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

Today we're going to do something different.

We're going to put on the podcast, My Live show, the most recent one in London at King's Place. It was the last

one actually I'm going to be doing before the Edinburgh Festival coming up in August. So for those

of you haven't been to these live shows, this is kind of what happens and then hopefully it'll all

make sense. I come on and make the audience give their latest predictions

on various twists and turns on political dramas, and you can find out what I asked them

at the Last King's Play Show any second. And then, like jazz, I kind of improvise about

politics and what comes into my mind that evening.

I always think these live shows really are like partly, only partly, a column on stage.

As political columnists, we would speak to the comment desk in the morning and have an idea,

and then of course, off you go.

And quite often with these shows, the ideas for what I'm going to say come in that very

morning.

So I improvise for a bit.

Then at the end, I ask the audience at the end of the first half to get into the mind of a politician

and present them at the beginning of the second half with a dilemma that politician faces.

And the audience so agile and brilliant over the years have been everybody,

from Jacob Rees-Mogg to Ruth Davidson to Ed Miliband.

In fact, it was last month.

I asked the audience to be Ruth Davidson.

And the day after, they brilliantly became Ruth Davidson as I presented them with a dilemma,

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