Talk Media
276 episodes Last Updated: Jun 04, 25
Broadcaster Stuart Cosgrove and Professor Eamonn O’Neill host Talk Media: a forensic analysis of how the media works, and who works the media. Packed full of candid commentary and informed opinion, Talk Media features a weekly guest commentator from the worlds of journalism, entertainment and politics.
Hour-long episodes are published weekly on Wednesday evenings via Patreon. Join now to listen for 99p per week (+ VAT): patreon.com.talkmedia
Episodes
Jun 04, 2025
‘Organised Crime Reporting’, ‘Forget Independence, Prepare for War’ and ‘Gerry Adams wins Libel Case’
Here's the first topic from today's Talk Media Episode.
To hear the full hour long podcast, go to www.patreon.com/talkmedia
Here's the first topic from today's Talk Media Episode.
To hear the full hour long podcast, go to www.patreon.com/talkmedia
May 21, 2025
‘The UK makes a fishy deal’, ‘Lineker leaves the BBC’ and ‘Who actually took that photograph?’
Here's the first topic from today's Talk Media Episode.
To hear the full hour long podcast, go to www.patreon.com/talkmedia
Here's a 20 min listen to this week's Talk Media. To hear the full 3 topics, Listener questions and recommendations, go to
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Apr 16, 2025
The Media under a Global Threat - Part 2 Ukraine
This week, in the second of our series of deep dives, we are talking about Ukraine with Talk Media pal David Pratt.
We are really grateful to David for bringing his real life experiences and insights to the podcast and listeners.
This podcast was recorded in advance of release.
We've taken this opportunity to welcome Talk Media regular David Pratt in to the studio to record this 2 part series starting with Palestine.
With Trump taking up so much of the news space, this gives us a chance to do a deep dive into this horrific conflict that seems to have dropped down the news cycle.
A huge thanks to David for taking the time to come in and give us the benefit of his experience and expertise.
Part 2 Ukraine will be available next week.
This week we've gone for 2 topics and 7 listener questions. Get the kettle on!
We made the 6 part podcast Hunting The Whisky Bandits with BBC Disclosure. Check itnout here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029kxz
Mar 27, 2025
https://pod.co/talk-media/farewell-to-nicola-bbc-news-head-leaves-the-building-and-us-defend-signal-leaks
The boys are in great form this week as they chat through the topics that hit their media radar.
Listener questions from Lorraine Kerr, Roger Hyam and Thomas Devlin.
This week the boys are on good form as they chew over the week's topics.
Listener questions come from Alex MacDonald and Kevin Rinchey.
Apologies for not getting the shout out for questions earlier. If you want to submit a question for the boys, please fire us a question in by 2pm on a Wednesday in the comments areas or messaging areas of Patreon and we will do our best to get it discussed.
To hear the full episode, go to www.patreon.com/talkmedia
This week the dynamic duo return to talk the week's big media stories with listener questions from Iain Campbell, Gordon Cuthbertson, Alex MacDonald and Michael Mackinnon.