Scottish Ambulances and Humza Yousaf, Rupert Murdoch's New Channel, ‘British’ Programmes and Music Icons / with Afua Adom
- S3E84
- 1:00:24
- September 22nd 2021
Stuart and Eamonn are joined by broadcaster, Afua Adom. This week - Scottish ambulances and Humza Yousaf, Rupert Murdoch’s new TV channel, ‘British’ programmes and a listener question about music icons. At the end of the show, Stuart, Eamonn and Afua share their personal media recommendations.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Stuart: ‘Harlem Shuffle’ - 2021 novel by American author, Colson Whitehead (the follow-up to Whitehead's 2019 novel, ‘The Nickel Boys’, which earned him his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.) A work of crime fiction and a family saga that takes place in Harlem between 1959 and 1964 - www.waterstones.com/book/harlem-shuffle/colson-whitehead/9780708899441
Eamonn: ‘Shackleton’ - book by Ranulph Fiennes (discover the story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand) - www.waterstones.com/book/shackleton/ranulph-fiennes/2928377066765
Afua: ‘The Other Black Girl’ - book by Zakiya Dalila Harris (described as one of the books of the year - think Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada) - www.waterstones.com/book/the-other-black-girl/zakiya-dalila-harris/9781526630377
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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.
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.
