NEW RP! @LukewSavage of @MichaelandUs and @jacobinmag joins Jack & Geraint to discuss the BBC's 1995 documentary series Labour: The Wilderness Years, in which the great & the good of the Labour Party (and the SDP) put forth their often drastically divergent perspectives on the party's post-1979, pre-Blair history. Plus - the British and Canadian elections, Neil Young's endorsement in the latter, and Luke's Twitter beef with Mike Gapes.

This year RP host Jack Frayne-Reid has made two albums of lo-fi home recordings under the (unoriginal) name Crazy Moose: Patterns (in July) and, this October (or was it September? fuck man) Ghost Horizon, which was recorded over the summer. In the first part of a two-side conversation Yair interviews Jack about the first side of the record, which includes the songs 'Side Two', 'Tombstone Bones', 'Fickle", 'Fucking Vindicated' and 'Talking Thunder'.

We talk about the inspiration behind the songs (and Yair's artwork for the album), be they the life and music of the late David Berman, the two hosts' mental health (content note for discussion of deep depression and suicidal thoughts)and merely existing in Thatcher & Reagan's neoliberal dream. Lots of guitar sounds are picked over and plagiarism is confessed to.

You can stream/download Ghost Horizon here as one long big track on the RP SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/crazy-moose-ghost-horizon

Or you can stream/download it as a playlist of individual tracks on Jack's SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/j-p-frayne-reid/sets/crazy-moose-ghost-horizon

To support Crazy Moose, or even - God forbid - the Reel Politik Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik

Produced by new RP affiliate @molono, we can finally present to you our last political discussion recorded before the election was called, which has been lounging in the vaults for a few weeks now. Geraint (@wariotifo) heads up the episode, and takes our listeners on a journey through the past to the heyday of the Tory youth movement. We look at those who were active Conservatives in the early 2010s, and wonder where they are now. We also look at confirmed cop JJ Patrick's Brexit survival tips.

"I understood Paul Wolfowitz as a man who believed in promoting democracy in other countries, and I played him as somebody who thought he was doing the right thing. " - Eddie Marsan

In the second part of the movie roundup that saw us reviewing three major new releases, we now trawl through the annals of film history to bring you a wide-ranging discussion of the form, from our love of South Korea's thriving national cinema, to the dazzlingly vibrant filmmaking that came from one of Italy's most politically tumultuous periods, namely Pasolini's Salo and Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. We talk about mid-period (post-exile) Roman Polanski thrillers, The Night of the Living Dead + 4K restorations of lo-fi films, and get stuck into Adam MacKay's Dick Cheney biopic Vice, which Yair hadn't actually seen at the time of recording, but we both quite liked.

Opening tune - Morricone's theme to ...Citizen Above Suspicion

Closing tune - Crazy Moose covering Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

(This episode will be released on SoundCloud in a day or two, at which point we'll upload some exclusive Patreon content.)

music & some lyrics: Neil Young

new lyrics: Jack Frayne-Reid

Geraint, Yair and a hoarse-voiced Jack are back for another rowdy election special, in which we drop some of our trademark Reel Politik salt onto the hated Liberal Democrats, who are pioneering bold new fronts in non-linear warfare in their astonishingly, disgracefully deceitful campaign. We talk all the lies: the bullshit graphs, the "tactical voting" sites, the backtracking on past pledges of denuclearisation in order to score cheap points at Corbyn for not wanting to murder everybody. Our focus is not limited to the mere Lib Dems, however: we also talk about, and even to, Mike Gapes.

In this short special, we bring you an exclusive peak behind the iron curtain of the RP Patreon paywall. Our content this October on patreon.com/reelpolitik has included:

- your regular RP newsletter, written by Jack and approved by Mr Seumas Milne

- a mammoth two-hour session with Jack, Yair and friend of the show Emmett "roof access" Cruddas talking about the incredible Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan, 2007)

- RP founder and artistic director Tom Foster's return to the show after a long absence, with a half-hour minisode on Michael Bay's place in the illustrious Criterion Collection.

- Mooseology, a new mixtape of demos, outtakes, alternate takes and covers by Jack's band Crazy Moose, with artwork designed by Yair

There's a general election going on in the UK as of two days ago, and RP need all the support we can get to spread the left-wing propaganda and do our little bit to get Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10 by making fun of Mike Gapes and reviewing films. We aim to release political episodes with a much greater regularity during the campaign. Please lend the RP propaganda machine a helping hand at patreon.com/reelpolitik

At long last, after two years of agonising political deadlock, a General Election was announced yesterday. Geraint (@wariotifo) and Yair (@rice_ys) join Jack (@gapesology) to salt every slug in the book and finally get excited again about the prospect of Mr Jeremy Corbyn and Mr Seumas Milne in Number 10 Downing Street. This emergency RP election broadcast was rushed to completion in under twelve hours, and should hopefully be the start of a big election cycle for your favourite scurrilous left podcast, and also for Reel Politik.

(Previously released on the RP Patreon. Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik)

Your latest RP movie roundup, in which Jack and Yair review the following films:

- It: Chapter Two (Andy Muschietti, 2019)

- Us & Them (Joseph Martin, 2017)

- The Day Shall Come (Chris Morris, 2019)

- El Camino (Vince Gilligan, 2019)

Plus we have a little bit of Joker pre-chat, before we review it in depth on a future episode. The episode isn't as long as the running time would suggest: that extra seven minutes at the end is just Crazy Moose covering Crazy Horse. Enjoy!

PS. This is a Patreon exclusive for a couple of days, then we'll be dropping it on SoundCloud, so as to maintain a somewhat reasonable schedule now our seventh series is officially underway. Expect more new episodes - on the political situation, on Joker, on Jack's new album - coming very soon.

Musician, broadcaster and all round friend of the show Emmett Cruddas AKA roof access(@roof__access on Twitter) joins Jack (@gapesology) once again to run through the rest of the filmography of director supreme Bernard Shakey AKA Neil Young. We talk about Young's later directorial projects: the well-intentioned but inept anti-Iraq War documentary CSNY/Deja Vu, and the strange mimed eco-rock opera Greendale, plus Young's four films in collaboration with the great director Jonathan Demme, and one each with Hal Ashby and his current wife Darryl Hannah. It's a heady extravaganza of wild rock and roll music, illustrative clips from the movies and dope criticism from Emmett & Jack. Big up Mr Neil Young and buy his new album with Crazy Horse, COLORADO, out in the next few days.