Episodes | The Knowhow Podcast

Mar 9

Meghan, Harry and Oprah: What we learned about the royals and the media

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey this week laid bare bitter rifts at the heart of the House of...

Nov 12, 2020

Reporting Injustice Episode 5: How journalists cover missing and murdered indigenous women and girls

In today's episode, we talk to activists about missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and two spirit people and the reporters who...

Nov 5, 2020

Reporting Injustice Episode 4: Investigating the hidden story of domestic abuse by police officers

In this episode, we look at how domestic abuse by police officers often went unpunished… until Alexandra Heal from the Bureau of...

Oct 29, 2020

Reporting Injustice Episode 3: Exposing the true extent of the Grenfell Tower disaster

In this episode, we look at the Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 in which 72 people died. It was the worst residential fire in Britain since...

Oct 22, 2020

Reporting Injustice Episode 2: Uncovering racism and betrayal in the Windrush Scandal

In today's episode, we look at one of the biggest stories in the British media in the past few years – the uncovering of the Windrush...

Oct 15, 2020

Reporting Injustice Episode 1: How Bill Cosby's accusers got to tell their story

This October 16th marks the sixth anniversary of comedian Hannibal Buress’ off the cuff comment about America’s TV dad, Bill Cosby. The...

Jun 12, 2020

Life for refugees and asylum seekers during lockdown

In today’s episode we catch up with two London refugees who have had to leave the city during the COVID-19 pandemic. Abdulwahab Tahhan is...

May 12, 2020

Reporting Coronavirus - are journalists getting it right?

Confined to our homes in lockdown, we have never needed to be better informed about how a global pandemic is affecting our lives. As a...

Apr 25, 2020

Celebrities and COVID-19: what role should they play?

Since the spread of COVID-19 around the world, life as we know it has changed utterly. Most major countries have faced some kind of...

Mar 12, 2020

Robert Peston: Why I still believe in impartiality in news

The ITV political editor gives the 2020 Hugh Cudlipp Lecture A poll on Talk radio explores the perennial question of whether the BBC is...

Feb 6, 2020

Reporting Coronavirus: Dr Mark Honigsbaum on pandemics, plague and panic

In today’s episode, we talk to medical historian Mark Honigsbaum about pandemics through the ages, from the medieval Black Death to the...

Jan 31, 2020

Brexit and Broadcasters: how well did they report?

Jon Snow, Jill Rutter and Stewart Purvis among the high-profile speakers In today’s episode, we present highlights of a debate at City,...

Jan 28, 2020

Selena - one of the first Tejano music stars to go mainstream

Twenty-five years after her death, why is there still a lack of Latinx representation in US media? March 31st 1995, Pop star Selena...

Dec 10, 2019

Election Special 2019: Dorothy Byrne on trust, TV and 'unaccountable' politicians

As this year’s general election campaign draws to a close, is it true you can’t turn on a television programme without hearing from a...

Dec 5, 2019

How well do we understand Russia?

Communism, cold war and caviar. The way Russia is portrayed in the mainstream media relies heavily on these familiar stories and old...

Nov 24, 2019

Refugee Voices - ESRC Festival of Social Science

In today’s episode sponsored by the 2019 ESRC Festival of Social Science we’re fortunate to talk to two guests who have a key insight...

Oct 21, 2019

What's wrong with political correctness?

We live in an age where free speech, according to some, is increasingly at odds with political correctness. Whether it’s Donald Trump...

Oct 10, 2019

Everything I Know About… Dolly Alderton

In today’s episode we talk to Dolly Alderton, one of the most successful brand journalists working at the moment. From her weekly current...

Sep 1, 2019

Journalists Still at Risk in Myanmar

This month marks two years since the Rohingyas began a mass refugee influx into Bangladesh. The Rohingya refugee crisis continues today...

Jul 30, 2019

White people should stop trying to be Africa’s Saviour

In today’s episode we are looking at the issue of 'white saviour complex' and the way the developing world and particularly Africa has been

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