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Apr 2023
34m 48s

Daisy Buchanan (Replay): When A Job Turn...

Emma Gannon
About this episode

Hello and welcome to Ctrl Alt Delete. This is a replay episode from 2022 with Daisy Buchanan, an award winning journalist, author and broadcaster. In this episode we discuss her career as a whole and dig into the themes in her novel ‘Careering’ - all about the toxic relationship we can have with our jobs. Hope you enjoy.


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