Audrey Brown is a South African broadcast journalist.
Brown was born in Kliptown, a suburb of Soweto.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3][1]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Brown worked on South African newspapers Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail.[3] Early in her career she interviewed Nelson Mandela on Robben Island.[2]
Brown hosts the BBC World Service's Focus on Africa podcast,[4] and has presented BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week.[5]
She was one of the judges for the 2020 Caine Prize, awarded for a short story by an African writer.[3]
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).[1]