Consider this a special treat for all our listeners who’ve put up with our slug salting and ultra-sectarian ways since day one. Behold! Our first audio commentary track. Jack and Tom take a tokey trip into the warped world of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. Expect mumbling, ass-jokes and many, many terrible impressions of the Wiseau. A basic guidance on how to sync this up with the film is provided on the commentary track itself. Enjoy!
Jan 22, 2018•1 hr 52 min
All four Reel Politik hosts are - as a great Irishman once sang - back in town to review Martin Campbell's Netflix original thriller The Foreigner, a film that - at long last - pits hardline Irish nationalist Pierce Brosnan (dressed up all daddylike as an incredibly thinly veiled Gerry Adams)and the collective forces of the whole IRA against decrepit old small business owner Jackie Chan. Needless to say, only one comes out on top...no prizes for guessing who. Additionally, we sing some rebel son...
Jan 13, 2018•1 hr 27 min
For our 50th episode, and first of 2018, we present a comprehensive director’s commentary to all @tomgotmarxed’s Reel Politik Original Short Films. Yes, we’re reviewing our own content now. But, as well as celebrating this great body of work, we offer commentaries on Mick Jagger’s terrible anti-Brexit solo singles, as well as his supergroup SuperHeavy. HNY RP x You can find Tom Foster's Reel Politik Original Short Films on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_z9Kgk0uBvcQT1o609kmg An...
Jan 06, 2018•1 hr 24 min
another rockin jam from the F-man
Dec 23, 2017•5 min
LAURA'S BACK! However, she's not the only top-ranking comedian in our midst in the new Reel Politik - she and Jack are joined by the heroic, inspiring Josie Long to talk about her brilliant comic body of work, vintage 2012 comedy beef, whether to melt...or not to melt, and much, much more, including the titular question: are Reel Politik, Josie Long - and, in fact, anybody else with remotely left-wing politics - simply preaching to the choir?
Dec 13, 2017•1 hr 29 min
In the second episode to be drawn from our mammoth two-and-a-half hour recording session with Friend Of The Show Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2 on Twitter), the Reel Politik gang look back on the timeless 2006 document the Euston Manifesto, which boldly declared that, actually, war was good, flying in the face of the powerful vested interests of the consistently anti-imperialist Blair and Bush governments of the time. Also in the show, a Reel Politik reading series covers Chris McCall's rip-roaring ...
Dec 07, 2017•56 min
A classic gospel jam from Tim Farron's musical archives.
Nov 29, 2017•2 min
Sadly Laura was unable to make it again, but the gang were flanked by our favourite guest Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2 on Twitter) to review David Modell's laugh-a-minute BBC2 documentary Labour: the Summer that Changed Everything (working title: The End of Labour) and celebrate the colossally eggy faces of the MPs depicted in it. Also discussed: the fall of Robert Mugabe, Andy Till's magnificent Reel Politik-affiliated "Hard Left Soundboard" app for Android, and cricket. An RP for the ages - enjo...
Nov 28, 2017•1 hr 38 min
With Laura whisked off by the authorities for the so-called crime of "libelling the FT's Sebastian Payne" and Yair serving his second military campaign with Hezbollah, Tom and Jack recruit friends of the show Sarah Cundy (@Sarah_Cundy on the Twitter) and Aicha Marhfour (@aichamarhfour) to shoot the shit about Boris "ve cut off your" Johnson, Blair and Brown's current rounds of UK media outlets, the awful transphobic hate campaign whipped up by the media for the last few weeks, and what language ...
Nov 25, 2017•1 hr 33 min
After a few weeks off the air while Jack completed his Masters, the gang are back in business, the bullshit running rampant once more. Setting out to review the new blockbuster 'Blade Runner 2049', the Original Trio™ are waylaid by discussions of modern fascism, the efforts to launder its reputation, and the term "based", as well as Russia, Russia and more Russia. Additionally, the hated Jared Leto is roundly condemned for being an utterly risible piece of shit prick. NB: Jack sounds quite muffl...
Nov 18, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Campaign song for the Radicals UK by Jack Frayne-Reid. Lyrics: The lunatics have taken over the asylum Abuse from the alt-left and alt-right People reading fake news don’t care who’s lyin’ to them Trans people demanding equal rights I need some sanctuary To preserve the sanctity Of the reality-based community With evidence-based policy Where free speech and debate dare speak their names Oh I just formed a new centrist party Your post-truth world ain’t seen the back of me Fascists on left and rig...
Oct 25, 2017•5 min
Conservative chancellor Philip Hammond delivers his rapturously received keynote speech to the 18th Annual Gathering of the Reel Politicos, put on by Politikic Records. Featuring cameos from Chris Leslie MP and the Artist Taxi Driver, with music from Steely Dan and the Platters.
Oct 21, 2017•5 min
Both our guests we'd booked for this episode proved sadly unavailable, so Yair, Laura and Jack got together and salted every slug under the sun for a good hour and a half. Among the topics discussed are sleazy toad Harvey Weinstein and the despicable rape cartel that is Hollywood, Tablet Magazine's important intervention in the Weinstein debate, means testing the Queen, and how former Everton goalie Neville Southall is a shining example of how to approach conversations around gender identity, in...
Oct 14, 2017•1 hr 38 min
The gang finally put Jack's field recordings from Labour's 2017 conference/Momentum's alternative, adjacent conference The World Transformed to good use (arguably) in a barnstorming special covering both the Labour and Conservative conferences. Guests include Alex Nunns (Red Pepper/author of the Candidate), Sam Kriss (Vice, the Baffler), Ellie Mae O'Hagan (the Guardian, the Independent, Open Democracy), The Artist Taxi Driver, Stephen Smith (the Financial Times), Gail McAnena and Tom Gann from N...
Oct 06, 2017•1 hr 38 min
The latest lost recording we've uncovered is not from Tim Farron's musical archives, but from our own archives of unreleased material. Dating back to an unfinished post-election celebration, with Tom reaching Jack over a crackly Skype line from Germany, the RP co-founders turn their attentions to just what the fuck is up with Tory SpAd/former MP Gavin Barwell's head.
Sep 23, 2017•4 min
Tim Farron & the Westmorland Bumpkins - God Fearin' Man (So Much for the Tolerant Left) by Reel Politik
Sep 18, 2017•4 min
Ten years on from its release, the gang reappraise Nick Love's 'Outlaw' - a fascist critique of the dying days of Blairism that was absolutely "cunted" by critics when it hit cinemas in 2007. With help from Nick Love and co-star Danny Dyer's audio commentary, we dissect the art of Outlaw, examine it in the context of their respective bodies of work, and give some serious thought to what it says about Blair's Britain. And, because (as reprinted in the Daily Mail!) we know the political shit-sling...
Sep 17, 2017•1 hr 43 min
In a rapid follow-up to Reel Politik's definitive dissection of Owen Smith's miserable 2016 campaign for the Labour leadership, the gang realise that maybe it wasn't so definitive after all, and dispatch Laura and Jack to tie up some loose ends pertaining to that spectacular shitshow of a summer. There are some audio problems as Tom wasn't about to record it and Jack's computer is being weird, but the content...the content is very good.
Sep 04, 2017•1 hr 14 min
After another short break, the Reel Politik team are back with their definitive historical account of the Labour Party's 2016 leadership contest, an ill-fated challenge by a banter-loving sub-mediocre former Viagra salesman from the Blairite hack-SpAd-MP conveyor belt to genuinely significant and inspiring politician Jeremy Corbyn. Laura (@thisgeordielass) joins the gang for her first full episode as a co-host, and duly brings the house down with her no-holds-barred melting of the melts. We came...
Aug 30, 2017•1 hr 41 min
The grand comeback continues as friend of the show Jude Wanga (on Twitter @judeinlondon) joins the gang to review the 2016 film Imperium and the 2017 Jay-Z album 4:44, as well as to discuss Labour frontbencher Sarah Champion's appalling Sun article on child abuse, the fascist forum Stormfront, and the leaked transcripts from Donald Trump's first week in office. Putting the heat on the RP crime syndicate to discuss Lord of the Rings, Jude posits to the team that Daniel Radcliffe has chosen to fol...
Aug 12, 2017•1 hr 21 min
THE LIFE OF FARRON A RADIO PLAY BY REEL POLITIK COMING SOON TO YOUR EARS
Aug 11, 2017•2 min
After a month in hiding, the infamous Reel Politik team (or part thereof) emerge from their exile with a new episode, touching on the scandal that almost brought the show down, the theatrical oeuvre of Paul Mason, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk and the Mooch-Mnuch dichotomy. New co-host Laura also calls in on the telephone, because Skype is square as shit. It's good to be back.
Aug 02, 2017•1 hr 24 min
Jack, Tom and Yair get insanely Gramscian in this episode, talking music, film, and the spectacle of American politics in 2017. Yair fills us all in on his 4th July pub crawl. Tom reviews Wonder Woman. Jack reads from the Bible. A special guest contacts us from the island of Diego Garcia, having evaded CIA censure with a little help from our Russian paymasters. We also have a go at Chuka Umunna for being a cunt, and talk about our newfound fame in the wake of our very first profile piece. It's a...
Jul 06, 2017•1 hr 38 min
In this week's memorial episode, Jack and Tom are joined by Twitter users Laura Jolyon Tidd @thisgeordielass, from Durham, and - from across the Atlantic - Drew Nutter @DrewNutter to pay tribute to our fallen comrade Kieran, who was exiled and died. Memories are shared and libels are made as we look to this new and confusing world of shadowbans and oppression from the forces of Meltdom, in the form of a wholesome game of Cop or Comrade. These are the last days in the bunker.
Jun 30, 2017•1 hr 45 min
There’s much to celebrate in the new Reel Politik: there’s Jeremy Corbyn’s triumphant Glastonbury appearance, and Paul Mason bringing hell to the nerds at the Progress Annual Conference, defibrillator paddles strapped to both ass cheeks – as well as that utterly malign Blairite organisation’s precarious financial situation. Tune in to hear Tom, Jack and Kieran answer questions including; who is the one unambiguously good Labour-Cooperative MP? Who is the single thickest journalist in the fiercel...
Jun 26, 2017•1 hr 30 min
In this two-man episode, Jack and Kieran gather their thoughts a week after That Election. We celebrate wildly after claiming our first scalp - frog botherer Tim Farron - before welcoming our boy Clive Lewis back into the fold for merking the hated Chris Leslie. A few moments are spared to touch on the appalling tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire, and how Theresa May's colossal ineptitude and tone-deafness is depleting her credibility by the day. We lost our last episode so this is kind of a sor...
Jun 17, 2017•1 hr 21 min
In this wild, shrieking post-election victory parade, Jack and Kieran toast the irrepressible march of Corbynism through the heart of British politics. We take aim at the DUP, the commentariat, the PLP, and every individual who needs their face rubbing in it. Somewhere amongst the screaming there's an earnest chat about what happens next, but we can't remember where it is so tell us when you can. These are the glory days, so revel in them.
Jun 10, 2017•1 hr 20 min
this parliament hung like owen smith!!!
Jun 09, 2017•1 min
In our glitzy pre-election special, Jack and Kieran are joined by the most electrifying man in sports entertainment, Aaron Bastani, in an episode that covers anything and everything. We revive our hardline Powellism, attack the (lower than) vermin in the Tory party, and turn our fire once again towards Jason Cowley and the increasingly sad and tragic New Statesman for the fifth consecutive episode. It's an absolute belter.
Jun 07, 2017•1 hr 18 min
Yair, Jack and Kieran had to listen to the Remainiacs podcast for this one. The things we do for you. As you can guess, things get angry, desperate, frustrated and vitriolic as we launch into the Duntosphere and hate what's inside. We also talk about the slugs who cry their eyes out at being called slugs, and keep up the hype for Thursday's election victory. We're wilding out and ready for the revolution.
Jun 04, 2017•1 hr 28 min
