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Irish DJ, presenter, author, podcaster, and Irish Tatler’s Woman of 2022 in Entertainment, Annie Macmanus, reflects on her career so far and the power of change

Annie Macmanus looks back on 2022 as “a year of rearrangement and things clicking into place”

“When I announced I was leaving radio, people would stop me in the park and be like, ‘Are you doing the right thing?’”

It has been a year, somewhat ironically, of changes for Annie Macmanus, aka Annie Mac, whose wildly successful podcast Changes has won her a new legion of fans, and won her the title of Irish Tatler’s Woman of the Year in Entertainment for 2022. In a move that would have once been considered a professional full stop, Macmanus left the BBC last summer after 17 years in service. “In my head, leaving BBC Radio 1 ...