This week Stuart is in conversation with Laura Webster, editor of The National. ‘The BBC under attack as Trump Threatens a Billion Dollar Lawsuit’ and ‘Listener Questions for Laura.’ artwork
Talk Media

This week Stuart is in conversation with Laura Webster, editor of The National. ‘The BBC under attack as Trump Threatens a Billion Dollar Lawsuit’ and ‘Listener Questions for Laura.’

  • S8E295
  • 1:05:10
  • November 17th 2025

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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
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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
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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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