Show 367. Kirsty Wark - LIVE
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Kirsty Wark - LIVE
Newsnight star. Late Show legend. Celebrity Masterchef contestant...
Kirsty Wark is a gifted broadcaster and is at her charismatic and hilarious best in front of a live Edinburgh audience.
She shares stories from her phenomenal career and gives her take on the state of British and Scottish politics, as well as her experience with Gregg Wallace. This is a corker.
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SEE Matt's brand new stand-up tour 'Defying Calamity' across the UK:
January
28 Birmingham Glee Club
29 Dorking Halls
30 Northampton Royal and Derngate Theatre
February
5 Lancaster Grand Theatre
6 Brighton Corn Exchange
12 Tunbridge Wells Theatre
14 London Bloomsbury Theatre
18 Faversham The Alex
19 Maidstone Hazlitt Theatre
20 Milton Keynes The Stables
26 Canterbury The Gulbenkian
27 Bridport Electric Palace
March
1 Guildford Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
3 Buxton Opera House
4 Shrewsbury Theatre Severn
5 Isle of Wight Shanklin Theatre
6 Paignton Palace Theatre
19 Leicester Y Theatre
20 Durham Gala Theatre
25 Sunderland Fire Station
26 Alnwick Playhouse
27 Barnard Castle The Witham
April
9 Winchester Theatre Royal
15 Worcester Huntingdon Hall
16 Swansea Taliesin Arts Centre
17 Monmouth Savoy Theatre
18 London Bloomsbury Theatre
22 Cheltenham Town Hall
23 Bath Komedia
24 Swindon Arts Centre
26 Salford Lowry
28 Leeds City Varieties
29 Lincoln New Theatre Royal
30 Chorley Theatre
May
1 Chester Playhouse
7 Norwich Playhouse
8 Oxford Northwall Arts Centre
13 Plymouth Quad Theatre
14 Launceston Town Hall
15 Exeter Northcott
20 Stamford Corn Exchange
21 Chelmsford Theatre
22 Bury St Edmunds The Apex
27 Lowestoft Marina Theatre
29 Maidenhead Norden Farm
31 Nottingham Theatre Royal
June
4 Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
5 Cambridge Junction
6 Sheffield Steamworks
9 Liverpool Everyman Theatre
10 Chipping Norton Theatre
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. |
| 0:12.7 | Today's guest is Newsnight legend of so many other big shows as well, |
| 0:19.1 | but one of the best political interviewers that Britain has ever produced, |
| 0:23.4 | and she's on phenomenal form in this interview, |
| 0:26.0 | recorded live at the Edinburgh Festival, |
| 0:28.2 | and thank you to everyone who came to see me there. |
| 0:30.4 | And my stand-up show that I love doing so much there |
| 0:33.4 | is now going to tour the UK from January onwards |
| 0:36.8 | and a 51 date tour which starts in Birmingham |
| 0:40.0 | at the Glee Club, fantastic venue and then goes to the Dawking Halls, Northampton, Lancaster, |
| 0:45.6 | Grand, Brighton, Tumbridge Wells, a few nights at the Bloomsbury Theatre dotted throughout, |
| 0:50.6 | including one on Valentine's Day, Saturday the 14th of February, then Favisham, Maidstone, |
| 0:57.8 | Milton Keynes, the Stables, Canterbury, Bridport, Guilford, Buxton Opera House, Shrewsbury, |
| 1:05.5 | I don't know how to pronounce it, I'm not sure I will ever learn, at the Isle of White for the |
| 1:09.8 | first time on tour, same with Payon, Lester, Durham Gala |
| 1:13.2 | Sunderland, Annick Barnard Castle |
| 1:15.3 | the Winchester Theatre Royal |
| 1:17.1 | Worcester, Swansea, Monmouth |
| 1:19.1 | London again |
| 1:20.4 | Cheltenham, Bath, Swindon |
| 1:22.5 | Solford Lowry, lead city varieties |
| 1:24.9 | Lincoln Chorley |
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