“Education for girls is the family business,” says Sudanese-British broadcast journalist Zeinab Badawi. She tells us about her family and career, and what it’s like to interview the world’s most notable politicians on BBC’s ‘Hard Talk’. Badawi explains how her groundbreaking TV series, ‘The History of Africa’, for which she visited 34 African countries over seven years, led her to write her debut book ‘An African History of Africa’.

Francis Spufford on faith, fantasy and the craft of fiction
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Luka Ivan Jukic on the enduring significance of Central Europe
30:53

Karen Dobres and pitch politics
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