The Interface

Tom Germain, Karen Hao, Nicky Woolf

podcast.support@bbc.co.uk

For verified host and producer emails, sign up to view.

Booking Overview

The Interface is a fast, no-jargon briefing on how major tech shifts are reshaping society, politics, and everyday life. It’s especially useful for PR professionals because it explains the “why it matters” behind tech developments in a way that’s easy to pitch and tailor to public-impact narratives.

Metrics

Episodes: 19

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

podcast.support@bbc.co.uk

For verified host and producer emails, sign up to view.

Host

Tom Germain - BBC journalist focused on technology and its societal impact, known for explaining complex tech developments clearly and accessibly for general audiences. (Host presence indicated in show descripti...

Karen Hao - BBC journalist and technology writer specializing in AI and how emerging tech affects people, institutions, and culture. Frequently covers AI policy, ethics, and real-world consequences in plain la...

Nicky Woolf - BBC journalist covering technology stories with emphasis on how platforms, media systems, and digital ecosystems influence society and power dynamics. Presents topics with a mix of clarity and wit....

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Journalists or public-facing tech experts who can interpret major tech/platform or AI developments for broad audiences (e.g., senior reporting experience, specialization in tech policy/AI ethics/platforms).
Required Achievements:  
Published investigative or beat reporting on technology and its societal effects, Established expertise in AI, platforms, misinformation/political media, or tech regulation

Recent Guest Discussions

Brandy Zadrozny - Screenless/assistant Computing Implications; Content Clipping Economy And Political Influence; Synthetic Respondents And Ai-driven Polling/opinion Modeling

Recent Topics

Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Platforms, Ethics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Interface
:

Why is AI burying my CV?

June 11, 2026

This week on The Interface: is AI quietly sending your CV to the graveyard?Karen starts with the growing role of AI in hiring and why it may be far more powerful, and more worrying, than most jobseekers realise. Automated hiring systems are now used across large parts of the labour market, and Stanford researchers say a handful of dominant models are creating an “algorithmic monoculture”, where the same software can shape outcomes across multiple employers. Their recent study of more than 4 m...

What goes on in TikTok's Farlands?

June 04, 2026

This week on The Interface: the horrifying world of the TikTok Farlands.Tom and Nicky head deep into the TikTok Farlands - the semi‑mythical place you supposedly reach if you scroll too far, too late, until your feed stops looking normal and starts serving up surreal, eerie and deeply unhinged videos. The name comes from Minecraft’s Far Lands, the glitched edge of the map where the world used to break apart, and TikTok users have borrowed it to describe the “end of the algorithm”: a strange z...

Can Pope Leo save us from AI?

May 28, 2026

Google is changing up its search engine. At its recent developer conference, among a host of new AI tools, it announced the biggest changes to Google Search in its history. What will we see now? An intelligent search box. Longer text predictions. More answers to search queries instead of a list of websites. But if Google keeps us inside the answer box, with fewer clicks and fewer website visits, this could potentially break the economic model of the modern web. How will this change the Intern...

Get your clients booked on top podcasts

Try us risk free with a FREE 3 days trial.

Start Your Free Trial

Join hundreds of PR teams using Podseeker to pitch and land bookings