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The Documentary Podcast

The interview: Tina Brown

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning writer and magazine editor Tina Brown has spent decades chronicling the British royal family. BBC special correspondent Katty Kay meets her.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What goes into making the business daily podcast from the BBC World Service?

0:05.4

Well first we take a cup full of business news.

0:08.0

Naturally.

0:08.8

Then we add a healthy measure of technology.

0:11.0

Mmm.

0:12.0

Along with a pinch of exciting innovation.

0:14.8

Business daily from the BBC World Service.

0:17.7

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

0:25.6

From her New York apartment, Tina Brown keeps a close eye on events

0:29.6

in Buckingham Palace.

0:31.2

Those 3,000 miles give this British American author a different,

0:35.5

more global perspective on the Royal family.

0:38.9

For her new best-selling book The Palace Papers,

0:41.8

she interviewed over 120 people to tell the story of the women

0:46.1

of the House of Windsor.

0:47.9

Brown has herself met the Queen several times.

0:51.0

She was awarded the Commander of the British Empire

0:53.3

for contributions to journalism.

0:55.5

She's edited both Tatla Magazine and the New Yorker.

0:59.4

She knows the Clinton's well.

1:01.3

She's met Justin Trudeau, Theresa May.

1:04.6

Suffice to say, you don't get a lot better connected

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