Ranked #1
Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
Raised in small town New Jersey, lifelong bookworm Fran Lebowitz has always done things on her own terms. After getting ... Read more
21 May 2018
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42mins
Ranked #2
Brian Reed (S-Town)
Brian Reed (S-Town)
S-Town's rich and thoughtful story telling captured the attention of audiences from around the world. Brian Reed, its ho... Read more
18 Sep 2017
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32mins
Ranked #3
Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote)
Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote)
Nai Palm of Hiatus Kaiyote has recently been flying solo, with her debut album Needle Paw soon to be released. In spite ... Read more
16 Oct 2017
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37mins
Ranked #4
Lindy West
Lindy West
Lindy West’s vibrant humour, refreshing candour and unapologetically trenchant attacks on body shamers and trolls have e... Read more
21 Aug 2017
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42mins
Ranked #5
Josh Thomas
Josh Thomas
You will know Josh Thomas as the blonde-haired, 20-something from "Please Like Me." An Aussie comedy, which has stolen a... Read more
29 May 2017
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34mins
Ranked #6
Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw understands how Australian families eat. Emigrating to South Australia from Malaysia in the 1980s his childhoo... Read more
20 May 2019
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39mins
Ranked #7
Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi
It’s hard to remember what we used to cook before Yotam Ottolenghi burst into our culinary consciousness. His brand of c... Read more
6 May 2019
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42mins
Ranked #8
Kevin McCloud
Kevin McCloud
Kevin McCloud had a childhood where everything was built from scratch, and his home was more like a workshop. So it’s no... Read more
8 Apr 2019
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39mins
Ranked #9
Yeonmi Park
Yeonmi Park
Born in North Korea in 1993, Yeonmi Park grew up in a society devoted to ‘Dear Leader’ Kim Jong-Il. As a child she regul... Read more
9 Jan 2018
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39mins
Ranked #10
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
How might literature change the world? American author Barbara Kingsolver has been asking this question through her best... Read more
30 Jul 2018
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45mins
Ranked #11
Soraya Chemaly
Soraya Chemaly
Feminists get a bad rap for being angry. But what would it be like if women were allowed to embrace their anger? America... Read more
6 Mar 2020
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37mins
Ranked #12
Joan Morgan
Joan Morgan
Joan Morgan grew up in the Bronx alongside a growing hip hop movement in the 1980s. Coming of age in the 90s, as hip hop... Read more
6 Feb 2020
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39mins
Ranked #13
Liz Jackson
Liz Jackson
When Liz Jackson woke up one morning back in 2012 unable to feel her legs, her life radically changed direction. Diagnos... Read more
13 May 2019
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36mins
Ranked #14
Giulia Enders
Giulia Enders
Microbiologist Giulia Enders is seriously into guts. So into guts in fact, that she's been the catalyst for a global mov... Read more
26 Jun 2017
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36mins
Ranked #15
Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson
As a hugely successful journalist and writer, and the founder of the international diet and lifestyle empire I Quit Suga... Read more
29 Apr 2019
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37mins
Ranked #16
Mandy Len Catron
Mandy Len Catron
There’s a widespread assumption that we are all are better off in relationships, that you can and must find your soul ma... Read more
16 Jul 2018
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42mins
Ranked #17
Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler
One evening in 1996 the basement of the Cornelia Street Café in New York’s Grenwich Village came alive when Eve Ensler p... Read more
11 Dec 2017
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49mins
Ranked #18
Jonathan Drori
Jonathan Drori
Walking through Kew Gardens in London with his family was formative for polymath, writer and tree-lover Jonathan Drori. ... Read more
22 Apr 2019
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35mins
Ranked #19
Sarah Smarsh
Sarah Smarsh
Sarah Smarsh is the daughter of a teenaged mother, who was the daughter of a teenaged mother, who was the daughter of a ... Read more
11 Feb 2020
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40mins