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.
What’s Wes Streeting up to?
Can Starmer connect with “the left behind”?
Can Kemi Badenoch revive the Tories?
Will the budget be a historic turning point?
Are some chancellors more powerful than their prime ministers?
What is the most underrated quality in a leader?
Will the departure of Sue Gray boost Starmer’s government?
Why Are The Conservatives Still Talking To Themselves?
Can Labour recover from its wobbly start?
Can the Lib Dems Make Any Impact on a Landslide Government?
Does the government need to be unpopular?
Will the next Tory leader ever be prime minister?
Do things have to get worse?
The briefings against Sue Gray
Are the Tories doomed whoever is the next leader?
Are the riots more than a law and order issue?
Has Rachel Reeves won the case for tax rises?
Why do doomed leaders struggle to quit?
Where next for the ‘Special Relationship’ amid US turmoil?
Has Keir Starmer won the political space to be daring?
What have we learnt from this strange election?
Rock & Roll Politics Live – The election bonus
Will Labour get the economic growth they need?
How will the Tory media deal with a Labour landslide?
Why is the election 'tax and spend' debate dangerous and bonkers?
What are the deeper lessons of the Diane Abbott saga?
The Tory Campaign – Why is it the most calamitous start in modern times?
The Election Bonus
Contaminated Blood – Will the familiar lessons ever be learnt?
Can Keir Starmer stop the boats?
Do the Tory Right know what they want?
Has the SNP become impossible to lead?
Who is Winning The Battle of Ideas?
Harold Wilson’s affair and how we misread leaders
This Time No Mistakes – In Conversation with Will Hutton
Rock & Roll Politics Live – The Easter Special
Can Rachel Reeves win the battle of ideas?
Is Sunak's time up?
From Johnson to Starmer – How much does character matter?
Where’s the passionate anger over the crisis in UK?
Has Liz Truss got a point?
Starmer and Rayner – What does she think of him?
Why are the Tories bolder when on the verge of power?
Labour’s £28 billion saga – Has an exciting policy become a threat?
Will Tory MPs dump Sunak?
The myths of Blair’s ‘97 campaign – and why Starmer is being judged unfairly.
How can Britain start working again?
The Post Office scandal-What are the deeper lessons?
How can Rishi Sunak cut Labour's lead?
Christmas Special: Rock N Roll Politics Live At Kings Place
Are you driving home this Xmas (because the trains are useless)?
Why is the Rwanda plan sucking up all political energy?
Are we heading for an early election?
Boris Johnson Vs. The Covid-19 Inquiry
Why Are Right Wing Populists Winning Again?
Why Tax Cuts Now?
Get Ready For Another Tory Psychodrama
Will Sunak's reshuffle improve the party's prospects?
Where does power lie in the UK?
The Covid Inquiry and The Fatal Chaos in Johnson's Number 10
Does Northern Ireland offer any lessons for the Middle East?
Will the Tories be wiped out?
Israel & Gaza: Is there space for nuance?
The Labour Party conference part 2: Keir Starmer makes his pitch
The Labour Party conference part 1: Labour moves closer to power
Sunak and the Tory Conference: Can Rishi Sunak be the candidate for change?
Sunak and the Tory Conference: Why has Rishi Sunak failed to learn the art of leadership?
Nick Thomas Symonds on Clem Attlee, Keir Starmer and Brexit
Is the UK On The Edge of An Historic Turning Point?
Has The UK got a foreign policy? If so, what is it?
When governments fall - plus Starmer's pre-election reshuffle
Who Does Rishi Sunak Rely On Most?
Summer Special - Prime Ministers and Their Special Confidants: David Cameron
Summer Special: The 1992 Election
Summer Special! Troublemakers: Enoch Powell
Question Time Special
A Revealing Twist in the Mad ’Tax and Spend’ Debate
The three by-elections and the consequences
Keir Starmer: Is he right to copy Tony Blair's language and ideas?
The BBC and The Sun – A dark dance
'Tax Burden' and 'Reform' part 2 - Where is the economic growth going to come from?
My Extinction: Climate Change Special
'Tax Burden' and 'Reform' - What Do These Ubiquitous Terms Really Mean?
Dirty Water – What Does It Tell Us About British Politics?
Where's The Hope?
Secret State? The pros and cons of freedom of information
Don't forget David Cameron and George Osborne
Being Privileged and on the Left - In Conversation with Polly Toynbee
Keir Starmer Moves Closer to Number 10
Will There Ever Be A National Care Service?
Can The Tories Recover While Boris Johnson Remains An MP?
The Transformation of the Conservative Party-In Conversation with Tim Bale
The Prime Ministers we never had: Why did they fail to seize the crown?
What is the ‘centre ground’? In conversation with Rafael Behr
Immigration: Will there ever be a grown up debate?
In Conversation with Sir Antony Seldon
The Tory Right Stir...Yet Again
In Conversation with Rob Burley
A Long Road To The Next General Election
Long Live The King
Who owns ‘Freedom’?
How Did Boris Johnson Last As Long As He Did?
What Makes a Bully?
Douglas Alexander in Conversation
Striking Nurses and The State We’re In
Northern Ireland, Then & Now
Labour's Attack Ads - Will They Work?
Question Time Special
Keir Starmer vs Jeremy Corbyn
Is The UK Economy Doomed? In Conversation with Danny Blanchflower
Can Rishi Sunak Win the Next Election?
Michael Cockerell in conversation
Tony Blair, Iraq.... and the Lessons for Labour Now
Winning and Governing - Can Keir Starmer be Bolder?
Gary Lineker and the BBC - Will the Lessons be Learnt?
Danny Finkelstein in conversation
Reflections on Leadership and the SNP Contest
Reviving New Labour: Starmer’s Only Path to Victory?
Can Labour Make Expensive Promises?
Bridget Phillipson: Preparing For Power
Can Brexit Ever Be 'Done?'
What the Butler Saw – Lord Butler on life in No.10
The BBC, Richard Sharp and ‘Impartiality’
Andy Burnham in conversation
Liz Truss and Her Tiny Target Audience
Christian Wolmar and The UK's Chaotic Railways
The Fatal Legacy of Boris Johnson
Nick Timothy on the modern Conservative Party
The Real Reason For the Return of 'Tory Sleaze'
Lisa Nandy on ‘Taking Back Control’
Brexit and Scotland: When Leaders Become Trapped
Keir Starmer and The Year Ahead
Rishi Sunak and The Year Ahead
Can we trust elected politicians?
What do Sunak, Streeting and everyone else mean by REFORM?
A Winter of Discontent... and Consequences
Keir Starmer and the Art of Winning
A Train Journey, the Exodus of Tory MPs and Hancock in the Jungle
Brexit: The Beginning Of The End?
BONUS PODCAST: Electoral Reform - The Question Time Special
Sunak, Hunt, and The Dangerous Allure of the Past
Has the Time Come For Electoral Reform?
How Rishi Sunak Can Win the Next Election
The Rishi Sunak Era
The Fall Of Truss: Emergency Podcast
Liz Truss and Consequences
The Next Labour Government and the Power of Markets
The Truss & Kwarteng U-Turn, and Political Space
The Revolutionary Conservative Party
The Return of The Truss Era
The Queen, The King – and How An Era Is Defined
Liz Truss is Prime Minister
The BBC and Bias - Plus a special bonus listeners' Question Time
Rock & Roll Politics: Live at the Edinburgh Festival
Reflections at the Edinburgh Festival
Energy prices… and Consequences
UK Economy Hurtling Towards the Cliff's Edge
Lessons for Keir Starmer in The Rise Of Liz Truss
Can Boris Johnson Make A Comeback?
The Tory Leadership Contest
The Conservatives Choose Another Prime Minister
Boris Johnson and Judgement
The Dangerous Allure of ‘The Centre Ground’
Who’s In Charge?
Cries For ‘Tax Cuts’ and a ‘Battle with Europe‘
Boris Johnson Limps On
The Jubilee and the State of England
Sue Gray… and Consequences
Brexit: Far From Done
Keir Starmer and 'Beergate' - What We Already Know
The lessons of Labour’s landslide win in 1997
When Prime Ministers Fall
The Return of Partygate
The long search for the BBC’s Political Editor
Cost of Living Crisis - How Should Labour Respond?
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak
Boris Johnson: A Columnist as Prime Minister
Boris Johnson, Ukraine and the Falklands Factor
Jonathan Powell on Ukraine, Putin and UK Foreign Policy
Views of the Past, National Identity… and War
Freedom
Global Britain’s Foreign Policy – Posturing And Weakness
Prime Ministers and Number Ten
Sue Gray Speaks Her Mind
Boris Johnson: Parties and Rules
Keir Starmer Makes His Pitch
Two Predictions for 2022
Lord Frosty Resigns
The ‘Freedom’ To Be Selfish
Rishi, Keir and the Times Newspaper
Keir Starmer Reshuffles His Shadow Cabinet
Trains, Dacre and Marr
A Shift In The Opinon Polls
Boris Johnson and 'Sleaze"
The BBC and 'Impartiality'
Rishi Sunak and Rachel Reeves
A Review: Blair and Brown-The New Labour Revolution
Brexit and Consequences
B Johnson and his Cabinet espouse the policies of Tony Benn
Keir Starmer Makes His Moves
Boris Johnson-The most powerful PM in modern times
Is Boris Johnson Moving The Conservatives To The Left?
Social Care and the Lack of Political Will
Prime Ministers We Never Had-Part 2
Prime Ministers We Never Had-Part One
Is Rishi Sunak the Next Prime Minister?
What should the state be doing and how?
'Freedom'
Boris Johnson's ' Freedom to Be Irresponsible Day'
K Starmer Needs To Change Labour Without 'Taking His Party On'
Matt Hancock-A Saga With Many Lessons And Consequences
The significance of a dramatic by-election result
Boris Johnson seeks to disown his chosen Brexit route
Lockdown 'Freedom' Day-A Familiar Pattern
Ed Miliband-Ideas and Leadership ..And Is D Cummings on the left?
The BBC In Crisis- A Familiar Pattern
Keir Starmer Gets Advice..From Virtually Everyone
Streaming live tonight...the historic finale
Labour turmoil
Does the 'centre ground' exist?
Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings
David Cameron and A Long Serving Government
Tonight's live show
A Prince Dies
Alastair Campbell On K Starmer, T Blair and the leadership of E Miliband
Salmond V Sturgeon-The Most Significant Twist So Far
Flying the Flag
A Quick Reminder
The Vaccine, Voters and a Reconnection With The State
Personalities or Policies-What Matters More?
Prime Ministers and Chancellors
The Bizarre Rise of Lord 'Frosty' Frost-an Emblematic Tale
A few words about tonight's Rock N Roll Politics live stream
Listening to Rock N Roll Politics while walking along rivers, canals, the sea..and eating scallops
Boris Johnson Takes Control of the NHS
Vaccines, Brexit and the Irish Question
Covid, Brexit And A Fear of Contemplating Consequences
B Johnson's Hair And The Other Big Issues Of Our Times
Trump and 'the Special Relationship'
Brexit Far From Done..And Another Late Lockdown
My favourite Political Interview..Ever
The No Deal/Bad Deal (but better than a no deal) Brexit Special
The Dangerous Self- Confidence of Etonian Prime Ministers
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Rebel Tory MPs
Form A Square Around the Pritster
Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and a Downing Street 'Reset'
Biden, Merkel, Macron....and Brexit Johnson.
Johnson and Lockdown; Starmer and Corbyn
Boris Johnson V Andy Burnham and Marcus Rashford
Covid Response in the UK and the Consequences of Devolution
Steve Richards Presents Rock n Roll Politics
Test and Trace-The Reasons for The World Beating Cock Ups
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak-Nothing is What It Seems
The Tory Papers Turn on Boris Johnson
Boris Seeks to Break the Law
Brexit is back (it never went away)
Prime Ministers and the Misery of Power
The most significant political year since 1945
Boris Johnson and A Fear of Scrutiny
Keir Starmer's 100 days and How to Challenge Rishi Sunak
Prime Ministers and the Favourite Special Advisers
Boris Johnson as Churchill, Roosevelt and Jose Mourinho
Will Boris Johnson be PM at the time of the next election?
The Virtual Live Show
Boris Johnson And The Question of Competence
Boris Johnson, the Scientists and 'the science'
Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings
Lockdown Special-The Sequel
Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics
B Johnson- A Curious Indifference to 'Bombproofing' a TV Address
Lockdown Special: The Lessons From Setting a Target For Tests
Rock N Roll Politics The Virtual Show-A Trail
Coronavirus-The daily press conferences v reality on the frontline
B Johnson- A PM in hospital ; An interview with T Blair on Labour
Virus: Powerless ministers in 'reformed' NHS and Keir Starmer
Johnson and The Virus; Starmer and Leadership
The State Is Back In Fashion
The Virus becomes political and the Budget changes politics
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Episode 18
Rock N Roll Politics Episode 16
Rock N Roll Politics Episode 15
Rock N Roll Politics-- Episode 14
Rock N Roll Politics- Episode 13
Episode 12
Episode 11
Episode 10
Episode 9. Brexit Drama
Episode 8. Railway Chaos
Episode 7. Keir Starmer
Episode 6. Theresa May and Question Time
Episode 5. Brexit Latest and the World Cup
Episode 4. Reflections on Jeremy Thorpe... and Brexit
Episode 3. Rock N Roll Politics Live
Episode 2. Reflections on Labour and William Keegan