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#219 Emma Barnett: The Politics of Periods

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

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Emma Barnett is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist. By day, she presents The Emma Barnett Show on BBC Radio 5 Live in which she interviews key figures shaping our times, from the Prime Minister to those who would very much like to be. By night, she presents the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight, on BBC Two and hosts Late Night Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4. Emma was named Radio Broadcaster of the Year by The Broadcasting Press Guild for her agenda-setting interviews. Previously, she was the Women’s Editor at The Telegraph. She now writes a weekly agony aunt column, ‘Tough Love’ in the Sunday Times Magazine and is a proud patron of Smart Works. 'Period' is her first book and we discuss all the ins and the outs. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

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

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0:53.7

Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.

1:06.3

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. Today's guest is Emma Barnet.

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She is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist.

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By day she presents the Emma Barnet show on BBC 5 live in which she

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interviews key figures shaping our times currently from Theresa May to the

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key decision-makers in all of the Brexit stuff that's going on at the moment.

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By night she presents the BBC flagship program News Night.

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And on BBC 4 she hosts Late Night Woman's Hour,

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which I really recommend.

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I've been on there as a guest a few times and I love

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listening to it always covers really interesting range of topics.

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Emma was named Radio broadcaster of the year by the Broadcasting Press Guild

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