487 - Julie Bindel and John Crace

Julie Bindel is a renowned investigative journalist, and has written extensively on religious fundamentalism, violence against women, the international surrogacy trade, mail order brides, trafficking, and unsolved murders. She writes regularly for The Guardian, New Statesman, Truthdig and Standpoint Magazine, and frequently appears on the BBC and Sky News. She was Visiting Journalist at Brunel University, UK (2013 - 2014) and is now on the advisory board for www.byline.com. Julie's latest book is The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth.John Crace is the Guardian's newspaper's parliamentary sketch writer, and author of their "Digested Read" column. He is the author of a number of books, the latest is I, Maybot: The Rise and Fall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.