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Sounds. Hello and welcome to your radical questions. This is where on a Monday I put your questions

to one of our magnificent radical guests. This is your chance to engage very directly with them,

with the super smart, interesting people that we have on this podcast and ask them about their ideas,

radical and otherwise, for the future. And we had some super radical ideas on Thursday's

episode with the very, very distinguished Yale professor, political scientist and author

Elen Lonmore. She's been making the case for politics without politicians on our main

episode, and she's now going to answer your questions.

I should say it's called Politics Without Politicians, the case for Citizen Rule.

That's the name of her latest book, which is just out.

And my very strong impression from our radical listeners, from you listening right now, is that your citizens who would quite like wielding power given half the chance.

Elen, are you feeling ready for some radical questions?

I'm ready, I'm all.

Here we go. Right, here's the first question.

And this I believe is from, oh, it's from Gareth.

Hello, my name is Gareth Morgan.

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