A Podcast of One's Own x SLOB: Special Collaboration
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How does this special A Podcast of One’s Own × The Secret Life of Books collaboration begin and who is introduced?
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This episode is a very special Slob collaboration. When I was in London a couple of weeks ago for a research trip, I had the great good fortune to be invited to join the one and only Julia Gillard in the Wellcome Trust podcasting studios to be a guest on a podcast of one's own. For most slob listeners, Julia Gillard needs no introduction. She served as the Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. Before that, she was Deputy Prime Minister, and she's the only woman ever to have held either office. In her post-politics career, she's done many things, and this includes being the chair of the mental health organisation Beyond Blue. She's also been the chair for many years of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London, and it's in that context that she started a podcast of one's own.
She's also now the chair of the Board of Governors at the Wellcome Trust, which is one of the UK's preeminent medical and public health organisations. I could not have been more thrilled to sit podcasting with Julia Gillard. So in this conversation that you're about to hear, we go in deep on our shared love of books and reading, our mutual admiration and dependence on public libraries and and what we think is really at stake in the current global reading crisis that we're hearing so much about. Over the course of the hour, we put our heads together, and frankly, I think we solve many of the world's great problems. I asked Julia a slightly cheeky question about the transferable skills of being Prime Minister, and Julia let slip an incredibly exciting detail about a forthcoming film adaptation of the Women's Prize-winning novel, The Correspondent.
So Julia and I had both been the chair of judges of a major prize for women's writing this year. Julia was the chair of the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK and I was chair of the Stella Prize in Australia. Julia is wonderfully candid and honest in this conversation. I like to think that I am too. We both enjoyed ourselves and I hope that you do as well. So now over to Julia, who is the host of a podcast of one's own.
Sophie, it's absolutely great to have you on a podcast of one's own. Now, this is not a tale of two cities. Apologies to Charles Dickens.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How does this special A Podcast of One’s Own × The Secret Life of Books collaboration begin and who is introduced?
0:00–7:01
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What is The Secret Life of Books podcast and how did Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole start it?
7:01–33:53
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What inspired Julia Gillard to create A Podcast of One’s Own and how has its format evolved?
33:53–45:33
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How did Julia and Sophie describe their early reading experiences and the role of libraries in childhood?
45:33–55:48