Ed is Joined by Charlie Eccleshare (@CDEccleshare) from The Athletic UK. They cover important topics like 90s night clubs, covering the transfer window and just how A-League is the A-League. You can hear Charlie on 'The Totally Football Show', 'The View From The Lane' and the 'Football Cliches' podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor…

Ed is joined by the best stats person in the business, Duncan Alexander aka @oilysailor. They solve football while exploring how Duncan comes up with some of unique stats. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Ed Kavalee / Bad Producer Productions

Ed speaks with Tariq Panja from the New York Times and his excellent book 'Football's Secret Trade: How the Player Transfer Market was Infiltrated' that he co-wrote with Alex Duff. They speak two year world cup, Tariq's long and storied career in football investigative journalism and an ownership model for Ed's new super league football club. One s…

'The flavour of world football' with Ed Kavalee and experts who know things and smile politely while he does a wild theory. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Ed Kavalee / Bad Producer Productions

It's a cracker episode this week as Max Rushden and Ed Kavalee recap that Andrew Durante handball during #WELvWUN This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each week in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Watch…

This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each week in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Watch this clip and let Max and Ed know what the position before the wall should be called. Two Up Top is part of the B…

This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each week in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Watch this clip and let Max and Ed know what the position before the wall should be called. Two Up Top is part of the B…

This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each week in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Watch this clip and let Max and Ed know what the position before the wall should be called. Two Up Top is part of the B…

Western Sydney Wanderers FC young gun, Daniel Wilmering joins Max Rushden & Ed Kavalee in the latest episode of Two Up Top. This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each week in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rush…

Matt Simon's picnic, Matt Derbyshire's hat-trick and Rushden's Rudy Gestede poem. This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each week in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Watch this clip and let Max and Ed kn…

"There has never been a scorpion kick assist, and the man's first name is Keanu, so deal with that!" This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each week in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Watch this clip an…

This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each work in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Watch this clip and let Max and Ed know what the position before the wall should be called. Two Up Top is part of the B…

This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each work in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Watch this clip and let Max and Ed know what the position before the wall should be called. Two Up Top is part of the B…

Football writer Jonathan Wilson joins Ed Kavalee and up and coming football tactics expert Joe Simon. The weekly video version of Rushden / Kavalee's Two Up Top can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each work in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Two Up Top is part of…

This an audio only version of the weekly video based show that can be viewed here: https://www.a-league.com.au/ Ed Kavalee works over the A-League each work in Rushden/Kavalee's Two Up Top. Rushden is the one and only Max Rushden. Two Up Top is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

As a bonus episode of BTM Hedley Thomas interviews Stephen Brook on his last day as The Australia's Media Diary columnist and host of the podcast. They discuss Brooky's 15 years at the newspaper, his time in London reporting for The Guardian, breaking the ABC Guthrie-Milne sacking, the book Stephen is writing, interviewing techniques, the state of …

Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews the veteran broadcaster of This Day Tonight, Foreign Correspondent, Dateline and 60 Minutes. George is involved in the launch of lobby group ABC Alumni to campaign for the public broadcaster, he’s also celebrating the 40th anniversary of 60 minutes. They discuss career highlights like the famous interview he d…

Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews Ed Kavalee, the TodayFM Sydney breakfast co-host, and comedian. Stephen asks if Ed can rescue the low ratings since Kyle and Jackie O left, they discuss Kavalee's wife and media personality, Tiffiny Hall. Also covered is being mentored by comedian Tony Martin and brought up through the ranks by Working Dog. Se…

Stephen Brook, The Australian’s Media Diarist interviews Ben Fordham, broadcast journalist on 2GB radio and Channel 9’s Today show. As a young radio reporter he covered the 1997 Thredbo landslide which won him a Walkley award. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By The Australian

Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews Hedley Thomas, the investigative journalist behind the record breaking true crime podcast The Teacher’s Pet, which has him fielding offers for a Hollywood adaptation.Hedley’s has taken on Prime Ministers, billionaires, and the Australian Federal Police. As a foreign correspondent he covered the collapse of com…

The Australian’s Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews Michael Rowland, co-host of ABC New Breakfast. The two engage in an ABC vs The Australian arm wrestle over the newspapers coverage of the national broadcaster. In the fallout of the Michelle Guthrie sacking, Michael was the first journalist to interview acting Managing Director, David Anderson…

It's hard to imagine the ABC without Insiders, the television show that reshaped the broadcaster's Sunday morning political programming. Host Barrie Cassidy launched Insiders 17 years ago, but plans for the program actually began in Belgium, where he sketched out a promising format with his houseguests, photographer Mike Bowers and future news dire…

Former crime reporter at The Australian Dan Box has spent the past three years covering the Bowraville murders in print, and for a podcast. He returned to Australia this month to cover the latest developments in the case, which has been referred to the High Court.He talks to media diarist Stephen Brook about the podcast that won him two Walkley awa…

Back on our screens after being diagnosed with bowel cancer two years ago, Anton Enus says the whole experience changed him as a person and a journalist. Despite being quite private Anton documented his treatment on Facebook and for SBS online, allowing himself to become the story, he said it was cathartic. Anton has been at SBS for 20 years but st…

Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews The Weekend Australian Magazine staff writer Trent Dalton, discussing the intense emotional attachment he forms with the people he’s interviewing. Dalton’s new book Boy Swallows Universe is a novel influenced by his childhood in Brisbane growing up on the wrong side of the tracks which led to his observational…

Since the 1980s, Lee has described Australia to itself via the medium of commercial television drama, working on Sons and Daughters as a writer, rewriting the first episode of Home And Away, before creating Always Greener, Packed to the Rafters and Winners & Losers.His most recent success is A Place to Call Home, which survived cancellation on Seve…

The Australian's editor-at-large, Paul Kelly, gives his account of Australia's recent political turmoil and discusses the state of press gallery journalism on this episode of Behind the Media. Also discussed: why he doesn't use social media, the time he missed out on a cadetship, and being shouted at by prime ministers. See omnystudio.com/listener …

The Northern Territory News is a tabloid paper which has grown a global reputation for it's quirky coverage of life in Australia's north. Editor Matt Williams speaks to Stephen Brook about some of the publication's outrageous cover stories, how he balances the hunger for gags with serious journalistic ambitions, purchasing croc insurance for a US P…

Helen McCabe is one of the most powerful women in media, with a resume ranging from editing the Australian Women's Weekly, time on newspaper back benches and the press gallery, to a foreign correspondent stint in London. Now she's heading up Nine's bold new digital play, Future Women. She speaks to Stephen Brook about being sacked by fax, her memor…

Facebook's head of news partnerships Campbell Brown is a serious journalist who worked at NBC, CNN and won an Emmy Award for her reporting on Hurricane Katrina in her home state of Louisiana. She speaks to The Australian's Media Diarist Stephen Brook about walking away from cable news when it became too partisan, making the move to Facebook, and ho…

Mark Schoofs heads a global team of investigative reporters for BuzzFeed News. He set up the team that has prosecuted important investigations into tennis match fixing, Russian collusion in US elections and Russian assassinations in Britain. Schoofs has one a Pulitzer for reporting on the AIDS crisis in Africa for The Village Voice, and since makin…

Stephen Brook interviews Les Hinton, who for decades was Rupert Murdoch’s right-hand man. He left News International in 2011 after the News of the World phone hacking scandal but says he was in ignorance of it. Les says what Rupert Murdoch is really like, why Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were so charismatic and remembers the time Princess Diana call…

The Sydney Morning Herald’s investigative reporter discusses getting more death threats than awards, being sued by Eddie Obeid and her reporting landing him in jail, her book getting pulped over a slight mistake and she plays a game of true or false. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Actor, comedian and author Shaun Micallef adds "promiscuity" to his list of abilities after successfully working with every major Australian tv channel. After this year's Logie Awards, Shaun told BTM he’s not overtly political or dirty and will kill a sketch if he thinks the audience is too partisan. He runs through the Adelaide Mafia of prominent …

Poolside the morning after the Logies at The Star Gold Coast, Hamish and Andy talk about their enduring partnership, Bert Newton's clanger, the difficulty in getting a new show up and selling their True Stories format around the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By The Australian

The legendary former anchor of 7:30 Report and Four Corners discusses the "punishment" behind the governments ABC cuts, how the public broadcaster must mobilise, the trick to getting a good interview, why he admires John Howard and his forthcoming book. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

International guest Richard Lloyd Parry is the Asia Editor of The Times newspaper.He’s the author of Ghosts Of The Tsunami, a book about how that disaster devastated a community in northern Japan in 2011, and People Who Eat Darkness about the disappearance of a British woman in Tokyo and the attempts by her killer to sue him for libel.Lloyd Parry h…

Zemiro is the host with the most; she’s the face of Home Delivery on ABC, RocKwiz on SBS and calls herself the midwife of Eurovision in Australia. And she's about to present All Together Now, a big budget singing show on Channel 7.Born in France, Julia went to a French school in Bondi, studied drama and did improv and was an actress before becoming…

At 34, the indefatigable Markson is the national political editor for The Daily Telegraph. She broke the news that Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce was having a love child with a former staffer, which cost him his job, and explains how the Canberra Press Gallery works. Sharri spent a year editing Cleo magazine, was media editor of The Australian, won a Walk…

A senior presence at the Nine Network's 60 Minutes, investigative journalist Ross Coulthart talks about why he is departing, and what he might to do next. The former lawyer who has worked at the ABC, Seven and Nine, is discouraged about the state of television to investigate stories, he says it lacks the sufficient budgets and attracting audiences …

Kochie discusses being a finance nerd, his career trajectory from being a junior auditor to a cadetship at The Australian and creating the format of relatable breakfast TV for Sunrise.Building things is important to the number one morning show host; being the Port Adelaide chairman, The Koch Centre for Youth and Learning in Macquarie Fields and his…

Blunden looks back over more than 40 years in journalism, including editing the Herald Sun and Adelaide Advertiser. The newspaper veteran has mellowed but still admits he can drive his staff mad over stories. A recent bout of open heart surgery led to his longest period away from work in his career, nearly two months. Being an editor and executive …

PK is the host of ABC Radio National Drive, National Wrap on ABC News 24 and The Party Room podcast. She previously hosted her own program on Sky News, was the Victorian Bureau Chief for The Australian newspaper and the political correspondent in the Canberra press gallery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The actress, producer, comedian, cook book author, tv presenter and radio broadcaster wears many hats. Perhaps best known for her role as Brooke Vandenberg on Frontline, Jane is about to return to her rock chick roots co-hosting the drive slot on Triple M with Mick Molloy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Bolt talks about retirement plans, political plans, loyalty to readers outweighing his friendship with politicians including Tony Abbott. He reveals the influence his late father-in- law had on his journalism, and also delves into losing a racial vilification court case in 2011. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Michael Ware became the voice of the Iraq war when he was based in Baghdad for Time magazine and CNN for six years from 2003. ​Here he details why such war reporting faces extinction, what motivated him to face incredible danger in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the painful price reporting took on his mental health and why Wikileaks founder Julian Assa…

Ita Buttrose is a media figure who needs no introduction. She founded Cleo magazine in the 1970s, then became editor in chief of the Australian Women's Weekly and later the Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers. She has been a magazine founder, media executive, Australian of the Year and now appears on Studio 10. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri…

​Janet Albrechtsen is an opinion columnist with The Australian who came to the paper after a career in law. She sat down with Stephen Brook to talk about the #metoo movement going too far, writing her centre right column but turning against liberal party prime ministers and the time she was called a "shanky ho" by Mark Latham. See omnystudio.com/li…

Russel Howcroft, an industry veteran who this year celebrates a decade on The Gruen Transfer, the hit ABC advertising panel show, says the dynamic has shifted among business clients coming to consultancy firm PwC to seek insights from its CMO advisory consultancy. Howcroft, who is also PwC chief creative officer, tells The Australian’s Stephen Broo…

The Chaser has been a unique part of the media landscape and at its centre has been Julian Morrow, who trained as a lawyer, negotiated the contracts with the ABC and took the frantic phone calls from management during the many crisis prompted by their infamous stunts, which included a tasteless Make A Wish Foundation sketch, the APEC security breac…