Hi this is Pod Save the UK I'm Nishkar and I'm Coco Khan this week the headlines are saying the UK is out of recession but what does this actually mean and we're joined by activists and author George Mambio to chat about recapturing our democracy.

Hi Nick, how's your week been?

Pretty good, Coco. How's your week been?

Yeah, it's been pretty good. On your recommendation, I have watched The Wire.

The whole thing? Well, I'm only at, I'm only like Midway Through season one.

Okay, great. Yeah, they're long episodes. No, I was actually expressing total surprise that you'd watched I think 50 hours of

television in a week. I was about to say that's phenomenal going.

That would be my way of telling you that I've lost all my other employment and actually that's a cry for help.

Was it your recommendation or was it Susan Hall's recommendation?

Well, it was Susan Hall's recommendation based on not having seen the wire

and just mentioning it, just giving some free publicity for

HBO by showing that she has absolutely no knowledge of what happens in the

television program and she inspired me I don't often take my TV recommendations

from conservative politicians.

But as you know, my most conservative show

that I watch is Homeland.

Right, sure, yeah, yeah.

So that is what?

What's your favorite right-wing TV show?

Well, I like a lot of action films. Right, okay. So there are arguments that you can make that something like

The enemy of the state or the Bourne films have a left or left of center ideology but I think a lot

of action films are intrinsically quite quite right wing oh for sure yeah I've seen Independence Day yeah oh yeah I mean

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