Hello and welcome to the political party.

Today's guest is Lisa Nandi, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sports.

Lisa's been on a few times over the years.

This is the first time since she's been a cabinet minister.

And this is a brilliant chat.

Lots of banter in it.

Lots of serious stuff as well about AI, sport.

Her love of Britney Spears, her love of Peroni.

So we've got lots of insight into Lisa as a person as well as the Secretary of State.

But also that view from within government about how Labor effectively kind of convinces the public.

It's not just about, I think, because Lisa mounts a pretty impassioned defense of some of the stuff that Labor is doing, but just that way of getting that across to the public and heading off that twin threat of the Greens to the left and reform to the right. It's a fascinating interview. The next live show is on Monday the 20th of April with the Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. I've never interviewed Shabana before, so I can't wait for that. It's always fascinating when you get someone on for the first time, particularly someone who's obviously really grown in prominence quite quickly in the last year and a half.

Then on the 11th of May, my guest is Lewis Goodall star of the newsagents and LBC.

You can also get tickets to the last couple of my Matt Ford Focus Group shows on Radio 4.

If you just sign up, if you click the link in the blurb, and sign up to the mailing list, and you can get free audience tickets to come and see that. And my stand-up tour continues nationwide in Winchester on the 9th of April, going all over Worcester, Swansea, Monmouth. A few nights at the London Bloomsbury Theatre at one on the 18th of April, one on the 16th of May,

and I'm doing Cheltenham Bath, Swindon.

Now I've added extra nights at the Solford-Lowry, the lead city variety, the Birmingham Glee

and Norden Farming Maidenhead, because all those have sold out.

So also I'm doing the Nottingham Theatre Royal on the 31st of May.

Portsmouth have added. Oh, another night at Norwich because that first one sold out. York, Glasgow, Glee,

Aberdeen Lemon Tree, Bristol, 1532, Basingstoke, the Haymarket and the Bedford Quarry. So I'm coming to places near you

all across the country.

So go to matford.com for all your tickets to all those things.

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