Morning Meeting

About Morning Meeting

Welcome to Morning Meeting, where AIR MAIL’s Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey take you inside the stories people are talking about this week—and tip you off to the ones the editors are talking about for next week. We cover the people shaping your world that you want to know more about (and more often the stuff they don’t want you to know about). And we talk with friends of AIR MAIL—writers, reporters, and style-setters. So listen in every Saturday as Morning Meeting brings you what’s new and exciting from the world of AIR MAIL.

Publisher

Air Mail

Category

arts · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Sept 2020

Latest episode

1 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

96 of 273 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 268: Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the $1 Billion Lawsuit

   Stuart Heritage discusses the lawsuit involving Melania and Donald Trump, Alexandra Marshall reports on Nicolas Sarkozy's prison life, and Todd James Pierce uncovers how Julie Andrews secured her role as Mary Poppins.

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   25 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 267: The Nuns, the Masterpiece, and a Remote Canadian Island

   Alessandra Stanley examines the Trump administration's policy of rejecting Russian asylum seekers, while John von Sothen uncovers a sequestered Western art masterpiece in a remote Canadian convent in this interview episode.

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   18 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 266: From Jagger to Lennon and More—the Shop That Dressed Swinging Londoners

   Mark Rozzo discusses Granny Takes a Trip, the influential London boutique that dressed rock icons like John Lennon and Mick Jagger, while Clara Molot examines university presidents' response to White House policy pressures.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 268: Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the $1 Billion Lawsuit

Published 1 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Todd James Pierce is here to tell us all about how that classic film was made in his new book, Making Mary Poppins, The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the creation of a classic film. Welcome, Todd. Thank you very much. You know, Todd, Mary Poppins has been in the public domain for so long that we feel like it's a part of the Firmament really of American culture, but I mean, it wasn't always a sure bet that this film would get made. Take us back. What was its origin story? Yes. So, in the 1940s, Walt's interested in branching up more to live action and animated films. He does a number of these in the 1940s. […]

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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Alessandra Stanley
• John von Sothen
• Mark Rozzo
• Clara Molot
• Elena Clavarino

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

236 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

67 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

95

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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