Welcome to The Year Ahead - our hit the ground running new year podcast series where we chat to our friends in news about what they’ve got their eye on this year, and in true Squiz form, we get their reading, watching and listening recommendations. Today we talk with Gillan Bradford, an accomplished journalist, manager and all round Canberra Press Gallery legend.

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Don't Leave Me on SBS on Demand

Bread and tomato dinner salad with Pecorino Toscano and white anchovies