The Trawl

🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google | Podtail | Pocketcasts In episode five, political commentators & broadcasters (& can they call themselves podcasters now too?!) Marina Purkiss and Jemma Forte sigh and laugh and sigh some more. Our chuckling duo also find some solace in the shape of a few visceral and fact-filled voices. As Jemma points out, Britain’s basically stopped wor...

“Perhaps a nice contrast to nuclear annihilation…” Jemma ‘is back from beefa’ Forte and Marina ‘has the builders in’ Purkiss, once again scroll through Twitter, so you don’t have to. In the fourth episode of the pod they discuss former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s comments on the UK’s economic crisis, ponder little Englander Liz Truss’ latest remarks about the Welsh & Scottish leaders, and th...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google | Podtail | Pocketcasts Broadcasters and political commentators, Marina and Jemma, contemplate why the focus of the latest Conservative leadership debate appeared to be on how cheap Liz Truss’ earrings were, when simultaneously Martin Lewis was shouting into the Twittersphere about warm banks. Our hosts grapple with Labour’s stance on labour and when...

From Don’t Look Up to maximum cringe… this week political commentator Marina Purkiss and broadcaster Jemma Forte discuss the UK government’s removal of bodily autonomy from an international human rights statement (could UK abortion laws be changing?!), the Conservative leadership race including how anyone overseas can vote, and Supertanskiii’s appeal . This episode also contains clips from Andrew...

Political commentator Marina Purkiss and broadcaster Jemma Forte delve into the week in tweets. The Trawl doomscrolls Twitter so you don’t have to. Each week our hosts discuss who in politics has digitally soiled themselves and who has been excellent in no more than 280 characters. Following hot on the hells of the pilot episode, Episode 1 was recorded on Sunday 17th July 2022 during the wearying...

Here’s the pilot episode of The Trawl . Please let us know if there is anything you’d love to hear more of in future episodes by sending us some feedback over at @TheTrawlPodcast We’ll be on “all the networks” soon. For now, keep in touch by subscribing to get our emails: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thetr...