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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the new statesman podcast. My name's Anush Shekelyan and I'm a staff writer.

And on this week's episode, I'll be speaking to George Eaton and Raphael Bear about the Newark by-election and also about Labour's recent election broadcast,

sound artist and musician Alex Kolkowski will tell us about the exponential horn,

a giant horn that he's reconstructed to create the perfect sound.

And then Helen Lewis will be speaking to Ian Steadman about Nintendo's refusal to recognize same-sex

marriage. Hello, my name is Anouchechequélion and I am a staff writer at the New Statesman standing in for Helen Lewis today to chat to Raphael Bear political editor and George Eton editor of the Staggers about the weekend politics.

So first of all I think we're going to touch on the Newark

by election which is coming up in June triggered by the Tory MP Patrick Mercer

standing down. Raff do you want to start? Well yeah the it's yeah, everyone loves a by-election for a start,

because it gives you, it's a very self-contained opportunity

to understand what real civilians actually think about politics rather

than you're dealing in abstract national poll scores. Each area has its own

sort of color and characteristics and also the limits on how much you can spend a difference so people can

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