Viv Groskop is a writer, comedian and broadcaster. She is a regular guest presenter on BBC Radio 4 and is host of the hit podcast How to Own the Room, featuring guests like Hillary Clinton and Margaret Atwood and in its 24th series with over 2.5 million downloads. She is the author of seven books, including the international bestseller How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking. Her new memoir One Ukrainian Summer is a story about falling in love and coming of age in the former Soviet Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall and is partly set in Zelenskyy’s home town Krivih Rih, where Viv spent time in the mid 1990s. All author proceeds from this book go to PEN International for their Writers at Risk program. Her other books include The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature and Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature.