Jen Brister: I Want To Be On The Right Side Of History

Aug 4, 2025

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Jen Brister is someone who I admire not only for her fearless approach to comedy and life in general, but for her vocal stance on what’s happening in Palestine. She runs a non-profit to help families over there, All Our Relations and we met at a Palestine Solidarity event. Ever since then, I knew I wanted to have her on the pod...

We chatted about the crossover with comedy, politics and questioning authority and were lucky enough to be joined by the amazing Professor Nick Maynard, a leading surgeon, who had just got back from a trip to Gaza two days prior. We spoke to him about what it’s like on the ground over there and how it feels to now be back in the UK. My amazing mate, Tai Shani, who’s a Turner Prize winning artist, and daughter of Holocaust survivors, also popped in to speak about why, as a Jewish woman, she feels so compelled to speak out against the horrors of what is happening in Palestine.

This is a really special episode for me and something I’ve wanted to make for a long time. I wanted to re-humanise a situation that all too often gets turned into stats on a news report. Thank you for listening.

If you’d like to see or donate to any of the charities mentioned in the episode, they’re all here:….

The Sameer Project - https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project

The Zaynab Project - https://thezaynabproject.org/

All Our Relations - https://allourrelations.co.uk/

Angie: https://www.instagram.com/angieq8?igsh=ZHJ3NmRpd3R2Mncy

Inara: https://inara.org/

Medical Aid For Palestinians - https://www.map.org.uk/

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