BONUS: GAPES EXTRA

In recent months, we've found it difficult to provide the comprehensive coverage of politics that our audience have come to expect from us. What we have been able to do is provide comprehensive coverage of one specific politician, zoning in on a true heavyweight until we have a scholarly grasp of his maverick ways. Back in January, we finally went all in, and did our first episode entirely about Mike Gapes, CUK (then Labour) MP for Ilford South. Tragically, the Q&A with Mike Gapes that Professor of Being a Melt Tim Bale was supposed to be chairing tonight at the Miwk End Institute has been cancelled, no doubt due to the diva antics of the showman Gapes, really milking the newfound celebrity brought on by the extensive coverage of his work on this podcast. To compensate for this - and the health-related lack of new episodes in the last couple of weeks - we have unlocked the 40 minutes of extra Gapes material RP Patreon subscribers received in January. Subscribe for more wonderful stuff like this at patreon.com/reelpolitik