To celebrate the end of 2018, we've re-released our highest rating non-fiction interviews of the year: #2 is Leigh Sales.

Leigh is one of Australia’s most respected journalists. She has anchored the ABC’s current affairs program 7.30 since 2011 and previously hosted Lateline.

She has received two Walkley Awards, Australia's highest journalism honour. The first was for Best Radio Current Affairs reporting on Guantanamo Bay in 2005, and the second was for Broadcasting and Online Interviewing (for interviews with Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and Christine Milne) in 2012.

Leigh has also published three books, Any Ordinary Day (2018), On Doubt (2009), and Detainee 002 (2007). Detainee 002 received the George Munster Award for Independent Journalism in 2007.

Read the complete transcript of our interview with Leigh at thegarretpodcast.com.

You can find more than 80 interviews with writers talking about writing at thegarretpodcast.com. The Garret is hosted by Astrid Edwards, who you can follow on Twitter or Instagram.

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