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No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast

SEEN in Journalism

Journalism should be fearless - and free of favour. This podcast is about holding the line. seeninjournalism.substack.com

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60:20

No Fear No Favour: Professor Robert Winston

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2026/01/10

In this wide-ranging and candid conversation, we are joined by Professor Robert Winston — one of the UK’s most distinguished scientists and public communicators — to discuss what happens when scientific reality collides with ideology, institutional caution, and a post-truth media culture.Professor Winston reflects on the moment that effectively ended his regular BBC punditry: his 2021 appearance on Question Time, where he stated that biological sex cannot be changed. What followed, he argues, was

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55:54

No Fear, No Favour: Social Transition, Schools and...

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/11/28

Children, and their parents and siblings, are at the heart of the story about the NHS-backed Pathways puberty-blocker experiment and the media round of Helen Webberley interviews which shocked so many people. In this week’s Seen in Journalism: No Fear, No Favour, Cath Leng and Shelley Charlesworth of Transgender Trend, speak to Nicole, a mother connected to the parent network Our Duty. She describes the real-world consequences of normalising the idea of the ‘trans child’, especially when schools

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75:42

No Fear, No Favour: Episode 12, Transgender Trend

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/11/22

In this week’s episode of No Fear, No Favour, Sam and Cath sit down with two women who saw the safeguarding crisis around gender medicine long before the mainstream press dared touch it: Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, and Shelley Charlesworth, former BBC journalist turned campaigner.Transgender Trend launched in 2015 at a time when the BBC, children’s TV, and the wider media were enthusiastically platforming the idea of ‘trans children’, presenting it as benign, progressive or

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63:32

Seen in Journalism: The BBC, Gender Ideology and the...

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/11/16

In this follow-up special, Cath Leng is joined by barrister and Gay Men’s Network director Dennis Kavanagh for a frank, forensic look at what the BBC’s institutional capture by gender-identity activism has meant for lesbians, gay men, and children who would otherwise have grown up LGB.This isn’t just about editorial misjudgement - it’s about a decade of decisions that shaped public understanding, erased lesbian and gay perspectives, and failed to interrogate an ideology that was transforming

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63:06

Seen in Journalism - Episode Ten: Julie Bindel

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/11/12

In this powerful new episode, Cath and Julie Bindel revisit a forgotten moment in BBC history — the 2007 Hecklers debate — and ask whether such a programme could even be made today.Eighteen years before the Cass Review, Julie was already warning about the dangers of gender medicalisation, the erasure of women’s rights, and the capture of British institutions by an ideology that rejects evidence.Together, Cath and Julie explore:* The BBC’s recent editorial bias dossier on sex and gender* The rise of

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50:25

Seen in Journalism: The BBC, Bias and the Resignations

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/11/11

Host: Cath LengGuests: Sam Smith & Edwina Wolstencroft, both former BBC journalistsIn this special episode, Cath is joined by Sam Smith and Edwina Wolstencroft to unpack the shock resignations of BBC Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness. The discussion centres on the leaked dossier to the BBC Editorial Standards Board which alleged serious editorial failings across three areas:* The “Trump edit” in Panorama,* Coverage of the Gaza conflict, and* The BBC’s handling of sex and

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81:54

No Fear. No Favour: Rob Watson

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/11/07

Seen in Journalism’s Cath Leng sits down with community-media pioneer Rob Watson, founder of Decentered Media, to unpack one of the most urgent questions in British journalism today: who actually regulates what we read, hear, and watch - and are they doing their job?From Ofcom’s broadcast code to IPSO’s newspaper oversight, Rob traces how our media watchdogs have become tangled in bureaucracy, jargon, and ideology. Once designed to protect the public interest, these systems now seem to protect

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51:50

No Fear, No Favour: Jo Bartosch

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/11/02

We teamed up with Julia Williams from Seen in Publishing to talk to Jo Bartosch about Pornocracy - the expose of the multi-billion-dollar pornography industry that she’s written with Rob Jessel, from LGB Alliance. Jo explains how widespread acceptance of male porn consumption is causing devastating harm and has - as the authors put it ‘gripped humanity in a chokehold’. We talk about the reluctance of men to acknowledge the harm caused by the normalisation of violent and transgressive porn, the

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54:13

No Fear, No Favour: Paddy O'Gorman

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/10/19

“The Story They Wouldn’t Touch”Veteran journalist Paddy Gorman joins us to discuss on Irish media silence, self-ID, and the corruption of language‘Since when did journalists avoid something because it was toxic?” - Paddy GormanIn this new episode of No Fear, No Favour, Seen in Journalism host Cath Leng speaks with broadcaster and reporter Paddy Gorman, whose forty-year career at RTÉ made him one of Ireland’s most recognisable journalistic voices.Gorman now writes for Gript Media and contributes to

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52:05

'Inside the Brussels bubble': No Fear, No Favour

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/10/17

In this episode we talk to Faika el Nagashi, former Austrian Green MP and founder of Athena EU — a new think-tank and network of experts focused on safeguarding women’s, LGB and children’s rights across European law and policy.Faika has spent three decades inside the European NGO world, watching gender-identity ideology move quietly into EU and Council of Europe frameworks. Athena’s first report exposes how this happened — and how women’s voices have been sidelined in the process.We discuss:* The

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64:16

No fear. No favour. Episode Four: Susan Smith

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/09/29

In this week’s episode of Seen in Journalism: No Fear, No Favour, we sit down with Susan Smith of For Women Scotland to discuss the long legal and media battle over sex‑based rights in the UK.Susan takes us through the extraordinary journey from kitchen‑table activism to the UK Supreme Court, explaining how a small group of unfunded campaigners challenged the Scottish Government’s policies on gender recognition. We explore:* The landmark Supreme Court judgment in April 2025, which clarified that

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81:04

No Fear. No Favour. Episode Three: Helen Joyce

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/09/27

This week we had a fascinating conversation with Helen Joyce, a journalist and expert in media markets - and Director of Advocacy at the human rights charity Sex Matters. Formerly an editor at the Economist across a series of briefs, she wrote Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality in 2021 and has become one of the best-known and most articulate voices on the issue. In this week’s episode:* Helen’s own experience of becoming a media ‘untouchable’ after speaking out on the reality of sex * The reality

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68:00

No Fear. No Favour. Episode Two: Nick Wallis

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/09/16

Listen to former BBC staffers Cath and Jo-Anne talk to investigative journalist Nick Wallis, the man who exposed the Post Office scandal. He’s now writing a follow up book to The Great Post Office Scandal - but has also turned his gimlet eye on the capture of global institutions by gender identity ideology.Find Nick’s whistle-blowing Genderblog here - including links to his live X coverage of the Graham Linehan trialEpisode highlights include:* Why he hesitated to speak publicly at first - and what

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70:41

No fear. No favour. Our new podcast.

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/09/16

We’ve launched a new podcast: No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast.In Episode One, former BBC journalists Jo-Anne, Cath and Sam reflect on what it means to cover sex and gender issues with impartiality - and what happens when stories are quietly shelved.Topics include safeguarding, the role of editorial policy, why trust in journalism is under strain and the big stories of the week. Get full access to SEENinJournalism’s Substack at seeninjournalism.substack.com/subscribe

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68:00

No Fear. No Favour. Episode Two: Nick Wallis

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/09/16

Listen to former BBC staffers Cath and Jo-Anne talk to investigative journalist Nick Wallis, the man who exposed the Post Office scandal. He’s now writing a follow up book to The Great Post Office Scandal - but has also turned his gimlet eye on the capture of global institutions by gender identity ideology. Find Nick’s whistle-blowing Genderblog here - including links to his live X coverage of the Graham Linehan trial Thank you for listening.Relevant links: Charlie KirkRadio 4 1800 September 11

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70:41

No fear. No favour. Our new podcast.

No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast ·

2025/09/05

We’ve launched a new podcast: No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast.In Episode One, former BBC journalists Jo-Anne, Cath and Sam reflect on what it means to cover sex and gender issues with impartiality — and what happens when stories are quietly shelved.Topics today include safeguarding, the role of editorial policy, why trust in journalism is under strain and the big stories of the week. 🎧 Listen on Substack or your preferred podcast platform. Get full access to SEENinJournalism’s

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