Freelance Pod
By Suchandrika Chakrabarti
Stories of news, creativity and the internet, told to Suchandrika Chakrabarti | Shortlisted: Best Host at The Lovie Awards (the European Webby Awards) 2019 | Heard on BBC Radio 4 | Newsletter: buttondown.email/suchandrika | Instagram: @freelancepod | Twitter: @freelance_pod_
Latest episode
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Alex Farrow on how stand-up comedy and teaching inform each other
This episode is all about how to put together a live solo one-hour show and other comedy things as comedian, director and teacher Alex Farrow joins me on the podcast. Teaching is a performance and lot of former teachers find their way into... -
"I've found a lot of positives from being on Twitter" - comedian and PR Vix Leyton on how her two careers work together in a digital age
Freelance Pod is back with some comedy-focussed episodes! I've made a little entry into the comedy industry during lockdown, and the pod is following me into this wild new world... Please note the new url for the newsletter, Writing by... -
Critiquing the media in a digital age, with Mic Wright and his newsletter, Conquest of the Useless
Journalist, poet and publisher / writer of media criticism newsletter , guests on this episode. This is the last one of the current second season. Don't worry though, I'll be back with more great guests later in the year! Mic both works within... -
The future of work is everyone using their influence, with writer Lauren Razavi
Lauren Razavi joins me on this episode to talk about the future of work, how writers can use influencer tools to benefit their careers and what the digital nomad lifestyle might look like post-COVID-19. At a tricky moment when we're gingerly leaving.… -
From the Egyptian revolution to lockdown, with Kim Fox of The American University in Cairo
In 2011, two years after American radio producer and reporter had moved to Cairo to take up a teaching role at The American University of Cairo, the Egyptian Revolution happened, in response to increasing police brutality on what would turn out to b… -
"Dialling down the feminism" with writer and comedian Alex Bertulis-Fernandes
is a comedian and writer. She's been doing stand-up for the past year, and she is writing a memoir while being mentored on the Penguin mentoring scheme*. Alex and I met at the late, much-loved Clean Prose writers' space a few months ago, at a... -
"Grief is an incredibly creative experience" - Author Flora Baker on self-publishing The Adult Orphan Club
Freelance writer and author has combined memoir and a self-help guide in her first book, Flora lost her mother at 20, and her father at 30, just a few years ago. We 'met' via the , although thanks to lockdown we have not yet met in person. ... -
MEL Magazine deputy editor Alana Levinson on what The Great Solicited Dick Pic Experiment reveals about digital journalism
's deputy editor joins me remotely from Los Angeles on this episode, to talk about how necessary editing is for good writing - but it's been devalued in a digital world where any of us can press publish whenever we like. Sometimes, editing can... -
From Anonymous Animals to Animal Crossing: Marie Foulston's lockdown party in a spreadsheet
When I saw 's about the lockdown houseparty that she threw in a spreadsheet, I knew that I had to invite her onto the podcast to hear all about it! Marie is now a freelance creative producer and playful curator, and was most recently at the in... -
"Content is one of the beautiful things about the internet" - Book editor Parul Bavishi on writing in a pandemic
Joining every morning for one week early on in lockdown helped me break through the cobwebs and write the outline of the book that I've been working on for the past year, in fits and starts. I used the hour to write longhand, which always helps...
