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Hello, welcome to the Red Box podcast.

I'm Matt Shirley with the best of my Times radio show,

Monday to Thursday, 10 till 1.

I had a lot of fun on the show today, including playing political top trumps after my producer Emma

found some 2007 party conference top trumps which we played live on air but there's

been loads of stuff around in the news this week about politics and comedy the BBC

saying that they might scrap lefty comedy panel shows but who better to speak to

about politics and comedy and the comedy of politics.

Then a comedian who ran for parliament himself, Al Murray,

the, he's a comedian, podcaster,

historian, drummer, and of course best known as the beer-swilling

patriots of the pub landlord.

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