Hello, you're listening to Culture Call, the Life and Arts podcast from the Financial Times.

I'm Lila Raptopoulos, an editor in New York.

Coming up on today's show.

You know, those archives were never meant for people like me to look through.

When the fascists were saving information, telegrams, documents of this war with Ethiopia,

they never intended that I would walk into those archives and look at them through the eye

of someone who knew better.

As a journalist, we're in the news business, to think about the people who might be reading what we produce in

a hundred years' time and how, you know, we're just the very, very first take on history that

a lot of people are going to have very different views on in the years to come.

Here we are. It's part five of our six-part series on how the events of 2020 are shifting culture.

While my co-host, Griselda Murray Brown is on parental leave, teaching her daughter Matilda

important things like how to sleep through the night, I'm here with you trying to dissect where we are

and where we're going. The first week in December coincides with the FT Weekend magazine's annual Women of the Year

issue. This is an issue entirely about and almost entirely by impressive and influential

women. It's a great read, and I'm telling you this for two reasons. First, our guest this

week is one of the extraordinary women celebrated in this issue. Her name is Maza Mangiste.

Maza is the author of the Booker Prize shortlisted epic novel, The Shadow King.

And second, my FT friend this week who's joining me later on

is one of the extraordinary women who puts this Women of the Year issue together.

Actually, she puts all the issues together.

Her name is Alice Fishburn. Alice is editor of FT Weekend magazine, and she's going to tell us exactly how one

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