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Media Storm
Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
The multi award-winning investigative and current affairs podcast: this is news that starts with the people who are normally asked last. Media Storm is an essential guide to today’s chaotic clickbait climate. Every week, journalists Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia storm through the headlines, and seeking out the…
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23%'I don’t do politics': How to fight news fatigue
Media Storm · 57m
20%Bad Think Tanks: How fake facts get into the news
Media Storm · 40m
33%Bad Science: Faux facts, health fads and influencers
Media Storm · 44m
29%Do we need to change the voting system?
Media Storm · 44m
22%News Watch: World Cup rapists - and what really went wrong for Starmer
Media Storm · 39m
35%Ad-funded news: Who pays for hate & clickbait?
Media Storm · 44m
31%Deport. Detain. Deter: The moneymaking anti-migrant machine
Media Storm · 48m
21%Surveillance nation: Palantir, facial recognition and the UK
Media Storm · 1h 00m
29%News Watch: Hantavirus v Ebola. Teenage rapists avoid jail.
Media Storm · 46m
28%Angry Young Women: Did the media manufacture the femosphere?
Media Storm · 42m
25%Foreign interference: Who bankrolled Brexit and Britain’s far-right?
Media Storm · 47m
25%Blame, shame and pain: Maternity, midwives and the media
Media Storm · 49m
35%Global debt crisis: How bankers and billionaires keep countries poor
Media Storm · 48m
25%News Watch: Owen Jones vs the BBC, and what's really behind the move to cut jury trials?
Media Storm · 48m
21%Modern slavery is thriving: the media just isn’t telling you
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31%News Watch: How the Green Party beat Reform, and is war on Iran legal?
Media Storm · 53m
35%The Epstein Files: Survivors in their own words
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35%News Watch: Making sense of the Epstein Files, and will Reform rollback women’s rights?
Media Storm · 57m
20%Should the UK ban social media for under 16s?
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26%News Watch pt.2: Trump's 'new' world order, and who is behind Grok AI deepfakes?
Media Storm · 33m
28%News Watch pt.1: The ICE killings you didn't see, and how do we help Iran?
Media Storm · 48m
29%Q&A Special pt.2: Ask your hosts anything!
Media Storm · 47m
27%Capitalism and clickbait: Who owns the news?
Media Storm · 45m
27%News Watch: Behind BBC ‘bias’, Birmingham football ban, and keeping eyes on Sudan
Media Storm · 44m
50%Fake news! The impact of AI on journalism
Media Storm · 40m
34%‘I want prosecutions’: Should journalists go to prison for Gaza genocide disinformation?
Media Storm · 42m
19%What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common?
Media Storm · 48m
24%Q&A Special: Ask your hosts anything!
Media Storm · 52m
26%Piracy & propaganda: Israel ILLEGALLY intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla
Media Storm · 50m
29%Tackling media misogyny: Cheer Up Luv and This Ends Now
Media Storm · 41m
26%News Watch: The UK's radicalised right, Charlie Kirk trans conspiracy, Gaza war is a genocide
Media Storm · 58m
29%Reporting from the Global Sumud Flotilla: A people’s movement
Media Storm · 23m
36%News Watch: Reform’s migrant lies, Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail, and is Rylan racist?
Media Storm · 48m
21%SOAS on strike: Why are university staff refusing to work?
Media Storm · 36m
60%What happened when Issy Vine whistleblew on The Met
Media Storm · 27m
27%ARCHIVE Women in crisis: Is conflict and disaster sexist?
Media Storm · 47m
29%News Watch: Striking doctors' salaries, Islamophobia against Zohran Mamdani, and Japan's far-right surge
Media Storm · 56m
33%War reporters: White saviours or vital journalists?
Media Storm · 47m
21%News Watch: Diddy's domestic abuse, disability-blaming, welfare 'U-turns', Gaza aid traps
Media Storm · 49m
21%What is a woman? Common sense vs culture wars
Media Storm · 51m
23%News Watch: Johnny Depp "Me Too victim", Iran "nuclear bomb", Palestine Action "terrorists"
Media Storm · 50m
20%Why closed borders don't work: Refugees on community solutions
Media Storm · 45m
26%News Watch: LA protests, Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and all sides of assisted dying
Media Storm · 53m
25%AC Grayling: Free speech, Wokeism, and how to save democracy
Media Storm · 38m
32%Is the media responsible for the rise of Reform?
Media Storm · 11m
20%Oil spills in the Niger Delta: Will Shell come clean?
Media Storm · 38m
24%News Watch: Post-Brexit trade deals, Gérard Depardieu convicted, Starmer's immigration speech
Media Storm · 44m
32%S5E10 Female asylum seekers: Healthcare, housing, and the hostile environment
Media Storm · 37m
23%News Watch: Katy Perry blasted, the rollback of LGBT+ rights, and making sense of the ‘Jihadi jail attack’
Media Storm · 47m
27%S5E9 Free Speech: Is it all talk?
Media Storm · 48m
23%News Watch: US protests, Trump's tariffs, and is Lucy Connolly a 'political prisoner'?
Media Storm · 47m
20%S5E8 Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Not your 'revenge porn'
Media Storm · 42m
34%News Watch: ‘Two-tiered justice’ lies, Bournemouth femicide, and blame it on the migrants
Media Storm · 44m
26%S5E7 Sanctions: Do they help or harm civilians?
Media Storm · 37m
33%News Watch: Adolescence, ICC 'white man's justice', and should ketamine be Class A?
Media Storm · 48m
31%S5E6 Pregnant in prison: The case to stop births behind bars
Media Storm · 40m
23%News Watch: Labour's benefit-bashing, Gaza & Yemen airstrikes, and a new nuclear era for Europe
Media Storm · 38m
19%Abuse in academia: Are universities protecting predatory professors?
Media Storm · 41m
19%S5E5 Maternity and paternity leave: Why parents are so angry at politics
Media Storm · 47m
32%News Watch: Trump v Zelensky, Gaza ceasefire sabotage, and the law putting Black boys in prison
Media Storm · 38m
26%S5E4 How to fight polarisation: With Jess & Nathan from Channel 4's Go Back To Where You Came From
Media Storm · 39m
29%News Watch: Palestinian child murder trial, BBC Gaza doc, and is history repeating in Germany?
Media Storm · 42m
22%S5E3 Antisemitism: Israel, Anti-Zionism, and the politics of hate
Media Storm · 46m
25%News Watch: Chagos Islands, GB News queerphobia, and Sweden's mass shooting victims
Media Storm · 29m
26%S5E2 Why does asexuality make the media so angry?
Media Storm · 35m
25%News Watch: Trump’s ‘war on women’s sports’, hostage handovers, and is Labour Reform-ing?
Media Storm · 30m
35%S5E1 Female Genital Mutilation: Can we achieve zero tolerance with zero coverage?
Media Storm · 32m
23%News Watch: Trump’s bid for Gaza, Congo’s conflict, Axel Rudakubana's missed misogyny
Media Storm · 40m
31%ARCHIVE What is the refugee 'crisis'? Plus: Media Storm Series 5 announcement
Media Storm · 47m
22%News Watch: Luigi Mangione mania, Dunkirk shooting, Trump and trans healthcare
Media Storm · 36m
63%News Watch: PinkNews allegations, Syrian asylum claims, and don't forget about Georgia
Media Storm · 35m
25%News Watch: Syria, Sex Workers, 'Sickfluencers', and Gregg Wallace is sorry-not-sorry
Media Storm · 35m
26%News Watch: Another general election, ICC arrests, GRT discrimination, and... Wicked
Media Storm · 27m
19%News Watch: Farmers' 'tractor tax', Trans awareness, Amsterdam attacks
Media Storm · 27m
24%ARCHIVE Assisted dying: What do terminally ill people think?
Media Storm · 34m
31%ARCHIVE ‘One man’s terrorist’: Israel, Lebanon, Iran and beyond
Media Storm · 48m
25%S4E16 Nuclear weapons: deterrence or destruction?
Media Storm · 1h 01m
20%S4E15 What the media won't say about the monarchy
Media Storm · 55m
22%S4E14 Violence against women is a man's problem: Gisèle Pelicot, Rebecca Cheptegei, and millions more
Media Storm · 1h 02m
26%S4E13 Why is no one talking about Sudan? Plus Jess Phillips NHS claim and pub garden smoking ban
Media Storm · 58m
25%S4E12 Paralympics: An afterthought? Plus ‘two-tiered’ policing and Labour’s migrant ‘amnesty’
Media Storm · 52m
50%S4E11 Prisons: Overcrowding, Operation Early Dawn, and child strip-searches
Media Storm · 57m
24%S4E10 Just Stop Oil: Why do people hate them so much?
Media Storm · 59m
24%S4E9 Bigotry & bad information: Islamophobia, far-right riots, and Olympic boxing row
Media Storm · 51m
25%Southport stabbings: Why do people join the far-right?
Media Storm · 30m
30%Mina Smallman: Misogynoir, survival, and A Better Tomorrow
Media Storm · 33m
32%S4E8 General Election, Gen-Z, and propaganda in the papers
Media Storm · 56m
21%S4E7 Pride Month under attack: rainbow-washing, queerbaiting, and fears of "gender ideology"
Media Storm · 54m
34%S4E6 World Refugee Day: Inclusion and solutions
Media Storm · 40m
32%Rape Off The Record: The price of open justice
Media Storm · 36m
33%S4E5 Media racism: Faiza Shaheen, Palestine coverage, and the limits of representation
Media Storm · 55m
33%S4E4 South Africa elections: worldviews in 'the West' vs 'the rest'
Media Storm · 49m
35%S4E3 Police: misogyny, mistrust, and The Met
Media Storm · 44m
29%S4E2 Ulez: Pollution or politics? Plus Eurovision boycott and Voter ID
Media Storm · 46m
21%S4E1 The death debate: Assisted dying and the legacy of CoppaFeel!
Media Storm · 45m
24%Everything you need to know about Media Storm
Media Storm · 40m
28%SERIES 4 TRAILER
Media Storm · 4m
31%Helena and Mathilda's Little Revolutions
Media Storm · 1h 05m
26%Abortion on trial: Poland and the politicisation of human rights
Media Storm · 42m
35%S3E12 ‘One man’s terrorist’: Resistance and radicalism in Gaza and Beyond - with Gulwali Passarlay and Zahera Harb
Media Storm · 54m
21%Live show! 2023's biggest media storms - Luis Rubiales and Spanish football's sexism problem
Media Storm · 26m
33%Live show! 2023's biggest media storms - Titan submarine impolsion
Media Storm · 25m
21%Live show! 2023's biggest media storms - The Huw Edwards Scandal
Media Storm · 23m
21%Are refugees really 'stealing our homes'?
Media Storm · 16m
22%Russell Brand: Innocent until proven guilty?
Media Storm · 36m
31%S3E11 The solutions: Undoing an institutionally racist police force
Media Storm · 20m
21%S3E10 Why are so many Black people being rejected from the police force?
Media Storm · 29m
21%S3E9 An institutionally racist police force: Process of elimination
Media Storm · 26m
31%S3E8 Housing crisis: A lifetime in ‘temporary’ accommodation - with Kwajo Tweneboa
Media Storm · 49m
31%Woman, Life, Freedom: Feminism across cultures and borders
Media Storm · 15m
28%S3E7 Women in crisis: Is conflict and disaster sexist? - with Nazanin Boniadi
Media Storm · 45m
24%Helena's 'Immigrantly' story - with Saadia Khan
Media Storm · 54m
19%World on fire: El Niño and Labour’s ULEZ debate
Media Storm · 36m
27%Unpicking the media storm: Trans rights as a threat to women
Media Storm · 12m
26%S3E6 Self-ID: Scotland, Westminster, and the fight for gender recognition - with Charlie Craggs
Media Storm · 47m
30%Misogyny in the media: Helena & Mathilda speak in Parliament!
Media Storm · 24m
22%S3E5 Police: Behind the PR machine - with Leroy Logan and Chantelle Lunt
Media Storm · 52m
25%World Refugee Week: New data, same old story
Media Storm · 22m
19%S3E4 Strikes: What have trade unions ever done for me? - with Mick Whelan
Media Storm · 49m
28%Behind the scenes of Media Storm!
Media Storm · 22m
28%S3E3 Medical cannabis: The criminalisation of chronic pain - with StevoTheMadMan
Media Storm · 47m
20%Mainstream media mistrust and the far-right
Media Storm · 9m
20%S3E2 Safety or status? Migrant women and domestic abuse - with Janey Starling
Media Storm · 47m
35%Get Lippy! What you don't know about gynae cancer can hurt you
Media Storm · 24m
19%S3E1 Radical thinking: How to fight the far-right - with Nigel Bromage
Media Storm · 55m
23%SERIES 3 TRAILER
Media Storm · 3m
25%What does a ‘free press’ really mean?
Media Storm · 17m
31%Visionary Arts Awards and a new series of Media Storm
Media Storm · 3m
19%LIVE SHOW Comedy, 'cancellation', and correctness - with Deborah Frances-White and Isabelle Farah
Media Storm · 34m
24%This Is How You Do It: BBC gender and identity correspondent Megha Mohan
Media Storm · 28m
31%S2E12 Death: Terminal illness and the right to die
Media Storm · 49m
24%This Is How You Do It: Coiled's Leanne Alie
Media Storm · 20m
29%S2E11 Menopause, sexism, ageism: What's driving women out of work? - with Karen Arthur and Emma Goswell
Media Storm · 50m
28%Polyamory in pop culture
Media Storm · 13m
20%S2E10 Polyamory: Love and the limits of the law - with Leanne Yau aka Poly Philia
Media Storm · 46m
37%White (Other): Anti-Eastern European prejudice
Media Storm · 26m
31%S2E9 “Low-skilled”: The exploitation of Eastern European workers - with Alex Bulat
Media Storm · 46m
30%Managing mental health and the media
Media Storm · 14m
26%S2E8 Mental Health: The pros and pitfalls of diagnosis - with Scarlett Curtis and Kamilah McInnis
Media Storm · 49m
35%LIVE SHOW Misogynoir in Parliament - with Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Nadine Batchelor-Hunt
Media Storm · 26m
30%S2E7 'Gypsy, Roma, Traveller’: Why is prejudice on the rise? - with Mikey Walsh
Media Storm · 49m
23%This is How You Do It: Reed Amber and Florence Bark of Come Curious
Media Storm · 24m
32%S2E6 STIs: We need to talk about men and HPV - with Alix Fox
Media Storm · 44m
33%Indigenous leadership in climate solutions
Media Storm · 17m
56%S2E5 Climate frontlines: The truth about Big Oil - with Thimali Kodikara
Media Storm · 49m
23%This Is How You Do It: Bristol Sex Workers Collective
Media Storm · 22m
22%S2E4 Masculinity and body image: Why don't men seek help? - with Scottee
Media Storm · 48m
34%This Is How You Do It: QueerAF's Jamie Wareham
Media Storm · 24m
24%S2E3 Unoffending pedophiles: Clinical or criminal?
Media Storm · 45m
30%This Is How You Do It: Disability rights journalist Rachel Charlton-Dailey
Media Storm · 21m
28%S2E2 Post-Roe v. Wade: How safe are UK abortion rights? - with Renee Bracey Sherman
Media Storm · 45m
23%This Is How You Do It: Gal-dem's Naomi Larsson Piñeda
Media Storm · 22m
23%S2E1 Gender health gaps: The true cost of chronic UTI - with Athena Lamnisos and Dr Christine Ekechi
Media Storm · 46m
21%SERIES 2 TRAILER
Media Storm · 3m
34%ARIA Awards and a new series of Media Storm
Media Storm · 11m
27%Netflix & Chill: Anatomy of a Scandal - with The Guilty Feminist's Deborah Frances-White
Media Storm · 40m
23%How to be a better work ally to people with disabilities
Media Storm · 11m
60%S1E10 Ableism enabled: The loopholes in Equality Law - with Jumoke Abdullahi and Ellen Jones
Media Storm · 44m
31%Visiting London's 'Decriminalised Futures' sexhibition
Media Storm · 12m
35%S1E9 Sex Workers: Ignored and under threat - with Niki Adams
Media Storm · 43m
29%Harm reduction as a different approach to drugs
Media Storm · 12m
27%S1E8 The UK’s war on drugs: Politics and prohibition - with Niamh Eastwood and Juan Fernandez
Media Storm · 50m
26%Homelessness and how to help us
Media Storm · 13m
29%S1E7 Homelessness: The hidden figures - with Kai Samra
Media Storm · 44m
19%Intersectionality and body image
Media Storm · 12m
23%S1E6 Fatphobia: Healthcare by size - with Stephanie Yeboah and Essie Dennis
Media Storm · 42m
29%The truth about 'luxury' prisons
Media Storm · 12m
27%S1E5 Criminal Justice: Does prison work? - with The Secret Barrister and Paula Harriott
Media Storm · 49m
29%COMING UP ON MEDIA STORM
Media Storm · 4m
20%S1E4 Transgender healthcare: A waiting game - with Laura Blake and Shivani Dave
Media Storm · 45m
29%S1E3 Rape Justice: What happens to the 98%? - with Leyla Hussein and Gina Martin
Media Storm · 47m
25%S1E2 Pandemic of hate: We need to talk about anti-Asian abuse - with Zing Tsjeng and Hussein Kesvani
Media Storm · 48m
32%S1E1 El Dorado: Why do refugees ‘love’ the UK? - with Steve Ali
Media Storm · 38m
30%Deborah Frances-White in conversation with Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
Media Storm · 14m
23%SERIES 1 TRAILER
Media Storm · 4m
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