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podcast | Creator of the BBC’s Brexitcast, Newscast & Americast | dino@persephonica.com

London / Sheffieldpersephonica.comJoined January 2009

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🚨🚨🚨 Excited to announce my production company

@persephonica

will be making an ambitious new podcast with

@Global

, hosted by

and @BBCJonSopel. Can't wait to be reunited with these broadcasting legends as exec producer on this milestone moment for podcasting. More soon!

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2016: “Brexit will make your lives better!” 2023: “cheese sandwich?? Someone’s doing well!!”

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Please, for the love of god, tell me this isn't the official poster. CLSORDTRD?!

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A particularly great episode of

‎The News Agents: NatCon: fruitcakes, fringe, or future of the Tory Party? on Apple Podcasts

today, going behind the scenes at NatCon.

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‎Show The News Agents, Ep NatCon: fruitcakes, fringe, or future of the Tory Party? - 16 May 2023

“We ended up buying this shit from non-dom, publicly educated people, with German wives, trying to get German passports.”

on the lies that propped up the Brexit campaign. Listen on

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What makes a podcast influential?

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Full blog post here.

nickfthilton.medium.com

Are legacy publishers really the most influential voices in podcasting?

Really interesting blog from

@nickfthilton

on what makes podcasts influential. And I'm biased, but he's bang on the money here...

22 years today since what was definitely one of my most, erm, interesting days in work. It comes around quicker every year.

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“We’re always asking politicians to be more honest… and Jacob Rees-Mogg accidentally told the truth.”

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on the Tory MP’s gerrymandering confession/slip up… Listen on

Rent outside London passes £1,000 for first time, figures show

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Estate agent Hamptons says monthly rent outside of London has exceeded £1000 per month for the first time. Nearly 8% up on a year earlier. 25% more than before Covid. Meanwhile they say annual London rental growth was 17.2%. £2,200 per month.

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Tenants in Great Britain now typically paying 25% more than they were at the start of Covid pandemic, according to dataBusiness live – latest updates

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Does

think Labour should return the whip to Dianne Abbott? Listen to

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Ahead of the 1997 election, Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair flew to Australia to “neutralise the right-wing press” (Rupert Murdoch). Does Keir Starmer need to do the same thing if he has a chance of becoming PM?

@campbellclaret

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🚨 Christmas has come early for Anti-growth Coalition and New Elite members:

meets

@RestIsPolitics

Full episode here: 🎧 pod.fo/e/17c39d

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Alastair Campbell’s interview survival tool? A wanker switch. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @campbellclaret

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is making his News Agents debut, chatting with

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about being a wanker, Keir Starmer, and the state of British politics... Coming to

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I fear this may qualify as podultery …. But when you have a book out it seems only natural to spread a little love on the UK’s second most popular podcast with ⁦

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This is what British politics has come to.

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Politics UK

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| NEW: Suella Braverman has told the National Conservatism conference that Keir Starmer cannot define a woman, and therefore shouldn't be ruled out "from running to be Labour's first female Prime Minister"

ah yes, the main road between Sheffield and Manchester, two of England's biggest cities

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Turkish media suggesting neither Erdogan nor Kilicdaroglu have likely reached 50%. So we’re looking at a run off. #Turkey2023

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After he canceled his Iowa rally, Trump calls in to the ‘Reawaken America’ QAnon rally tonight and tells Michael Flynn that he will be bringing him back in his next Administration.

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This interview between

@lewis_goodall

@jessphillips

was so good that I was probably this close 🤏 to being run over a few times on the streets of Manali, so absorbed was I 😅 #newsagents #jessphillips

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The News Agents

The Information Action Ratio

May 12

“The state is literally colluding with traffickers - the Illegal Migration Bill helps traffickers.” @jessphillips on Home Sec. Suella Braverman “not understanding” the system she's in charge of that is also "putting more women in danger." Coming to @GlobalPlayer

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This crowd for Arctic Monkeys in Argentina is crazy 🤯

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‎The News Agents: Ukraine: a war without end? on Apple Podcasts

May 13

“Who’s in charge of the boil wash for those Y fronts” is the line of the evening from Mel Giedroyc.

Dan Wootton, "Isn't the solution to winning the next election to return Boris Johnson to the leadership?" Priti Patel, "He is an electoral asset.. People are saying, Bring Back Boris.. In my view Boris would win us the next election." Conservative Democratic Organisation Q&A

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Whoever does the BBC Weather website needs to look out of the fucking window. It ain't this lads.

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My sister sent me this photo of a menu she saw on holiday and I'm crying.

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NEW: Weekend

Today eyes of Europe on Liverpool for #Eurovision2023 But it’s only there because the war still rages. So we ask, 443 days in, as 🇺🇦 counter-offensive begins, what is the state of play? Is this a frozen war, once more?

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‎Show The News Agents, Ep Ukraine: a war without end? - 12 May 2023

If you get chance, listen to

with

. It's brilliant!

“The state is literally colluding with traffickers - the Illegal Migration Bill helps traffickers.”

@jessphillips

on Home Sec. Suella Braverman “not understanding” the system she's in charge of that is also "putting more women in danger." Coming to

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Why isn’t President Zelensky allowed to address Eurovision - of which, Ukraine are the current victors? Listen on

Zelensky barred from addressing Eurovision millions

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Good to join

and

to discuss police reform, housing, and London's economy post-Brexit on one of my favourite podcasts

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“I was speechless, gobsmacked.” Does @SadiqKhan believe the Met Police’s claim they misplaced over 1000 pages of information pertaining to the murder of Daniel Morgan in a locked cabinet? Coming to @GlobalPlayer

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Yet another corker from

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NEW: Latest @TheNewsAgents -Daniel Morgan and the Met files which have mysteriously been found -The CNN Trump townhall -The irate Speaker Hoyle and the EU regs shredding which wasn’t Listen now podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the

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Nick Ferrari, "Any water company chief executive who continues to allows their company to put raw sewage into the water should go to jail for five years.. Put them behind bars, it will be solved overnight." #BBCQT Helen Whately's expression at the end..

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WATCH: Sparks fly as Alastair Campbell and Alex Phillips clash on the future of Brexit #Newsnight | bbc.in/2Ps915G

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Exclusive 🚨 President Zelensky has been blocked by the BBC and other broadcasters from addressing the world at the Eurovision Song Contest. Organisers feared his address to millions of viewers would politicise the contest. ✍🏻⁦

@alexfarber

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President Zelensky has admitted he would have preferred the Eurovision Song Contest to have been hosted in a country bordering Ukraine so that citizens of the war-torn country could attend

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insane moments in british politics

May 11

The sweat patches are the biggest Ofcom breach for me.

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Nigel Farage concludes his GB News show with a bizarre dance (2023)

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NEW: Latest

-Daniel Morgan and the Met files which have mysteriously been found -The CNN Trump townhall -The irate Speaker Hoyle and the EU regs shredding which wasn’t Listen now

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‎The News Agents: Met corruption and Britain’s biggest unsolved crime on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The News Agents, Ep Met corruption and Britain’s biggest unsolved crime - 11 May 2023

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Today is publication day! Thanks to all my colleagues over the last 25+ years including the presenters who deliver the goods:

Paxman

Listen to content by Rob Burley.

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Just so I’m SURE I’m understanding this clip properly… having four black people on one panel is “woke”? When are we going to start calling a spade a spade and properly dissecting what this kind of language means and implies?

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GB News

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'There are a lot of people who think the programme [Loose Women] has gone very very woke… it’s not just ITV, the BBC is worse, and Channel 4 is probably the worst out of all of them!'. Former Loose Women panellist Carol McGiffin chats to Dan Wootton about 'woke ideals' at ITV.

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"An Alabama senator said 'it makes me want to vote for Trump twice'." "He's always the victim!" Emily and Lewis analyse the 'common denominator' after Donald Trump was found to have sexually abused a woman by an NYC jury. Listen on