Newscast x The Today Podcast x When It Hits The Fan
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Today Podcast, Newscast and When It Hits The Fan have come together for a special episode, to look at the role of the media in the general election campaign.
Alongside The Today Podcast's Amol Rajan are Adam Fleming and Alex Forsyth from Newscast; David Yelland and Simon Lewis from BBC Radio 4 podcast When it Hits the Fan and Marianna Spring, the BBC's Disinformation and Social Media correspondent.
They discuss the declining role of newspapers and how social media is being used by the campaigns.
Episodes of The Today Podcast during the election campaign will land on Mondays and Thursdays. Subscribe on BBC Sounds to get Amol and Nick's take on the biggest stories of the week, with insights from behind the scenes at the UK's most influential radio news programme. If you would like a question answering, get in touch by sending us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 330 123 4346 or email us Today@bbc.co.uk
The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV’s political editor.
You can listen to the latest episode of The Today Podcast anytime on your smart speaker by saying “Alexa, Ask BBC Sounds for The Today Podcast.”
This special edition of The Today Podcast was edited by Jack Maclaren. Technical production from Jonny Hall and digital production from Elliot Ryder and Joe Wilkinson.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi, guys, it's Amol here. |
| 0:06.3 | I've just recorded a really, really interesting conversation, which I really hope you're |
| 0:11.2 | going to enjoy, with some fellow podcasters across the BBC. |
| 0:14.8 | This is, I think we're going to call this a mash-up. |
| 0:16.6 | It's the great Adam Fleming of newscast, who you will know intimately, I'm sure. |
| 0:20.9 | It's David Yelland and Simon Lewis as well. |
| 0:23.3 | They are the hosts or co-hosts of a brilliant podcast on PR disasters, basically, called When It Hits the Fan. |
| 0:30.5 | And we all got together with Alex Forsyth, who's a fantastic host of any questions, to talk about the role of the media in this general election campaign. |
| 0:38.9 | I know you're interested in the media and I know you're interested in the election campaign, |
| 0:42.4 | so I think you're going to love it. Hello, it's Adam from the Newscast podcast. |
| 1:01.2 | And a mole from the Today Podcasts. |
| 1:03.1 | Does that work? |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.4 | Is it a Today Podcast? |
| 1:06.4 | It is. |
| 1:06.9 | Have you heard of this medium podcast? |
| 1:08.6 | It's a mole from a podcast called the Today Podcasts and thrilled to be here. And it's David Yelland from the When It Hits the Fan podcast. And it's Simon Lewis from the BBC When It Hits the Fan podcast. And it's Alex Foresight from Newscast. And just to explain what we're doing is we formed a podcasting supergroup. Like the travelling Wilburys, you guys are remember them. I'm a recent convert to them, where we've got some of the BBC's star |
| 1:32.2 | podcasters who are the most engrossed in the election. And we've thought we'd all |
| 1:36.3 | sit down and just chat through an issue that is important to all of us, which is the role |
| 1:41.2 | of the media. Because let's be honest, David, actually the way most |
| 1:46.3 | people experience the election is either a leaflet through the door, a knock on the door from a |
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