Avid listeners may have noticed that the headliner wasn’t broadcast last week. Having recorded the podcast on Wednesday morning, we were at that point blissfully ignorant of the events that would play out that day.
As the tragic news unfolded that a car had driven into pedestrians on Westminster bridge, attempted to storm the Palace of Westminster (Britain’s bastion of democracy) and the assailant stabbed and killed an unarmed policeman, we like many of our fellow Londoners gathered round our television screens in shock. We took the decision that with so many facts still unknown a podcast which prides itself on media analysis and intelligence could not discuss the story in a meaningful way which paid due respect to all those affected by the tragedy.
Having had some time to process not only the actions of that day but also the vast array of opinions which followed, joining our anchor, Chloe, to discuss the impact both on the media itself and those who work with it, is Scot Devine and Lis Field.