Talking Podcasts 1

For decades, public commentary on global affairs was filtered through a small class of professional journalists. Podcasting has quietly dismantled that gatekeeping — and no one embodies that shift more powerfully than Sir Richard Dearlove, former Chief of MI6, who has found in podcasting a platform to share four decades of intelligence experience directly with a global audience of over a million listeners. In this session, Kate McCann and Sir Richard explore what happens when the world's foremost practitioners become its most trusted voices. They examine why the medium uniquely enables this transition, what it demands of those who make it, and why reaching that audience comes with a special responsibility.