SOURCE: THE HINDU

Throughout the podcast, Rowling comes across as a woman with strong opinions struggling with a host who is keen on making them palatable to appease everyone

If you live on the Internet, like I do, it is hard to have a conversation about J.K. Rowling without an eye roll, a nonchalant shrug or a shrewd hand gesture indicating we move on from the topic. The fifty-seven-year-old has become one of the most polarising figures in the culture wars of today. Some of her tweets are quoted by feminists to hail her as an icon while others use the same tweets to condemn her as a transphobe. While most of you reading this might have discerned the author through her Hogwarts characters, she is now inviting you into her castle in Scotland with the podcast The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling to discuss her beliefs on freedom of speech, gender ideology and witchcraft.