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Feel good travel. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics

podcast in the Times I'm Matt Chorley.

With Westminster packed up for recess is the first and our series of summer specials.

Britain's political comedians and satirists are all heading for the Edinburgh Fringe and I'm delighted

to be joined by three people with very different shows.

Nick Hall brings his show Spencer, the story of Spencer Percival, the only British Prime Minister

to have been assassinated.

He asks if in this age of Brexit, Trump, Corbynista and Maybot, could we still learn

something from the past.

Jess Green's show is pretty self-explanatory, a self-help guide to being in love with

Jeremy Corbyn. She'll describe how it was impossible to resist the labour leader's

raw communist sex appeal

and Pierre Novelli's show see Novelli here Novelli speak Novelli

promises satire for people without a team.

Welcome to you all. So let's start with you Nick. Explain why with so much going on in

politics right now you decide to go to the fringe with a show about Spencer Percival. And explain

who Spencer Percival was. Of course, yes, so Spencer Percival as your introduction suggested is the only

Prime Minister ever to be assassinated.

He was killed, shot walking through at the House of Commons or the old House of Commons

as it was then.

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