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

Amol Rajan hosted The Media Show from May 2017 - May 2021.


All episodes are available on BBC sounds, below are the titles and links to each episode if you want to give them a listen 👂:

Oldest episodes are at the top, the most recent are at the bottom.

General election media strategies, Fox News

30 min

Information commissioner, White House leaks, iPlayer

30 min

Manchester attack, Election media bias, JOE media

30 min

Political Interviews and Social Media, Court Reporting

30 min

CNN boss Tony Maddox, VR news, The&Partnership founder Johnny Hornby

30 min

Fleet Street's influence on British politics

30 min

Middle East Eye, The Atlantic, Mumsnet move into TV

30 min

Inside Russia Today...

30 min

BBC Annual Report: John Humphrys on his salary, Adam Boulton, David Bond and Charlotte Moore

30 min

Johnston Press job cuts; Police chief anger at tech giants; Sir Alan Moses, chairman of IPSO

30 min

Test Match Special and Josh Krichefski of MediaCom UK

30 min

23/08/2017

30 min

Coleen Rooney and the paparazzi, Classic FM at 25, Panorama secret filming

30 min

RTS Cambridge Convention special

30 min

Is Twitter turning journalists into vultures?

30 min

What's wrong with the BBC?

30 min

Celebrities and interview copy control

28 min

Could the media have exposed Harvey Weinstein earlier?

30 min

How to save regional newspapers

30 min

Scoops from Paradise

30 min

Russia and the information wars

30 min

The power of the crowd

30 min

The Royal Family and critical journalism

30 min

The Guardian's Kath Viner, Spin doctors v broadcasters, Channel 4 News editor Ben De Pear

30 min

End of the Age of Murdoch?

30 min

Peston's Brexit confession and BBC religious coverage

30 min

Who wants to be a TV format millionaire?

28 min

Murdoch fights back

30 min

BBC's problem with pay

46 min

Matt Hancock's manifesto

30 min

Trinity Mirror CEO Simon Fox on buying the Express, Star and OK

30 min

Is Jeremy Corbyn at war with the press?

30 min

The importance of being social

30 min

Reporting the case of the Russian spy

30 min

George Osborne and the economics of free news

30 min

Who owns our data?

30 min

BONUS Richard Gingras of Google News and Mark Thompson of The New York Times

9 min

The Age of Zuckerberg

30 min

The ethics of reporting from Syria

30 min

Silicon Valley v Westminster

30 min

The Evolution of Radio

30 min

The staged death of a Russian journalist

30 min

Why isn't all TV like Love Island?

30 min

The Media Show Revolutions: News

30 min

What makes a reporter?

30 min

Seymour Hersh - extended interview

11 min

How to win in sports journalism

30 min

Will the BBC ever solve its pay problem?

30 min

Privacy, liberty and Cliff Richard

30 min

Plotting the future of history on TV

30 min

Big tech deletes Alex Jones

30 min

The BBC will not appeal Cliff Richard case

30 min

Print is dead. Long live print

30 min

The secrets of Social success

30 min

Outrage in the age of Twitter

30 min

The marriage of tech and TV

28 min

How journalism exposed an atrocity

28 min

May's Media Strategy

28 min

BONUS Rob Stringer, Sony Music CEO

20 min

BONUS Bob Bakish, Viacom CEO

5 min

Dark ads and slow news

28 min

BONUS James Harding, Tortoise Media

21 min

The Evolution of Sports Broadcasting

28 min

Who'd be a journalist?

28 min

Why Channel 4 is on the move

28 min

Global perspectives on the news business

28 min

BONUS News Xchange 2018 debate

56 min

Can Canada save journalism?

28 min

Sir Harold Evans

18 min

The Media Show Revolutions: Radio

28 min

Football, racism and the media

28 min

Fast and slow journalism

24 min

The Great British Radio Breakfast

28 min

Making a show for Netflix

28 min

Who needs fact-checkers?

28 min

BONUS Matthew Chance, CNN Senior International Correspondent

17 min

How Call The Midwife became a global hit

28 min

BONUS Dame Pippa Harris on Call The Midwife and the TV industry

16 min

BONUS Do we need another classical music radio station?

6 min

BONUS Facebook's Steve Hatch apologises for distressing content about suicide on Instagram

11 min

The great TV piracy scandal

28 min

Spotify's big move on radio

28 min

The Cairncross Conundrum

28 min

How to combat fake news?

28 min

Commercial radio tunes out of local

28 min

Investigating Michael Jackson

28 min

Who cares what the papers say?

28 min

HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen

27 min

Attenborough's Netflix adventure

28 min

Why everyone wants a news channel

28 min

Journalism's class ceiling

28 min

The Political Interview

28 min

Remembering Lyra McKee

29 min

How to win followers and influence people

28 min

The Story of Netflix with Ted Sarandos

28 min

Spies, lies and videotape

28 min

Chernobyl: the story of TV's highest rated show

36 min

The Daily's Michael Barbaro

15 min

How the media sells us gender equality

24 min

The lure of the obvious

28 min

Who's watching the BBC?

28 min

Inside Wimbledon

28 min

Tommy Robinson and the rules of journalism

28 min

The power of the columnist

28 min

Hunting spies and exposing lies

36 min

Why advertisers are blacklisting news

28 min

Who Wants to Be a Peaky Blinder?

28 min

Making The Mouse Roar: Disney CEO Bob Iger

52 min

The NYT and The FT

28 min

Trust me, I'm a journalist

28 min

Facebook's Steve Hatch on paying tax and political ads

17 min

The media's criminal obsession

28 min

Will Amazon deliver a revolution in sports media?

28 min

Ronan Farrow's Battle to Report

28 min

Delete the media?

28 min

Ian Hislop's review of the year in media

28 min

The British drama boom

28 min

The man driving Jeremy Clarkson

28 min

A right Royal PR disaster

28 min

Reinventing TV Documentaries

28 min

Brexit's "done" - so what will the media talk about now?!

28 min

Has No 10 called time on media scrutiny?

28 min

The big money bet on podcasting

28 min

Fake news, strong views, Yorkshire and me

27 min

The new wave of political magazines

28 min

The Barclay Brothers, bugs, and The Telegraph

28 min

Panic and the truth

28 min

Return of the expert

28 min

World locks down, media steps up

28 min

Keep Calm and Put Radio On

28 min

Keeping faith in the media

28 min

The Rehabilitation of Channel 5

42 min

Liberalism, leading, and the lockdown

48 min

Making news free to the world

36 min

Who sets the news agenda?

28 min

Opinions on opinion

28 min

Rethinking advertising

28 min

Times Radio launches and Twitch faces reckoning

28 min

Fake news? Meet the fake journalists

28 min

Who cares about local news?

28 min

David vs Goliath

28 min

Whose truth is it anyway?

28 min

Succession and shakedown for Murdoch and TikTok

28 min

June Sarpong: What is diversity?

28 min

Tony Hall's Exit Interview

1h 06m

Charming the old Gray Lady

59 min

How Spotify reached No. 1

28 min

The demographics of news

28 min

Bake Off rises out of lockdown

28 min

How conspiracy theories hijacked the news

28 min

YouTube and the reinvention of television

50 min

The economics of outrage

27 min

As America decides, Big Tech weighs in

28 min

'If you're not breaking stories, you're nothing'

58 min

Diana, Panorama and a BBC apology

28 min

John Whittingdale's media agenda

50 min

A Queen of Advertising

27 min

Reporting the vaccine

28 min

British TV and the threat from tech

28 min

Who's winning in sports media?

28 min

Johnny Depp and the libel trial of the century

50 min

Jane Tranter, super-producer

28 min

Free Speech vs the Internet

27 min

Reporting the war on coronavirus

27 min

"We're never doing an anti-immigrant story again"

49 min

Discovery on their shift to streaming

27 min

Carolyn McCall, boss of ITV

55 min

How ITV News reported first-hand on the storming of Congress

41 min

Andrea Coscelli, the watchdog taking on the tech giants

53 min

Squaring up to the tech giants

27 min

Is the UK media obsessed with Westminster?

27 min

Meghan and Harry on Oprah: the media fallout

27 min

Andrew Neil: a 50-year media career

1h 29m

The truth about investigations

27 min

Fighting the Covid infodemic

27 min

Reddit and the anti-establishment

31 min

"There's no democracy without a strong, free press"

40 min

Roula Khalaf, editor of The Financial Times

32 min

Podcasts go premium

28 min

Decline of the Editor

28 min

Inside The Pegasus Project

28 min

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