Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards. I hope you're all

having a great time over Christmas, getting ready for a new year, and what an epic it's going to be.

And in the meantime, as promised, a bonus for you.

This is the live rock and roll politics, the Christmas special at King's Place, which we all gathered

for shortly before Christmas. Now, we don't usually record these live shows. They, of course,

are stream live and that's it.

But because it was Christmas, great effort was, you know, speakers everywhere, mics all over the place.

We recorded it to get this one over to you. And for these Christmas specials, we kind of reflect on the year as a whole and dare to look ahead to 2024. We make our predictions both on the live stream and in the

hall. You'll get the sense of it as we go along. But there is one kind of thing I have to say

is that the mic that we

used to record was pretty hopeless of picking up the questions live in the hall.

Obviously, the ones on the live stream, I read out and you can hear them.

So you won't get some of the brilliant, brilliant audience participation that is the key to making

these live shows work. But hopefully from my responses, you will kind of get the essence of the

question. And it'll give you a feel anyway of this live show at the end of an epic year

with so much more to come in 2024. So I hope you enjoy it.

And here's to a happy new year to all and everyone in the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative.

And we're going to get together very soon in 2024. In the meantime, here's rock and roll politics live at King's Place.

Take care.

See you all soon.

Bye.

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