The Explanation Episodes Episode guide
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The Media Show: Trump, Zelensky and the cameras
Journalists on covering Zelensky’s White House talks with Donald Trump
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The Media Show: Interview of an AI avatar
How the AI avatar of a school shooting victim was made – and interviewed.
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The Media Show: Taiwan’s war drama tests political boundaries on screen
A fictional Chinese attack sparks debate over Taiwan’s media and censorship
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The Media Show: Is AI polluting the internet beyond repair?
“Dead internet theory” raises questions about trust, authenticity and AI’s role in news
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The Media Show: YouTubers and the migrant hotel protest
Footage from citizen journalists challenges traditional news coverage of Epping disorder
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The Media Show: A superinjunction that gagged the media
A government data leak led to press blackout. How journalists challenged the court order
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Big Tech – too big to hide from?
We find out how Big Tech companies may know more about you - than you do, with Joe Tidy.
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The Media Show: Oasis concert photo row
Photographers hit out at Oasis for limiting use of pictures from comeback gig
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Why is the Gulf Stream and AMOC so important to our climate?
AMOC ocean currents enable heat to be distributed around our planet, but could they stop?
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The Media Show: Gaza documentary controversy
Channel 4 airs Gaza film dropped by the BBC over impartiality concerns
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What Is Nato?
How has Nato's remit changed in the seven decades since its foundation?
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The Media Show: Iranian harassment of BBC journalists
“Psychology warfare” waged against staff at BBC Persian
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The Good Friday Agreement
Denis Murray shares how the Good Friday Agreement helped bring peace to Northern Ireland.
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The Media Show: Israel-Iran coverage
Challenge in reporting Iran-Israel conflict due to limited access and state restrictions
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What makes a good peace mediator?
Lyse Doucet on how peace is brokered between warring nations, with host Claire Graham.
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The Media Show: Will AI kill the advertising industry?
Meta’s plan for new tools that will let anyone make ads
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The Media Show: Can NPR survive Trump’s cuts?
CEO of US public radio sets out survival strategy
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The Media Show: NYT editor Joe Kahn, and travel presenter Simon Reeve
Journalism in a divided America and documentary storytelling in Scandinavia
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The Media Show: Full-time for Lineker at the BBC
How a social media post led to football presenter’s departure
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The Media Show: Misinformation and the India-Pakistan Standoff
How false claims have flooded social media during border tensions
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The Media Show: Tina Brown on her fight for quality journalism
Legendary magazine editor on press freedom, editorial integrity and the MAGA era
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The Media Show: Piers Morgan’s YouTube bet
Why the former tabloid journalist believes online is his future
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The Media Show: Washington leak culture
Pentagon hunt for the officials talking to journalists
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The Media Show: Britain's steel crisis and SNL’s leap across the Atlantic
Reporting the battle to save the UK’s last major steelworks
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The Media Show: Trade wars, tariffs, and Trump’s media strategy
Challenge for journalists to explain economic uncertainty
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The Media Show: What teenage boys are watching online
How the Netflix drama Adolescence has started a conversation about online influence
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The Media Show: Are pirated books powering AI?
Copyright row as authors say Meta trained its AI without their consent
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The Media Show: Investigating Michael Jackson
Dan Reed on Leaving Neverland 2 and the legal battle over Jackson’s legacy
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The Media Show: Revealing Facebook
A former Facebook executive describes life inside the company and its leadership culture
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The Media Show: Jeff Bezos' Washington Post shift
How the Amazon founder has triggered resignations at the paper he owns
