Talk Media
Hosted by Stuart Cosgrove and Stuart and Paddy Duffy · The Big Light
4.3from 17 ratings
- 328
- Episodes
- 20
- Transcribed
- 17
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Talk Media
Broadcaster Stuart Cosgrove and guests bring you Talk Media: a forensic analysis of how the media works, and who works the media. Packed full of candid commentary and informed opinion, Talk Media features a weekly guest commentator from the worlds of journalism, entertainment and politics. Full episodes are published weekly on Wednesday evenings via our Supporters Club. Join our Supporters Club now to listen for 99p per week: thebiglight.com/talkmedia
- Publisher
- The Big Light
- Category
- news · society & culture · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Feb 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
20 of 328 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Future of the BBC, World News Day & Rented Pandas (with Andrea Baker)
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ed Sheeran Is 'Intellectually Moribund' & More (with Paddy Duffy)
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Cardiff, Scottish Schools, Rogue AI and Handsome Paul Sweeney's Promotion (with Catriona Stewart)
Inside a recent episode
Future of the BBC, World News Day & Rented Pandas (with Andrea Baker)
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yes! So are beer keller still a thing? There are quite a lot of cellar bars. Well, they're not. What the thing is, is that what a beer keller was in those days, of course, no refrigerators. So to keep beer at a cool temperature, they are like cellars that are built into small hills and places in the countryside where the temperature is kept even and keeping the beer cool. Because here we have something called which means that there's only four ingredients that go into our beer and preservatives is not one of them so you need to keep your beer cold and you need to drink your beer within six months and you can still visit these kellers um uh cellars in franconia which has one of the largest um beer walking tours where you walk, you eat and you drink visiting private breweries. […]
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- Andrea Baker
- Catriona Stewart
- Angela Haggerty
- Graham Jeffery
- David Pratt
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 13 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 93
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Questions about Talk Media
Who hosts Talk Media?
Stuart Cosgrove and Stuart and Paddy Duffy host the show. Published by The Big Light.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Talk Media take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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