The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

The Trawl is the podcast that dives headfirst into the political chaos, media spin, and social media absurdity of the week - so you don’t have to.

Hosted by broadcasters and political commentators, Jemma Forte and Marina Purkiss, it’s part therapy, part takedown, and always unfiltered.

Each episode, Jemma and Marina trawl through the week’s most viral tweets, jaw-dropping headlines, and rage-inducing soundbites - offering sharp analysis, dark humour, and the occasional expletive. From Westminster to world affairs, they call out hypocrisy, amplify truth, and remind you that you’re not losing your mind - just living through it.

If you’ve ever shouted at the news or laughed through the tears, The Trawl is your people.

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430 episodes
Updated Thursday
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Newest first

March 5 · 39 min
Epic Fury, Tiny Brains: Old Men With Missiles - Iran Part 1
Join Jemma and Marina who are trying to process the latest news cycle.
March 4 · 49 min
Green joy & Farage ‘Clutching at More Straws Than a Masturbating Scarecrow’. 💚
Marina and Jemma enjoy one of life’s small but deeply satisfying pleasures: Nigel Farage losing an election and immediately blaming everyone except himself.
February 27 · 40 min
Vanishing Files, BBC Blunders, Tariff Tantrums, and the Hockey Winners Who Became Losers
This week on The Trawl, Marina and Jemma sift through a news cycle that feels less like global politics and more like a lads’ WhatsApp group with state power.
February 25 · 46 min
Torching Equality & The Battle for Gorton and Denton
In this Trawl, Jemma and Marina survey the political carnage and ask: what's Reform's problem with equality?
February 24 · 46 min
A Right Royal Arrest: Busted On His Birthday
ALL CAPS were exchanged. Cushions were screamed into. Andrew has been arrested.
February 20 · 47 min
The Trawl Meets Misan Harriman
Photographer, entrepreneur & social activist Misan Harriman joins Marina and Jemma on The Trawl Meets
February 18 · 39 min
Reform’s Womb Agenda: Handmaid’s Politics & Olympic Confessions
Marina and Jemma unpack public guilt, performative remorse, and why the Winter Olympics still feels like a collection of sports invented during a long weekend in Oslo.
February 17 · 42 min
Ratcliffe’s ‘Colonising’ Claim & Labour’s Reverse Ferret
Marina and Jemma pour the champagne, light the cauldron and gather the coven because honestly, what in the hallucinogenic hell is going on?
February 13 · 44 min
WFH Hypocrisy & Bondi's Binder - A Disgraceful Display
Marina Purkiss and Jemma Forte dive headfirst into the political absurdity of the past seven days and honestly? You couldn’t script it.
February 12 · 39 min
Labour Meltdown, Out‑of‑Touch Madness & Wes Streeting Admitted What?!
This week, we start with cursed Valentine’s poetry from...Greg Wallace and a rogue “dangler", before plunging straight into the political sewer.
February 11 · 43 min
Sport Triggers MAGA, Mandelson's Makeover, and the Epstein Blackout
Olympians dare to distance themselves from Trump, Bad Bunny turns the Super Bowl halftime show into a love-soaked middle finger, and Kid Rock delivers what may be the worst miming incident in broadcast history.
February 6 · 41 min
Cheaper Pints, Poorer Children, the Student Loan Stitch‑Up & Trump’s Misogyny
Marina and Jemma wade through the moral swamp of Reform UK’s latest masterplan: cutting beer duty by keeping children in poverty - because according to them the nation’s biggest crisis is Dave paying £4.80 instead of £4.75 for his pint.
February 4 · 44 min
Melania Flop, Epstein Drop & Marina vs Reform
January nearly finished us off, and February hasn’t exactly come in with flowers
January 30 · 56 min
The Trawl Meets Stewart Lee
For many, comedian and writer, Stewart Lee, is the GOAT so Jemma and Marina were thrilled to sit down with him to chat about the state of the world
January 29 · 47 min
FASCISM VS THE ARTS: A TRAWL SPECIAL
Why do authoritarian regimes always come for artists first? And why is laughing at fascists one of the oldest forms of resistance we’ve got?
January 28 · 45 min
Chaos: ICE Murder, Burnham, and Insults
Marina and Jemma are trying very hard not to lose the actual plot while the world insists on setting it on fire.
January 23 · 46 min
Trump’s Greenland Meltdown: Europe Pushes Back
Doomscrolling so you don’t have to, because apparently we’re all collateral damage now.
January 21 · 49 min
Reform is a Tory Bin & Beckham-Gate
In this episode, Marina Purkiss and Jemma Forte are rifling through the internet’s sock drawer - separating facts from absolute tat, pairing up what still makes sense, and binning the stray underpants.
January 16 · 45 min
Greenland and Iran: Two Crises, One Familiar Pattern
In this Trawl the world lurches from crisis to farce and back again at breakneck speed.
January 15 · 49 min
Bartlett and Grok : Bad Takes And Deep Fakes
This Trawl starts with some actual good news before Marina and Jemma get it into the latest dyed in the wool Tory to join Reform.