at ten o clock, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full roundup of the days news. first, the media show and a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. now in a minute, we re going to talk about spotify. it s the world s most popular music streaming platform. it spent close to a billion dollars on podcasting, too, but there are all sorts of different developments coming out of spotify at the moment. and its ceo has said that perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we ll try and unpack what s going on and work out what that means for making money off music streaming and off podcast, too. first of all, though, we re going to talk about the fallout from a new bbc documentary about india s prime minister narendra modi. it s on iplayer at the moment, and it explores tensions between mr modi and india s muslim minority. it also specifically looks at claims around his role in the 2002 gujarat riots,
does the government say to, you know, that article can t stand or that video you ve made can t stand? i haven t yet come to that. we aren t really getting direct communication from the government. we are a small, independent outlet. we do our work quite independently. i can t say the same for large media outlets in india. they may be hearing from the government more often, but no, we are not. having said that, there s always a sword hanging over all of us. as i said, if the government can overnight invoke emergency powers and put a bbc documentary out of circulation knowing well that this would invite global attention, even criticism, and put a bbc documentary out of circulation, knowing well that this would invite global attention, even criticism, then it s obviously significantly easier for it to censor the work of indian journalists. well, thank you very much indeed forjoining us. those of you listening on iplayer, the documentary is called india the modi question, thanks to rishi i