Media Storm - ARIA Awards and a new series of Media Storm

Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm just looking at Tilda's face and just start laughing again. Oh, have we got a story for you? Have we got a story for you? Okay, the reason that we're laughing, and we've opened this little bonus content by laughing, is because we won the silver award for the best speech presenters at the arias. And we were second to women. hour, which has been on the air since

Starting point is 00:00:32 1946. And the other people you know, nominated Manfine Rana who got bronze for Stories of Our Times podcast, which is obviously huge. BBC Radio London, BBC Radio 5 Live, Jess Phillips MP and yeah, we clinch that silver. Who are we? So silly.

Starting point is 00:00:56 No, we deserved it. You know what? Maybe we did deserve it. It was actually, I was sitting there just thinking, I can't believe I'm here on merit. I don't think I've ever had such severe imposter syndrome. And then also, you're talking about the people that were there, like Annie Mack, Emma Barnett, Greg James, Scott Mills, Vanessa Feltz, more on that later. We ran into Jess Phillips in the Lou after and she congratulated us. We said we just felt completely shell-shocked. We didn't understand what, what the process had been behind the scenes that ended up with us being on that board.

Starting point is 00:01:34 And she said, you know, you cannot have imposter syndrome. Tony Blair apparently said on air, he had no idea what imposter syndrome felt like he had never experienced imposter syndrome in his life. The interviewer said, oh, do you ever experience imposter syndrome? And he said, what's that? Can you imagine? Yeah, it was just an absolutely amazing night and I'm really proud of us. We do struggle a bit on the, um,

Starting point is 00:02:00 photography front on the red carpet front. Helen, I basically had to push me onto the red carpet and then we just can't figure out our height difference. If anyone has ideas about how to pose as a pair when I'm about twice as tall as a head

Starting point is 00:02:12 Yes, okay. If anybody has any ideas for posing with someone who is 5-1 and 5. How tall are you? 9. 5-9! That's actually ridiculous. You know, it was 5-9 and a half,

Starting point is 00:02:25 but then I broke my back in now I'm 5-9. This may be the only time I ever say this but i'm so glad you broke your back great i will go back and tell my 21-year-old self don't worry helena's going to be happy because imagine that half an inch would just make everything so much worse yeah we really haven't figured out our posing star i mean i banned matilda from wearing heels higher than two inches for the aria's not a good look for me it didn't really make uh that much of a difference it's still a ridiculous height difference tilde looks like a beam pole so tips please for posing with

Starting point is 00:02:58 vast height differences that don't involve me squatting on the red carpet. Well, I was thinking maybe you could take your shoes off and put them on your knees. Great idea. Problem solved. Okay. At the ceremony, we also, we watched all the other rewards, of course, and we heard about and met some absolutely amazing people. So, you know, we just wanted to give a little shout out some of the people we met and some

Starting point is 00:03:23 things that we're going to listen to now and have listened to and we really hope that you will all listen to as well. We had a really good dance with an incredible author. She's called Kate Rawson. I think this is her first professional commission of a radio and she won Best Fictional Storytelling for her

Starting point is 00:03:42 piece little blue lines which was based on her own experience of miscarriage but it's funny listening. She's just from speaking to her in person you just know that that is going to be such a beautiful and such a memorable listen. But also in that category was the old man in the boat which

Starting point is 00:03:58 if you have kids, it's something you have to go and listen to because the team behind that is they were also wonderful and, you know, a lot of fun on the dance floor, which is apparently my criteria for listening recommendations. We also nominated on our own for best dressed. And best dressed and most important ethos, we are voices podcast. And I actually have come across this network before the Voices Network, which is part of the Red Cross, British Red Cross, I believe. Because when, as I may have talked about before on the podcast, I helped set up an organisation called Refugee Media Centre, which is about promoting refugee voices in the news, we were directed instantly to connect with voices who are a group of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, equipped to represent that issue in the press as experts through lived experience. If you want to hear that immigration story told right, then that is definitely one to go to. hopefully they'll give you some style tips while you're there because oh my god they looked they looked sensational amazing um we also hung out with the amazing team from mag's creative

Starting point is 00:05:05 who you know really just like a great young fresh kind of team who are creating original audio content and they want big right they have a podcast called life sentence which is about the climate crisis if you want to learn more about the climate crisis then that's something to head to. Yeah, we're all about outsiders from the mainstream coming in and sweeping some of these awards. So we were pretty excited about that win. Now, of course, sadly, the one person I didn't meet was the one and only Vanessa Feltz. And the reason that I'm talking about this is because my mum was texting me all night. Like, I swear she didn't even really care that I was nominated. It was more like, have you met Vanessa Felt? You did meet Rylan though. I did meet Rylan. And, you know,

Starting point is 00:05:49 we did talk about some poor media coverage to do with Ryland back on the episode about drugs and the way the mainstream media reports on drugs. I didn't tell him that. I just told him he was a very good host, which he was. Speaking of white lines, his teeth, oh my God, I was like I had a religious experience. I'd seen the light. His teeth were absolutely stunning. He was rattling through the awards, like, please can we just get at the after?

Starting point is 00:06:19 party. He did very, very well to keep it all going. I mean, that guy is, uh, you know, I mean, I already said he was a natural treasure back on the other episode, but he's also, um, a comedy legend. There I said it. Um, okay, well, look, we are actually, you know, we had such great time and we are just so happy. It is shell shocking, but it is really, really humbling to have this recognition for Media Storm after just a few months. We are so passionate about what we're trying to do here, and it's great to think that that might be resonating. And, you know, we set up Media Storm to try to counter the imbalance in who is being

Starting point is 00:06:59 platformed by the mainstream media, because certain minority groups, they find themselves time and again caught in the eye of the media storm, and they're spoken about, but they're so rarely spoken to. Their lives and their rights, and sometimes their very existence, as we've heard, I'll put up for debates. We're trying to reframe how lived experience is valued in journalism as a source of expertise and not just anecdote or emotion to re-centre debates around the people who actually have to live with their consequences. So thank you to the RIS and thank you to all of you who have listened for supporting us in that goal and being part of that project. I know we want for

Starting point is 00:07:43 best speech presenters, but it's all about the people we're interviewing. Our voices are just an accessory to theirs, to everyone who's come on Media Storm, spread their lived experience and told their stories. Our voices are nothing without them. On that note, we have another little announcement. Oh, yes. Yes. Which is that we have a season two in the works and we will be back on your feeds in June on Thursdays again with main episodes every other Thursday. It's going to be a six-month run. So we have a lot of amazing topics lined up for you with some bonus content in the in-between weeks. Helena, what are some of those topics? We're going to be looking at the climate crisis. We're going to be looking at ageism and the intersection

Starting point is 00:08:32 between ageism and sexism. We're going to be looking at Pollyamory, which we're so excited about. We're going to be looking at abortion, which is very relevant right now, as we're recording this episode. We are going to be looking at radicalisation and how that happens. We're going to have some fairly controversial topics, which we're going to have to pitch to you in full of detail when the time comes. And I'll give you one more to work with. We're going to be working with some members of the traveller community for one of our special investigations. So make sure that you tune in in June every Thursday. We're so excited, and so if you have any ideas of people we should be speaking to

Starting point is 00:09:14 or groups or minorities that we should be talking to, please get in touch. We're at MediaStormPod on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. Yes, we made a TikTok. We're going to be making more. Matilda, get your head out of your hands. We are going to be making more. TikTokTilda is in the universe now. Make sure you follow and subscribe MediaStorm for series two coming away next month.

Starting point is 00:09:37 Thanks for listening. You know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to see. You know, I'm going to be able to be. Thank you.

Media Storm - ARIA Awards and a new series of Media Storm

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