Mandatory Redistribution Party

The Mountains Of Madness | 024

Jack wins a skiing holiday in a packet of monster munch and finds himself in a situation that tests the limits of persuasive communication. Welcome to the mountains of madness. 
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Sean Morley. 

Kropotkin's Crab | 023

Sean and Jack explore the ideas of scientist and revolutionary Peter Kropotkin, human - and animal - nature, and whether or not cows can achieve class consciousness.---------
Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Brahms (performed Neal and Nancy) and Jack Evans.

Welltris (featuring Liberty Hodes) | 022

Sean chats with comedian, theatremaker and producer Liberty Hodes about 'satisfaction' as an aesthetic, sleep paralysis and the history of tetris. Liberty runs an exciting night in Newcastle and London called The Comedy Night That Passes The Bechdel Test. She is currently working on a show called Hot Commodity which explores the relationship between capitalism, commodification and the mental health crisis. The episode art for this episode is a piece of art that Liberty made which has been on my living room wall for the past year.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Sean Morley. 
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If you want to find out more about The Comedy Night That Passes The Bechdel Test, it runs monthly at Alphabetti Theatre in Newcastle and irregularly elsewhere. Keep your eyes peeled!

Jack Evans: Work | BONUS

This episode is a bootleg recording of Jack’s 2018 stand-up comedy show ‘WORK’, the blurb for which read as follows:
Workers of the world: please stop! Jack Evans, lizard prince of Manchester's alternative circuit, presents a punchy, out-there hour about work: its history, its present and a future without it.
'An alternative tour de force' ★★★★ (EdFestMag.com).'Go see him if you like weird stuff' ★★★★ (ShortCom.co.uk). ‘As a comedian, his skills are undeniable’ ★★★★  (theweereview.com) 'Absolutely the best Noam Chomsky material ever' (Scotsman). 'As inventive and unsettling as a one-man League of Gentlemen' (Vice).
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music is Jack Evans’s interpretation of Pierre De Geyter’s ‘The Internationale’.

Phantom Gammon | 021

Sean and Jack discuss the myth of “white genocide”, how the idea of the working-class is used by politicians for their own ends as well as considering their individual position in the UK’s ancient and convoluted class system. Guest appearances from some northern working class people who aren’t xenophobic dunderheads.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. With additional music by Jack Evans as well as royalty free versions of Monteverdi’s Cantate Domino and Mussorgsky’s Sempre Moderato.

USSR (Undead Spooky Space Revolution) | 020

Does communism need a kaiju? Sean and Jack discuss this vital question, as well as the ideas of Argentine Trotskyist Posadas, a man who thought socialism would be delivered to earth aboard UFOs. Jack delivers a segment on what makes capitalism scary, as well as revealing Karl Marx's talent for gothic horror.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music by Jack Evans.

Queen Liz | 019

Sean and Jack talk about the social and political role of the monarchy which descends into a conversation about how the monarchy is a magnet for conspiracy theories and the left's relationship with conspiracy thinking. This week's segment takes those discussions further and builds upon the work of the philosopher Quassim Cassam and his research into the nature of conspiracy theories to better understand the left's relationship with bizarre and problematic conspiracy fringe groups. 
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music provided by Kahwe (https://soundcloud.com/kahwe). If you want to find out more about Quassim Cassam's work you can find his book on conspiracy theories here.
 
 

Democratise Greggs (feat. Grace Blakeley) | 018

Jack interviews author and economics commentator Grace Blakeley, exploring the problems with finance-led growth, its impact on the lives of ordinary working people and the democratic socialist alternative. 
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music by Jack Evans.
Grace Blakeley’s book 'Stolen: How to save the world from financialisation' is available here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/stolen-how-to-save-the-world-from-financialisation/
Photo credit: Kevin Walsh

La Plage | 017

Jack exclaims that the world could be more beautiful if only every available surface was not repurposed as an advertising platform and Sean does a deep dive on The Spectacle. Beneath the cobbles, there is a beach. 
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Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Sean Morley. 

Interview with Tom Fowdy (Visit North Korea) | BONUS

This bonus episode is intended to be a supplement to episode 14 - Pripyat Hut, so it's suggested that you gobble that up before you come sniffing round these parts. Following our discovery and fascination with the facebook page Visit North Korea, Sean tracks down its founder and social media manager Tom Fowdy to discuss perceptions of North Korea and his role in establishing one of the strangest travel agencies on the internet.
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Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme music was created by Ella Jean.