Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
Based on his live one-man show Rock & Roll Politics, the broadcaster and author Steve Richards takes a weekly behind-the-scenes tour of UK politics and the media that shapes the way we view the epic political dramas. The future is ridiculously unpredictable and the past is so easy to misread. Subscribe to your weekly guide through seismic times.
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The State Is Back In Fashion
In this episode: The coronavirus means all fashionable assumptions are turned on their head. We turn to the state to come to our rescue after decades in the UK when big government and public spending were seen as a threat...but even so B Johnson's...
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The Virus becomes political and the Budget chan...
In the latest episode of Rock N Roll Politics I conclude I was wrong a week ago in suggesting that the virus would not become political...and a Tory Chancellor contradicts his predecessors and media orthodoxy by arguing that higher spending boosts...
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The New Political Landscape
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
Boris, Brexit and a Hung Parliament
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
B Johnson becomes PM
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
Series 2- Episode 2
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics-th...
Tory Leadership Special
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Steve Richards presents Rock N Roll Politics
Brexit- When Character Determines What Happens Next
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Rock N Roll Politics
Moving Closer to the Cliff's Edge
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The Cliff's Edge Part 4
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The Cliff's Edge Part 3
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Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
The Cliff's Edge Part Two
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Episode 18
Brexit -The Cliff's Edge Part 1
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Rock N Roll Politics Episode 16
George Osborne, Polly Toynbee and BBC assumptions
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Rock N Roll Politics Episode 15
Brexit and the 'betrayal' narrative
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Rock N Roll Politics-- Episode 14
Boris Johnson' and the Prime Ministers We Never Had
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Rock N Roll Politics- Episode 13
Brexit/Labour/The Hidden Divide in Uk Politics
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Episode 12
Andrew Adonis Live at Politics Festival
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Episode 11
A New Party?
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Episode 10
Brexit, Brexit, Brexit-and a bit on the BBC
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Episode 9. Brexit Drama
Reflections on latest Brexit eruptions... two cabinet resignations, the possibility of parliamentary paralysis in relation to Brexit and why a schism in the Conservative party is more likely than an early election
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Episode 8. Railway Chaos
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Episode 7. Keir Starmer
The Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, was one of the many star guests at the recent Kings Place Politics Festival. Speaking to me as around 100 000 people were marching in London calling for a 'people's referendum' on Brexit Keir Starmer explains...
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Episode 6. Theresa May and Question Time
What this week's NHS announcement tells us about the fragility of Theresa May and how the insights of Bruce Forsyth could save BBC's Question Time.
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Episode 5. Brexit Latest and the World Cup
In this week’s podcast I reveal exclusively that the meaningful vote on the Brexit deal will be …meaningful… look forward to England being knocked out of the World Cup and reflect on the glorious TV panels of the 1970s that were often better...
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