Media Storm Podcast

20/09/2023

SERIES 1:

1. Eldorado - Why do refugees ‘love’ the UK? – with Steve Ali
https://podfollow.com/1592553644/episode/42e2329f4b80f6fa64fcadcce3a06ca012ed7e11/view

2. Pandemic of hate: We need to talk about anti-Asian abuse - with Zing Tsjeng and Hussein Kesvani
https://podfollow.com/media-storm/episode/05f4e18b4c275fbcdfa6e89e153fb6970813d12f/view

3. R**e Justice: What happens to the 98%? - with Leyla Hussein and Gina Martin https://podfollow.com/media-storm/episode/57fa2857b148e8deb66ef600ececd493ef66b3db/view

4. Transgender healthcare: A waiting game - with Laura Blake and Shivani Dave https://podfollow.com/media-storm/episode/f530389a03152150559817a3bbe49d9ae4d2458d/view

5. Criminal Justice - Does prison work - with The Secret Barrister and Paula Harriot
https://podfollow.com/media-storm/episode/f326467552b06efe4f5aa0bc031d48e2ad49bbcd/view

6. Fatphobia: Healthcare by size - with Stephanie Yeboah and Essie Dennis
https://podfollow.com/media-storm/episode/8bfb2da112441aa24405fcdd470e0fbff2bfd176/view

7. Homelessness : The hidden figures – with Kai Samra
https://podfollow.com/media-storm/episode/cbf1f17227cc08bfe254ce60978b017265a264b7/view

8. The UK’s war on drugs: Politics and prohibition – with Niamh Eastwood and Juan Fernandez
https://podfollow.com/media-storm/episode/58ca0b4594ca17da3acd687336dd4cf05f5df86b/view

9. S*x Workers: Ignored and under threat - with Niki Adams
https://podfollow.com/media-storm/episode/14838aa706f319b236c8e80568d8151a2a2dbaad/view

10. Ableism enabled: The loopholes in Equality Law - with Jumoke Abdullahi and Ellen Jones
https://podfollow.com/media-storm/episode/68f177989e9ee24afb851883f67efc53957a5f4a/view

12/12/2022

POD BIBLE LISTENER POLLS 2022 - You can vote for Media Storm!

Media Storm has been nominated for best NEWS & INVESTIGATION podcast in the Pod Bible Listener Polls - and you can vote for us! 👇👇👇

Welcome to the Pod Bible Listener Polls for 2022, the only end of year podcast awards voted for exclusively by you, the listener! Each nominee across our eig

12/12/2022

AHHH! Media Storm has been nominated at the Signal Awards - and YOU can vote for us!

If you listen to & love Media Storm, please vote for us here in the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion category 💜 an inclusive audio world is so important to us and this would mean a lot! Vote 👇

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

01/09/2022

Our new episode about HPV in men & how the media reports on STIs is out now:

Where fact-checking meets fun, reporting meets road-trip and the mainstream media meets its match, Media Storm is a news podcast that starts with the people who are normally asked last. "Migrants", "criminals" and "s*x workers" are some of the biggest stars in the headlines, yet we rarely actually h...

25/07/2022

We are so overwhelmed, excited and proud to have won Best Current Affairs Podcast at the British Podcast Awards.

To be nominated against huge podcasts by household names was prize enough - to win makes us so happy that our mission to put marginalised groups back at the centre of their stories is being recognised.

Thank you everyone has listened so far 🙏

23/06/2022

We are so excited to have been nominated for Best Current Affairs Podcast at the !

Thank you for recognising our work to centre marginalised lived experience voices in current affairs.

23/06/2022

🌩 SERIES 2 EPISODE 1 OUT NOW 🌩

👉 Gender Health Gaps: The true cost of chronic UTI

🗣 With Athena Lamnisos from the Eve Appeal, and Dr Christine Ekechi

🎙 Listen here!: https://spoti.fi/3brnRao

11/05/2022

🚨 SURVEY ALERT - For people with chronic UTIs 🚨

We are investigating how much money people are having to spend on treating chronic UTI themselves

Please fill out this short, anonymous survey! Supported by Bladder Health UK

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRbx0E6zOVvg1eozTN6D5-jkHxX7Y3ktD4ku9kHp699ZIG0A/viewform

Anonymous survey to calculate how much people affected by chronic UTIs in the UK are spending on treating themselves. This does NOT include expenses covered by the NHS, only those carried by individuals. Your answers need only be estimates.

06/05/2022

We are so over the moon to have won the Silver Award at the . This means a huge amount to our little podcast, as we continue our mission to counter the imbalance on who is being platformed in the mainstream media and reframe how lived experience is valued in journalism.

Congrats to all the winners & nominees! We’re still recovering from the afterparty… 🥂

06/04/2022

We are so excited to announce that Media Storm co-hosts Mathilda Mallinson & Helena Wadia have been nominated for Best Speech Presenter at the .

Honoured to be nominated alongside some radio greats - see you at the awards! 🏆

24/03/2022

🌩 EPISODE 10 OUT NOW 🌩

Ableism enabled: The loopholes in Equality Law

Our amazing studio guests this week are:

Ellen Jones () is a consultant and strategist who works to build equity and inclusion for disabled and LGBT+ people. She was named Stonewall Young Campaigner of the Year and one of London’s most influential people by the London Evening Standard.

Jumoke Abdullahi () is co-host of the TRIPLE CRIPPLES podcast (which you HAVE to listen to!) - it was created to increase the visibility of disabled women, femmes and non-binary people of colour. She’s also a writer, lecturer, consultant and travel blogger.

We discuss the mainstream media’s coverage of disability, and how the Covid-19 pandemic cast an uncomfortable light on society’s valuation of disabled people’s lives.

🎙Wherever you get your podcasts!

15/03/2022

🌩 EPISODE 9 OUT NOW 🌩

Online or offline, the stigma that comes with being a s*x worker is pervasive. But s*x work is not just stigmatised - it's criminalised. Laws that ban certain aspects of s*x work force people into unsafe, unregulated environments, where they become even more vulnerable.

This week, Media Storm heads to Bristol, where strip clubs face being outlawed by the council - in similar scenes to Chester, Swansea, and Blackpool. Critics of strip clubs seem to blame s*x workers for contributing to gender inequality, yet our data research showed otherwise.

Media Storm meets workers in the s*xual entertainment industry from Bristol S*x Workers Collective and more who feel unheard and stuck in a limbo, following them to the S*x/Work Strike by and .britain in Leicester Square on .

Niki Adams from the English Collective of Prostitutes joins us in the studio to talk about decades advocating for full decriminalisation, and the common conflation of s*x trafficking and s*x work in the media.

🎨: Simba Baylon

02/03/2022

Demand for many of the most illegal drugs, like co***ne, is largely driven by white, wealthy buyers. But when you look at the demographic breakdown of those imprisoned for meeting that demand, the discrepancy is uncomfortable.

In Media Storm's latest episode, a county lines dealer tells us about life in the illicit drugs trade. How did he get into it? Who are his clients? Does he feel any guilt? Is he afraid?

All this and more, wherever you get your podcasts.

Full episode: https://spoti.fi/3vxNzBT

25/02/2022

🌩 EPISODE 8 OUT NOW 🌩

The UK’s War on Drugs: Politics and Prohibition - with Niamh Eastwood () and Juan Fernandez ()

“Drugs tragedy”, “drug crime”, “drug fears” - all tabloid staples.

But are drugs the problem? Or is it in fact the war on drugs?

This week, Media Storm speaks to people who buy and sell illegal drugs. We uncover the true depths of drug culture in the UK and the impact of a 50-year war that has ravished marginalised communities, with analysis from Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy (.lammy) and Dr Kojo Koram ().

🎙 Wherever you get your podcasts

21/02/2022

What does the mainstream media get wrong when reporting on homelessness?

🗣 Filmmaker Paul Atherton, who has lived experience of homelessness, shares some tips:

👉 Never ever use the otherising term “the homeless”

👉 Let people experiencing homelessness speak for themselves: less CEO’s of anti-homeless charities and more lived experience!

👉 Be more creative with imagery so as not to prop up stereotypes: homelessness is not just rough-sleeping!

👉 Point to systemic failings rather than exaggerating individual ones

🎙 Hear more: https://spoti.fi/3IadL9b

16/02/2022

£2.6 billion per year.

That’s how much it could cost the government if 225,000 renters - currently in arrears due to Covid-19 - lose their homes. The Big Issue crunched these numbers to show PREVENTING homelessness saves money in the long term.

It’s also just humane, says reporter Liam Geraghty.

Learn more about the crisis knocking on your door, and the true scale of hidden on the latest episode of Media Storm.

Homelessness: The Hidden Figures – with Kai Samra
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3535i9i
Apple: https://apple.co/3rTR1oe
Acast: https://bit.ly/3Jy9RaE

14/02/2022

It sure is creative, the myriad of ways countries have sought to criminalise homelessness. From trespassing and begging laws, to administrative requirements for permanent addresses, even hostile infrastructure like spikes on flat surfaces—many places around the world bend over backwards to keep homelessness out of sight.

One of Media Storm’s guests this week, Chase Archer Evans - an expert on homelessness by firsthand experience - says this is the first barrier to actually fixing anything.

👉 Learn more on Media Storm Episode 7 "Homelessness: The Hidden Figures": https://spoti.fi/3oLOtXa

13/02/2022

🌩 EPISODE 7 Homelessness: The hidden figures OUT NOW 🌩

🗣 With Kai Samra

Official homelessness statistics are a fraction of the numbers that charities claim to exist. So where are the hidden figures? They’re behind closed doors: couch surfing, in hostels, sleeping in cafes and on night buses.

So if so much of homelessness isn’t reflected in the data, how can we create accurate solutions?

And are we trying to eradicate homelessness - or just keep it out of sight?

🎙 Wherever you get your podcasts 🎙

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06/02/2022

CW: Eating Disorders

“There's some kind of ingrained sense [in society] that restriction is morally good. And resting, or putting on any weight, or eating, or indulging in any way, is morally reprehensible somehow.” - Essie Dennis

Listen to Essie Dennis and Stephanie Yeboah talk about fatphobia, body image, and intersectionality on Media Storm’s bonus episode OUT NOW!

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3gsGYA2
Apple: https://apple.co/35J5E56
Acast: https://bit.ly/34qzafA

31/01/2022

The point where Mathilda realises we're all meant to feel bad about having hips 🤔

Episode 6 "Fatphobia: Healthcare by Size" is out now, with special guests Stephanie Yeboah and Essie Dennis!

Apple: https://apple.co/3oeaA8r
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3s7yF1Q
Acast: https://bit.ly/3ucWV5r

18/01/2022

🎧 Episode 5 - Criminal Justice: Does Prison Work? 🎧

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has announced tougher sentencing powers for magistrates in the sweeping Police, Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Bill that projects the UK will have 20,000 more people behind bars by 2026.

Will this deter people from committing crimes? Or will stuffing more people into over-capacity prisons only make things worse?

Lisa Brooks has lived experience of both crime and prison. Her answer is clear. Hear more wherever you get your podcasts.

13/01/2022

💥 EPISODE 5 DROPS TODAY: Criminal Justice - Does Prison Work?💥

Plans to lock up 20,000 new prisoners, a Home Secretary who wants criminals to ‘literally feel terror’, and the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe...
This is the UK’s ‘tough on crime’ mantle, and a political battleground fought all over the world. Media outlets vilify ‘thugs’ and ‘criminals’, while politicians auction for the ‘law and order’ vote. But with no clear correlation between incarceration and crime rates, are we keeping people safe, or just keeping them scared?

This week, your hosts sit down with The Secret Barrister and former prisoner Paula Harriott to talk all things crime - from prisons to Prince Andrew - after heading behind bars to answer one simple question: does prison work?

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12/01/2022

🌩 Here’s what’s coming up in the next few weeks on Media Storm, from the house The Guilty Feminist Podcast 🌩

NEW EPISODE OUT TOMORROW: Behind Bars: Does prison work?

Find it wherever you get your podcasts 🎙🎧

08/01/2022

✏️ RESOURCE LIST: Trans Rights

Transgender and gender nonconforming people often have their basic human rights put up for debate in mainstream media broadsheets and TV channels. In Episode 4 of Media Storm, we seek to counter the 'both sides' narrative - the fodder for profitable culture wars - and speak directly to those caught in the eye of the media storm.

Here, we provide tips for journalists when reporting on the lives of trans+ people: on lived experience, pronouns and false balance.

We also suggest media to watch, read and consume that comes directly from these minority voices, and suggest actions you can take such as donating or campaigning to .

07/01/2022

✏️ RESOURCE LIST: Survivors

On Episode 3 of Media Storm, we investigated justice for victims of r**e & s*xual assault. With less than 2% of r**e cases making it to conviction, what happens to the 98%?

We also spoke about the importance of hearing directly from survivors and victims. Here are suggestions of what to watch, read, do and follow that place survivors at the centre of the narrative.

If you are a journalist, the final side has tips on how to more sensitively and accurately report on s*xual violence.

05/01/2022

🚨Are you plus-size and have endometriosis?🚨

You could help us with our next investigation by filling out this short survey on diagnosis times!

It is anonymous & should only take a couple of mins!

https://forms.gle/1Enj31CVyHpXxGGa9

This is a survey for those who are plus size, have endometriosis, and live in the UK. The results will be used on Episode 6 of the podcast Media Storm. It is anonymous and we do not see or store your email addresses.

03/01/2022

RESOURCE LIST:

On Episode 2 of Media Storm, we spoke about what the media can do to report on Asian communities more accurately and sensitively (Listen here: apple.co/3FPpk4l)

Here are suggestions of what to Watch, Read and Do - plus who to Follow and some advice for Journalists when reporting.

(Ps. Yes we know Drop The Dead Panda is a listen, not a watch, but there wasn’t a slide for that and we just had to include it)

Please like & share!

29/12/2021

RESOURCE LIST: Refugees & asylum seekers

📝 Over the next few weeks we will be posting resource lists, created after each of our episodes.

📺 These include suggestions of media to watch, read and consume that come directly from minority voices.

💪 There are also suggestions of actions you can take such as donating or campaigning, if listening to our podcast has spurred you on in the fight for equality!

📰 We also offer advice to journalists - the dos and don’ts when reporting on these minority groups.

Please like, comment & share!

16/12/2021

🚨 Episode 4 is out now! 🚨

Transgender healthcare: A waiting game

The mainstream media might have us all thinking changing genders is a piece of cake - that hormones are being readily prescribed and surgeries booked in swiftly. But with people waiting years for the first ever appointment - that's simply not the case. Cancellations, discrimination and semi-decade long waiting lists - this is the reality for transgender and gender diverse people. NHS England’s Gender Identity Development Service are currently seeing people referred in 2018. For other clinics, it’s 2017. Media Storm investigates the lack of healthcare for trans people, finds out what it’s like to be stuck in the waiting game, and sits down with The Good Law Project, who are taking the NHS to court. We’re joined in the studio by (she/her) and (they/them), to discuss the mainstream media’s depiction of transgender and non-binary people, plus look at some of the week’s headlines on banning conversion therapy.

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10/12/2021

Media Storm featured in the The Guardian’s Best Podcasts of the Week! 👇👇👇👇👇

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/10/best-podcasts-of-the-week-michael-caine-reveals-his-all-time-heroes

The actor’s slick series is packed with heroic true stories from Erin Brockovich to the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion. Plus: a movie-length new podcast starring Kate Mara and Adam Scott