Daisy Dunn

Emily Maitlis tries too hard not to be teachery on her new podcast

The News Agents reviewed

Jon Sopel, Emily Maitlis and Lewis Goodall (Credit: Global Media) 
issue 10 September 2022

The competition between news-led podcasts is nearing boiling point. If you tuned in to The Media Show on Radio 4 last Wednesday, you’d have felt the tension between the podcasters leading the guard: Alastair Campbell of The Rest Is Politics, Jon Sopel of The News Agents, plus his executive producer, Dino Sofos, Nosheen Iqbal of the Guardian’s Today in Focus, and Adam Boulton, who has just launched a politics show with Kate McCann on Times Radio.

Kiran Moodley and Minnie Stephenson might reasonably have joined this line-up as they launch a new series of their news pod with Channel 4 this week. The Fourcast, like The News Agents (where Sopel is joined by Emily Maitlis and Lewis Goodall), will cover a mixture of geopolitics and home stories, but on a weekly basis; The News Agents is daily. Both will be accompanied by video and, in the case of The News Agents, TikTok content.

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