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‘Opposition Day Chaos and Broken Promises’, ‘Hate Speech Conservatives’’ and ‘Good Girl’

  • S7E211
  • 06:02
  • February 28th 2024

This week we have filled the boys with cups of tea, chocolate biscuits and sweeties, locked them in to the studio and set them on a two hander across this weeks' stories.

At the end of the show a question from David Stark.

Recommendations:

Stuart

'Never Have I Ever' - Netflix

After a traumatic year, an Indian-American teen just wants to spruce up her social status — but friends, family and feelings won’t make it easy on her.

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80179190 

Eamonn

Thatcher: A Very British Revolution - BBC iplayer

The irresistible rise and dramatic downfall of Margaret Thatcher. Her inner circle reveal how a political outsider won power and dominated British life through a turbulent decade.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0005brf/thatcher-a-very-british-revolution 

Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain - Ch4

Forty years after, through the eyes of those directly involved, this powerful series explores the bitterly divisive strike that wounded the soul of the nation.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/miners-strike-1984-the-battle-for-britain 

Talk Media

Broadcaster Stuart Cosgrove and Professor Eamonn O’Neill host Talk Media: a forensic analysis of how the media works, and who works the media. Packed full of candid commentary and informed opinion, Talk Media features a weekly guest commentator from the worlds of journalism, entertainment and politics.

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Professor Eamonn O'Neill
Host

A working journalist and writer -previously a senior writer for Vanity Fair and Esquire. Associate Professor of Journalism at Edinburgh Napier University and a 2020 JFK/Hemingway Grant Recipient.

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Stuart Cosgrove
Host

Former Head of Nations and Regions for Channel 4 and the prize-winning author of the Soul Trilogy (soul music and social change in Memphis, Detroit and Harlem).

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