Meet the Writers
Hosted by Georgina Godwin · Monocle
4.9from 52 ratings
- 251
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 52
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 11M
- YouTube views
About Meet the Writers
Want to know more about the authors behind your favourite books? Tune in to discover the methods of – and inspiration behind – some of the world’s most exciting writers. Every Saturday, Georgina Godwin hosts an in-depth discussion with the person behind the prose.
- Publisher
- Monocle
- Category
- arts · education · fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 251 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Carlos Barragán on the new age of digital fraud
27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Marlon James and the people who we can’t forget
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Teun Toebes and Jonathan de Jong on the right to live fully
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Carlos Barragán on the new age of digital fraud
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] How do they keep awake at night? Well, you can pull that off for one night or two. But in the end, they realize that if they want to make more money, they have to take drugs. So in a way, it kind of like transforms the whole community because all these boys, to make more money, to focus on the conversation with their victims, they take drugs. And at the beginning, they start with weed, and then they move on to harder stuff. So... I just want to talk about the history because these scams in Nigeria go back long before the internet. And a lot of this is down to colonialism. Yeah, it's very curious because first of all, Nigeria It was a creation from the British Empire. […]
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- Carlos Barragán
- Marlon James
- Teun Toebes
- Jonathan de Jong
- Catherine Cho
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 10,568,132
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 32 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 20 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 95
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Who hosts Meet the Writers?
Georgina Godwin host the show. Published by Monocle.
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