Gladiators fans... here's Dan Baldwin of Hungry Bear Media confirming to me and Katie Razzall that there's a celebrity series coming. And saying he'd love to bring Blind Date back -with Claudia Winkleman at the helm. All from this week's 60-minute edition of The Media Show.

AFP is one of the biggest news agencies. I asked its Global News Director, Phil Chetwynd, if AFP would consider Kensington Palace a trusted source, after the edited photo of the Princess of Wales & her children. 'Absolutely not' was the reply. Here's the exchange on BBC Radio 4.

On this week's Radio 4 Media Show we spoke to the photo journalists covering (and playing a role in) the Princess of Wales picture story.

They were frank about what they've learned.

'You're really going to embarrass yourself if you do anything on this' - the Post Office PR tactics according to Nick Wallis

'The Post Office, robustly defending its position was a big reason why this story did not get away.'

Katie Razzall is joined by Journalists Ian Hislop, Nick Wallis and others debate why it took a TV drama for a huge injustice to get the headline it deserved.

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Travelling home from work yesterday, BBC Radio 4 in my ears, this was a joy to listen to 🥰

Thanks to Meera Syal for being our guest on The Media Show this week. In this clip, we hear how a Sunday school trip to a pantomime in Stoke had a huge impact. The full 30-minute interview here on BBC Sounds. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Thanks Ros Atkins for hosting - for all its faults, the BBC is still one of the news organizations prepared to ask tough questions about its own coverage. Also reminder - CPJ says 17 journalists so far killed in the conflict cpj.org/2023/10/journa…

Daniel Kaluuya shares a brilliant story about how he wrote his first place at nine years old.

Daniel spoke to Kirsty Young as part of Radio 4’s new podcast Young Again as we find out what he would say to his younger self, knowing what he knows now.

Young Again with Kirsty Young…

How the Levi’s laundrette ad ended up being God’s gift to boxer short sales. (H/T Ros Atkins)
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Loved hearing this. It's the story of the Levi's ad with Nick Kamen. And how an intervention by the advertising authorities led to sales of boxer shorts going through the roof. As told to me by Sir John Hegarty for The Media Show. Full episode on BBC Radio 4 later.

Emma Tucker has done an incredible job of keeping this story front and center. Fascinating interview on The Media Show.

The phone call every editor dreads.... Tomorrow The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will have spent 100 days in a Russian jail. His editor Emma Tucker joined me on The Media Show to reveal what the WSJ is doing to help him and the chilling impact his arrest has had on journalism

📻🇬🇧 Intervention ce soir dans « The Media Show » sur ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩. Au programme : les émeutes en France et le travail pour le moins compliqué des journalistes sur le terrain. Thanks ⁦Katie Razzall⁩ !

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Where did the idea for #BlackMirror come from? Charlie Brooker

The media and covid. Listen to Clare Wilson John Sudworth and myself talk to Ros Atkins about origins, masks, science and uncertainty in The Media Show (repeated tonight) on BBC Radio 4

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Vishal on BBC Sounds is the most important podcast of the year. Do listen - Colin Campbell is trying to bring justice in a 40 year old cold case. Colin talks about the backstory and the tip-off from detective Shaun Keep on The Media Show with Katie Razzall -  bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Fascinating to watch on The Media Show the detective Shaun Keep and the journalist Colin Campbell tell Katie Razzall why they teamed up to make the new BBC crime podcast, Vishal.  Watch on iPlayer bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… or listen here bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Vishal is such a brilliant podcast series from the BBC. After 40 years, Colin and the team have unearthed some extraordinary leads that the police are resisting acting upon properly. It is an in-depth story told from the family's perspective with such compassion and care

When the FBI raided the home of alleged Pentagon leaker, Jack Teixeira, journalist Haley Willis was already outside. How she and Aric Toler chased their own leads to get there is a riveting story. Podcast bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… or watch bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Katie Razzall