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Media Storm — 167 episodes

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Foreign interference: Who bankrolled Brexit and Britain’s far-right?

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Blame, shame and pain: Maternity, midwives and the media

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Global debt crisis: How bankers and billionaires keep countries poor

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News Watch: Owen Jones vs the BBC, and what's really behind the move to cut jury trials?

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Modern slavery is thriving: the media just isn’t telling you

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News Watch: How the Green Party beat Reform, and is war on Iran legal?

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The Epstein Files: Survivors in their own words

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News Watch: Making sense of the Epstein Files, and will Reform rollback women’s rights?

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Should the UK ban social media for under 16s?

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News Watch pt.2: Trump's 'new' world order, and who is behind Grok AI deepfakes?

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News Watch pt.1: The ICE killings you didn't see, and how do we help Iran?

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Q&A Special pt.2: Ask your hosts anything!

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Capitalism and clickbait: Who owns the news?

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News Watch: Behind BBC ‘bias’, Birmingham football ban, and keeping eyes on Sudan

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Fake news! The impact of AI on journalism

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‘I want prosecutions’: Should journalists go to prison for Gaza genocide disinformation?

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What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common?

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Q&A Special: Ask your hosts anything!

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Piracy & propaganda: Israel ILLEGALLY intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla

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Tackling media misogyny: Cheer Up Luv and This Ends Now

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News Watch: The UK's radicalised right, Charlie Kirk trans conspiracy, Gaza war is a genocide

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Reporting from the Global Sumud Flotilla: A people’s movement

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News Watch: Reform’s migrant lies, Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail, and is Rylan racist?

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SOAS on strike: Why are university staff refusing to work?

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What happened when Issy Vine whistleblew on The Met

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ARCHIVE Women in crisis: Is conflict and disaster sexist?

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News Watch: Striking doctors' salaries, Islamophobia against Zohran Mamdani, and Japan's far-right surge

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War reporters: White saviours or vital journalists?

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News Watch: Diddy's domestic abuse, disability-blaming, welfare 'U-turns', Gaza aid traps

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What is a woman? Common sense vs culture wars

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News Watch: Johnny Depp "Me Too victim", Iran "nuclear bomb", Palestine Action "terrorists"

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Why closed borders don't work: Refugees on community solutions

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News Watch: LA protests, Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and all sides of assisted dying

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AC Grayling: Free speech, Wokeism, and how to save democracy

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Is the media responsible for the rise of Reform?

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Oil spills in the Niger Delta: Will Shell come clean?

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News Watch: Post-Brexit trade deals, Gérard Depardieu convicted, Starmer's immigration speech

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Live show tickets ON SALE!

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S5E10 Female asylum seekers: Healthcare, housing, and the hostile environment

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News Watch: Katy Perry blasted, the rollback of LGBT+ rights, and making sense of the ‘Jihadi jail attack’

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S5E9 Free Speech: Is it all talk?

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News Watch: US protests, Trump's tariffs, and is Lucy Connolly a 'political prisoner'?

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S5E8 Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Not your 'revenge porn'

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News Watch: ‘Two-tiered justice’ lies, Bournemouth femicide, and blame it on the migrants

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S5E7 Sanctions: Do they help or harm civilians?

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News Watch: Adolescence, ICC 'white man's justice', and should ketamine be Class A?

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S5E6 Pregnant in prison: The case to stop births behind bars

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News Watch: Labour's benefit-bashing, Gaza & Yemen airstrikes, and a new nuclear era for Europe

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TRAILER: The News Meeting x Media Storm

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Abuse in academia: Are universities protecting predatory professors?

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S5E5 Maternity and paternity leave: Why parents are so angry at politics

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News Watch: Trump v Zelensky, Gaza ceasefire sabotage, and the law putting Black boys in prison

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S5E4 How to fight polarisation: With Jess & Nathan from Channel 4's Go Back To Where You Came From

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News Watch: Palestinian child murder trial, BBC Gaza doc, and is history repeating in Germany?

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S5E3 Antisemitism: Israel, Anti-Zionism, and the politics of hate

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News Watch: Chagos Islands, GB News queerphobia, and Sweden's mass shooting victims

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S5E2 Why does asexuality make the media so angry?

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News Watch: Trump’s ‘war on women’s sports’, hostage handovers, and is Labour Reform-ing?

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S5E1 Female Genital Mutilation: Can we achieve zero tolerance with zero coverage?

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News Watch: Trump’s bid for Gaza, Congo’s conflict, Axel Rudakubana's missed misogyny

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ARCHIVE What is the refugee 'crisis'? Plus: Media Storm Series 5 announcement

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News Watch: Luigi Mangione mania, Dunkirk shooting, Trump and trans healthcare

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News Watch: PinkNews allegations, Syrian asylum claims, and don't forget about Georgia

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News Watch: Syria, Sex Workers, 'Sickfluencers', and Gregg Wallace is sorry-not-sorry

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News Watch: Another general election, ICC arrests, GRT discrimination, and... Wicked

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News Watch: Farmers' 'tractor tax', Trans awareness, Amsterdam attacks

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ARCHIVE Assisted dying: What do terminally ill people think?

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ARCHIVE ‘One man’s terrorist’: Israel, Lebanon, Iran and beyond

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S4E16 Nuclear weapons: deterrence or destruction?

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S4E15 What the media won't say about the monarchy

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S4E14 Violence against women is a man's problem: Gisèle Pelicot, Rebecca Cheptegei, and millions more

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S4E13 Why is no one talking about Sudan? Plus Jess Phillips NHS claim and pub garden smoking ban

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S4E12 Paralympics: An afterthought? Plus ‘two-tiered’ policing and Labour’s migrant ‘amnesty’

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S4E11 Prisons: Overcrowding, Operation Early Dawn, and child strip-searches

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S4E10 Just Stop Oil: Why do people hate them so much?

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S4E9 Bigotry & bad information: Islamophobia, far-right riots, and Olympic boxing row

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Southport stabbings: Why do people join the far-right?

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Mina Smallman: Misogynoir, survival, and A Better Tomorrow

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S4E8 General Election, Gen-Z, and propaganda in the papers

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S4E7 Pride Month under attack: rainbow-washing, queerbaiting, and fears of "gender ideology"

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S4E6 World Refugee Day: Inclusion and solutions

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Rape Off The Record: The price of open justice

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S4E5 Media racism: Faiza Shaheen, Palestine coverage, and the limits of representation

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S4E4 South Africa elections: worldviews in 'the West' vs 'the rest'

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S4E3 Police: misogyny, mistrust, and The Met

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S4E2 Ulez: Pollution or politics? Plus Eurovision boycott and Voter ID

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S4E1 The death debate: Assisted dying and the legacy of CoppaFeel!

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Everything you need to know about Media Storm

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SERIES 4 TRAILER

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Helena and Mathilda's Little Revolutions

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Abortion on trial: Poland and the politicisation of human rights

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S3E12 ‘One man’s terrorist’: Resistance and radicalism in Gaza and Beyond - with Gulwali Passarlay and Zahera Harb

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Live show! 2023's biggest media storms - Luis Rubiales and Spanish football's sexism problem

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Live show! 2023's biggest media storms - Titan submarine impolsion

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Live show! 2023's biggest media storms - The Huw Edwards Scandal

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Are refugees really 'stealing our homes'?

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Russell Brand: Innocent until proven guilty?

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S3E11 The solutions: Undoing an institutionally racist police force

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S3E10 Why are so many Black people being rejected from the police force?

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S3E9 An institutionally racist police force: Process of elimination

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S3E8 Housing crisis: A lifetime in ‘temporary’ accommodation - with Kwajo Tweneboa

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Woman, Life, Freedom: Feminism across cultures and borders

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S3E7 Women in crisis: Is conflict and disaster sexist? - with Nazanin Boniadi

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Helena's 'Immigrantly' story - with Saadia Khan

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World on fire: El Niño and Labour’s ULEZ debate

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Unpicking the media storm: Trans rights as a threat to women

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S3E6 Self-ID: Scotland, Westminster, and the fight for gender recognition - with Charlie Craggs

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Misogyny in the media: Helena & Mathilda speak in Parliament!

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S3E5 Police: Behind the PR machine - with Leroy Logan and Chantelle Lunt

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World Refugee Week: New data, same old story

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S3E4 Strikes: What have trade unions ever done for me? - with Mick Whelan

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Behind the scenes of Media Storm!

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S3E3 Medical cannabis: The criminalisation of chronic pain - with StevoTheMadMan

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Mainstream media mistrust and the far-right

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S3E2 Safety or status? Migrant women and domestic abuse - with Janey Starling

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Get Lippy! What you don't know about gynae cancer can hurt you

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S3E1 Radical thinking: How to fight the far-right - with Nigel Bromage

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SERIES 3 TRAILER

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What does a ‘free press’ really mean?

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Visionary Arts Awards and a new series of Media Storm

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LIVE SHOW Comedy, 'cancellation', and correctness - with Deborah Frances-White and Isabelle Farah

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This Is How You Do It: BBC gender and identity correspondent Megha Mohan

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S2E12 Death: Terminal illness and the right to die

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This Is How You Do It: Coiled's Leanne Alie

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S2E11 Menopause, sexism, ageism: What's driving women out of work? - with Karen Arthur and Emma Goswell

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Polyamory in pop culture

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S2E10 Polyamory: Love and the limits of the law - with Leanne Yau aka Poly Philia

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White (Other): Anti-Eastern European prejudice

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S2E9 “Low-skilled”: The exploitation of Eastern European workers - with Alex Bulat

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Managing mental health and the media

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S2E8 Mental Health: The pros and pitfalls of diagnosis - with Scarlett Curtis and Kamilah McInnis

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LIVE SHOW Misogynoir in Parliament - with Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Nadine Batchelor-Hunt

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S2E7 'Gypsy, Roma, Traveller’: Why is prejudice on the rise? - with Mikey Walsh

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This is How You Do It: Reed Amber and Florence Bark of Come Curious

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S2E6 STIs: We need to talk about men and HPV - with Alix Fox

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Indigenous leadership in climate solutions

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S2E5 Climate frontlines: The truth about Big Oil - with Thimali Kodikara

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This Is How You Do It: Bristol Sex Workers Collective

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S2E4 Masculinity and body image: Why don't men seek help? - with Scottee

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This Is How You Do It: QueerAF's Jamie Wareham

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S2E3 Unoffending pedophiles: Clinical or criminal?

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This Is How You Do It: Disability rights journalist Rachel Charlton-Dailey

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S2E2 Post-Roe v. Wade: How safe are UK abortion rights? - with Renee Bracey Sherman

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This Is How You Do It: Gal-dem's Naomi Larsson Piñeda

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S2E1 Gender health gaps: The true cost of chronic UTI - with Athena Lamnisos and Dr Christine Ekechi

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SERIES 2 TRAILER

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ARIA Awards and a new series of Media Storm

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Netflix & Chill: Anatomy of a Scandal - with The Guilty Feminist's Deborah Frances-White

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How to be a better work ally to people with disabilities

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S1E10 Ableism enabled: The loopholes in Equality Law - with Jumoke Abdullahi and Ellen Jones

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Visiting London's 'Decriminalised Futures' sexhibition

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S1E9 Sex Workers: Ignored and under threat - with Niki Adams

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Harm reduction as a different approach to drugs

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S1E8 The UK’s war on drugs: Politics and prohibition - with Niamh Eastwood and Juan Fernandez

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Homelessness and how to help us

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S1E7 Homelessness: The hidden figures - with Kai Samra

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Intersectionality and body image

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S1E6 Fatphobia: Healthcare by size - with Stephanie Yeboah and Essie Dennis

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The truth about 'luxury' prisons

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S1E5 Criminal Justice: Does prison work? - with The Secret Barrister and Paula Harriott

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COMING UP ON MEDIA STORM

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S1E4 Transgender healthcare: A waiting game - with Laura Blake and Shivani Dave

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S1E3 Rape Justice: What happens to the 98%? - with Leyla Hussein and Gina Martin

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S1E2 Pandemic of hate: We need to talk about anti-Asian abuse - with Zing Tsjeng and Hussein Kesvani

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S1E1 El Dorado: Why do refugees ‘love’ the UK? - with Steve Ali

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Deborah Frances-White in conversation with Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia

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SERIES 1 TRAILER

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