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#104 Lauren Laverne: On The Joy & Intimacy Of Audio

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

So excited to have Lauren Laverne on the podcast today! Lauren Laverne is a radio DJ, television presenter, author and co-founder of the award-winning digital platform The Pool. She has presented TV shows including 10 O'Clock Live for Channel 4, and The Culture Show and coverage of the Glastonbury Festival for the BBC. She currently presents a radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music and also Late Night Woman's Hour. We discuss the fact that Late Night Woman's Hour podcast has it's own dedicated podcast (very exciting), why she started the award-winning digital platform The Pool, some advice for young women, the evolution of audio, the joy of radio and why privacy matters in the social media age.

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This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind

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recognizable home improvement brands such as B&Q and Screw Fix, who help make better homes

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accessible for everyone. And who, by the way, doesn't love a pop down to be in queue? I definitely do.

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Kingfisher have recently partnered with Google Cloud, a collaboration that together will support and prepare for retail's next digital age.

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From infrastructure to data analytics, they are looking for the right people to help them succeed,

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and that could be you.

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They're looking for tech professionals interested in software engineering, data

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analytics, data science, e-commerce and much more. They also have a range of brilliant benefits,

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competitive salaries, private health care for the family, and an outstanding pension scheme.

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So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles. Thank you so much to King Fisher

0:55.3

for sponsoring this podcast.

0:57.5

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. Another week, another amazing guest. You know the drill. Every week I interview

1:06.4

someone that I find very interesting. We talk about the internet, creativity and everything in

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between.

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So today's guest is Lauren Levern.

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She is a radio DJ, TV presenter, an author, she used to be in a band.

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She's pretty much the coolest person ever and someone that I've been wanting to get on the

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podcast for a while because I'm so interested in this space of podcasting and audio and I love listening to the radio. of interviews and she's just someone that I really admire her career has been so

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interesting and so successful in so many ways. You might recognize her from the

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culture show and also the amazing coverage of Glastonbury

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Festival every year.

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I absolutely love the way that she hosts a lot of that coverage for the BBC and also she currently presents two brilliant radio shows.

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