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British Scandal

Michelle Mone | Meet the lawyer who keeps Matt and Alice out of trouble | 4

British Scandal

Wondery

Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.56.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Often the people at the heart of our scandals would rather we just shut up. And if we make a misstep, they can make our lives difficult. Claire Hoban is the badass media lawyer who keeps British Scandal out of the courts. Matt Forde and Alice Levine sit down with her to discuss how she keeps the show on track, and what you can and can’t say about a live investigation. Plus, Alice finds out how much dirt she could publish on Matt without him taking her to the cleaners.


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0:00.0

From Wundery, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Levine.

0:08.0

And this is British scandal. Now because of the arrest of an anonymous person related to the National Crime Agency

0:25.2

investigation into PPE Med Pro, we're not able to actually do our scheduled interview.

0:30.5

So instead we're bringing you a fascinating chat with someone who helps us in these kinds of sticky situations.

0:37.0

We call her red tape Claire. She is the person who tells us what we can't say, what we can say, and where to reword our scripts.

0:46.0

She stops us from getting sued basically.

0:47.8

Claire Hoban is a content lawyer with 20 years experience working across television, film, audio and print.

0:54.4

She's worked on shows that Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, and even Breaking News.

0:58.8

She joins us next.

0:59.8

Claire, you've been content lawyer on so many series of British scandal including the

1:08.3

latest one on Michelle Monne. So just explain to us what does a content lawyer actually do?

1:14.5

So an editorial content lawyer is somebody that basically looks at content

1:20.2

before it goes out whether that's a film or a television program or a podcast or a radio show,

1:27.0

and they'll just look at everything in the editorial and try and work out what are your risks, could you get sued on any of this and advise you on the

1:34.5

content and they might help you to amend scripts or to if it's if it needs an edit

1:40.0

they'll advise you how to do that and you can work in all sorts of realms you know you can work on

1:45.5

breaking news or live programs right through to programs that have a really long production period that

1:51.8

might take months or even years to make.

1:55.0

Do you have a proverbial red pen then?

1:58.0

Are you the person that's sort of scribbling red ink over everything?

2:01.0

Well, you know, I think there's this kind of preconception that

2:05.2

isn't true a misconception I should say there's a misconception about somebody like

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