Show 285 - *Anas Sarwar - LIVE at the Edinburgh Festival*
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The Political Party
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The charismatic (and cheeky) leader of Scottish Labour returns to the Political Party to boss Matt about again. Anas continues to be hilarious and profound in equal measur and speaks movingly about Scotland's role in the Empire, Labour politicians on picket lines and what becomes the major topic of discussion: Comic Con and the awful things he saw there. Best enjoyed with a big bag of jelly peaches. (It'll make sense).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's episode features Anna Sawa and this was recorded |
| 0:15.2 | live at the Edinburgh Festival in front of another full house. The last two obviously have |
| 0:20.1 | been recorded there, Gordon Brown at the McEwan Hall and then Anna's at the wonderful debating |
| 0:24.9 | hall in the Gilder Balloon and the next episode will be recorded there with Joanna Sherry. |
| 0:29.6 | That's on Monday the 22nd of August at 2pm obviously I'm at the Edinburgh Festival for the |
| 0:34.1 | whole run doing my comedy show Clowns to the left of me, Joke is the right in the evening at |
| 0:38.3 | 8pm at the Pleasants Courtyard and thank you so much to all of you who've been. It's already been |
| 0:43.7 | the most enjoyable Edinburgh Festival I've ever had. I usually get a show ready for Edinburgh |
| 0:48.4 | and then tour it. I've done it the other way around this year and effectively that's right |
| 0:52.0 | a whole new show anyway. So if you've already seen it earlier in the tour it's now completely |
| 0:58.9 | different. In fact it's even changed since the start of the festival quite a lot which is just |
| 1:02.5 | great fun obviously with everything that's going on with the tour leadership contest and the issues |
| 1:06.5 | that will continually affect the Labour Party and everything that's happening in Scotland. |
| 1:10.2 | It's just been a wonderful experience so thank you if you've come along and yes the guests want to |
| 1:16.1 | return to London which I announced on the Gordon Brown which mine would. I mean the messages I've |
| 1:23.9 | had about that obviously people get in touch about every episode with their own thoughts and some |
| 1:29.2 | of the message me directly I get emails to political party podcast at gmail.com I've |
| 1:34.9 | forgot it and obviously on Twitter. I mean I can't remember the last time I had this many messages. |
| 1:39.8 | It may well have broken the record. I mean it was just a very very special one so if you haven't |
| 1:45.0 | listened to the Gordon Brown one yet what are you mucking about that. So the next few guests |
| 1:49.5 | on the 22nd of August as I said Joanna Cherry and that will be live at the Edinburgh Festival |
| 1:54.4 | at the Guild of Balloon and then once we're back in London here we go and some of these I don't |
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