A special treat for listening of this podcast: a new episode of my other podcast, Political Fictions:

"Mark and Cory talk about political TV for the first time, and there’s nowhere better to start than The Thick of It. After rewatching the first series, they talk about which fictional policy proposals ended up becoming reality, why it’s important that focus groups thought Keir Starmer was an eagle, and given that Malcolm Tucker keeps screwing everything up perhaps the secret genius behind the British Government is actually Terri Coverley?"

Show notes

• Subscribe to Political Fictions in all the usual places, or listen to it via www.politicalfictionspodcast.com.
• You can view the IMDB page for The Thick of It here.
• UK listeners can watch the show on BBC iPlayer.
• If you enjoyed our segment on focus groups, you may my post about them here (note the date).
• Cory’s email newsletter Paperback Rioter.
• Mark’s family of email newsletters.
• Our theme tune is “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) and licensed under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).