Professor Jennifer Hudson joins Sarah to explore the role of leadership in higher education, and the balance between academic achievement and shaping future leaders in a time of cultural shifts, innovation, and uncertainty.

Post-pandemic, higher education is undergoing rapid change, juggling economic pressures with a growing demand to rethink what learning should look like in 2025.

How do we balance curiosity and critical thinking with the ability to disagree well—against a backdrop of cancel culture, polarised media, and a divided society? How do we redefine success for a generation entering the workforce with new expectations? How do ensure democracy serves all future voters?

These are big questions the education system at large is grappling with and this conversation lends itself to some provocative, honest answers.

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Can we live in a world of compromise instead of cancel culture?

Sam McAlister is a former news night producer and the orchestrator behind one of the most famous royal interviews of our time. Since leaving the BBC, Sam has written Scoop, which later became a Netflix hit and featured Billie Piper and Gillian Anderson. Sam has since switched media for academic and is a fellow at the London School of Economics.

Sam joined Sarah to explore what it means to lead today through the lens of public broadcast media, leadership of ourselves, from curiosity to resilience, and how we can model the type of leadership we want to see in the next generation.

An honest, insightful, and amusing conversation on what it really means to lead today.

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In this week's episode, Gillian Tett, a Financial Times Columnist, joins Sarah to explore whether traditional media can still lead and influence.

With the rise of AI-generated content, the challenge of misinformation, and the breakdown of trust in institutions, can traditional media still shape public discourse, influence decision-making, and hold power accountable?

Gillian Tett writes a weekly column on Friday, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She also serves as Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

Previously, she chaired the FT editorial board, co-founded Moral Money, the FT's sustainability newsletter, and was the former US managing editor of the FT.

In the first of two episodes on the role of media today, Gillian takes an anthropological view of journalism, exploring ideology, fact over faith, the shift in authority in media and how we fight for fact over fiction and support credible journalism.

An episode that might surprise some listeners, Gillian's thinking offers calm reassurance in a world of uncertainty.

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