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com. So this episode is politics.com. That's the rest is politics. So this episode is brought to you I'm delighted to say by the National Theatre.

Well did you know Roy the National Theatre has its own

streaming platform called the National Theatre at home? I did not because I

absolutely love the National Theatre, one of my favorite things in Britain, so that's terrific.

I'm actually going to be able to watch it from my sofa.

I'm not going to have to trek out to a theatre.

Well, you know, I both love going to theatre.

In fact, I'm seeing two plays this week.

Well, that was a musical.

I saw standing at the sky's edge, which is brilliant,

and then Friday, Fiano and I going to see Nye with Michael Sheen.

I've seen some brilliant stuff by the national recently.

Been some amazing collaboration so this is really exciting and of course this is

also true that it's a great way of getting access to live in London or if

you're traveling or if tickets aren't available so

really exciting. They've got some big names on there already. Sir Ian McKellen

who's born in Burnley by the way, Phoebe Wallerbridge, Papa Essie Do, and they add new plays every month.

So at the moment you can watch Kin, which is about a family's move from Yemen to Palestine in the 1930s,

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