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

Thank you very much for tuning in, you are around the world and as usual we

have got so much to cram in during our time together loads to reflect on brilliant questions

yeah by the end of it will have made sense of it all and some of you will have cooked bread and

run all over the place.

But anyway, thank you for tuning in. I'm going to reflect on a few things in a moment.

Then we will turn to your questions which cover just about every element of the wild, stormy

times that we're living through. Before all of that, if it's okay with you, I'll just

mention a few things that I'll be doing live in the coming days, live at the Derby Book Festival

this coming Friday, talking about the book, the prime ministers we never had, and drawing some topical parallels

when reflecting on those prime ministers we never had. That will be fun. I think David Lammy's on

just before, so that will be, yeah, I wonder what future holds for him. Anyway, that's a wholly

peripheral thought. Then on Saturday, Anyway, that's a wholly peripheral thought.

Then on Saturday, yeah, it's rock and roll politics, the Barnard Castle special,

live at the Witham Art Centre, right next to Spec Savers in Barnard Castle, I'm told.

And, yeah, that one isn't being streamed, so it's going to be a one-off. We need to get

together for that one. I will reflect on the person who made Barnard Castle famous, but in ways that

will surprise the audience, I think. That's, for those of you who don't know, which is none of you,

Dominic Cummings, but there'll be a lot more,

I mean, it's such a fascinating time to be doing a live show. So that's on Saturday. If you are in

the North East, make a weekend of it. I know quite a few people who plan to do just that.

A friend told me it's impossible to get accommodation. It's like kind of Madonna at the O2 or something.

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