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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 to get things done.

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Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women

This week Rachel is joined by Julia Perowne, the founder and CEO of Perowne International, a global PR and marketing consultancy that specialises in luxury travel and hospitality. Having worked in the industry for 20 years, Julia is the 'PR's PR' when it comes to travel. Julia and Rachel discuss the complexities of her job in today's chaotic world as well as what it's like to be a woman working in what is still a male-dominated industry. Julia also reveals the staggering story of how her life was saved by a doctor she was working with while on a job in Germany.

220. Julia Perowne

This week's Difficult Woman is Kathryn Stockett, who, 17 years after the release of her hit novel 'The Help', joins me to talk about her long-awaited second book, 'The Calamity Club'. Kathryn tells Rachel why characters are so central to her process of writing and what she wants readers to take away from the novel. They also discuss the parallels between the 1930s and today's society when it comes to women's rights.

219. Kathryn Stockett

This week's difficult woman is the Scottish journalist, producer and TV show host, Isla Traquair. Best known for her work in true crime, Isla's reported on countless cases throughout her career, and was even known in the early days as the "queen of the death knock". Together, Rachel and Isla talk about her smash hit true-crime series 'The Storyteller: Naked Villainy'. Isla also tells Rachel what it was like when she went from reporter to victim, after her neighbour stalked her.

218. Isla Traquair

This week Rachel is joined by the historian, bestselling author and award-winning producer Philippa Langley, who discovered the remains of Richard III beneath a car park in Leicester back in 2012. Philippa tells Rachel what it was like when her instinct kicked in and she decided to make it her mission to find the King, a moment that inevitably changed her life.

217. Philippa Langley

Penny East is the Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society, the UK’s foremost campaigning charity for women’s rights, working against misogyny. A seasoned charity boss and campaigner, she helped shape the Domestic Abuse Bill 2021 and launched the UK’s first domestic abuse perpetrator programme. Together, Rachel and Penny discuss how the ever changing scene of social media is affecting misogyny, as well as how a disparity in how seriously women's pain is being taken has resulted in their trust in the medical system being damaged.

216. Penny East

This week's Difficult Woman is the journalist, author, academic and historian, Zoe Strimpel, whose new book 'Good Slut' argues that women's liberation comes from the intertwined forces of money, power, and sex. Together, Rachel and Zoe discuss the culture of victimhood in conversations around women. They also talk about the rise of open antisemitism in the UK, and Zoe's recent ill-fated visit to a gallery in Margate.

215. Zoe Strimpel

This week Rachel is joined by the writer, speaker and leading advocate for music education: Dr Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason. Matriarch of what The Times has described as ‘Britain's most musical family’, Kadiatu tells Rachel about what it takes to raise seven musical children. Kadiatu and Rachel also discuss the inspiration behind her latest memoir ‘To Be Young, Gifted and Black’, after one of her children read the online abuse her eldest daughter, Isata, received following her solo debut at the BBC Proms.

214. Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

This week Rachel is joined by the journalist, author, broadcaster and podcaster, Bryony Gordon. Having worked at the Telegraph for decades, Bryony is now a Daily Mail columnist and host of 'The Life of Bryony' podcast. She is the author of multiple bestselling memoirs, mother of one, ten years sober, and has a fancy for running marathons in her pants. She manages to do all this alongside a range of activism and advocacy for mental health. Bryony joins Rachel ahead of the release of her debut novel ‘People Pleaser’.

213. Bryony Gordon

This week Rachel is joined by the author Ela Lee, whose debit novel 'Jaded', took the literary world by storm. Ela became a secret novelist during the pandemic, switching her job as a City lawyer to delve into her passion for writing. Together they discuss the difficult process that came with writing her second book, 'Minbak', an intergenerational story about a family of three Korean women facing ruin following the 2008 financial crisis, which was inspired by Ela's own childhood.

212. Ela Lee

This week's Difficult Woman is Nimco Ali, co-founder and CEO of The Five Foundation, a global partnership working to end female genital mutilation. An FGM survivor herself, Nimco tells Rachel about her experience returning to the UK after she was cut in Djibouti at just six-years-old, where her teacher told her “this is what happens to girls like you”. Nimco was later inspired to speak out publicly against the procedure, after meeting a classroom full of girls in the UK who had undergone FGM.

220. Julia Perowne

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