MLC voices, practical courage, wider horizons.
Girls on Fire turns school life into thoughtful conversation, with MLC students and staff speaking to collegians, educators, volunteers, and community figures. Its best moments come from practical questions about how people build confidence, serve others, and keep working through setbacks.
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Girls on Fire is an interview-based community show built around MLC students, staff, collegians, and guests whose work connects school life to the wider world. It is not a lecture series. It sounds more like a careful conversation across a table, with students and staff asking practical questions about how someone found their path, what challenged them, and what they would pass on. The show’s range is broad, but the centre holds. Leadership, creativity, service, education, language, music, writing, journalism, and community responsibility keep returning in different forms. In one conversation, Zoe Flood speaks about journalism and documentary filmmaking, including work across sub-Saharan Africa and the ethics of asking people to share painful experiences. The same subject area appears again in a flashback about documentary work, wellbeing, passion, and difficult interviews. Suzanne Harrison’s appearance shifts the emphasis to fiction, rejection, publishing, and the daily discipline of writing. Maya Farah’s conversation brings leadership into questions of ethics, perspective, bursary use, and listening before acting. A volunteer-focused episode with Saish and Dr. Hema Sakara connects medical work, Health in Kind, Fiji, and practical support for children and families. School-based episodes are just as central. The Walton Leadership Institute conversation explains modules, communication, negotiation, enterprise, and activities that ask students to practise skills outside the platform. Languages Week becomes a way to talk about culture, family background, French, German, artistic responses, and shared belonging. Music education is treated as both study and emotional memory through Dr. Andrew Sutherland’s interview. The show’s strength is its sincere curiosity. Questions can be simple, but they often reach serious ground because the guests answer with detail. Girls on Fire suits a listener who wants young interviewers, school-community perspective, and grounded stories about finding confidence in public, creative, and service-minded work.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants warm, student-centred conversations about leadership, creativity, service, and education. It fits people drawn to school-community stories that connect personal growth with public responsibility.
What sets it apart: Girls on Fire stands apart by letting MLC students and staff frame the questions, so big subjects arrive through immediate, school-level curiosity. The show moves from campus initiatives to journalism, medicine, writing, language, and music without losing its community anchor.
Kind, curious, imaginative, bold, unique … The Girls on Fire podcast celebrates the students, staff and community members who capture the spirit of MLC.
Boarding-house beds, gambling documentaries: your curiosity gets the student-question treatment.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A journalist's gambling documentary shows how personal vulnerability gives public-interest reporting a human center.
Girls on Fire uses journalist and documentary filmmaker Zoe Flood's work to examine what changes when reporting is shaped by lived experience.
A school leadership course turns leadership into something students can practise through modules, reflection and hands-on tasks.
Leadership is framed here as something students can practise, not just a trait they either have or do not. Mr G, Head of Student Leadership at MLC, introduces the Walton Leadership Institute, or WLI, and Stella, the Leadership Prefect at MLC, explains that it was designed by…
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Small habit changes meet hands-on AI experiments.
Zoe Flood says journalism can mean writing, radio, camera operation, producing, and documentary filmmaking, not just newspaper reporting.
Suzanne Harrison explains how homesickness for Hong Kong and the Umbrella Revolution inspired The Colour of Thunder.
MLC's Walton Leadership Institute is moving from a points system to a Style-based course with seven modules, including communication, negotiation, enterprise, service, and global citizenship.
Girls on Fire profiles Dr.
Girls on Fire's "Home Away From Home" examines life among 60 MLC boarders and Edwina's move from PE into the boarding house.
On Girls on Fire, head prefect Annie and deputy head prefect Liv explain MLC's 2022 theme, "Support with Strength to Shine." Guest Miss Dunn links it to the principal's theme, "empowered women empower women," and says support can begin with everyday choices.
Rosemary Dunn hosts MLC psychologist Tanya Henry and health coordinator Helen Gillenhausen on the college’s wellbeing approach.
Two former students interview the retiring Director of Music about his career and love of music.
Host Sam interviews Megan King about the Innovation in Education Festival, a conference bringing together educators and industry leaders to discuss the future of education.