Podcast
Katy Balls speaks to women at the top of their respective games, about their passions, their battles, and what makes them tick. Katy is Political Editor of The Spectator.
Katy Balls speaks to women at the top of their respective games, about their passions, their battles, and what makes them tick. Katy is Political Editor of The Spectator.
Women With Balls
Karen Pierce is the UK’s Permanent Representative to the UN. In this episode, she talks to Katy about her career ambitions when she was young, using Lewis Carroll to combat the Russians, and what day to day life is like in the UN. Presented by Katy Balls.
Play 28 mins
Women With Balls
Jo Swinson is the current deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, but she’s running to be leader against Ed Davey. With the Liberal Democrats’ surge in the polls, Swinson’s role in the coming months could be vital for Brexit. In this special edition of Women with Balls, she talks about losing her seat in 2015
Play 19 mins
Women With Balls
Tracey Crouch MP has earned a reputation for being independently minded. She has rebelled on issues from press regulation to fox hunting; and served as a sports minister until last year until she resigned over the government’s stance on fixed odds betting terminals. In this episode, Tracey Crouch tells Katy about being the only student
Play 34 mins
Women With Balls
Broadcaster and journalist Jo Coburn tells how German got her into journalism, what it’s like to work with Andrew Neil, and what happened behind the scenes of that infamous Will Self-Mark Francois death stare. Presented by Katy Balls.
Play 34 mins
Women With Balls
Layla Moran tells Katy Balls about her childhood as a diplomat’s daughter, the social life of an MP, and getting arrested at Lib Dem conference. Presented by Katy Balls.
Play 29 mins
Women With Balls
Claire Fox, left libertarian thinker, director and founder of the Academy of Ideas, and panellist on the Moral Maze, was this week elected as an MEP for the Brexit Party. In this episode of Women With Balls, she talks to Katy Balls about her disagreements with Nigel Farage, the prejudice she has received in green
Play 41 mins
Women With Balls
Iona Craig is an award-winning war correspondent who has been reporting from Yemen since 2010. On the podcast, Iona tells Katy about her near-death experiences, dealing with survivor’s guilt, and why being a woman makes her job possible.
Play 28 mins
Women With Balls
Kate Hoey is a Labour MP for Vauxhall, having been in that role for 30 years. Hoey talks to Katy Balls about growing up in Northern Ireland, fighting to win her current seat in Vauxhall, and how she developed a reputation as a rebel in her party.
Play 32 mins
Women With Balls
Lionel Shriver is an American journalist, author and Spectator columnist. Her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin – about a mother and her son who goes on to carry out a high school massacre – won the Orange Prize for fiction in 2005. Shriver talks to Katy Balls about why she changed her name
Play 25 mins
Women With Balls
Victoria Atkins is a former barrister, a Conservative party MP, and a Minister at the Home Office. She talks about her legal career and her work at the Home Office creating legislation to protect women and vulnerable people. Hosted by Katy Balls.
Play 25 mins
Women With Balls
Kay Burley is a Sky News founding member, host of The Kay Burley Show, and holds the record for hosting more hours of live television than any other news presenter. Kay tells Katy about how she ‘knocked the rough edges’ off her accent, her love for Jane Fonda, and why the BBC couldn’t afford her
Play 18 mins
Women With Balls
Mary Curnock Cook is an educationalist and former head of Ucas. On this podcast, she talks about leaving school at 16, how boys suffer from the real gender gap in education, and why it would be ‘ludicrous’ to abolish university tuition fees. Presented by Katy Balls.
Play 27 mins
Women With Balls
Katy Balls talks to Leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, about her childhood ambitions to prevent nuclear war, giving birth the night before a selection meeting, and going head to head with John Bercow in the Commons.
Play 28 mins
Women With Balls
Join Katy Balls as she talks to MP Jess Phillips about growing in an activist home, her life path before becoming an MP and her newfound Twitter fame. Hosted by Katy Balls.
Play 29 mins
Women With Balls
Sarah Baxter is Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times. Katy talks to Sarah about what it was like to be a woman in the lobby before ‘Blair’s Babes’, the best way to tackle sexism (she says, ignore it and go ‘full speed ahead’), and whether Jeremy Corbyn is quite the Labour leader she hopes for.
Play 28 mins
Women With Balls
Katy Balls talks to Liz Truss, chief secretary to the Treasury, about her shameful Lib Dem past, why she loves cheese, and how The Thick Of It made her life harder.
Play 27 mins
Women With Balls
Join Katy Balls as she interviews Dame Helena Morrissey – a financier, a campaigner for more women in the boardrooms, and the mother to nine children. How does she balance kids and a career? Why does she think men and women are fundamentally different? And what is the most effective way to get a raise?
Play 36 mins
Women With Balls
With columnist and BBC Radio 5 Live broadcaster, Emma Barnett. Katy talks to Emma about stepping in for Andrew Marr, interviewing the Prime Minister, and how her granddad is her most loyal fan. Presented by Katy Balls.
Play 29 mins