris Mason tells RT that, in a market packed with similar offerings, what sets this daily analysis show apart are BBC values — what he calls “anchors, not shackles”. He tells us: “Opinions are ten a penny. There is still an audience for hopefully intelligent conversation, which is deliberately not about what I think.” CAROLINE FROST

The Take by Al Jazeera

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For those missing the breadth and depth of the BBC’s HardTalk, some comfort is to be found in The Take, a daily interview-driven gem fronted by Malika Bilal. In the last two months, it has focused on the attempted assassination of Colombia’s presidential candidate Miguel Uribe, student protests in Bangladesh and Iran’s right to resist regime change. GARETH McLEAN

Black British Lives Matter

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Inspired by the 2021 collection of essays of the same name edited by Sir Lenny Henry (below) and Marcus Ryder, this podcast interrogates and celebrates what it means to be black and British. With episodes dedicated to particular subjects — from mental health to art, food to hair — Henry, Ryder and their guests’ conversations are rich and revelatory. GM

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