You are listening to a trailer for Under the Skin by Russell Brandt. It's my new podcast.

I'm going to have guests on here that help us really get under the skin of a variety of topics.

It could be academia like it actually is. This isn't my particular call. The first week we're

talking to Brad Evans who wrote a book called Liberal Terror. He's a celebrated academic.

He's one of them sort of pop academics that might come on the TV grow up and explain things to

you that are otherwise too complex. He'll be on our podcast explaining to us the integral

relationship between the behaviour of governments in the West and terrorism all over the world.

But it won't be him every week. Next week it might be a chef like Tom Kerridge telling us about

the atmosphere and a kitchen. And then the week after that it might be some civil rights

protester from America. Or someone else that makes sure that it's a real balanced group of people

both in terms of ethnicity, gender, sexuality. Because I'll totally let me level with you.

I'm going to university now and I'm not concentrating. I need to use fame and celebrity to get access

to some of the finest minds in the world. And if I can use this podcast to get me in touch with

people that no more than my teachers know, I'll bloody well use it. In fact that is what I'm doing.

Watch me, Russell Brand, coast through a three year MA in religion,

in global politics by interviewing top academics and usurping the curriculum that way.

But you'll be learning with me. Imagine tuning into a podcast that you know that you'll come out

the other side better equipped. Once you've listened to Brad Evans you will know more about what

terrorism is and what it means. You will know more about how we can genuinely change the world.

And you will know more about the necessity for a commitment to non-violence and how that's

going to transform society. But under the skin will be different every week. One minute will we

talking about hip no birthing? That's a sort of hippie wave doing a baby. Another week where we're

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