podcast & broadcast

Helen is a regular contributor on radio and TV and has appeared multiple times on Radio 4. From the Freakonomics podcast to Monocle, Woman’s Hour, Sky, BBC and ITV. She recently hosted her first documentary for the BBC World Service – see selected work below.

Helen is also the host of How To Be Sad, the interview podcast series produced in collaboration with Harper Collins. How To Be Sad with Helen Russell is a series of warm and indepth conversations about how we handle our emotions and the struggles of modern life – as well as what can help during challenging times. Guests include comics, historians, academics, business people, athletes and fellow writers, each sharing their own stories and how they handle ‘sad’. From the pressure to be happy, to loss, mental health, and what we’d tell our younger selves about handling emotions and how to be a grown up. How to be sad is a podcast about how we can all get happier, by being sad, better.