{"podcast":{"title":"The Two Matts","slug":"the-two-matts-1119331","podcast_index_feed_id":1119331,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/648c40140701dc00113b4626","website_url":"https://www.thenewworld.co.uk","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/648c40140701dc00113b4626/1770294289897-5eaff282-7ad4-42d1-879f-aac66a205a2c.jpeg","author":"The New World","episode_count":676,"summary":"Join The New World's Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona plus occasional guests for weekly chat on politics and media with a side of cultural stuff. A podcast in the spirit of the award-winning New World newspaper - irreverent, witty, surprising, argumentative ... and annoying all the right people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T00:17:21.288305+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-matts-1119331"},"episode":{"title":"The Two Matts Q&A: Are we journalists or activists?","slug":"the-two-matts-q-a-are-we-journalists-or-activists","published_at":"2026-03-29T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-matts-1119331/the-two-matts-q-a-are-we-journalists-or-activists","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-matts-1119331","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-new-european-podcast/episodes/the-two-matts-qa-are-we-journalists-or-activists","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/648c40140701dc00113b4626/e/69c55355c2759aa9b1b478b7/media.mp3","summary":"The Matts answer your questions in their regular Sunday Q&A show, including whether their mission to see Reform fail is blinding them to the full picture, how the war in Iran is going for Donald Trump, whether Scotland’s MSPs can hack it, whether we have a problem in discussing Muslim culture in the UK and if The Repair Shop was right to cancel Bob Monkhouse. Enjoy! Produced by Matt Withers OFFER:  Get  The New World  for just £1 for the first month. Head to  https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/2matts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"The Matts answer your questions in their regular Sunday Q&A show, including whether their mission to see Reform fail is blinding them to the full pict…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2598,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-two-matts-1119331/episodes/the-two-matts-q-a-are-we-journalists-or-activists/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-matts-1119331/the-two-matts-q-a-are-we-journalists-or-activists.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}