Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYouTube and the reinvention of television
In this wide-ranging and exclusive interview, Ben McOwen Wilson, Managing Director of YouTube in the UK, reveals new trends seen during lockdown, how…
5 years, 7 months ago
How conspiracy theories hijacked the news
Ahead of the first US presidential debate, right-wing commentators and Donald Trump's own campaign team, speculated that Joe Biden was using a hidden…
5 years, 7 months ago
Bake Off rises out of lockdown
Ian Katz, Channel 4’s director of programmes, explains how the new series of The Great British Bake Off made it to air, and discusses the wider quest…
5 years, 7 months ago
The demographics of news
New research from Women in Journalism suggests that the UK's newsrooms are far from representative of society, with front page bylines and the airwav…
5 years, 7 months ago
How Spotify reached No. 1
Spotify is the UK's most popular digital music service, according to estimates. In this special edition of The Media Show, Amol Rajan looks at the co…
5 years, 8 months ago
Charming the old Gray Lady
Under the leadership of Mark Thompson, the fortunes of The New York Times have been transformed. With over 6 million paying subscribers, "the Gray La…
5 years, 8 months ago
Tony Hall's Exit Interview
Tony Hall, the 16th Director-General of the BBC, on the crises and successes of his time in charge. In this extended interview, Hall considers editor…
5 years, 8 months ago
Our love-hate relationship with the tech giants
The tech giants receive a lot of bad press, have been accused of operating monopolies, and are even seen as security risks. So what attracts the bill…
5 years, 8 months ago
June Sarpong: What is diversity?
In the wake of MeToo and the Black Lives Matter movement, the media world has been looking hard at who it portrays and how. The BBC created the posit…
5 years, 9 months ago
Succession and shakedown for Murdoch and TikTok
Intrigue and drama at two of the world’s most talked about media companies; James Murdoch has resigned from the family firm, and TikTok faces an ulti…
5 years, 9 months ago