News Summary

• Each episode will feature a single in-depth conversation with a newsmaker, leader, cultural figure or thinker.
• The podcast will launch the same week Husain delivers the annual Romanes public lecture of the University of Oxford.
• Husain, previously one of the BBC’s top news anchors, left the Corporation in November last year after 11 years on the Today program and 25 at the pubcaster overall.
• BBC News chief Jonathan Munro said her gruelling early morning schedule had contributed to her decision.