A Conversation with... Audrey Gillan

On 17 November, WIJ Scotland will host an online event with Audrey Gillan. The award-winning journalist will discuss a career that's taken her from the East end of Glasgow to London, Iraq and Washington, covering some of the biggest news stories of the last 20 years.

As a multiplatform journalist covering major court cases and conflicts, Audrey has witnessed some of the darkest, and most resilient, sides of human behaviour. What makes her work so compelling is that she's also an expert in picking out the humanity, the glimmers of hope and the black comedy in her subjects.

Her ground-breaking study of homelessness, told through lives and voices of errant couple Tara and George, is a masterclass in interviewing as well as how to tackle a hugely complex and age-old subject in fresh way that really connects.

The six-part series won Radio Programme of the Year at the 2019 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.

Audrey's most recent podcast, On the Ground, retells the story of her time as an embedded journalist in Iraq when her squadron was attacked in a fatal friendly fire incident.

She returns to the traumatic incident and applies forensic investigative journalism to find out what really happened and what impact it had, not just on the soldiers she bonded with, but on herself.

Audrey will be interviewed on her career, her podcasts and what makes compelling audio journalism by WiJ Scotland Co-Chair Catriona MacPhee.

There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end.

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