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Deborah Frances-White gives Steve Ali the prompt of The Devil You Know.

Deborah Frances-White gives storytellers the prompt of The Devil You Know.  Steve Ali’s story takes us back to his childhood in Aleppo to explore family legends and memories.

Deborah Frances-White is a comedian and writer best known for The Guilty Feminist podcast.  She has also hosted many storytelling events and, for this special broadcast series, she gave everyone the prompt – The Devil You Know.  

Steve Ali’s story takes us back to his childhood in Aleppo to explore family legends and memories. He is a Syrian writer and broadcaster living in London. He was a regular on all four seasons of the BBC podcast GrownUpLand and has appeared on Global Pillage and The Guilty Feminist as well as Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Tour shows. He has written for The Sunday Times Magazine, GQ Magazine and The Evening Standard and is co-founder of The Refugee Media Centre. He is a silversmith and has his own jewellery company. Steve is currently developing a one man show called The Alcohol of the Soul.

Deborah Frances-White is a comedian and writer. The Guilty Feminist podcast has had 85 million downloads and she has appeared at The Royal Albert Hall, The Sydney Opera House and The London Palladium. Her BBC Radio 4 show Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice won The Writers’ Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy. Her award winning independent film Say My Name premiered in 2019 at The Leicester Square Odeon. Deborah’s book The Guilty Feminist was a Sunday Times Bestseller. She is an Amnesty International Ambassador and Artistic Director of the Secret Policeman legacy brand.

Written and Read by Steve Ali
Producer: Deborah Frances-White
Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
Sound: Lucinda Mason Brown
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Wright
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Deborah Frances-White has hosted many storytelling events and, for this special broadcast series, she has picked four very different writers to take part.

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