Fiona Sturges

A day late, but here's my @FT pod column on Chasing the Sound, a smart and sweeping new podcast telling stories about music from around the globe, written and hosted by the mega-talented @kirkflashtag ft.com/content/148453…

It's Monday, so here's my @FT pod column on the wild and emotional ride that is Charlie's Place, about the South Carolina nightclub that allowed Black and white patrons to socialise, dance and even gamble together at the height of the Jim Crow era. ft.com/content/e48971…

Wrote this for @Independent on the Beeb's scandal-filled summer. Do better, BBC! independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on Flesh and Code, which investigates the rise of AI companions. The series built around the bravely revealing testimony of Travis, a fortysomething man from Denver, and his chatbot girlfriend, Lily Rose. ft.com/content/dc6670…

It's Monday's so here's my @FT pod column on the blessed return of Alan Partridge. ft.com/content/1f54d1…

Audiobook of the week in the Guardian! Thank you ⁦@FionaSturges⁩ Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson audiobook review – indie pop’s ultimate underdog theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on a new Radiotopia Presents series, We're Doing The Wiz. It's about a high school music and a community's reckoning over race in small-town Massachusetts. ft.com/content/94de3d…

In @Independent, I had an incredibly wide-ranging chat with the absolute legend that is Gloria Estefan. We talked Trump, Castro, her father's disappearance, her experience of child sexual abuse - and why "Conga" is the greatest of the Estebangers 💥 independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

A day late (again!) but here's my @FT column on a new pod that traces the history of the Ponzi scheme back to Charles Ponzi, an Italian-American who masterminded a scam involving postal coupons, stealing the equivalent of $250mn from investors. ft.com/content/c41b45…

Dua Lipa and the problem with the celebrity #BookClub mafia Comment piece by @FionaSturges independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

A day late but here's my @FT pod column on The Wargame, a new pod which gathers together ex-cabinet ministers and security and defence experts to simulate a military attack. Two episodes in and it hasn't gone well. Let's hope Putin isn't listening, eh? ft.com/content/c19a74…

For @Independent, I wrote a tribute to the genius that was Brian Wilson, who I met in 2004 and about whom you can glean much from the song "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times". Musically, he existed on a higher plane yet spiritually he couldn’t find peace independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on the new celeb interview series Rylan: How To Be in Love, which confirms its host as an interviewer par excellence. The conversation with Self Esteem, in particular, is brilliant. ft.com/content/d978d1…

Brighton friends! I will be hosting a Q&A with Genesse P-Orridge following the Brighton screening of S/He Is Still Her/E, @davidas' remarkable documentary charting the life and times of the late Genesis P-Orridge. Sunday 15th June at the Duke of York's cinema. Come along!

It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on The Smuggler, an eye-opening new BBC series about the business of human cargo and featuring the testimony of "Nick", a builder-turned-people trafficker. ft.com/content/a125c7…

In today's @theipaper, I met Adam Buxton and we chatted about podcasts, parents, professional rivalries, writing a second memoir and his beloved dog, Rosie. He was delightful. inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

In @theipaper, I interviewed Isabel Allende – novelist, philanthropist, now a Mattel doll – about war, Trump, writing & family. The headline refers to the only time she saw her father, a scene that influenced her new book My Name is Emilia Del Valle inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

I wrote about what Attenborough means to us and the impossible question of who should replace him. (Answer: not Tom Hanks) independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…