Audrey Brown (journalist)

Audrey Brown is a South African broadcast journalist.

Early life and education

Brown was born in Kliptown, a suburb of Soweto.[1] She could smell the distant teargas on the day of the Soweto uprising, when she was eight or nine years old, and grew up in a family who were involved in the struggle against apartheid.[2] She has a degree in journalism, African history and politics from Rhodes University and a master's degree in journalism from University of Wales, and has studied film criticism and documentary film making at the Ateliers Varan in Paris.[3][1]

Career

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Brown worked on South African newspapers Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail.[3] Early in her career she interviewed Nelson Mandela on Robben Island.[2]

Brown hosts the BBC World Service's Focus on Africa podcast,[4] and has presented BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week.[5]

She was one of the judges for the 2020 Caine Prize, awarded for a short story by an African writer.[3]

She was one of the women featured in the book 200 Women: Who will change the way you see the world by Geoff Blackwell and Ruth Hobday (2017, Chronicle Books: ISBN 9781452166582).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Audrey Brown". 200 Women. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b "BBC Reporter Recalls Connection To Nelson Mandela". WUNC. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "2020 Judges". The Caine Prize for African Writing. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  4. ^ "BBC World Service - Focus on Africa". BBC. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  5. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, Audrey Brown". BBC. 9 October 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
    "BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, Audrey Brown". BBC. 8 October 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2023.