‘Oxygen given to anti-immigration groups’, ‘Why is the Scottish media reluctant to report ‘Secret State’ stories?’ and ‘The Lord Advocate reaffirms support for protest here in Scotland within legal boundaries’

S8E284
29:08
August 20th 2025

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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.

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.

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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