In the twelfth GAPECAST, a farcical chain of events ensues. Investigative reporter Jimothy Baker is at Ilford's illustrious Hotel Capitol to meet a top informant, Mike Gapes' identical body double Kevin Narrows. Meanwhile, top Gapes aide Richard Miller, who looks and sounds exactly the same as Jimothy, is there so Gapes can dictate his new film treatment to him, 'The Life & More Life of Major Zeppelin'. Will Richard and Jimothy - each carrying a mysterious box - manage to fulfil their tasks ...
May 16, 2020•22 min
Listen to the full episode by subscribing at patreon.com/reelpolitik (direct link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-rp-mpm-per-37009294) Yair and Jack review QT8: The First Eight by Tara Woods (2019), One Hour Photo by Mark Romanek (2002), and Stanley Kramer's films Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) and R.P.M. (1970). Produced by Yair.
May 12, 2020•2 min
Jack and Geraint do not actually review any books, but - joined in the first of two episodes by friend of the show and national hero Pete AKA McCats (@tonepolicing on Twitter) - do discuss three topics pertaining to literature. First, the Guardian's weirdly bitter red-baiting hitpiece against popular (and left-wing) author Sally Rooney. Then we discuss one of the hot-button issues of recent days - the British establishment's astonishing rallying around Michael Gove to defend the virtues of havin...
May 11, 2020•55 min
Listen to the full episode @ patreon.com/reelpolitik - subscribe for $5 a month (you can actually pay less if you want to, or even more!) and you'll get this and shitload of other exclusive RP content. Jack reviews the new Bob Dylan song, I Contain Multitudes, with Yair in tow. The song's literary influences are addressed, namely Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative. After the Dylan talk, and a brief mention of how Bob figures in the GapeVerse, the notion t...
May 08, 2020•7 min
Wired up to the eyeballs with state-of-the-art recording equipment, Mike Gapes and his personal bodyguard Sir George Gwath venture boldly up northwards to the cursed badlands of Ilford North to confront its tyrannical MP, the "Clown Prince" Wesley Streeting, about the expansion of McDonald's to Southern Ilford, and end up giving the cocky young upstart rather more than he bargained for.
May 06, 2020•20 min
A year and a bit on from our vast exploration of *all* the work of Clint Eastwood, we resume our exploration of the American Hero's oeuvre by looking at his second-most recent film as director, and most recent as star, 2018's The Mule. It's an all-singing, all-shooting, all-shagging feast of reverie and the original trifecta of RP hosts - including the return of Tom Foster, absent for our episodes so far in 2020 - are here for it.
May 03, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Produced by Yair Rice, this RP movie roundup sees he and Jack reviewing a number of films, including three tonally reminiscent short films (Ari Aster's The Turtle's Head, Matthew Holness' A Gun For George and David Lynch's WHAT DID JACK DO?), horror anthology The Field Guide To Evil (2018), Michael Haneke's Cache (2005). Johnny Depp's The Brave (1997) and two films in which he stars - Bruce Robinson's The Rum Diary (2011) and City of Lies (Brad Furman, 2018), William Friedkin's Killer Joe (2011)...
Apr 29, 2020•51 min
In GAPECAST #10, we rewind to December 2019, in the aftermath of the corrupt rigged election that replaced Gapes as Ilford South MP with Corbyn's Candidate, Sam Tarry. "Rewind" is the operative word, because this tale unfolds in reverse (you know, like the film Memento) with one scene after another taking us from the end of the story, back to the very beginning. Written once again by seasoned Ilford hack Jimothy Baker (currently scribbling away in prison like Gramsci), this episode documents one...
Apr 27, 2020•23 min
Geraint and Jack read through the Labour Party's 850-page leaked document 'The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014 - 2019', which shows - put charitably - an arguably factionally-motivated negligence from the party bureaucracy in dealing with antisemitism cases, a litany of bigoted comments and exchanges, and the efforts of some senior Labour HQ staff to hamstring Labour's performance in the close-run 2017 election.
Apr 22, 2020•1 hr 34 min
Meth, milk, murder, magic & mayhem. Sounds like a standard day on the mean streets of Ilford, with the feral sex youths and Gape Goons clashing violently in a bloody generation-spanning gang war. However, you take the man out of Ilford, but you can't take the Ilford out of the man. This is the full story of Mike Gapes and his loyal aide Richard Miller's fateful trip to Las Vegas, after which a Nevada-wide State of Emergency was called. Its locations include a police conference, a strip joint...
Apr 15, 2020•1 hr 13 min
From the depths of his opulent manor Cownadu, Michael Gapes brings his loyal listeners three tales of the unexpected - of man and man's best friend, of a sprawling realm of lost cities, of the (presumed) late Mr Richard Miller. Don't listen to this little Gapecast anthology with the lights out!
Apr 07, 2020•14 min
We have long warned that, by depriving the left of a viable electoral voice, we might see a sad backslide by socialists everywhere into a conspiratorial view of the world. Now, with today's election of Keir Starmer as Labour leader, we can see the tragic implications of this defeat in full. Here are 90 mins of RP on the JFK assassination, encompassing the myriad, often wildly contradictory theories, and the mass of pop culture portrayals, most recently Bob Dylan's MURDER MOST FOUL, and Michael G...
Apr 04, 2020•1 hr 32 min
Mike finds a mysterious body in the drawing room of Gape Manor AKA Cownadu, and sets to work getting to the bottom of this mystery most foul. (NOTE: We had to re-upload this on copyright grounds, replacing Audrey's Dance from Twin Peaks with something that sounds a bit like it.)
Apr 03, 2020•7 min
Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour of new RP. Hello comrades! We hope you're all holding up ok and don't have coronavirus and, if you do, we wish you a speedy recovery! Geraint suggested that we release the raw recording of Gapecast #3, from the sessions for Episode 145, because we had so much fun reading Mr Jimothy Baker's mad, mad words for the first time. That constitutes the first portion of the episode, with the second mostly a discussion of the whole Gapecast projec...
Apr 01, 2020•3 min
Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years. This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you. Mike Gapes
Mar 30, 2020•17 min
Recorded 100 days into the tyrannical reign of the hated Boris Johnson and his illegitimate fascist government, and not actually concerning Pasolini's Salo (1975), RP145 is an episode of two halves - Geraint's half is a reading of historian Dominic Sandbrook's feverish fantasy of Jeremy Corbyn's first 100 days as prime minister, as published in friends of the show the Daily Mail. Jack, meanwhile, listened to Armando Iannucci, Jess Phillips and Jan Ravens in conversation about satire in the age o...
Mar 28, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Drawing inspiration from his avant-garde forefather John Lurie's laconic 1990s fishing TV series Fishing With John - the soundtrack of which was repurposed for this recording - Gapesy presents a laid-back guide to his top tips for quarantine cuisine. In a post-apocalyptic situation such as now, it's all the more important to band together and learn how to economise, and Mike will lay out here how to eat like an Austro-Hungarian prince, but on a shoestring budget.
Mar 26, 2020•13 min
GAPECAST host Michael John Gapes is joined for an exclusive, intimate conversation in the basement bunker of Gape Manor by his former colleague in the parliamentary parties of Labour and Change UK The Independent Group, Chris Leslie. Chris tells Mike what he's been up to since losing his seat in December, and why he's hiding out in Ilford rather than in his own constituency.
Mar 24, 2020•8 min
In our third Gapecast in as many days, Mike tells of his upbringing in postwar Vienna, with its Strauss music, glamour and easy charm. He looks back to some of his formative experiences as a man - of his sexual awakening, and of how he was first alerted to the awesome power of milk.
Mar 22, 2020•8 min
In the second GAPECAST, Mike tells tales of the old Vienna, and dives deep into the mythology of the Ilford Extended Universe as he gives us a guided tour of the opulent Ilford South MP's Manor, Cownadu. This is #cribs, Gape Style. Thanks to investigative journalist supreme Mr Jimothy Baker for helping Mike with his script on this one.
Mar 21, 2020•8 min
A special new RP Original Series, presented by former MP Michael John Gapes live from the Gapebunker under the Ilford South MP's Mansion - where Gapes resides to this day - will give us daily updates on the coronavirus situation and the other major issues of the day.
Mar 20, 2020•7 min
RP on - Democratic primary and Biden's growing lead, the equally potent disease of coronavirus, Neil Young's Bernie Sanders endorsement, a Keir Starmer-level forensic takedown of Stephen Colbert's fawning routine on Lyin' Liz Warren, historical antecedents to Sanders, and why Tom Hanks is a reprehensible bastard. Seriously though fuck Tom Hanks.
Mar 17, 2020•1 hr 35 min
in RP143, Jack and Geraint review the 2019 thriller Feedback, starring actor, Lib Dem activist and prolific angry Twitter melt Eddie Marsan, who trailed it in a legendary Guardian interview from which we read extensively as "James O'Brien meets Die Hard". He plays an O'Brien-alike blustery talk radio shock jock arsehole obsessed with Brexit whose studio is besieged by terrorists. In equal measure we assess his cinematic oeuvre - from his collaborations with legendary auteur filmmakers like Mel G...
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Listen to the full solo episode at patreon.com/reelpolitik This is something we've never done before - a solo episode. I (Jack) sat down in front of the mic and talked to myself for 40 straight minutes about politics, sort of expanding on our recent episode with Juliet Jacques (RP141) but taking stock of events that have transpired since, in particular Joe Biden's highly successful Super Tuesday across the pond. I talk about the constant back-and-forth since 2015 over whether Corbyn or Sanders i...
Mar 10, 2020•2 min
In a shock development, this week we've actually released more than enough stuff on Patreon but not our generally weekly free episode. As a mea culpa, the other night Jack forgot to record his side of the first ten or so minutes of a politics chat with Geraint. Consequently - another solo episode! This time there were only a few minutes to work with, but hopefully Geraint (with helpful interjections in post-production from Jack) provides insights here that our listeners find salient.
Mar 06, 2020•4 min
While the so-called centre-left feel gleeful and emboldened, every real socialist around feels depressed as fuck right now - not just in Britain, but many of our international comrades too; RP Corp Intl is, after all, an international multimedia conglomerate. Writer and RP regular Juliet Jacques (contributor to Tribune, New Socialist and elsewhere, host of @Suite-212, author of Trans: A Memoir, and @zinovievletter on Twitter) joins us to discuss not so much the left in the wake of the election a...
Feb 27, 2020•1 hr 30 min
Full 75-min episode available now at patreon.com/reelpolitik Writer/director S. Craig Zahler has made a splash in the movies with his three films, 2015's Bone Tomahawk, 2017's Brawl In Cell Block 99, and 2018's Dragged Across Concrete. Also a novelist and musician, he is associated with production company Cinestate (who have also produced various other works of "right-leaning entertainment" and on the staff of whose Fangoria publication Zahler sits), and has also written their ventures into fran...
Feb 26, 2020•7 min
In anticipation of a much more sombre look at the left's (and our personal) post-election malaise, we thought we'd tie up a few loose ends and address some of our going concerns in the political sphere. Featuring - Keir Starmer's vacuous ten pledges, Richard Burgon's endorsement of miwk memes and delicious takedown of the hated Jonathan Woodcock, some other Gapes thing, the Democratic establishment ratfucking operation and a look back at the undying legacies of the Spoon and Drugstore Culture.
Feb 22, 2020•1 hr 6 min
In this exclusive peak behind the scenes of Reel Politik's single most ambitious episode of 2019 - https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/episode-126-gape-goons-ft-mike-gapes-mr-jimothy-baker - we now bring you the call that took place the night before the interview between RP Ilford correspondent Rupert Pickering and RP General Secretary Jack Frayne-Reid. This is very much "how the sausage is made", and - interspersed with apposite clips from the interview itself - should hopefully provide s...
Feb 19, 2020•34 min
At long last, we can finally unveil Jack & Tom's eagerly anticipated (by all) review of Todd Phillips' "The Joker"; a review of many parts, covering our thoughts prior to seeing the movie, immediately after seeing the movie, the following day, and the night prior to this episode's release. Though we wanted to release Tom's first full episode in a while sooner than later, the election - not to mention our exclusive Gapes scoop - got in the way. Now here it is, edited by Jack then Ben (@molono...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 15 min
