of its coverage. now, emily is not able to join us on this edition, but we will hear from jon sopel. we re also going to hear from deano sophos, the man behind this new podcast, someone the times has called the new prince of podcasts. deano, good to have you on the programme. that s quite a title to live up to. thanks, ros. yeah, well, it s nice to, nice to talk to you. yeah, it s look, it was a lovely piece and a shock to have a profile in the times. but, you know, ithink what i did at the bbc in terms of launching brexitcast, which was our first hit podcast, and then americast withjon and emily and then the daily newscast. i mean, overthe time i was there at the bbc, they accrued 85 million downloads. so i think what i created at the bbc was successful and has enabled us to launch what we re doing here on the news agents. and just quickly, you re sitting here, you werejust explaining before we came on air, you are just signing off your second episode. give us a 30 second sp
time in a week. the lift off of the giant rocket was postponed after the discovery of a much larger fuel leak, than the one that prevented the first launch. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome to this week s the media show. now, we re going to talk about news podcasts this week. there s been a very high profile launch. it s called the news agents. it s from global, and it s presented byjon sopel and emily maitlis, both big figures at the bbc before they left to set this up. emily maitlis has also been in the news because she gave a mactaggart lecture in which she raised concerns about how the bbc is approaching some parts of its coverage. now, emily is not able to join us on this edition, but we will hear from jon sopel we re also going to hear from deano sophos, the man behind this new podcast, someone the times has called the new prince of podcasts. deano, good to have you on the programme. that s quite a title to live up to. thanks, ros. yeah, well, it s nic
showers breaking out, a bit hit and miss. downpours and towards south west england and wales as the afternoon goes on. all of that fading northwards overnight and into tuesday morning, or you can see a pushing into northern ireland during monday evening. it won t be a wash out, but rain and showers in places. when the other times, too. slowly turning a little truer and less humid. windy at other times, too. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. police investigating the murder of nine year old olivia pratt korbel in liverpool last month have arrested two men, one of them on suspicion of murder. the conservative leadership favourite, liz truss, pledges immediate action on energy bills during her first week in office, if she becomes prime minister. ukrainian families close to europe s largest nuclear power plant say they re living in fear despite the arrival of un monitors. donald trump calls president biden an enemy of the state at his first rally since the fbi searc
buried in moscow, this afternoon. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome to this week s the media show. now, we re going to talk about news podcasts this week. there s been a very high profile launch. it s called the news agents. it s from global, and it s presented byjon sopel and emily maitlis, both big figures at the bbc before they left to set this up. emily maitlis has also been in the news because she gave a mactaggart lecture in which she raised concerns about how the bbc is approaching some parts of its coverage. now, emily is not able to join us on this edition, but we will hear from jon sopel. we re also going to hear from deano sophos, the man behind this new podcast, someone the times has called the new prince of podcasts. deano, good to have you on the programme. that s quite a title to live up to. thanks, ros. yeah, well, it s nice to, nice to talk to you. yeah, it s look, it was a lovely piece and a shock to have a profile in the times. but, you kno
Of reassurance directly to the government itself. adam, i m sure you followed all of this very closely. was emily right? well, matt chorley rather cruelly commented, anyone would think she had a new podcast to promote. i have to say that there seems to be a bit of an issue for people leaving the bbc about getting their own voice back, as we heard also said by someone who s gone over to global. it s not something i ve experienced. i haven t really worked for the bbc for a long time. when i did work for the external service, i didn t have any problem in getting my voice back. i ve never had any problem at sky or anywhere else, and i don t anticipate it at times radio talk tv. alastair, actually, was the first person who raised this issue in a rather more sophisticated way, talking about moral equivalence, that, you know, if you get both sides of an argument, then when you present them, each one appears to have equal value. my own.