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Play for Today relaunch, diversity in advertising, streaming consolidation, Bettany Hughes and Treasures of the World

Play for Today relaunch, diversity in advertising, streaming consolidation, Bettany Hughes and Treasures of the World

Update: 2025-10-29
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Katie Razzall and guests discuss some of this week's media stories including:
The relaunch of the drama series Play for Today by Channel 5 with actors Anita Dobson and Nigel Havers who star in one of the new productions and Graham Kibble-White Head of TV & Radio at The Telegraph.
After Reform MP Sarah Pochin complained about adverts being "full" of black and Asian people we look at representation in UK advertising with Dino Myers-Lamptey, Founder, The Barber Shop and Sara Denby, Director, Oxford Future of Marketing Initiative, Oxford University.
We discuss consolidation in the streaming industry and ask what it could mean for producers and views with the CEO of Curve Media Camilla Lewis and historian Professor Bettany Hughes tells us about founding her production company Sandstone Global and her new TV series Treasures of the World.

Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Content Producer: Lucy Wai

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Play for Today relaunch, diversity in advertising, streaming consolidation, Bettany Hughes and Treasures of the World

Play for Today relaunch, diversity in advertising, streaming consolidation, Bettany Hughes and Treasures of the World

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