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In a series of deeply moving and inspiring conversations, host Shereen Marisol Meraji connects with successful women from all walks of life to reveal how they manage their careers and every aspect of their lives. Based on the long-running column from The Cut and New York Magazine.

In the wake of the George Floyd murder and calls for defunding the police, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reflects on our changing points of view on law enforcement through a personal prism - the life and times of her father. For four decades, Detective Sergeant Michael J. Dowd served on the Washington, DC, police force, guarding presidents and catching killers. Meanwhile, his daughter grew up as a child of the 1960s, embracing liberal politics and evolving into a journalist some presidents might have thought they needed to be guarded from.

Betsy LaQuanda Ross is a self-proclaimed “Peculiar Patriot”, who makes regular visits to penitentiaries in order to boost the morale of her loved ones. When she is not sharing neighborhood updates and gossip, Betsy illuminates our country’s cruel and unjust criminal justice system and its impact not only on the 2.3 million people behind bars, but also their family and friends.

Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, mother of Justin Trudeau, Canada's current Prime Minister, and international mental health advocate, brought her intimate staged performance, Certain Woman of an Age, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it was recorded live for Audible Theater. In this "fearless and vulnerable" (Chicago Tribune) one-woman show, Trudeau opens up - with refreshing candor - about her extraordinary life and her encounters with some of the most important icons of our time.

Find Another Dream, written and performed by Maysoon Zayid, is the true story of how a Muslim Jersey girl with cerebral palsy creates her own path to stardom. The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, as a child she dreamed of one day dancing on Broadway. As a teen, a bubble-bursting choreographer told her to “find another dream”, so she set her sights on becoming a soap star, undeterred by the fact that the odds were against her.

Christiane F. est le symbole d'une jeune génération qui a rompu avec la société normalisée pour atterrir dans la rue. En quoi ce monde parallèle, avec ses problèmes, ses bruits et ses lieux, était-il fascinant ? Pourquoi tant de jeunes gens ont-ils cherché un nouveau foyer dans les rues de la grande ville de Berlin ? Le documentaire audio suit la jeune Christiane F. depuis son déménagement à Berlin-Ouest jusqu'à sa dépendance à l'héroïne et la prostitution infantile.

Christiane F. est le symbole d'une jeune génération qui a rompu avec la société normalisée pour atterrir dans la rue. En quoi ce monde parallèle, avec ses problèmes, ses bruits et ses lieux, était-il fascinant ? Pourquoi tant de jeunes gens ont-ils cherché un nouveau foyer dans les rues de la grande ville de Berlin ? Le documentaire audio suit la jeune Christiane F. depuis son déménagement à Berlin-Ouest jusqu'à sa dépendance à l'héroïne et la prostitution infantile.

To The Woman is Audible UK's flagship podcast series for International Women's Day.

Die Audio-Dokumentation mit bislang ungehörten O-Tönen der jungen Christiane F. (15): "Auf der einen Seite wusste ich, dass irgendwann einmal ein Wendepunkt in meinem Leben kommen wird. Das heißt aber auch, dass ich eben vielleicht noch ein paar Mal auf die Schnauze fliegen muss bevor es soweit kommt." West-Berlin in den 70ern: In dem Gemisch aus Abschottung, Kunst, Kultur, Politik und Drogen entstehen Parallelgesellschaften mit einmaligen Möglichkeiten, aber auch neuen Gefahren.

2020 sin duda será recordado como el año en el que la humanidad se vio obligada a recluirse por la pandemia del Coronavirus. Audible ha querido dejar constancia de este momento excepcional a través de la correspondencia entre Isabel Coixet y Elisabet Benavent, dos mujeres que nos cuentan cómo están viviendo estos tiempos.

At once profoundly personal and far-reaching, Exit Interview with My Grandmother serves as a meditation on the beginning of a young woman’s life and the series of questions that arise from examining love, loss, family, memory, and death. Moving between cities and centuries, Meyersohn probes her family's Jewish history and her grandparents' relationships in part to decipher her own young queer relationships, but also to examine how we ought to behave in the face of a world riddled with uncertainty and doubt.

La casa blanca es la metáfora del patio trasero del Estado que nos adentra en las consecuencias de la tortura sexual en la voz de tres sobrevivientes. Es ese espacio fuera de la ley de un sistema que fabrica culpables y que queda expuesto en la investigación de una periodista y la rebelión frente al Estado del perito que las entrevistó.