What talk radio and political podcasts covered, who held the microphone, and where the on-air agenda ran ahead of — or apart from — print. Built from diarised transcripts with voice-level speaker attribution, on the same canonical topics as the other lenses.
Every episode here is already counted in the Discourse lens — this page isolates the talk-radio & podcast share: 138 of 778 discourse items this period (17%).
Political episode volume per tracked show for Week of 31 Aug 2026, with the 12-week trend. Editorial lean from the source-orientation register.
Voice-attributed speaking time for everyone who isn't a show host, next to the gap between being talked about and being heard from. Attribution comes from the reviewed voice-reference library; unidentified speakers aren't counted.
Topics living only on the airwaves this period, and stories that surfaced on air before the written corpus caught up.
How each show framed the same topic, from per-segment framing analysis of the transcripts.
Verbatim voice-attributed turns by sitting MPs on tracked shows this period, with timestamps and playback pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts. Each speaker is confirmed manually from their voice clip.
Um well, you know, who knows? A profit is not without honor except in his own country. Um but regardless, I mean, we we are going to run into a collision, and the rest of the world is doing this. So the ACT Party has said, look, we got to pull out of Paris, um, unless Paris is prepared to change. The kinds of changes that we have in mind, if you look at a country like Uruguay, uh, they also have a…
Method & fair dealing. Quotes are diarised transcript turns attributed by voice matching and reviewed before publication. Display is limited to a short excerpt; full audio streams from the originating broadcaster and is subject to takedown suppressions.
