She talks frankly about being a mother-of-four and how this has led to her own personal conflicts while reporting on the global ones. We talk about professional failures, imposter syndrome, what happened when she got taken hostage in Afghanistan, the challenge of keeping a sense of optimism about human nature and how she processes the trauma she witnesses. Today, she joins me in an extraordinary interview to reveal how she does it. She has scooped multiple Baftas and Emmys for her work, as well as being the only journalist to have won the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year Award five times. For 30 years, she has been the special correspondent for Sky News and has covered conflicts in Libya, Syria and the Ukraine.

To contact us, email Media:Įlizabeth Day To Fail Cargle A heads-up that we talk about racism in this episode, and that we mention the murder of George Floyd and how this impacted Rachel's anti-racism work.Įlizabeth Day To Fail Cargle you've ever watched a television news dispatch from a warzone, the chances are you've seen Alex Crawford in a flak jacket and helmet, doing a piece to camera punctuated by the whistle of bullets. How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted and produced by Elizabeth Day. Rachel's book, A Renaissance of Our Own, is out today and available to order here. I barely had to ask any questions because I realised, very quickly, that the most powerful thing was simply for me to shut up and hear her speak. Rachel is one of those people I just want to sit and listen to for hours. We also discuss her upbringing as the child of a disabled single mother, her divorce, her decision to be childfree, what happened when she dropped out of conventional academia, as well as her failures in business and what they have ended up teaching her about who she is. She joins me to talk about her anti-racism work, the 'weathering' effect such work has on Black bodies and her new-found understanding ease and joy have to form part of the same fight for equity. Her debut book, A Renaissance of Our Own, is out TODAY and asks us to have the courage to live life according to our own values, rather than the ones we might have inherited or been conditioned to believe in. Rachel Cargle is a public academic, activist and author.

TW: A heads-up that we talk about racism in this episode, and that we mention the murder of George Floyd and how this impacted Rachel's anti-racism work.

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