Oh, sorry i got my facts wrong well, ok, so youre really getting used to it. How do you go about setting up an interview . I mean, do people come to you . Do you approach them . How does it work . Its i mean, its an endlessly changing field. 50 sometimes there is a certain circuit of interviews coming in which follows the Book Publishing circuit, so publishers will have their big titles that they want to present. There are certain kind of political cycles, big films again, there is a kind of, there is a Movie Production Cycle but lots of it is a mixture of people who might be about to do Something Interesting that they want to talk about. Theres no particular rhyme nor reason to it, really. Do you prefer the ones im saying this slightly with my Culture Editor Hat on at bbc news, that my heart slightly sinks when its a junket, which we call them, you know, in terms of, you know, somebody s got something to promote and youre going to meet them does your heart slightly sink at that point
I got my facts wrong well, ok, so youre really getting used to it. How do you go about setting up an interview . I mean, do people come to you . Do you approach them . How does it work . Its. I mean, its an endlessly changing field. 50 sometimes there is a certain circuit of interviews coming in which follows the Book Publishing circuit. So publishers will have their big titles that they want to present. There are certain kind of political cycles, big films. Again, there is a kind of, there is a movie production cycle, but lots of it is a mixture of people who might be about to do Something Interesting that they want to talk about. Theres no particular rhyme nor reason to it, really. Do you prefer the ones. Im saying this slightly with my Culture Editor Hat on at bbc news, that my heart slightly sinks when its a junket, which we call them, you know, in terms of, you know, somebody s got something to promote and youre going to meet them. Does your heart slightly sink at that point . And
The cass review, as its called, came out last week, and it recommends a new approach for clinicians. This is a Polarising Subject for some people. So, what mightjournalism do differently in how it covers it . Hannah barnes is a former bbc producer who investigated some of the uks gender Identity Services for the corporations newsnight programme. She went on to write a book about it. I asked her when she first started her investigation. First came across it at all in 2017. I was off on my first Maternity Leave and there was a piece in the times Byjanice Turner Which was talking about this really rapid increase in the referrals of Teenage Girls to gids the gender Identity Development service and she had spoken to two clinicians who worked at the service. It wasnt really a Big Sort Of Whistle blowy piece but they had talked to her and said what theyd seen and itjust i thought it was very interesting, but i was off and, you know, spending time with my baby. And there was also a documentary
the production company podot. also with us is lewis goodall from the news agents podcast and tony pastor, the man behind goalhanger, which is the podcast production company he set up with gary lineker and makes all sorts of hit podcasts, including the rest is history, the rest is politics. there s something very intimate about listening to a podcast i mean, in many ways, a bit like radio where people have their headphones on, they re cooking, they re commuting, they re walking the dog and they get very, very close to the people in theirears. they develop a relationship with the people they re listening to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this and it s just one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to
have their headphones on, they re cooking, they re commuting, they re walking the dog and they get very, very close to the people in their ears. they develop a relationship with the people they re listening to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers which attracts younger, well educated listeners . given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to, and i wanted to open up to everyone f