Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com

I opened this week’s live show with the usual mix of chaos and comedy, including a wrong jingle, a heatwave moan, and a surprisingly gripping update on the mystery of my radio-shed internet woes. After a visit from Virgin Media, a new router, a replaced splitter and a dash to Currys, the gremlins appear to have been banished at last. From there we veered into social platforms, censorship, Telegram, Gab, BitChute, Treechat, and the creeping pressure of age-verification and control online, with Eric adding tales of DIY, electric bikes, SIM-powered internet and his usual perfectly improper mechanical wisdom.

Later, Kizzi joined me for a gloriously free-ranging conversation that moved from music, bikes, maps, old family life and nostalgia into much heavier territory: migration, identity, tolerance, government overreach, scripture, race, history and who exactly gets to define culture, nationhood and belonging. We also talked about her Shine & Rise gathering in Bosham, Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein artwork, Monster Mash, independent music from John Fairhurst, and the broader question of how ordinary people push back locally when institutions seem rotten from top to bottom. In short: a very English evening of laughter, provocation, argument, memory, music and live-wire radio.

Paul English Live: https://paulenglishlive.com/
Food For Thought Radio: https://fftradio.com/
Gab: https://gab.ai/
BitChute: https://support.bitchute.com/what-is-bitchute
Treechat: https://treechat.ai/
Shine & Rise Mini Festival: https://www.greendoor.uk.com/service-page/shine-rise-mini-festival
Green Door Centre, Bosham: https://www.greendoor.uk.com/
Bernie Wrightson: https://www.berniewrightson.com/
Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein gallery: https://www.berniewrightson.com/galleries/frankenstein/
John Fairhurst: https://johnfairhurst.com/
Mog Fry: https://www.mogfry.co.uk/
Spotify: https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/
Monster Mash on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2DSidTcc9WkEqpxntTQ6jm