Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in.

We've got a lot to cram in in our time together, but in a slightly different way, this being the height of summer.

If it's okay with all of you, we're going to have a bonus this week, which is I'm going to

take one of the episodes that have been available for those who kindly subscribe to the

Patreon version of rock and roll politics and play it to you.

There have been a whole range of different series and I'm going to pluck out one episode from,

it's going to be for the next three weeks this, three of the series.

So in a minute I'm going to introduce one from the Troublemakers series and also reflect more widely on troublemakers.

You know what I mean by troublemakers, those who stir it in politics.

I feel mixed about a lot of troublemakers.

I don't know what you feel, but I'll reflect on that in a minute.

I'm in quite a rush because we're on the move. This is very rock and roll. We're heading up to

Edinburgh. I don't mean the Royal We, by the way, my wife and I, actually. We're going via the

Lake District for a couple of days, then Newcastle,

and then up to Edinburgh for the shows which begin on Sunday, August the 13th. And for those

of you who do subscribe to the Patreon version of rock and roll politics, as I mentioned last week,

we're recording one of the shows. I think I said then.

It's massive.

It's like recording the Rolling Stones

or Madonna when she's well enough to perform.

That's closer to Madonna

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