Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you very much indeed for tuning in.

And we've got a lot to get through in our time together because, well, a lot has happened.

And we've got loads more of your brilliant questions.

Before all of that, my reflections on some of the bizarre things going on, thank you those who

attended the show at Greenwich Theatre on Saturday. It was great. First time the theatre had reopened

for a live show with an audience, socially distance audience, for I think it was six months. So it was kind of

great sense of excitement really. Nothing to do with me, just that the thing was opening. And it was

good to see people in an audience again. I've done three now in the space of, oh, in a space of seven

days. And it felt great. I mean, it's weird because the theatres

don't know whether they're going to be allowed to stay open. Some in the audience are a bit wary,

although I have to say, the three places I went to, which was King's Place in the main hall,

the rope tackle art centre in Shoreham, which is one of my

favourite smaller venues and the Greenwich Theatre. They've all done incredible work to make sure

it's to use the term COVID safe. The social distancing was very cleverly regulated.

Masks were warm, which of course is weird for the audience and for me looking out into,

I got an email from someone I've known since I was one month old and he said I was putting my hand.

I had no idea he was in the audience, didn't recognize him with a mask on anyway.

It's all weird, but they really went

out of their way to make everything safe. And so I hope people who did go felt vindicated by going

and say, forget about me and what I did. Although it was great. For those of you who weren't there

and who didn't listen to the live streaming from King's Place,

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