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The Media Show
BBC radio programme
The Media Show is a weekly British current affairs radio programme and podcast on BBC Radio 4 which examines the current state of the media. The first episode was broadcast at 13:30 on 1 October 2008[2] and since May 2017 has been presented by Amol Rajan, the BBC's Media Editor[3] and occasionally by Andrea Catherwood. Until February 2017, when he died, the show was usually presented by Steve Hewlett, a columnist for The Guardian newspaper and visiting Professor of Journalism and Broadcast policy at the University of Salford.[4] It has also been presented by Emma Barnett, Paddy O'Connell, Ros Atkins, Julian Worricker, Edward Stourton[5][6] and most recently Katie Razzell.
The series is seen by some as a replacement of The Message, a previous BBC Radio 4 series covering the media which was hosted by Jenni Murray and was dropped in 2008.[2][7] The Media Show is produced by Richard Hooper.[8] Previous producers have included Katy Takatsuki, Paul Waters, Simon Tillotson, Ruth Watts and Dan Hardoon.