The ExplanationEpisodes Episode guide
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The Media Show
Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin
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The Media Show
Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin
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The Media Show
Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin
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The Media Show
Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin
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The Media Show
Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin
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The Media Show: The Death of Jason Arday
Questions over press scrutiny of Jason Arday following the academic’s death.(R)
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The Media Show: James May's YouTube move
James May on building a YouTube audience after television success
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The Media Show: Alternative Hollywood
How faith-based studios are finding success outside the film industry's mainstream
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The Media Show: Interviewing Elon Musk
The Economist's editor-in-chief on the interview that sparked Musk's "traitor" attack.
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The Media Show: Can an AI actor win over Hollywood?
The creator of AI star Tilly Norwood explains why she's casting her in a feature film
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The Media Show: Trump's New York Times subpoenas
The media implications of subpoenas over reporting on President Trump's new Air Force One
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The Media Show: Farage's fight with the Media
Nigel Farage accuses the media of targeting him amid scrutiny of his financial interests
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The Media Show: The Murray brothers' media game
Jamie Murray on launching a YouTube tennis channel with his brother Andy
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The Media Show: How Shop workers became content
Retail staff report a rise in filming by customers for social media videos.
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The Media Show: Citizen journalists at protests - reporting or activism?
The growing role of online creators at protests and public disorder in the UK
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The Media Show: Reporting the World Cup
BBC Sport and football journalists set out how the biggest tournament will be covered
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The Media Show: Inside Rafa Nadal's Netflix show
The director of Rafa on access, editorial control and sports documentaries.
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The Media Show: The French Rupert Murdoch
Actors and filmmakers raise concerns about Vincent Bolloré’s media influence
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The Media Show: Filming inside El Salvador’s mega-prison
Richard Madeley on his documentary about El Salvador’s high-security CECOT prison
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The Media Show: Wrestling with Trump
Munya Chawawa on Trump, satire and the media
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The Media Show: The accidental BBC News star
How Guy Coma arrived for a job interview, ended up on live television, and created a meme
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The Media Show: I’m a Celebrity… get me a lawyer!
Assessing allegations of misleading edits on ITV’s flagship reality show
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The Media Show: Building the Uncanny empire
Danny Robbins on how his paranormal podcast grew into a TV, stage and YouTube hit.
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The Media Show: Artemis II and Nasa’s media machine
How Houston shaped coverage of the landmark Artemis II mission to t he moon and back
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The Media Show: Investigating Sam Altman
The world’s most famous investigative journalist on his report into the OpenAI boss
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The Media Show: How far should reporters go with AI?
The journalist using AI to produce over 600 stories a year
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The Media Show: Cold-calling Trump
The journalists with the President’s personal number - and how they use it.
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The Media Show: Reporting from Inside Iran
How CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen was one of the first journalists to gain access to the war
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The Media Show: Who’s shaping American media?
Ros Atkins speaks to Mehdi Hasan, Jeffrey Goldberg, Sarah Smith and Johnny Harris
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The Media Show: Iran and the bigger story
Have journalists overlooked global power changes behind events in Iran?
