Georgina Godwin

Georgina Godwin (Hon) FRSL is a highly accomplished and widely experienced independent broadcast journalist. She is the regular anchor of current affairs programmes The Globalist https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-globalist/ and The Briefing https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-briefing/3614/ on Monocle Radio. These are live geo-political shows that go behind the headlines, exploring the stories for an international audience. Georgina makes story suggestions, writes the scripts and conducts the interviews. A regular chair of literary events worldwide (see the 2025 diary), she is also Books Editor for Monocle Radio and presenter of the in-depth interview show Meet the Writers https://monocle.com/radio/shows/meet-the-writers/, a warm intimate one-on-one half-hour programme featuring authors. She presents Monocle on Saturday https://monocle.com/radio/shows/monocle-on-saturday/ with gentle wit and a sense of fun, comprising lighter stories and a global press review.

Georgina has interviewed a wide range of public figures from literary giants and debut novelists to prominent politicians, musicians and artists. She has been a contributor to Al Jazeera, Sky News, Channel 4 News, BBC News, Newsnight, Channel 5, LBC and others, speaking on Southern African politics. She is a regular panelist on Weekend on the BBC World Service and has appeared on Broadcasting House and Great Lives (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07pgvjz) where her choice was Dag Hammerskjöld. Born in Zimbabwe, and educated there and at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London, she was a lead presenter on the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, then a founder member of SWRadio Africa and of the Harare International Festival of the Arts. She serves on the board of the charity English PEN. Currently Georgina also hosts the podcast Visionary (https://www.visionary.show/about-the-show) for Hear East and Wondercast.

Georgina has judged many literary prizes, including the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, the Caine Prize for African Writing, The British Book Awards and the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. **Twitter**: @georginagodwin **Instagram & Threads**: @georginacgodwin **Bluesky**: @georginagodwin.bsky.social Georgina’s brother is the author Peter Godwin. His latest memoir is Exit Wounds, which features his family. More here https://canongate.co.uk/books/4952-exit-wounds-a-story-of-love-loss-and-occasional-wars/ Georgina’s partner is the baker, Mike Yule — https://www.yules.org/store-2-2 Georgina is now a British Citizen and lives in North West London with Mike and their Springer Spaniel, Bella. She has some capacity to host more podcasts and events, Mike has limited capacity to bake and deliver more bread — and Bella has endless capacity for more everything.

**Kolkata Literary Meet — January 2025** Interviewed Sandip Roy, Lee Durrell, Dan Morrison, Rajdeep Sardesai **Jaipur Literature Festival — January 2025** Interviewed Benjamin Moser, Anand George, Susan Jung, Caroline Eden, Namita Gokhale, Lucy Caldwell, Ravi Singh Led debate with Manpreet Vohra, Mukulika Banerjee, Gideon Levy, Yaroslav Trofimov, and Salil Tripathi **Galle Literary Festival — February 2025** Interviewed Sharanya Manivannan, Dr Ngyuyen Than Que Mai, Naazima Kamardeen, Sathnam Sangera **Adelaide Writers’ Week — March 2025** Interviewed Howard Jacobson, Peter Godwin, Michelle de Kretser, Bettany Hughes **Conversations at St Martin-in-the-Fields** Interviewed Paul Lynch **Voices of Faith Festival, Barbican — 30 March 2025** Interviewed Reza Aslan **Ealing Book Festival — April 2025** Interviewed Elif Shafak **Auckland Writers’ Festival — 14–17 May 2025** Interviewed Edward Wong, Anna Fifield, Philippe Sands

Sydney Writers’ Festival — May 2025 Alan Hollinghurst, Candice Chung, Peter Godwin, and Michael Visontay **Hay Festival Wales — 22 May–1 June 2025** Interviewed Geoff Dyer, Sigrid Rausing, Guadalupe Nettel, Saba Sams **JLF London at the British Library — 13–15 June 2025** Interviewed Saad Mohseni, Lucy Hannah, Batool Haidari, Namita Gokhale, Anu Singh Chauhury, Bruno Maçães, David Rhodes, Steve Tsang, Mukulika Banerjee, Shashi Tharoor **Hampstead LitFest at St Jude’s — 21 June 2025** Interviewed Sir Michael Palin **Edinburgh International Book Festival — 9–24 August 2025** Interviewed Alexander McCall Smith, Tessa Hadley, Ewan Morrison **Queens Park Book Festival — 30 August 2025** Interviewed Kate Summerscale, Blessin Adams **Cheltenham Literature Festival — 10–19 October 2025** **Charleston Literary Festival — 7–16 November 2025** Charleston, South Carolina, USA **Literature Festival at Sea — 8–15 December 2025** Aboard Queen Mary 2 (Transatlantic: New York to Southampton)

October 10 – Mensun Bound, Mark Frary, Anne Strathie – Attivo Garden Theatre – 3:30–4:30 pm – Wonders in the Deep, A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects 
October 10 – Giuliano da Empoli – The Cunard Stage – 6:00–7:00 pm – The Hour of the Predator October 16 – Ed Davey, Lindsey Burrow, The Cunard Stage – 2:00–3:00 pm – Why I Care: And Why Care Matters, Take Care: A Memoir of Love, Family & Never Giving Up 
October 16 – Tim Marshall – The Cunard Stage – 4:00–5:00 pm – Prisoners of Geography (10th anniversary edition) 
October 16 – Stuart Maconie – The Cunard Stage – 6:00–7:00 pm – The Full English, Adventures on the High Teas 
October 17 – Cass Sunstein – The Cunard Stage – 4:00–5:00 pm – Nudge, Going to Extremes October 18 – Jeremy Vine, Simon Mayo – Attivo Garden Theatre – 12:00–1:00 pm – Murder on Line One, Black Tag 
October 18 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee – The Cunard Stage – 8:30–9:30 pm – This Is For Everyone October 19 – Charlie Mackesy