Hello, my name is David Ronsman and this is Talking Politics. Today we're going to look back

over the last five years of this podcast, five years of really tumultuous politics,

and we're going to look ahead to what's coming next on this podcast and on others.

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So today with me and with Helen Thompson, it's really nice that we also have someone that

regular listeners will have heard in the background many times but not often in the foreground.

Catherine Carr, our producer, who's been the producer of Talking Politics from the beginning.

And we're coming up to a milestone when nearly our 300th episode of Talking Politics.

There are more than that if you count what this podcast was before. It used to be called election.

And we just had our 20 millionth download and we thought we would just look back partly because

it's just been an incredible five years of politics and we've each picked out a couple of

clips moments from the past five years that sum up to us something about either this podcast or

the politics that we've been talking about. Helen, it's true that before we were talking politics,

we were this sort of little Cambridge University podcast called election. And you and I, we started

this in 2015 for the UK. We were just going to talk about the UK general election, which we did

for a few weeks back then. That was the Cameron Miliband election. So this was before Brexit,

before Corbin, before Trump. And you and I have been talking on this podcast about politics ever since

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