• by Ray Schultz , June 15, 2023

Time has launched a weekly podcast called Person of the Week, featuring candid interviews with people shaping the news. Actor Ethan Hawke is in the first episode. 

Hosted by Time Senior Correspondent Charlotte Alter, the podcast is produced by Time Studios in partnership with Sugar23, the management and creative platform from Oscar-winner Michael Sugar. 

Future guests include Congressman Maxwell Frost, actor and author Elliot Page, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames. 

Person of the Week is partly inspired by Time’s Person of the Year franchise.

“Every story has a human behind it, and every public reckoning is also a personal one,” Alter says. “So every week, I’ll talk to a fascinating person who can help us understand the moment we’re in, from politicians to CEOs to movie stars and more.”