No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast

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...

Children, and their parents and siblings, are at the heart of the story about the NHS-backed Pathway s 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 des...

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 m...

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,...

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....

Host: Cath Leng Guests: Sam Smith & Edwina Wolstencroft, both former BBC journalists In 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 ar...

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,...

We teamed up with Julia Williams from Seen in Publishing to talk to Jo Bartosch about Pornocrac y - 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 reluctanc...

“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 Gorman In 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...

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...

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 g...

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 o...

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...

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 wee...

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...

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 t...