66. CHRISTMAS CHEERFUL: Chatting 2018 and playing Class Struggle

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Hello! We gathered around Geoff's kitchen table, joined by some IRL friends, a copy of the board game Class Struggle and some topics to find the cheerful from this year. Hear Josie Rourke, Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse and director of the new film, "Mary, Queen of Scots", Chris Addison, comedian, writer, actor and director and David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge and host of ‘Talking Politics’ podcast seek to provide a positive take on America, Democracy, Brexit, and Culture... and find out who wins the game. It will make you feel better...promise....maybe.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by PodSaveTheUK,
0:02.8	the new weekly politics podcast with Nishkama and KokoKan.
0:06.4	We've been big fans of PodSaveAmerica for years.
0:10.5	And now, the people behind that podcast
0:13.3	bring you the same sharp, smart, funny perspective to UK politics.
0:17.8	Now, as I said at the start, the hosts and Nishkama,
0:20.6	love that guy, you'll know him from the Mashraport,
0:23.8	count the Southern TV shows and podcasts and radio programs.
0:27.6	But as well as being one of the funniest people I know,
0:30.1	he is also one of the cleverest.
0:32.0	And this is going to be the place where you get to hear
0:35.2	that big old brain, given space to soar.
0:38.6	Honestly, Nishkama's wired directly into the mainframe
0:41.8	of political news.
0:42.7	He's such an astute thinker and absolutely fearless.
0:46.4	And I was thrilled to see that he's teamed up
0:48.0	with journalist KokoKan.
0:49.6	I have really enjoyed her writing these last few years.
0:52.6	What I love about the pairing is she is not yet another
0:55.3	of the usual Westminster suspects.
0:57.3	Honestly, this is going to be funny, that's a given.
0:59.5	But he's also going to cut through the nonsense
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