Award-winning stand-up Mark Steel sits down with our columnist, Andrew Fisher, for a frank, wide-ranging and often hilarious interview, the latest podcast from the Inside Croydon ‘multiverse’.

As our brief extract clip illustrates, the interview switches between the poignant and the profound.

Warning, this podcast contains strong language.

But then, what do you expect when the guest has their own podcast, What the F*** is Going On?

Steel has won multiple awards, not only for his comedy, but also as a newspaper columnist. He is among the sharpest political satirists of our age, and in our latest Under The Flyover podcast he is thought-provoking and opinionated.

He is also reflective, as he talks about what it was like to witness Crystal Palace winning the FA Cup at Wembley with his son, not long after he has been given the all-clear from cancer.

In an hour’s conversation, Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham and Green leader Zack Polanski are all discussed. As well as Kevin Keegan…

And discover how Steel was barred from joining the Labour Party when he applied in MP Steve Reed’s Croydon North constituency.

Steel and Fisher also discuss the recent Green Party conference controversy over the “Zionism is racism” motion, and the way in which Establishment politics throughout Europe and America has struggled to break through in the digital, angry, online age.

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