India Rakusen

India Rakusen is an award-winning journalist and presenter. Her work has featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, BBC News, BBC Three, Audible, The Guardian and Refinery 29. It focuses on personal stories and the human experience, regularly digging into mental health, trauma and emotional impact as well as exploring how society has shaped our thinking and perceptions of each other. Very often she is drawn to the way history has impacted the world of women, whether that’s through the perceptions of the female body (as in 28ish Days Later) or the demonising of women as witches (in Witch). She loves questioning the canon of our knowledge and sewing stories that help us feel we can look at the world differently. She is the author of Gossips.