Nosheen Iqbal

You also hosted the very brilliant podcast series, Unreal, which was a critical history of reality TV, where you reassessed the culture of those noughties reality shows and just made us gasp at the ethics of it all at the time, or lack thereof.

Now, we're obviously here to talk about the investigation into Married at First Sight UK.

For listeners who haven't seen, what are the main allegations?

We should say the men accused in the documentary deny the claims.

Lizzie and her on-screen husband started having sex, but Lizzie says it turned violent and left her bruised.

Sharon, can we talk about duty of care for a moment?

Because what do these women say in the Panorama documentary about how they're treated once they raise concerns with producers?

And what about Shona Manderson, who basically said that her onscreen husband, they were having consensual sex and he then ejaculated inside her without her consent.

That was something they had agreed not to do.

She told the producers and the response seemed to be that they took her to go get the morning after pill.

Shirin, for anyone who hasn't actually watched Married at First Sight UK and just sort of generally absorbed it through the ether, can you just explain how it works?

But they literally haven't met until they're actually getting married.

Have they told you to say that?

Marriott First Sight has been around for about a decade.

How has it evolved over time?

How many contestants or contributors would there be in any one series?

And how long were the couples thrown together for?

Have they ever had any couples that have gone off and into the sunset or fully in love and actually getting married?

Really?

In what era?