Remainiacs

<i>Oh God, What Now?</i>

Oh God, What Now?

British hour-long weekly political podcast about Brexit


Oh God, What Now? formerly known as Remainiacs, is a British hour-long twice-weekly political podcast about Brexit, speaking from the pro-Remain point of view. It was started on 26 May 2017 as Remainiacs after the European Union membership referendum as "a no-holds-barred podcast for everyone who won't shut up about Brexit".[1] In October 2020, Remainiacs was renamed "Oh God, What Now?", due to the nature of Brexit making the unlikelihood of re-joining and changing nature of the British government.[2]

Former podcast album cover

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Description

It is presented by The Guardian's Dorian Lynskey, former academic for London School of Economics Ros Taylor, actor and columnist Alex Andreou, and journalist and former music magazine editor Andrew Harrison, who was also the producer. Former guests political commentator Nina Schick and Minnie Rahman, Interim Chief Executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants have later become regular panelists as well. Former regulars include newspaper columnist for i newspaper Ian Dunt and Best for Britain's Naomi Smith.

It follows a format of half the show in a rundown of the news about Brexit with discussion along with a weekly guest, and then the other half with a straight interview with the guest in question. The podcast was both named one of the "Best Podcasts of 2017" by The Guardian's Miranda Sawyer,[3] and nominated for a podcasting award, the 2018 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards' "Podcast of the Year",[4] however it lost to Ed Miliband's Reasons to Be Cheerful.[5] The show is recorded at Podmasters’ own studio in Highbury, North London.

As well as the weekly show, there is a series of “Remainiacs Live” and “Oh God, What Now? Live” shows at which the hosts spoke among themselves about Brexit. Venues included The Phoenix gastropub in Cavendish Square, Marylebone, the Stoke Newington Literary Festival,[6] Leeds City Varieties,[7] the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool,[8] Hove's The Old Market Theatre [9] and regularly at the Leicester Square Theatre.[10] Remainiacs was part of the Podcast Live: Politics day long festival of different political podcasts on 7 April 2019 at Friends House, Camden.[11]

Notable guests

Notable guests have included:

The Bunker

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After the relative success of Remainiacs, the ending of the withdrawal period and with the extra funding from their Patreon backers, the producers of the show created an hour-long non-Brexit general politics podcast called The Bunker in January 2020.[40] This show follows the same format as Remainiacs, but without the reference to Brexit. After just one show, it became one of top ten politics podcasts on the UK iTunes chart.[41] Due to the large amount of news that being produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, from 26 March short one to one interviews half-hour shows were made under the title of The Bunker Daily. Success of The Bunker Daily has led to the show being a permanent feature of the podcast. There was also a Saturday culture edition of the Bunker, The Culture Bunker, which ran until Sept 2022.

See also

Notes

  1. People who back the show on Patreon, get the show a day earlier as a benefit
  2. Originally until 20 September 2017, "Pane In The Glass" by Lee Rosevere
  3. At the time of recording, she was a Labour MP for Lewisham East,

References

  1. "Podcast #1: Brexit and "The empty tyrannical genius of Theresa May"". Audioboom. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  2. @sturdyalex (29 October 2020). "Register" (Tweet). Retrieved 18 September 2022 via Twitter.
  3. Sawyer, Miranda; Verdier, Hannah; Usborne, Simon; Shariatmadari, David; Dredge, Stuart (29 October 2017). "Best podcasts of 2017 part 1: from the buzziest to politics and brain food". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  4. "Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2018 – Radio nominations". Broadcasting Press Guild. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  5. Festival, Stoke Newington Literary. "Stoke Newington Literary Festival – Remainiacs". www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  6. "Oh God, What Now? - Live in Brighton — The Old Market, Brighton and Hove". The Old Market. 8 June 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  7. "Remainiacs: A Brexit Podcast". Ticketsolve – Leicester Square Theatre. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  8. Live, Podcast. "Podcast Live: Politics". Podcast Live. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  9. "Secret Surveys and Dodgy Donations". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  10. "Order! The one with JOHN BERCOW". Acast. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  11. "The One With Vince Cable". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  12. "ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on the Battle against Brexit". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  13. "NICK CLEGG tells us how to stop Brexit… really!". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  14. "The One With Nick Cohen". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  15. "AC Grayling on Brexit vs. Democracy". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  16. "The one with Gina Miller". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  17. "James O'Brien vs. the Brex-o-sphere". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  18. "The One With Matthew Parris". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  19. "JAY RAYNER on the Brexit food fiasco". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  20. "Knowing me, knowing EU with DAVID SCHNEIDER". Audioboom. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  21. "The Bunker on acast". acast. Retrieved 5 February 2020.

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