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The Media Show

BBC Radio 4

Social media, anti-social media, breaking news, faking news: this is the programme about a revolution in media.

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854 episodes

  1. Censorship at student papers and the role of social media in Gen-Z protests 41:58
  2. Is TV news still fit for purpose? Celebrity media injunction and Blue Planet III returns 43:15
  3. Taking stock of the BBC cuts 42:44
  4. Russell T Davies, and reporting on when the BBC gets it wrong 42:36
  5. Reporting on the Cornell rape investigation; Woman’s Hour at 80; Anneka Rice 42:33
  6. Man City verdict, Dead Internet Theory, The Art of Casting 42:47
  7. Trump’s legal battle with White House press, the global media spotlight on the village of Piddington, Diana media narratives 42:35
  8. Is the right of reply under threat in the social media age? 42:44
  9. 70 Up the final instalment of 7 Up, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy on the BBC & how polling informs political media strategy? 42:44
  10. Reporting the Taliban, AI's "meat proxies" and The Grand Tour returns 42:43
  11. YouTube and the battle for television’s future 42:39
  12. Jason Arday: examining the media coverage after his death 42:53
  13. Jason Arday, Investigating Football, Broadcasters Moving to YouTube 42:39
  14. Alternative Hollywood films, oral archive of local newspapers, prison radio 42:39
  15. Reporting the wildfires, Interviewing Elon Musk, CEO of Reach Piers North 42:40
  16. Andrew Neil, the PM and the press, AI actor Tilly Norwood 42:43
  17. Iain Dale, on a life in the media and politics, TV production rights, Trump subpoenas NYT journalists, BBC Annual Report 42:47
  18. Nigel Farage and the media, Prince Harry legal case, doorstepping 42:01
  19. Jamie Murray, Sky ITV deal, Building a media business 42:35
  20. Andy Burnham's media strategy, smart glasses and filming in public places, BBC Long Wave closes 41:33
  21. BBC cuts, Ritula Shah, Norma Percy, Filming protests 42:50
  22. Alex Kay-Jelski, World Cup coverage, Belfast reporting, Influencers in Russia 42:48
  23. Laura Kuenssberg, SNP embezzlement story, Rafa documentary, 60 Minutes 42:39
  24. Lord Grade, Media access to local councils, Vincent Bolloré profile, Reporting on the heatwave 42:40
  25. The new BBC Director General Matt Brittin, MAFS under investigation & Richard Madeley goes inside El Salvadore's CECOT mega jail 42:32
  26. Munya Chawawa; journalists and access to prisoners in jail; Family influencers and the boundaries of parenting online. 42:52
  27. AI judging journalists, the BBC’s “Wrong Guy”, Saudi Arabia's media strategy, covering climate change 42:08
  28. King Charles's US visit, attacks on journalists, I'm a Celeb editing row 42:13
  29. The future of teleshopping, Hungary's media post Orban defeat, Danny Robins from Uncanny, Mandelson vetting row scoop 41:58
  30. BBC job cuts, Journalist detained in Kuwait, HBO Max enters UK streamer market, Reporting the Artemis II launch 42:36
  31. Ronan Farrow on investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman, Misha Glenny, Bel Trew & Madhumita Murgia 42:32
  32. Scott Mills' exit & Tim Davie's final week at the BBC, AI-assisted journalism, new UK research project on teens & social media 42:29
  33. Matt Brittin profile, How to cold call a president, The Policing and Media Charter, Jamie Bartlett 42:14
  34. Bonus interview Lisa Nandy MP Culture Secretary 33:35
  35. Lisa Nandy on saving local news and the future of the BBC, reporting from inside Iran & behind the scenes at the Oscars 42:43
  36. The people shaping American media including Mehdi Hasan, Jeffrey Goldberg, Sarah Smith and Johnny Harris 42:32
  37. Media coverage of Middle East conflict, Green Party’s by-election victory chances "missed" by journalists? Nonagenarian podcast 42:51
  38. Baftas fallout , Reporting on the Ukraine War four years on, the power of photography to capture the essence of a story 42:57
  39. MTV’s legacy, the new Lucy Letby documentary on Netflix and the traditional ad agency in crisis. 42:34
  40. Revelations about the Murdoch dynasty in new book, Reporting on the Starmer crisis, Washington Post cuts, Ofcom under scrutiny 41:37
  41. Tina Brown on the latest Epstein files, the boundaries of behind-the-scenes access in sport, reporting on a rocket launch 37:52
  42. Viral videos shaping reporting in Minnesota, Radio 1’s Christmas Presenter Takeover, Algorithm Transparency and Skyscraper Live 42:45
  43. Greenland coverage, Australia’s social media ban, Brand Beckham 42:56
  44. Grok AI, Media coverage of the Iran protests, Hamnet film producer Liza Marshall and inside prison radio 42:37
  45. US raid on Venezuela & what it says about military-media relations, Actors & AI, Influencers at Westminster & the lobby system 42:48
  46. How to Make a Hit TV Show 42:51
  47. Jeremy Vine’s legal battle, Bondi Beach attack coverage, , BBC charter renewal pressures, Trump’s $5bn lawsuit and microdramas 42:48
  48. The battle for Warner Bros, Eurovision controversy latest over Israel participation, festive TV battles and Meta’s pivot to AI. 42:46
  49. Ian Hislop, Gary Lineker's new podcast deal with Netflix, YouTubers filming drug and alcohol use in Manchester, football piracy 42:39
  50. The Reith Lecture row, Telegraph sale & CNN documentary MisinfoNation: White Genocide 42:53