Reel Politik Podcast

Jack, Geraint, Yair and special guest Welsh Steffan (@phased_bemused) dust off their podcasting boots for a special episode to celebrate the vanquishing of their greatest nemesis, as Sir Keir Starmer finally announced his resignation yesterday after an ignominious two-year premiership. Naturally, we wish him the worst in his future endeavours.

We promised we'd get a final run of episodes out before the end of 2025...and completely failed to deliver!!! Anyway we are temporarily returning to fulfil our self-imposed commitments, firstly with this episode addressing the hot-button issue everyone is dying to hear our takes on - last year's Oasis reunion tour! With diehard Gallagher enthusiast Jack FR joined once again by resident Oasis corre...

The new album from Jack FR...as one continuous track! 1. I've Never Been To San Francisco [04:28] 2. Duel [04:25] 3. Barbarossa [03:46] 4. A Sense Of Dread [05:00] 5. When You Were High [04:00] 6. Hyacinth Kisses [03:56] 7. Crack Video [03:21] 8. Never Not Gonna Fade Away [05:14] 9. The Days Of Yore [05:44] 10. Superhighway [07:00] 11. Down The Winding River [06:08] 12. The Colour Of The Rose [06:...

Soon-to-be-former Reel Politik host Jack Frayne-Reid unveils THE OVAL TAPES VOL. 1, his first live album and sanctioned "official bootleg", featuring solo acoustic (and, on the first four songs, electric) performances of ten original songs alongside covers of Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Lucinda Williams and The Rolling Stones, recorded in concert at Croydon's Oval Tavern. All songs written by Jack F...

You heard it here first. By the end of 2025 we will be ceasing all operations and bringing the Reel Politik podcast to a close after 9 years in an amicable "conscious decoupling". We intend to drop a few more episodes, then it's over and out. It's been real!

In 1973, Mike Gapes returns from a relaxing "Gape Year" in Swaziland to find that his beloved Ilford South has changed beyond all recognition. What was once a paradise of Real Labour Values has succumbed to entryism at the hands of the sinister forces of Trotskyism, and only Gapes and his trusty team of Gape Goon Generals - including fascist borstal headmaster Frank Young, escaped fascist war crim...

The Reel Politik podcast and GAPECAST proudly present TALKING GAPE, a new series hosted by George from @PuroPodcast in which series creators Jack FR and FFF go behind the scenes of each new episode of GAPECAST as they air. In this companion conversation to S02E01 - RAP AGAINST GAPE, we talk satire in the age of Gapes, not giving a fuck about Britain's relationship to the European Union, and droppi...

In the first new GAPECAST since the start of 2021, we travel back in time to the 1980s to follow a young-ish Mike Gapes - still yet to be elected MP-For-Life of Ilford South - as he crosses the Atlantic to bring his golden touch to the city of Los Angeles, California, by creating the crack epidemic and inventing the musical subgenre of gangsta rap. Narrated by retired CIA operative and Gapes handl...

Forgotten where we're at in the Ilford South Extended Universe since the last GAPECAST almost five years ago? Not to worry - with the imminent release of GAPECAST S02E01: RAP AGAINST GAPE, the RP Archives Team have compiled JIMOTHY BAKER OMNIBUS, a compilation of all Ilford South investigative journalist Jimothy Baker's appearances on the Reel Politik podcast from 2019-24. The 2019 and 24 general...

The new single from rap icon Mike Gapes, featuring Mr Jimothy Baker Sr. (That Ilford shit) Drinking miwk with my slaves (That Ilford shit) Putting Trots in the grave (That Ilford shit) Winning elections every time (That Ilford shit) Like in two thousand and nine(teen) (That Ilford shit) Gaining eternal life (That Ilford shit) fucking Jimmy Buffett’s wife (That Ilford shit) Never sitting on the fen...

In the continuation of our "New RP Canon" series, Jack, Geraint, Yair and FFF watch Clint Eastwood's 2019 masterpiece RICHARD JEWELL, a searing indictment of an unfeeling deep state, the lying fake news media, and women's duplicitous ways. NEXT IN THE SERIES: We resume our Mel Gibson historical epic season with THE PATRIOT.

We've been doing our "New RP Canon" movie commentary series as Patreon exclusives, but @wariotifo requested that his first pick, Mel Gibson's BRAVEHEART (1995), be released in its entirety for free. Join us as we reject the crooked facts of lying English historians and venture back into the heroic annals of true Scottish history with our good friend Mel. 00:00:00 - intro 00:19:11 - first attempt a...

with G. Wariotifo mysteriously absent (Taliban?), Reel Politik head honcho Jack Frayne-Reid seizes on the opportunity to hijack the Top Rope Deep Dive wrestling stream to talk about things other than wrestling for an hour and a half WATCH TOP ROPE DEEP DIVE EVERY SUNDAY @ https://www.twitch.tv/MarkedAsRed

well, I polled our Twitter followers on which film they wanted us to cover next in our commentary series, and Polanski nation (Poland?) won out decisively, defeating other hot prospects such as Ridley Scott's The Counselor and the enticing "Extreme Prejudice ft. FFF" (the Fuckedman is in tow once again here, and will be joining us as an auxiliary member of the show for at least a majority of our c...

HEAR THE FULL EPISODE/COMMENTARY BY SUBSCRIBING AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-324-jack-122635113, OR WATCH ALONG WITH US IN OUR VIDEO COMMENTARY: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tokyo-girls-2017-122644976 Low-key subscriber-only fully listed episode today! Farages Fucked Face is back for his fourth appearance on RP in 2025, in a sign of our increasing desperation...

FFF joins me again (not in a numbered episode...because it's just TOO GOOD) for another entry in our ongoing Reel Politik Audio Commentary Series on the movies that made us the foul & debased creatures we are today. This time it's Clint Eastwood's GRAN TORINO (2008), a film about a man and his car, the changing face of the American city, and How Guys Talk To One Another. With a length forty-minute...

Lilah @palebloodstasi (formerly @leechwaifu) returns to the show to pay tribute to the great DAVID LYNCH, the indescribable director, writer, sonic sculptor, visual artist, musician, meditation guru, actor and general polymathic artistic genius, who died a month ago on January 15th. In the classic wide-ranging, structureless RP style, we try our best to dig into every obscure nook and cranny of hi...

in an exclusive preview of an old school Jack/Yair movie chat, Jack talks about how The Hateful Eight has become his favourite film by noted Israel supporter Quentin Tarantino HEAR THE FULL BONUS EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp322-extra-88-121490669 NEW JFR-CURATED NEIL YOUNG MIXTAPE ALSO EXCLUSIVELY ON THE RP PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nyaa-vol-1-neil-121498257

With death stalking the land, Jack talks to RP US Correspondent Yair Rice about the start of Donald Trump's second presidential term, his imminent immigration crackdown, the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, and Trump's appointment of Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as "special envoys to Hollywood". Plus, we watch Keir Starmer's message of congratulations to Trump, and look back a decade in...

In the final part of a trilogy of episodes featuring regular guest Farages Fucked Face, Jack, Geraint and FFF review Michael Cimino's 1985 crime drama YEAR OF THE DRAGON, a film about how the Chinese invented the concept of the mafia a thousand years ago and have been perfecting it ever since, starring Mickey Rourke as the aptly named Captain Stanley WHITE - or, alternately, Agent Jack Decker - on...

The much-ballyhooed "CHINA CUT" of our most recent episode. ORIGINAL EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In the final part of a trilogy of episodes featuring regular guest Farages Fucked Face, Jack, Geraint and FFF review Michael Cimino's 1985 crime drama YEAR OF THE DRAGON, a film about how the Chinese invented the concept of the mafia a thousand years ago and have been perfecting it ever since, starring Mickey...

SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK AND HEAR THE FULL BONUS EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp321-extra-deep-121057412 Whilst our potted run through Mickey Rourke's "imperial phase" appeared in the main Year of the Dragon episode, I thought it would be a tighter episode if these discussions of Rourke's more variable-in-quality later work, as well as Michael Cimino's tragically brief f...

In our first newly recorded episode of 2025, the second in a trilogy of episodes with regular guest Farages Fucked Face, Jack shares his screen and the fellas watch the Labour Party's creepy AI-generated propaganda video featuring various anthropomorphic animals representing the different aspects of Labour's policy agenda, and read the lyrics of the song it sparked controversy by featuring: Brazil...

the stuff from the recording for episode 320 that was too hot for radio but too good to stay in the RP vaults SUBSCRIBE @ PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK FOR $5USD AND HEAR THE FULL RP EXTRA: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp320-extra-man-119893154

RP ARCHIVES UNRELEASED SERIES VOL. 2: In a previously unreleased but newly edited recording from mid-2021, Jack forces Geraint, Yair and FFF to watch the three-hour documentary HISTORY OF THE EAGLES, one of the funniest films ever made. Whether you love the top California soft-rockers or despise them, we urge you to listen to this episode and revel in the stupidity and self-importance of its subje...