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Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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Well-behaved women rarely make history as someone once said difficult women do. In this new LBC new podcast, Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women, Rachel will be talking to women who had to be a pain in the backside to get where they are today. Women who take the word difficult as a compliment, not an insult. And women who had to fight, resist, insist, or otherwise be badly behaved in order..
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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The stalwart defender of women's rights, Harriet Wistrich, is this week's difficult woman. Responsible for keeping John Worboys locked up and the founder and director of the Centre for Women's Justice. Harriet has worked tirelessly for 25 years to advance and protect women's rights listen to her experience fighting the patriarchal mountain that is British law ..read more
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
2w ago
This week's difficult woman is probably more accurately described as difficult women! Lorraine Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Olivia Coleman, Ann Widdecombe AND Miss Piggy join me this week, all voiced by the wonderful Ronni Ancona. A long and storied career in comedy that is as fascinating as it is funny ..read more
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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Ann Widdecombe is a titan of British politics. Wheather or not you agree with her, you cannot deny the monumental impact she has made on our political landscape over the past 35 years. Instrumental in bringing forth Brexit, Ann now works for the Reform party as once again she finds herself at the centre of political disruption ..read more
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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A gala edition of Difficult Woman Live! with the author, influencer, glamazon, and daughter of one of the most fascinating families in Britain – the Sykes. Plum is descended from the grandest of Yorkshire grandees, Plum Sykes. Pack leader of the transatlantic glossy posse, working at Vogue both here and in New York and achieving international success with her first novel Bergdorf Blondes about blowdried airheaded Park Avenue Princesses, more novels, screenplays, marriage and children followed and Plum is now living with her two daughters and horses in a delectable manor house in darkest G ..read more
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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Fresh off the back of her tenure at the head of John Lewis, Dame Sharon White is at a bit of a loss. With Ofcom and the Treasury on her CV, there is very little she can't turn her hand too. Listen to this surprisingly candid interview from one of the UK's most successful businesswomen.  ..read more
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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If there is a man woman or child in showbiz that Rosemary Reed doesn't know, then they're not worth knowing! This producer/director is the mastermind behind some of the most insightful interviews of our generation. "The Power of Women" is her latest interview series, each episode pits two influential women in a room together and charges them to put the world to rights... Sounds like a good idea for a podcast I reckon...  ..read more
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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I don't have a single bad word to say about this weeks difficult women... not least because she may well be listening! Gillian Reynolds, the Doyenne of Radio, has been a radio critic for over 57 years and what she doesn't know about this industry ISNT WORTH KNOWING. A woman who is nearly older than radio itself has quite the insights into everything from podcasts to the age old rivalry of Nick Ferrari vs James O'Brien ..read more
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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"We are frozen in a trauma that has now become our reality" This week's difficult woman may well be one of the strongest I have ever met. The terror attack of October 7th changed thousands of lives; Rachel Goldberg is one such life. Her son, Hersh, was kidnapped and remains a hostage inside Gaza to this day. Our conversation was a fascinating insight into the daily turmoil that she has to reckon with, holding on hope that she will maybe, one day, see her son again ..read more
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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This week’s difficult woman is Newsnight's star booker Sam McAlister. A working class girl who’s mixed with princes and paupers, Sam has always known how to get where she needs to be. The story behind THAT Prince Andrew interview has now been turned into a blockbuster Netflix film, listen as I interview the woman behind the SCOOP ..read more
Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
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"Men get away with it because women don't want to report it" This week's difficult woman is author, producer, and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin. The brilliant mind behind Grand Designs, Victoria, and Diva, Daisy's multi-format career is impressive to say the least. Though you may be more familiar with her as the defiant voice who exposed Tory Mayoral hopeful Daniel Korski and derailed his campaign. Listen as she tells EXACTLY what went on that day.  ..read more