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Have I ever shown you my one and only appearance in a court sketch? 😂 
Courtesy of a very long fraud trial at the Old Bailey ⚖️ by @queennads
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🤩 Well that made my day @shondarhimes by @queennads
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It’s been a week and a very busy Friday!! 🙇🏾‍♀️ Edits, Podcast recordings, @joinladder workouts 🏋🏾‍♀️ and arguing with FedEx 🙄 The light is good so I think that it’s time to call it a day with an impromptu photoshoot 📸😁 by @queennads
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Can we separate ourselves from the art, the music, the films of someone we’ve later discovered has committed the worst of acts? @cheyenneroundtree and I talk about exactly that, and her book ‘Bad Boy for Life - The Rise and Fall of Sean Combs’.

Tell me in the comments: can you separate the art from the artist?
Our full Coffee Break conversation is available now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube by @queennads
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Investigative journalist @cheyenneroundtree takes us inside the courtroom, where the real story is often in the details: who’s watching the jury, who’s being told off by the judge, and who’s already thinking about the audience beyond those four walls.

Do you think a high-profile trial is ever really just about what happens in the courtroom? Let me know what you think in the comments.

Listen to episode 253 wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube by @queennads
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@radiomukhers first standalone thriller, Hunted, was a phenomenal success, winning the British Book Award for Crime Book of the Year and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025. Abir talks about what winning that award means.

The full conversation is available now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube, and share this with the crime fiction reader in your life. by @queennads
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@radiomukhers doesn’t soften it when he talks honestly about what it means to be an author of colour in a publishing industry that still doesn’t always understand its writers, how to market them, or what it actually has on its list.

Does this match what you’ve seen or experienced in publishing? Tell me in the comments. 
Missed this week’s conversation? Catch up now by @queennads
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Wishing my mum the happiest of birthdays. 73 years young 💖💖💖🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💖💖💖🎂🎂 by @queennads
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My coffee break conversation with investigative journalist @cheyenneroundtree is available now ☕
and we’re talking about her new book 
Bad Boy for Life: The Rise and Fall of Sean Combs, also out now, and the nearly three years she spent reporting on the story, from breaking the first investigation in Rolling Stone to sitting through all six weeks of the trial. Also, find out if Cheyenne would rather be a ‘Faithful’ or a ‘Traitor’. 

🎧 Listen wherever you find your podcasts and on YouTube. by @queennads
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Today is National Poetry Day, and this year’s theme is ‘Wonder’ ✨ So I picked up my copy of Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, opened it at a random page, and this is the poem I’m sharing with you today. 

There’s something about letting a book choose for you. You don’t go looking for the right words; they find you. Maybe that’s what wonder is: staying open enough to be surprised.

I hope the rest of your day is filled with wonder. 💖 by @queennads
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Tomorrow I’m taking a coffee break with investigative journalist @cheyenneroundtree ☕

We’re talking about her book Bad Boy for Life: Inside the Diddy Trial, and how she spent nearly three years reporting on the story, from breaking the first investigation in Rolling Stone to sitting through all six weeks of the trial.

🎧 Listen wherever you find your podcasts and on YouTube.

The groundbreaking investigative account of the shocking rise and fall of the mogul who brought hip-hop to the mainstream, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at the music industry and the destructive power of celebrity.

In Bad Boy for Life, journalist Cheyenne Roundtree’s investigative work builds upon the bombshell story she broke in Rolling Stone magazine, excavating the disturbing history of Combs’ alleged abuse and sexual violence. The world has watched his empire unravel, and now, Roundtree’s further revelations go deeper than what came out in the criminal trial, which only scratched the surface. Through meticulous reporting, interviews with scores of sources – many speaking out in depth for the first time – and cultural insights, she examines Combs’ rise to power and how he abused it.

If it wasn’t for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ability to harness the voice of hip-hop and package it via artists like Mary J. Blige and The Notorious B.I.G., the landscape of American – and world – music would look and sound entirely different. For decades, mainstream performers clamoured to be close to Diddy, his sound and his style – a brand of cool that ushered hip-hop culture to a multibillion-dollar place at the table. But while his innovations built an empire that reflected the biggest names not only in music, but also in fashion, business and the bright lights of Hollywood, another side of Combs was hidden from public view.

This is one of the most significant pop culture stories of our time, one that charts the path of an empresario while asking questions about accountability and justice; who is believed and who is silenced. In Bad Boy for Life, Roundtree offers a nuanced depiction of the man in full, one that assembles a comprehensive portrait of Combs’ astonishing rise and fall.

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5.30am stuff 🚶🏾‍♀️ by @queennads
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