{"podcast":{"title":"Oh God, What Now?","slug":"oh-god-what-now-224088","podcast_index_feed_id":224088,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/PMO6148729915","website_url":"https://www.podmasters.co.uk","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d27f80be-3271-11ec-b659-639bfe450dde/image/08692b1b68c7b56aa0adffb277c83887.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Podmasters","episode_count":748,"summary":"Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbearable bearable with top quality guests and analysis, plus poor quality jokes. Regulars include: Guardian writer Rafael Behr • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • New Statesman columnist Jonn Elledge • Writer and host of This Is Not A Drill Gavin Esler • Social affairs journalist Hannah Fearn • Comedian Matt Green • The Lead's Westminster Editor Zoë Grünewald • Group Editor Andrew Harrison • Comedy writer Jason Hazeley • Podmasters Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis • Journalist Marie Le Conte • Writer and commentator Ros Taylor Sign up and get ad-free shows earlier than anyone else: patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow. Oh God, What Now? is a Podmasters production","last_synced_at":"2026-06-23T08:18:46.869307+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oh-god-what-now-224088"},"episode":{"title":"Farage’s riot act — How the right is exploiting Henry Nowak’s murder","slug":"farage-s-riot-act-how-the-right-is-exploiting-henry-nowak-s-murder","published_at":"2026-06-05T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oh-god-what-now-224088/farage-s-riot-act-how-the-right-is-exploiting-henry-nowak-s-murder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oh-god-what-now-224088","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2838048460.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2838048460.mp3","summary":"Farage and the far-right have been quick to seize on Henry Nowak’s horrific murder, ignoring pleas from the victim’s family for the killing not to be politicised. Instead the Reform leader decried “two-tier” policing and called for “pure, cold rage”. What does it all mean? Are we in for another summer of racially-triggered rioting? Plus: what would an Andy Burnham government actually look like? Can Manchesterism succeed where Starmerism stumbled? And in the Extra Bit… mantropreneurship irritant Steven Bartlett claims that two glasses of wine “ruined” his life for three days. Our panel examine the toxic cult of peak performance. • Buy tickets for Ahir’s Golden tour • Because of developments in the news we’ve postponed the promised BUT YOUR EMAILS special by one week. But you can still send your questions to ogwn@podmasters.co.uk. ESCAPE ROUTES • Ros has been watching the BBC’s hit drama Two Weeks in August • Seth rewatched Lawrence of Arabia at Soho’s iconic Prince Charles Cinema • Ahir has been binging darkly-comical superhero series The Boys, which led him to the comic • Zoe has been reading Caro Claire Burke’s new novel Yesteryear about a time-travelling tradwife. When you buy books through our affiliate bookshop, you help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Zoë Grünewald with Seth Thévoz, Ros Taylor and Ahir Shah. Produced by James Liddell. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi…","meta_description":"Farage and the far-right have been quick to seize on Henry Nowak’s horrific murder, ignoring pleas from the victim’s family for the killing not to be poli…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3405,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/oh-god-what-now-224088/episodes/farage-s-riot-act-how-the-right-is-exploiting-henry-nowak-s-murder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oh-god-what-now-224088/farage-s-riot-act-how-the-right-is-exploiting-henry-nowak-s-murder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}