Show 368. Mark Pougatch
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Mark Pougatch
One of our most gifted sports broadcasters is also a massive politics nerd. Mark's usually seen anchoring ITV's coverage of England games.
But should we keep politics out of sport? Is that even possible? In this hugely entertaining and insightful interview Mark indulges his twin passions: politics and sport and explains what they can learn from each other. This is great fun. SUBSCRIBE to Mark's brilliant podcast 'How It All Played Out'
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January
28 Birmingham Glee Club
29 Dorking Halls
30 Northampton Royal/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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| 1:13.8 | Hello and welcome to the political party. |
| 1:15.9 | Today's guest is Mark Pugatch. |
| 1:21.3 | Yes, one of the most talented sports presenters, anchorman, reporters. |
| 1:24.3 | He's done it all in the world of sports broadcasting. |
| 1:27.9 | He's also a politics graduate and his podcast, which is about to have its second series, how it all played out, puts sporting issues and events and moments in a |
| 1:35.7 | socio-political and historical context. I've been a fan of Mark for a long time and obviously |
| 1:40.9 | not just as a Nottingham Forrest fan, although he's not a forest fan, |
| 1:44.8 | but obviously throughout his long career he'll have covered plenty of big moments of forest. |
| 1:48.9 | He anchors England's coverage for ITV, and that obviously puts him in a particular stratosphere, really. |
| 1:56.1 | It's the pinnacle for an English broadcaster to have that mantle, and he's phenomenal at doing it, really gets the tone right. |
| 2:03.5 | And it's so interesting to talk to him about sport in a political context |
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