Return of The Traitors
03 Jan 2024
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The Traitors is a format based on the Dutch series De Verraders and it's now popular all over the wo...
Meera Syal
27 Dec 2023
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When she graduated from university, Meera Syal says she couldn't see a future for a young Asian woma...
How CNN got into Gaza
20 Dec 2023
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It's currently almost impossible for international journalists to enter Gaza. For those who can, it'...
Martin Lewis, Britain's most influential journalist?
13 Dec 2023
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Martin Lewis is easily one of Britain's most influential and trusted journalists. His Money Saving E...
Investigating Lockerbie, 35 Years On
06 Dec 2023
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How Christina Lamb pieced together for The Sunday Times reports of acts of sexual violence by Hamas ...
BONUS Lord Grade, Ofcom Chair, in conversation with Katie Razzall
29 Nov 2023
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Lord Grade recorded at the Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference, 29 November 2023
Regenerating the Doctor
29 Nov 2023
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We look at the latest developments in the sale of the Telegraph Newspaper and planned cuts at BBC Ne...
Inside the mind of the tech bro
22 Nov 2023
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As Sam Altman returns to run OpenAI after his sensational firing just days earlier, why is the idea ...
Suella Braverman's high-risk media strategy
15 Nov 2023
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It's a week since Suella Braverman published that article about the policing of protests in The Time...
Conspiracy theories and the Israel Gaza conflict
08 Nov 2023
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It's claimed social media videos featuring bogus "crisis actors" are being used by both sides as par...
Al Jazeera and the information war
01 Nov 2023
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The Israel-Gaza war continues to raise pressing questions about how the media covers the conflict, i...
From Frozen to the top of Disney
25 Oct 2023
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Jennifer Lee changed cinema forever when she wrote and directed Frozen. The film won her an Academy ...
Gaza hospital blast: searching for the facts
18 Oct 2023
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The deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza raises many questions about how the media is covering the...
Reporting the Israel Gaza war
11 Oct 2023
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Exploring how the media is covering the conflict, we look at the battle for influence online and som...
The Tories, the message and the media
04 Oct 2023
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Tim Montgomerie Eleni Courea and Cleo Watson discuss goings on at the Conservative party conference ...
Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner
27 Sep 2023
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We look at Rumble, the online platform where Russell Brand's is now hosting a regular show, and expl...
The Russell Brand allegations
20 Sep 2023
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Channel 4's CEO Alex Mahon says the allegations made against Russell Brand are "disgusting and sadde...
Who will buy The Telegraph?
13 Sep 2023
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Who’s going to buy The Daily Telegraph and the Spectator? The titles have been up for sale since J...
A rulebook for the web
06 Sep 2023
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The EU Digital Services Act, which aims to tackle disinformation and misuse of user data, offers a b...
Is AI now coming for your private data?
30 Aug 2023
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Ros Atkins and guests consider the dilemmas faced by streaming companies in the face of growing cost...
Reporting the Lucy Letby Trial
23 Aug 2023
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The murder trial of Lucy Letby lasted 10 months and came to its conclusion this week, with the forme...
AI - destroyer of journalism?
16 Aug 2023
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How will the recent explosion in AI change how we find out about what’s going on in the world? Wha...
Trying Trump
09 Aug 2023
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As of now, Donald Trump has three criminal trials pending – the latest, and most serious, concerns...
The Hegarty Effect
02 Aug 2023
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Advertising executive Sir John Hegarty has created campaigns for some of the world's most famous bra...
Hot off the press
26 Jul 2023
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How journalists are covering the European heatwaves and wildfires.Guests: Justin Rowlatt, Climate Ed...
Going undercover in Myanmar
19 Jul 2023
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Stuart Ramsay has just returned from spending a month undercover in the jungle of Myanmar where an o...
The BBC Presenter Story
12 Jul 2023
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As the BBC pauses its investigation into the alleged inappropriate behaviour of an unnamed presenter...
Reporting the French riots
05 Jul 2023
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After the fatal shooting of a 17 year old boy by a police officer during a traffic stop in a suburb ...
Spinning the coup that wasn't
28 Jun 2023
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In days gone by, the organisers of a military coup would be after the radio towers and the TV statio...
Gauging the power of Britain's right-wing media
21 Jun 2023
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With Boris Johnson’s current parliamentary career over, we’re asking what The Daily Mail hopes t...
Charlie Brooker
14 Jun 2023
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Charlie Brooker is one of the most influential satirists working today. Having started out as a cart...
How to interview Andrew Tate
07 Jun 2023
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Last week the BBC's Lucy Williamson conducted an interview with Andrew Tate, his first with a major ...
Westminster's Secrets and Lies
31 May 2023
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Westminster journalists are the ultimate insiders, with privileged access to the Houses of Parliamen...
Bellingcat answers Elon Musk's 'psy-ops' claim
24 May 2023
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Eliot Higgins, founder and creative director of Bellingcat, responds to claims by Elon Musk that the...
Twitter bows to Erdoğan?
17 May 2023
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As the vote for the Turkish presidency heads for a second round, we explore the challenges journalis...
Jeremy Bowen: seeing through the fog of war
10 May 2023
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Jeremy Bowen, BBC News' International Editor, talks about his career and new Radio 4 series, Frontli...
David Olusoga: Bafta-winning historian
03 May 2023
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The historian and broadcaster David Olusoga is being honoured with a BAFTA special award. He gives ...
'The craziest day in cable news history'
26 Apr 2023
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It’s been a tumultuous week across the US media landscape from the collapse of BuzzFeed News to th...
Hunting the Pentagon leaker
19 Apr 2023
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Jack Teixeira is the 21 year old US airman charged with leaking confidential intelligence and defenc...
Head to Head with Elon Musk
12 Apr 2023
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BBC North America Tech Reporter James Clayton takes us inside his last minute interview with Elon Mu...
China and the Information War
05 Apr 2023
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TikTok is the biggest media brand to come out of China and has been in the news because of US securi...
Britain's Best-Connected Editor
29 Mar 2023
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During his long career in Fleet Street, Geordie Greig has occupied the editor’s chair at some of t...
Writing a First Draft of History
17 Mar 2023
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Journalist Gary Younge has seen up close some of the defining moments of our age. From Nelson Mandel...
The Great Impartiality Debate
15 Mar 2023
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After a tweet by Gary Lineker triggered a BBC crisis, The Media Show asks whether the concept of imp...
We Need to Talk About Gary
08 Mar 2023
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The BBC says that it is having a “frank conversation” with Gary Lineker after he tweeted that th...
Covid's back in the news
01 Mar 2023
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The Daily Telegraph has got hold of thousands of WhatsApp messages sent by Matt Hancock when he was ...
The 'shameful' coverage of Nicola Bulley
22 Feb 2023
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Nicola Bulley's family have denounced some media coverage of her disappearance as 'shameful'. What a...
Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent... and more!
15 Feb 2023
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Meet one of the pioneers of reality TV; Fenton Bailey hung out with Andy Warhol in the 80s, launched...
Free speech at GB News
08 Feb 2023
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GB News launched almost two years ago, promising to shake up traditional news channels. But as one o...
BBC's Modi documentary controversy
01 Feb 2023
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In India, a BBC documentary about India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is causing controversy. The d...
The Story Behind the Nadhim Zahawi Scoop
25 Jan 2023
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The story of Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs was broken thanks to the work of journalists and investigat...
Why the BBC chairman says he won't quit
24 Jan 2023
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Richard Sharp is accused of helping facilitate a loan to the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, whe...
Investigating Andrew Tate
18 Jan 2023
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What the rise of Andrew Tate tells us about modern masculinity and the media, with the VICE journali...
What the Culture Minister Really Thinks
11 Jan 2023
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Michelle Donelan is the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. In this broad inte...
Staying loyal to The Traitors
04 Jan 2023
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As The Traitors prepares to launch in the US, the producer behind the series discusses why it was a ...
The Magic of Natural History
28 Dec 2022
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The last five years have seen a surge in demand for natural history programmes. But as budgets get t...
Inside the mind of Elon Musk
21 Dec 2022
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Since taking charge of Twitter in October, Elon Musk has temporarily banned some journalists from th...
Read All About It... in America?
14 Dec 2022
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Newspaper group Reach has announced plans to launch US operations for the Mirror, Express, and Irish...
My plan for ITV
07 Dec 2022
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Kevin Lygo is ITV’s Managing Director of Media and Entertainment. He tells us how ITV X will reach...
China's journalism crackdown
30 Nov 2022
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As protests sweep China on a scale not seen for 30 years, the challenge facing journalists is to rep...
Gary Lineker: 'We were sportswashed'
23 Nov 2022
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The BBC presenter Gary Lineker says a failure to speak out more about human rights issues during the...
Does the media report climate protests responsibly?
16 Nov 2022
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How should journalists cover climate protests? The climate conference Cop27 ends this week. But you...
Qatar: a World Cup size failure of sports journalism?
09 Nov 2022
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“The worst World Cup ever” is how PR Week describes Qatar’s hosting of the event. The latest c...
Elon Frees the Bird
02 Nov 2022
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Does it matter that the world’s richest man now owns Twitter? Elon Musk is the latest American bil...
The BBC: Another 100 years?
26 Oct 2022
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If you turned on your wireless set 100 years ago, what would you have heard? Katie Razzall looks bac...
Egged on by the Press?
19 Oct 2022
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“At last! A true Tory budget”, proclaimed The Daily Mail after the mini-budget. Four weeks on an...
Interviewing Zelensky
12 Oct 2022
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As the war in Ukraine continues to escalate, what role does journalism play in peace-making, in dial...
How to Run a Movie Studio (and take Tom Cruise to space)
05 Oct 2022
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Donna Langley is one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. As Chairman of Universal Filmed Entert...
Telling the tale of market turmoil
28 Sep 2022
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On the day the Bank of England intervened to calm turmoil following the Chancellor's mini-budget las...
The media mourns a monarch
21 Sep 2022
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The Queen's funeral was the culmination of days of coverage across the British media. The new cultur...
The death of the Queen
14 Sep 2022
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The Queen's coffin has travelled in ceremonial procession to Westminster Hall today where she will l...
Microsoft v The Regulator
07 Sep 2022
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We look at what may be the biggest media deal of the year – Microsoft is trying to buy one of the ...
Podcasting the News
31 Aug 2022
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As Global's new daily podcast The News Agents launches, we ask Jon Sopel for his reflections on the ...
Reporting from Ukraine - six months on
24 Aug 2022
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Six months after Russia invaded Ukraine, what has the media taught us about the war and what has the...
Have soaps run their course?
17 Aug 2022
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The end of both Holby City and Neighbours in the space of a few months suggests that something is wr...
Covering strikes: Whatever happened to the Industrial Correspondents?
10 Aug 2022
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As postal workers become the latest group to call a strike, and railway workers and train drivers pl...
It's... another true crime show!
03 Aug 2022
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Crime and true crime has always been big business in films and books. But when Serial exploded onto ...
Into the Metaverse
27 Jul 2022
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In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would change its name to Meta, reflecting i...
Inside the Tory TV showdowns
20 Jul 2022
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There’s a balance of risk and reward for any politician taking part in a TV debate but what's at s...
The Race for the Tory Crown
13 Jul 2022
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What role does the press play in choosing the next Conservative leader? How do you cover an election...
How Boris Johnson lost the press
06 Jul 2022
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These are perilous moments for Boris Johnson. As we witness a stream of resignations from his govern...
The Return of 'Q'
29 Jun 2022
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QAnon is the conspiracy theory that claims Donald Trump has been waging war on a cabal of satanic pa...
Another Warning for the BBC
22 Jun 2022
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The media regulator Ofcom has released a review of how the BBC operates. It's considered how the BBC...
Carole Cadwalladr v Arron Banks: a victory for press freedom?
17 Jun 2022
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Carole Cadwalladr gives her first interview after Brexit campaigner Arron Bank loses his libel case ...
GB News: One Year On
08 Jun 2022
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GB News launched one year ago this week. It promised to disrupt - to hear people, places and issues ...
Dan Walker and Reporting on the Royals
01 Jun 2022
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Dan Walker has quit BBC Breakfast for a job presenting Channel 5’s flagship news show - what made ...
Partygate - is the story over?
25 May 2022
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Sue Gray’s report into what went on in Downing Steet during lockdown has finally been published. ...
Wagatha Christie and celebrity journalism
18 May 2022
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This week we discuss the Wagatha Christie trial and what it told us about celebrity journalism. Sim...
What next for Channel 4?
11 May 2022
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As Channel 4 approaches its 40th birthday it faces one of the most pivotal moments in its history. T...
Reporting on the abuse of power
04 May 2022
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Two stories about power – and how it can be abused. The first is the tale of an MP caught looking ...
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
27 Apr 2022
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Three major stories could change the way we get our news. The multi-million-dollar streaming service...
Piers Morgan Returns
20 Apr 2022
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Piers Morgan is the star signing for Rupert Murdoch's new TalkTV channel in the UK. His show, "Piers...
Translating the French election
13 Apr 2022
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The government’s plan to privatise Channel 4 has now been revealed. But who is lining up to buy th...
Ira Glass, Godfather of Sound
06 Apr 2022
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Ira Glass is the presenter and producer behind This American Life, the first ever radio programme to...
Ukraine's lessons for the media
30 Mar 2022
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As peace talks between Ukraine and Russia get underway, the war on the ground continues. How is the ...
Netflix's Hollywood Ambition
23 Mar 2022
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The Media Show is in Hollywood this week, ahead of the 94th Academy awards. Netflix’s The Power of...
Why are Russian oligarchs only now in the press spotlight?
16 Mar 2022
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As governments around the world race to sanction associates of Vladimir Putin, the British media tur...
A News Cold War
09 Mar 2022
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A media crackdown in Russia, including a new law against ‘fake news’, has led many independent n...
The Information War in Ukraine
02 Mar 2022
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Alongside fighting in Ukraine, an "information war" is playing out. While Western media on the groun...
The Tricky Question of Press Freedom
23 Feb 2022
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What are the limits of free media? The Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is calling on regulator Ofco...