How You Find Your Voice

Summary How do you speak the truth when nobody wants to hear it? In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, Jessie Huth speaks to writer, activist and broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied about her debut adult novel, At Sea. Set aboard an offshore oil rig on the brink of catastrophe, At Sea follows expert driller Zainab as she navigates a high-stakes world of danger, power, ambition and masculine hie...

Summary "I feel I was sold a lie." A conversation about motherhood, female friendship, protest and finding yourself again In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, Jessie Huth speaks to novelist and journalist Tahmima Anam about her extraordinary new novel, Uprising, and the ideas that sit beneath it. Set on a remote island brothel in Bangladesh, Uprising tells the story of a group of women who...

Summary Who gets to tell the story? A conversation about powerful women, myth and modern culture In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, Jessie Huth speaks to bestselling novelist, Jennifer Saint, about This Immortal Heart, her retelling of Aphrodite and Ares, and the enduring power of mythology to shape how women are seen. Jennifer argues that many female figures from myth have been flattened...

Welcome to Season 2 of the How You Find Your Voice podcast. Expect more conversations on creativity, identity and voice, on and off the page. Summary What does it mean to become a writer, especially when writing can feel precarious, uncertain and difficult to sustain? And how do stories, communities and shared imagination help us find hope? In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, host Jessie H...

Welcome to Season 2 of the How You Find Your Voice podcast. Expect more conversations on creativity, identity and voice, on and off the page. Summary What happens when you lose your connection to music, to sound, and to yourself? And how do you learn to listen again? In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, host Jessie Huth speaks with writer and journalist Alice Vincent about her most recent b...

Episode Summary What does it mean to grow up inside a utopian experiment, and how do you find your voice afterwards? In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, host Jessie Huth speaks with writer, essayist and clinical arts therapist Susanna Crossman about her memoir Home Is Where We Start and her novel, The Orange Notebooks. Susanna grew up in a politically radical community in the late 1970s th...

Episode Summary What happens when you lose a friend who felt like a soulmate? In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, Jessie Huth speaks with novelist and Harvard professor, Tara Menon, about her brilliant debut novel, Under Water. It's a moving and beautifully written book exploring the themes of friendship, loss and the natural world. Set between two approaching storms, the 2004 tsunami in T...

Episode Summary What happens to a love story that has nowhere to go? And who has the right to tell it? In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, host Jessie Huth speaks with novelist Sarvat Hasin about her novel Strange Girls, a story about female friendship, creative ambition and the complicated emotions that can exist between admiration and rivalry. The book follows two young women who meet at...

Episode Summary What happens when you lose your voice, not just creatively but literally? In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, host Jessie Huth speaks with singer, songwriter, DJ and producer Ngaio Anyia about the journey of losing and reclaiming voice over time. Ngaio shares how childhood bullying once led her to stop speaking altogether, and how years later a physical vocal crisis forced...

A conversation about myth, survivors, voice and power under patriarchy.   In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, host Jessie Huth is joined by poet and author Nikita Gill to discuss her latest book Hekate, a mythic coming-of-age story rooted in exile, survival and the politics of power. They explore Hekate as the goddess of liminal spaces and the vulnerable, why Gill chose to tell a story fro...


In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, host Jessie Huth is joined by best-selling novelist, journalist and broadcaster Sally Magnusson MBE, to talk about myth, memory, and the creative courage it takes to begin again. Sally’s latest novel, The Shapeshifter’s Daughter, reimagines the Norse mythological figure of Hel, ruler of the underworld, a character long caricatured as monstrous and rarel...

A longer introduction to the ideas behind How You Find Your Voice and what led me to make it. 

Introducing the How You Find Your Voice podcast and what to expect in the first episodes. 

Who was Pamela Churchill Harriman? Only the biggest political player you've never heard of.   In this episode of How You Find Your Voice, I'm joined by bestselling biographer and journalist, Sonia Purnell to explore the remarkable life of Pamela Churchill Harriman. Branded the greatest courtesan of the twentieth century and dismissed for decades as a socialite or footnote, Pamela Churchill Harrima...

Writer Lily Dunn joins host Jessie Huth for a wide-ranging conversation about writing memoir, finding a voice, and what it takes to tell the truth on the page.   Drawing on her latest book Into Being Lily reflects on the power and transformative potential of memoir, the role of editing in shaping a voice, and why memoir is rarely about revelation alone. She speaks candidly about writing her critic...