Reel Politik Podcast

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.

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.

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...

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 a...

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 interjectio...

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, an...

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...

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 establishmen...

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...

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 ment...

Recorded towards the end of our Irishman session (the conversation continued for roughly the same amount of time as a third episode), this episode features RP's crack film review squad - Jack and Yair - revisiting one of Martin Scorsese's most powerful and heartfelt films, The Last Temptation of Christ, which makes a compelling case for a more human Christ and was received with appropriate opprobr...

Listen to the full 38-minute minisode at patreon.com/reelpolitik Welcome to the TOO RAW FOR RADIO companion to episode 137, featuring various bits that were considered too irrelevant/offensive for the main episode plus a longer discussion of the Socialist Campaign Group - the left-wing grouping of Labour MPs - edited together as if it's a proper episode. FEATURING: further thoughts on the Labour l...

The Labour leadership contest is now a four-way race, with the anointed right-wing wrecker candidate Jess Phillips pulling out to spend more time doing softball interviews with journalists who won't ask her difficult questions about "leadership" and "vision of the future" and "what policies would you change in the 2019 manifesto?" The media have unanimously declared the disintegration of the Phill...

Michael Bay put out a new film towards the end of last year, the confusingly titled Netflix original 6 Underground. Yair is a scholar of Bay's work, having written his dissertation on the director's status as a "vulgar auteur", and joins Jack to talk about the film in all its relentless, regime-changing glory. Yes, Bay's getting deep into what Eddie Marsan would call "promoting democracy in other...

Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik and listen to the full episode at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33185613 We talked about Jack's other favourite film of 2019, Blinded By The Light, last episode. Now, he and Yair spend the best part of an hour digging into Marty Scorsese's weary epic on the intersection of crime & time, The Irishman. Marty's back, and this time he's brought all the boys! Did w...

July-August 2019 saw the release of two quite similar films: British jukebox musicals centred around the work of a legendary classic rock artist and its impact on a young British-Asian man. These two films were Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle's Yesterday, starring Himesh Patel as a budding singer-songwriter who wakes up from a coma to find the Beatles no longer exist and he can make it big by steal...

Yo! We're still exhausted and depressed from the hated 12th December, but our post-election episode featuring longstanding friend of the show Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2 on Twitter) is now here! We do our best to hold the line and defend the left programme in these horribly unpleasant circumstances, whilst looking to the future rather than dwelling on the plain fact that our agenda didn't come acro...

originally released on patreon.com/reelpolitik on boxing day the latest Jack/Yair movie roundup, covering LOADS of stuff. it's early boxing day morning right now and i can't even remember what films specifically are covered, but hopefully there's something in there for everyone. merry christmas, love Jack & the rest of the gang

both songs written & recorded by Jack Frayne-Reid, 30th December 2019

both songs written & recorded by Jack Frayne-Reid, 30th December 2019

Our latest RP Exclusive: a leaked audio recording from THE MILLER FILES, the ultra-ultra-encrypted documents that fell into the hands of Ilford investigative journalist Mr Jimothy Baker upon the mysterious disappearance of former Mike Gapes campaign manager Mr Richard Miller.

2019's Colorado is, by Wikipedia's estimation, Neil Young's 39th studio album and, by my estimation, his fourteenth complete studio album backed by the rock band Crazy Horse, not counting the numerous NY records where they play on one or a handful of tracks. The album is one of Young's more varied of recent years, alternating between scorching barnstormers and some of his prettiest ballads in ages...

An unsung hero of RP Thought is Dr Daniel Howdon, the esteemed health economist who so famously clashed with the hated Richard Angell over whether hospital car parking should be free for patients and their families during the last election. We couldn't even begin to detail Dan's invaluable contributions to the New Lexicon of the Left and Twitter-as-artform, but we certainly could get him on the li...

The brilliant comedian Josie Long returns to this podcast two years on from her last appearance to tell everybody to VOTE LABOUR AND VOTE OFTEN (ok, Josie didn't say "vote often" - she is a law-abiding citizen and would never advocate Mr Richard Miller-style electoral fraud. But she definitely said VOTE LABOUR!) We talk about melt comedy vs Josie's own ideologically correct stylings (this is our a...

Watch our full report here on the RP YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPrTZgyfd1I Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson's general election campaign has been dogged by rumours of ritualistic squirrel murder. But who are the Orange Book Nutcrackers, and what role have they played in recent Liberal Democrat history? Our investigative team reports.