News Agents review: is Sopel and Maitlis’s podcast a ‘slick, expensive mess’?

It remains to be seen how the ex-BBC broadcasters will make use of their new editorial freedom

Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall on poster for new podcast
Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall – the team behind the new podcast
(Image credit: Global)

Former BBC heavyweights Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall have launched their highly anticipated new daily podcast The News Agents.

Lured away from the BBC by the promise of “chunkier pay packets and freedom from those pesky impartiality guidelines”, the new daily news show from three of the corporation’s starriest former employees kicked off yesterday on rival broadcaster Global, said James Marriott in The Times. The show’s launch had been trailed by a “weeks-long publicity blitz” that promised a “suave up-to-date show that would blast aside the staid, fuddy-duddy stuff on Olde-Worlde radio”.

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