Jenny Kleeman on tech evangelism and making documentaries

The Sunday Salon with Alice-Azania Jarvis

I absolutely loved interviewing today's guest. Jenny Kleeman is a journalist and broadcaster and the author of Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death, which has just come out in paperback. The book is utterly riveting - Jenny travels all over the place talking to those at the forefront of some of the world's most intriguing technological innovations, from lab-grown meat to euthanasia machines. Her experiences range from the weird and wonderful to the downright disturbing, and she doesn't shy away from looking at some of the more problematic elements of tech evangelism. I've never met Jenny before - but I have spoken to her, several times, when doing the news review on the weekend breakfast radio programme she hosts on Times Radio. So I was absolutely thrilled to get to grill her about the incredible research that went into the book as well as her fascinating career as a documentary maker and foreign correspondent. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Buy the book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/sex-robots-and-vegan-meat/jenny-kleeman/9781509894925

Edited by Chelsey Moore