Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. Ex- LinkedIn News, Le Figaro, The Guardian, The Cambodia Daily. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

"It always starts with a map and a glass of whisky"

"It always starts with a map and a glass of whisky"

How to become an explorer, with Reza Pakravan

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017 | Reza Pakravan | How to become an explorer

017 | Reza Pakravan | How to become an explorer

Reza Pakravan has every kid's dream job title – explorer. He just released on Amazon Prime, his latest travel series "The World's Most Dangerous Borders" for which he traveled uninterrupted the width of Africa, across areas any foreign ministry generally tells you to keep clear

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"i am as lonely as an iceberg, an egg, a half carafe of wine" / Members' letter #1

"i am as lonely as an iceberg, an egg, a half carafe of wine" / Members' letter #1

a tight curation of things worth paying attention to

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016 | Ian Bremmer | The world in 2021

016 | Ian Bremmer | The world in 2021

A continued pandemic and fresh vaccines, a new US president with old problems, China triumphant and mistrusted, Brexit done at last, and global institutions on the fritz... Let's take a world tour of the geopolitics we can expect in 2021, with Eurasia Group founder and president Ian Bremmer.

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Big Ideas 2021: Seven predictions for the year ahead

Big Ideas 2021: Seven predictions for the year ahead

And a podcast conversation with Ian Bremmer

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How to produce a podcast without it taking over your life

How to produce a podcast without it taking over your life

Do everything I didn't do

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A love letter to Thanksgiving

A love letter to Thanksgiving

I'm grateful for those who open their borders and their holidays to newcomers

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What has shame stopped you trying?

What has shame stopped you trying?

A deeply personal interview on the shame immigrants carry, how xenophobes weaponize it – and how still, we rise (Borderlives: Marcela Kunova 🇸🇰 🇯🇵 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇬🇧)

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