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I'm going to Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you so much indeed for tuning in wherever you are around the world and indeed

around the whole of the UK. And actually, the weekly podcast has already gone out. You've already

had it. But I did semi-pledge during that podcast that I might return because we didn't have

time for your brilliant questions. The podcast was a special.

The last Edinburgh show, the 14th Edinburgh show. And so I did kind of, but I left, I was clever.

I was like a wily political leader. I did leave myself some get-out clauses and said, I might, it's not

definite, come back and do the questions. But I have reread the questions. They're so good,

I thought we've got to get them in. Now, I've had hundreds. None of you obviously were on the beach.

You were all obviously getting involved in the rock and roll politics cooperative in all

kinds of different ways. But the questions are terrific and varied and cast light on where we are.

Now, I haven't got time to read them all out, but the fact that we're doing this special

should mean there's a bit more time for the other questions when we do the regular

weekly podcast in a few days time. So that's where we are. I just thought as I'm back with you

all, I would reflect briefly, very briefly on a story that's otherwise going to quickly go away.

And in some cases, you know, it deserves

it. It's about the whole BBC thing, Emily Maitliss's observations about Robbie Gibb and his

influence in the BBC and one or two other kind of related incidents. And I only do so because actually the media does mediate politics. So although on one

level it's so incestuous when journalists talk about journalism, it is the way in which one way or

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