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Media Democracy Pod
A podcast about politics, the media, and the politics of the media. Hosted by Tom Mills and Dan Hind.
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MD Christmas Special 2021
The Boris Johnson who bestrode British politics like a Colossus in 2019 is no more. In his place is a hapless figure, who can't seem to stop breaking...
From A to Zoom: The 2020 Media Democracy Review
What a vintage year it's been! Tom and Dan look back on 2020 and talk about the highlights of the UK media's performance. We touch on mainstream satir...
3.8 In a way, the BBC is the real maze
This week your intrepid co-hosts enter BBC Radio 4's flagship forum for ethical debate, The Moral Maze and talk about its February 12th episode 'The M...
3.7 Trans-forming Media (ft. Juliet Jacques) Part 2
This is the second part of our interview with Juliet Jacques. In the intro, Tom and Dan talk briefly about Rebecca Long Bailey's recent proposals to r...
3.6 Trans-forming Media (ft. Juliet Jacques) Part 1
In the first instalment of a two-parter, this week Tom and Dan talk with author and critic Juliet Jacques about the depiction of trans people in the m...
3.5: 17-19: A Podcast Comes of Age
Dan and Tom return to podcasting after the Christmas break to discuss the media's behaviour in the General Election and the implications for the Labou...
3.4 Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Officially Sourced
On 22 October Peter Oborne broke the silence that surrounds Westminster journalism with a damning article on the relationship between Downing Street’s...
3.3 Positively 4th Estate
Barely days after Facebook began trialing a news feature on its app Tom and Dan talk about the journey the company is on, from content agnostic charne...
3.2 The Centre is Everywhere: Local News on the Edge of England
This week Tom and Dan talk with Jodie Nesling of the Isle of Thanet News, an awarding winning monthly newspaper covering Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgat...
3.1 The Working Breakfast Club
This week Tom and Dan are joined by author and activist Tamasin Cave of Spinwatch. We talk about the Climate Crisis and the individuals and institutio...
2.18 It's Too Much Winning
In a one-off special to promote the Media Democracy Festival on March 16th, Tom and Dan fail utterly to mention said event. Instead they noisily take...
2.17 Trebor Scholz and the Rise of the Platform Cooperative
Tom and Dan are back after a long break throughout which the media class have behaved with scrupulous professionalism and disinterested rationality. T...
2.16 TFW Columnists Take to Twitter
This week Dan and Tom are joined by journalist, author and Blue Tick Twitter Personality Hussein Kesvani to discuss celebrity columnists and the Twitt...
2.15 I've Seen Takes You People Wouldn't Believe
This week Tom and Dan go back to basics and spend an hour chatting about recent events in media/politics. The takes range from the stone cold and fran...
2.14 The Political Thinking of Nick Robinson
This week on the podcast we're joined by Jack Frayne-Reid of the Reel Politik podcast to review Nick Robinson's podcast, 'Political Thinking'. It's a...
2.13 The Westminster Hour
This week we bring you a recording from the Parliamentary launch of the Media Reform Coalition's 'Draft Proposals on BBC Reform', featuring Natalie Fe...
2.12 Farewell to the Centrists: New Statesman Reading Group with Joe Kennedy
We're joined by Joe Kennedy (@joekennedy81 on Twitter), the author of 'Authentocrats: Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness', to discuss the histo...
2.11: These Premises Are Unsafe and Should be Condemned
James Stern-Weiner returns to the show to discuss the structure of the debates about Israel-Palestine and Labour's alleged antisemitism crisis.
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2.10 Undercover at the FT: Matt Kennard on his time in the belly of the beast
This week we're joined by author and journalist Matt Kennard and talk about how he came to write his 2015 book, 'The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. the...
2.9 The Horror in the Archive on 4
Fifty years ago Enoch Powell gave his racist 'Rivers of Blood' speech. In it he trailed themes that have given undead life to right-wing populism ever...
From the Ground Up: Laurie Macfarlane on The Economics of Housing and Land
On April 5th 2018 author and journalist Laurie Macfarlane came to Resort Studios in Margate to give a talk about the economics of housing and the poli...
2.8 One Percentrism
We're back after an action-packed hiatus in media democracy land. This week Tom and Dan talk about balance, about Andrew Adonis' Twitter jihad against...
2.7 We Meme you no Harm - Making sense of the Cambridge Analytica story with Will Davies
This week Tom and Dan are joined by Will Davies, Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths and author of 'The Happiness Industry' and 'The Limits of N...
2.6 Coercive Communications: A Conversation with Christopher Simpson
This week Tom and Dan are joined by Professor Christopher Simpson to talk about his 1994 book The Science of Coercion. We explore the drivers of innov...
2.5 Democratic Start-ups for the Public Good
This week Tom and Dan are joined by Wendy Liu (@dellsystem) and Hettie O'Brien (@hettieveronica) to take another bite out of the emerging tech monopol...
2.4 Wrong, Wrong & Wrong Again: Alex Nunns on the Bursting of the Westminster Bubble
Dan and Tom are joined by Alex Nunns, author of the award winning book, 'The Candidate', a second edition of which has just been published. They disc...
2.3 Codename CornCOB
This last week has seen the UK media engage in one of its increasingly absurd bouts of Cold War re-enactment. Meanwhile, a shadowy group of hard righ...
2.2 Know Platforms
It’s the difficult second episode of the difficult second season. But Dan and Tom style it out with the help of Nick Srnicek and Laurie Laybourn-Lang...
Christmas Special
Dan and Tom meet IRL for a Media Democracy Christmas Special and discuss the Philosopher King and Twitter personality A.C. Grayling, the Enlightenment...
Matthew Brown and the Preston Model
Matthew Brown has played a leading role in Preston City Council's work to maximise the benefits of public and quasi-public spending in the city. Chang...
1.16 Season Finale - We Know What You Did This Summer
Tom and Dan reflect on the first season of Media Democracy and the Summer of 2017: Corbyn's electoral breakthrough and a brief moment of media introsp...
1.15 Media Shadow Boxing – Jamie Stern-Weiner on Labour Antisemitism
This week we speak to Jamie Stern-Weiner about reports of antisemitism at the Labour conference. Jamie is a graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies...
1.14 Money & the Messengers - Ellen Brown on the Banking System
How does the financial and monetary system work? One thing's for sure, you won't get the answers from the Establishment media, which seems incurably i...
1.13 The McDonnell Proposal - Media-Politics at Conference
This week Tom and Dan chat briefly about the Labour Party Conference and the discussions there about the politics of the media. The episode ends with...
1.12 A Platform of Our Own
As activists head for Brighton, Dan and Tom discuss the power of the new media oligopolies and a media reform agenda for an incoming Corbyn Government...
1.11 No More Voluntarism - Thomas Barlow on the Media Fund
This week Thomas Barlow joins us to discuss our political and environment crisis and how the Media Fund is seeking to address it through organised sup...
1.10 Sarah O'Connell on changing broadcast journalism
In the second part of our interview with Sarah O'Connell we talk about the growing distance between journalists and the people they cover, and about h...
1.9 "Who do you know?" Sarah O'Connell on the trouble with UK Journalism
Sarah O'Connell talks to Media Democracy about the class and cultural differences that separate broadcast journalism from its audiences. Sarah began h...
1.8 Hicham Yezza on Islamophobia
In this week's show we chat about 'Traingate' and Jon Snow's MacTaggart Lecture before speaking to Hicham Yezza about Islamophobia and how it plays ou...