Podcasts have been shaping the news agenda over the past week, with major stories coming from investigative reporting and being covered across the podcast industry.
The News Agents broke the story of a major data breach at the Ministry of Defence, resulting in 100,000 Afghan allies being at risk. The data breach resulted in a superinjunction, which meant that the British media could not report that the data breach had happened.
“After one of the biggest acts of incompetence ever committed by the British state, at Prime Minister's questions, not a single backbench MP thought to rise to ask him to rule out whether super injunction should ever be used in this way ever again,” said Lewis Goodall, who was at the heart of this story. “Who is going to pay the political price?” You can read about his investigation on the LBC website.
Elsewhere, chef and Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain did a revealing interview on We Need To Talk with Paul C Brunson talking about her feelings after her BBC Two cooking shows were not recommissioned: “The BBC, they'll keep you till you're of no use to them,” she told Brunson. “The second you don't fit the neat little box, there'll be no space for you. I don't fit that space anymore.”
Sticking with food, on Richard Osman and Marina Hyde’s The Rest is Entertainment, both Hyde and Osman talked about Gregg Wallace and John Torode’s departure from MasterChef and what is next for the franchise. There has been a lot of speculation about whether the BBC will air the upcoming series, which was filmed prior to the initial allegations. Osman predicts that it will be shown:
“The feeling at the BBC and the feeling at Banijay [who make the show], having talked to everyone who has been on that show, is that they would like to show it,” he said.
