The show is a collaboration between Crooked and Reduced Listening, a British podcasting company. “Pod Save the U.K.” is Crooked Media’s first international production. And that’s really what I feel and see around me.” “If you underinvest in something, it is going to wither and die.

“The big thing that crops up for me on the podcast and in my life, much to the detriment of my social interactions, is 13 years of Conservative rule, 13 years of underinvestment,” Kumar said. That is evident, he said, in the crisis facing the National Health Service and the strikes that have recently disrupted the country’s services. Kumar has found himself returning to what he sees as the facilitation of national decline under the Conservative Party, who have been the governing party in Britain since 2010. Her great passion, she added, is “how the average person lives and is impacted by politics or a lack of politics where it’s needed.” “So many politics podcasts are focused on what happened in Westminster today,” she said. Khan said that she hoped to bring her background as a journalist to the new show, with a focus on the politics inherent in everyday British life.

For four seasons, he fronted “The Mash Report,” a “The Daily Show” style satirical news program, on the BBC for which Kumar and the corporation were criticized for perceived liberal bias. Kumar is unashamedly political and progressive in his stand-up and television work. Still, Khan and Kumar are no strangers to political commentary.

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