Julia Gillard

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335 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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I mean, I think the skills about, you know, organising yourself to do a lot of something.

I mean, in politics, the work burdens, the reading, the writing that you needed to do for your political day job was a stunning amount.

getting through the reading for the Women's Prize for Fiction was a lot, but nowhere near as relentless as being Prime Minister.

So those self-organisation skills, I think the critical evaluation skills, working with the team and, you know, staying on track, having a sense of

what it's all for, the purpose around it.

I was very determined when I was Prime Minister to not let day-to-day events buffet me around, but to stay on track, to stay on purpose.

And I think any big challenge, including...

A literary prize requires you to do that to define why am I here?

And we were there to surface and put a spotlight on great writing by women.

And we definitely did that.

They are very different stories.

So yes, the correspondent, entirely presented in letters,

The protagonist is a woman in her late 70s, Sybil.

You hear about her past.

You watch as the years that go by continue to change her.

You really fall in love with her.

And excitingly, Jane Fonda has optioned the book as a movie and is going to play Sybil.

I'm so excited.

The Secret Life of Books will have to do a live reaction show to that.

You do well on your live reaction for films.

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