Reflections at the Edinburgh Festival

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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4.7 • 909 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Meeting some of the members of the Rock & Roll Politics Co-operative has got me thinking, and so have the audiences at my live shows… Plus, I review some of the events and shows I've seen at the Fringe, including those in which Nicola Sturgeon and Keir Starmer were centre stage. Send your questions to steveric14@icloud.com, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to grow the Co-operative further! Tickets for Rock & Roll Politics live at the Edinburgh Festival: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/steve-richards-presents-rock-n-roll-politics Tickets for Rock & Roll Politics 'The Liz Truss Era Special' on Sept 19th at Kings Place are here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/rock-n-roll-politics-6/ The Patreon version of the podcast is here: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.
0:33.2	Thank you so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the west of the world.
0:39.7	The west of the world, the whole world.
0:42.1	Maybe I can't pronounce my ars.
0:43.7	I've been doing too many impersonations of Roy Jenkins.
0:47.2	Anyway, look, thank you so much.
0:48.7	And as ever, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together.
0:53.0	In a moment, if it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect on
0:57.1	what's been happening at the Edinburgh Festival from my perspective, very narrow perspective.
1:02.9	It seems as if the whole world's here. And then some brilliant questions from you on a whole
1:08.6	range of topics. So yeah, what a lot to cram in. Before that,
1:14.1	just a reminder, I'm here. I'm doing this podcast from Edinburgh. Performances all this coming
1:19.5	week until the last one's on Saturday, that bank holiday weekend Saturday. So hope to see you there.
1:27.2	Then going down to the brilliant legendary
1:29.0	beyond borders festival, which is a traquare house on the borders. Just a unique and wonderful
1:37.5	festival. Busy, busy times with so much going on and no doubt for all of you, unless you're on
1:43.9	holiday and listening
1:44.8	to this on a beach. I don't usually get emails from people saying, oh, I'm listening to your
1:49.2	podcast on a beach doing bugger all, but listening. It's usually walking, running, rowing, cooking,
1:56.5	you know the sort of thing. The link to get tickets for those shows, different one every day.
2:01.4	I'll be talking about them in a minute anyway. We'll be with the blurb for this podcast.
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