Audrey Brown (journalist)

Audrey Brown is a South African broadcast journalist.

Early life and education
Brown was born in Kliptown, a suburb of Soweto. She could smell the distant teargas on the day of the Soweto uprising, when she was eight or nine years old, and grew up in a family who were involved in the struggle against apartheid. She has a degree in journalism, African history and politics from Rhodes University and a master's degree in journalism from University of Wales, and has studied film criticism and documentary film making at the Ateliers Varan in Paris.

Career
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Brown worked on South African newspapers Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail. Early in her career she interviewed Nelson Mandela on Robben Island.

Brown hosts the BBC World Service Focus on Africa podcast, and has presented BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week.

She was one of the judges for the 2020 Caine Prize, awarded for a short story by an African writer.

She was one of the women featured in the book 200 Women: Who will change the way you see the world by Geoff Blackwell and Ruth Hobday (2017, Chronicle Books: ISBN 9781452166582).