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The News Meeting
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The Dagestan airport riot and who is the new US House Speaker?
36 mins; October 30, 2023
What does Saudi Arabia want and are we facing an AI election?
44 mins; October 26, 2023
What’s delaying Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza?
34 mins; October 23, 2023
Israel-Hamas war: what role can diplomacy play?
30 mins; October 19, 2023
Israel and Gaza: Blinken’s diplomacy and Netanyahu’s next move
32 mins; October 16, 2023
Israel and Gaza: what happens next?
32 mins; October 12, 2023
Israel at war
38 mins; October 09, 2023
How should we cover migration stories and why did Rishi Sunak cancel part of HS2?
34 mins; October 05, 2023
Sunak’s divided Conservatives and why do water companies want to increase bills?
33 mins; October 02, 2023
Why are six young people taking 32 countries to court and what is Suella Braverman up to?
29 mins; September 28, 2023
What’s happening with HS2 and should we celebrate Adidas’s new super-shoe?
28 mins; September 25, 2023
Are journalists too obsessed with bad news and did Rupert Murdoch make a secret deal with Prince William?
35 mins; September 21, 2023
Introducing... Trendy
6 mins; September 20, 2023
Join us for The News Meeting Live on 27th September
42 secs; September 19, 2023
The Russell Brand allegations and is climate change to blame for the Libya disaster?
36 mins; September 18, 2023
Keir Starmer on the offensive and is the UK in a recession?
29 mins; September 14, 2023
How significant are the China spy allegations and why do we struggle to care about climate stories?
28 mins; September 11, 2023
Is it right to scrutinise Volodymyr Zelensky’s marriage and should The Rolling Stones admit they’re a PR stunt?
30 mins; September 07, 2023
Bonus episode: Is the NHS “fobbing off” the mother of a girl who died of sepsis?
25 mins; September 07, 2023
Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter and how did a 13-year-old girl die needlessly in the NHS?
28 mins; September 04, 2023
Can the US and China be frenemies and is the UK still a Christian country?
30 mins; September 01, 2023
Are the British Museum thefts more than just a whodunnit and is there too much coverage of US politics?
31 mins; August 25, 2023
Bonus episode: After Prigozhin’s reported death, what now?
23 mins; August 24, 2023
Why wasn’t Lucy Letby stopped sooner and what to make of the women's World Cup final?
27 mins; August 21, 2023
Is Elon Musk “the space dictator” and why is the PSNI data leak so significant?
34 mins; August 17, 2023
Why is King Charles getting a pay rise and what’s happening in Niger?
35 mins; August 14, 2023
Leaving the ECHR and Zelda Perkins on toxic workplace culture
33 mins; August 10, 2023
What happens when you’re switched at birth and what does Rishi Sunak believe?
32 mins; August 07, 2023
Why is the latest Trump indictment so significant and who cares about wild camping?
27 mins; August 04, 2023
Why should you care about a coup in Niger and what is carbon capture?
31 mins; July 31, 2023
How do you report climate science and should UFOs ever lead the news?
34 mins; July 28, 2023
Odesa cathedral, green policies reconsidered and Cookham Wood
33 mins; July 24, 2023
Post Office scandal, Starmer benefit row, and grain deal
35 mins; July 21, 2023
European heat storm, inheritance tax, and Hollywood strikes
32 mins; July 17, 2023
El Niño, mortgage costs, and missing migrant boats
32 mins; July 14, 2023
Bonus episode: the BBC presenter and privacy
23 mins; July 11, 2023
BBC presenter suspended, NHS & big pharma, and cluster bombs
33 mins; July 10, 2023
Threads vs. Twitter, OnlyFans billboard, and Horizon membership
33 mins; July 06, 2023
France riots, Ukraine's counteroffensive, and affirmative action
32 mins; July 03, 2023
Russian infighting, Thames Water, and Nicola Bulley’s inquest
38 mins; June 30, 2023
Titanic sub, interest rate rise, and short children
30 mins; June 22, 2023
Jailed for abortion, Pacific warming and peerages
29 mins; June 15, 2023
The News Meeting Live: Trump's toilet troubles, wildfires and the allegations against Crispin Odey
32 mins; June 12, 2023
Ukraine dam explosion, Saudi sportswashing and economic policy
32 mins; June 09, 2023
MeToo in the media, Whitehall WhatsApps and deep-sea mining
31 mins; June 01, 2023
Cardiff riots, rape trials and Tina Turner
30 mins; May 26, 2023
The News Meeting Live: Immigration stats, Ron DeSantis and Zelensky’s European Tour
31 mins; May 19, 2023
Contraceptives, monarchy and Trump liable for sexual abuse
34 mins; May 12, 2023
Artificial intelligence, house building and the TV writers strike
32 mins; May 04, 2023
Sudan, the resignation of Dominic Raab and Joe Biden
25 mins; April 27, 2023
The News Meeting Live: Fox settles, Musk's rocket and the SNP
37 mins; April 20, 2023
Pentagon leaks, China’s war games and sewage dumping
30 mins; April 13, 2023
Pork fraud, Trump arrested and a lonely death
29 mins; April 06, 2023
Manchester United, Israel and treatment of asylum seekers
32 mins; March 30, 2023
Boris Johnson, Met Police report and life expectancy
34 mins; March 24, 2023
Cladding crackdown, the collapse of SVB and Xi Jinping
28 mins; March 17, 2023
Stanley Johnson’s knighthood, river rights and another Met apology
36 mins; March 09, 2023
Hancock's WhatsApps, Fox News and bird flu
26 mins; March 02, 2023
A year of war in Ukraine, the tomato shortage and cash-strapped councils
30 mins; February 23, 2023
Nicola Sturgeon, Ford cuts jobs and BBC offices raided in India
30 mins; February 16, 2023
Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Man City and BP
30 mins; February 09, 2023
Dominic Raab, Adani vs. Hindenburg and the British Army
32 mins; February 02, 2023
German tanks, Dartmoor and Chinese infrastructure
26 mins; January 27, 2023
Britishvolt, David Carrick and online harms
30 mins; January 19, 2023
Prince Harry, Brazil and the Westminster Accounts
31 mins; January 13, 2023
NHS crisis, Congress chaos and the Parthenon marbles
31 mins; January 05, 2023
Fusion breakthrough, FTX boss arrested and a corruption scandal
30 mins; December 15, 2022
German plot, ChatGPT and the World Cup
26 mins; December 09, 2022
Balenciaga, Alzheimer’s drug and protests
31 mins; December 01, 2022
World Cup, winter of discontent and a Disney hero?
32 mins; November 24, 2022
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