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Episodes with the category Book author

David Loyn

Veteran foreign correspondent

23rd December 2022

How 9/11 forced newsrooms to recognize PTSD – and better support their journalists

Sophy Roberts

Travel Writer

4th November 2022

The reality of travel journalism

Carl Zimmer

Science columnist, The New York Times

18th August 2022

The Pulitzer-winning science writer on how Covid journalism is a matter of life and death… and the small question of what it actually means to be alive

Harry Mount

Editor, The Oldie

8th July 2022

Tales from five years in the editor’s chair – and a “surprisingly youthful readership”

Toby Harnden

Author and Journalist

23rd June 2022

Ten years in the Navy, 25 years in journalism covering “war, blood, and guts” – and winning the Orwell Prize

Chris Kay

CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi

30th May 2022

The future of advertising – from the leader of the world’s most iconic agency

Erin McCarthy

VP & Editor-in-Chief, Mental Floss

13th May 2022

The intellectual trivia brand – which has reached over 1 billion “curious people”

James Bloodworth

Journalist and Author

29th April 2022

Undercover journalism exposing misery and mass exploitation in the low wage economy

Jason Cowley

Editor-in-Chief, the New Statesman

14th April 2022

Ambitious global expansion plans, big-name signings… and a complete rebrand

Simon Leslie

Joint CEO, Ink

17th February 2022

Producing 33 in-flight magazines for 24 airlines worldwide… and how the covid crisis ultimately bought opportunity

Christopher Snowdon

Writer & Researcher, Institute of Economic Affairs

4th February 2022

Why the pandemic has been “a challenge for libertarians”

Christopher Lamb

Vatican Correspondent, The Tablet

20th January 2022

A ringside seat at Pope Francis’ battle to reform the Catholic Church

Batya Ungar-Sargon

Deputy Opinion Editor, Newsweek

13th January 2022

Challenging mainstream media for turning “woke” – and how it’s “undermining democracy”

Amanda Knox

Journalist, broadcaster & exoneree

23rd December 2021

The media’s role in her wrongful conviction – and how it continues to stifle her efforts to build a new life

Anna Palmer

CEO & Founder, Punchbowl News

11th November 2021

The “power, people and politics” behind-the-scenes in Washington DC

John Micklethwait

Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg

21st October 2021

How the pandemic exposed the “weakness of the West”

Sandro Monetti

Hollywood journalist & presenter

16th September 2021

Journalist and writer of ‘Confessions of a Hollywood Insider’ on La La Land’s post Covid future

Professor Anand Menon

Director, UK in a Changing Europe

26th August 2021

The ‘How to Fix Britain’ TED speaker on how the UK can heal from Brexit division and the global pandemic

Gillian Tett

Editor-at-Large, Financial Times

29th July 2021

Big data’s blind spot – and how anthropology can fill the gaps

Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Historian; expert on authoritarianism, propaganda, abuse of power

8th July 2021

How dictators use corruption, violence, propaganda, and machismo – and the media’s crucial role in beating them