🕵️ Current affairs & investigative news podcast 🗣️ Lived experience first 🎙 Your hosts are @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social 🏆 Multi-award winning: British Podcast Awards, Independent Podcast Awards, Radio Academy ARIAS 👂 Listen Weekly
🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 🎙️Bad Think Tanks: How fake facts get into the news ‘Think tanks’ with highly opaque funding sell bogus research on highly political topics. How do these fake facts become headlines? When you trace the money, it tells a terrifying story. 🎙️ @peterjukes.bsky.social ⬇️ LISTEN
Bad Think Tanks: How fake facts get into the newsMedia Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 🎙️Bad Science: Faux facts, health fads and influencers ❓How does the media turn science into clickbait? 👂Hear from the leading expert on the wellness industrial complex, @debscohen.bsky.social ⬇️ LISTEN
Bad Science: Faux facts, health fads and influencersMedia Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.comDo we need to change the voting system? That’s the question we ask on this episode with Mark Kieran from @openbritain.bsky.social and Shaun Roberts from @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social 🗳️ Listen ⬇️🎧
Do we need to change the voting system?Media Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ News Watch: ➡️ Why are accused and convicted rapists playing in the World Cup? ➡️ What really went wrong for Starmer? 🎙️ @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7xo3...
News Watch: World Cup rapists - and what really went wrong for StarmerMedia Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.comWho pays for hate & clickbait? 🎙️Listen to Richard Wilson, founder of @stopfundinghate.bsky.social on Media Storm this week ⬇️ Link below
Ad-funded news: Who pays for hate & clickbait?Media Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ Deport. Detain. Deter: The moneymaking anti-migrant machine Why do countries spend money to avoid the ‘migrant crisis’, rather than to solve it? 🎙️ @mathildamall.bsky.social @helenawadia.bsky.social
Deport. Detain. Deter: The moneymaking anti-migrant machineMedia Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 🎙️ Surveillance nation: Palantir, facial recognition and the UK Did you know the UK is one of the five most surveilled countries in the world? 🗣️ Jasleen Chaggar from @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social 🗣️ @fangsonggongzhu.bsky.social
Surveillance nation: Palantir, facial recognition and the UKMedia Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com📺 NEWS WATCH 📺 🦠 Hantavirus v Ebola: what does our news coverage tell us about Western bias? 📰 Teen boys who r*ped two teenage girls in Hampshire had a history of sexual violence. Why did only one article mention this? 🎙️ hosts: @helenawadia.bsky.social @mathildamall.bsky.social
News Watch: Hantavirus v Ebola. Teenage rapists avoid jail.Media Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com🎙️NEW EPISODE🎙️ After articles comparing ‘angry young women’ to the manosphere went viral, we ask: What is the media's real aim behind these lazy comparisons? And the femosphere even real, or did the media manufacture it? open.spotify.com/episode/5qEX...
Angry Young Women: Did the media manufacture the femosphere?Media Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.comWe kicked off our new series in partnership with @openbritain.bsky.social with an episode on FOREIGN INTERFERENCE in UK DEMOCRACY. 🎙️Who bankrolled Brexit & Britain’s far-right? With 🗣️ @sangitamyska.bsky.social 🗣️ Sergei Cristo open.spotify.com/episode/3QLA...
Foreign interference: Who bankrolled Brexit and Britain’s far-right?Media Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.comNEW EPISODE: Maternity, midwives & the media How many times have you read a headline that UK maternity services are in ‘crisis’? And how many times have you really understood why they’re in crisis? Midwives @leahhazard.bsky.social & Illiyin Morrison help us make sense of the press👇
Blame, shame and pain: Maternity, midwives and the mediaPodcast Episode · Media Storm · 2 April · 50minpodcasts.apple.com🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common? Funding, for one thing. Political frontmen, for another. The question is why? 🗣️ With the excellent @sianushka.bsky.social 🎙️ Hosted by @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common?Podcast Episode · Media Storm · 16/10/2025 · 49mpodcasts.apple.comOn today’s News Watch: 👉 Doctors strike - do they make £100k? 👉 Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals rampant Islamophobia 👉 What does the Afghan data leak tell us about the UK media’s priorities? 👉 Japan’s far-right surge 🎙️ Your hosts are @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social LISTEN ⤵️
News Watch: Striking doctors' salaries, Islamophobia against Zohran Mamdani, and Japan's far-right surgeMedia Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Ever heard of a war reporter? You could probably even name a few… perhaps you’ve even seen them played on the big screen by Hollywood stars. Now tell us - ever heard of a fixer? If you haven’t, you need to listen to this ⬇️ 🎙️ War Reporters: White saviours or vital journalists?
War reporters: White saviours or vital journalists?Media Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 News Watch: 👉 Diddy’s domestic abuse ignored 👉 Welfare ‘U-turns’ and disability blaming 👉 Gaza aid traps LISTEN NOW! open.spotify.com/episode/2Zbz...
News Watch: Diddy's domestic abuse, disability-blaming, welfare 'U-turns', Gaza aid trapsMedia Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 ‘What is a woman?’ The question that has plagued British media and distracted politians for years. This episode, we ask: why? 🗣️ With @katymontgomerie.com 🎙️ Hosts @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
What is a woman? Common sense vs culture warsMedia Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.comThis week on News Watch: did you know 👉 Johnny Depp is a ‘victim of Me Too’? 👉 Iran might have a ‘nuclear bomb within a month’? 👉 Palestine Action are ‘terrorists’? 👀 We pick apart all these unhinged headlines and tired old narratives on this week’s Media Storm episode ⬇️
News Watch: Johnny Depp "Me Too victim", Iran "nuclear bomb", Palestine Action "terrorists"Media Storm · Episodeopen.spotify.com