news
Hosted by Mark Pack · news · EN-GB
Mark Pack and guests talk about the Liberal Democrats, British politics and a few stray digressions. Only a few.
Required Pod Score for this podcast. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Verified email
Booking probability
33%
Guest openness
Selective
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for Never Mind The Bar Charts.
Signup to Generate a PitchNever Mind The Bar Charts is hosted by Mark Pack. The show has published 147 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "What people get wrong about secondary legislation: interview by James O'Malley" (13 June 2026, 22 minutes), "Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain - and lessons for pro-European campaigners" (3 May 2026, 47 minutes), and "Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain - and lessons for pro-European campaigners" (3 May 2026, 47 minutes).
Never Mind The Bar Charts publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 48 minutes across 147 episodes.
Booking probability for Never Mind The Bar Charts is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Never Mind The Bar Charts requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Never Mind The Bar Charts's contact route on record: verified email.
Mark Pack hosts Never Mind The Bar Charts, a news podcast with 147 episodes published.
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
Never Mind The Bar Charts
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is not really an episode of the podcast but rather a rerun of an interview I did for the YIMBY Pod with James O'Malley, talking about the problems with secondary...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features the authors of a great new book, Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain. Sara Hobolt and James Tilley discuss how the Brexit referendum was the trigger for...
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features the authors of a great new book, Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain. Sara Hobolt and James Tilley discuss how the Brexit referendum was the trigger for...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
A special treat for listening of this podcast: a new episode of my other podcast, Political Fictions: "Mark and Cory talk about political TV for the first time, and there’s nowhere better to start than The Thick of It...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
Exciting news! This month I’m launching Political Fictions, a new podcast with Cory Hazlehurst, from the Not Enough Champagne podcast. It’s all about TV, film and books featuring politics. Take a listen to our trailer...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
For the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts I talked with Paul Webb about the report "Britain's Party Members" which has new data on who joins political parties in Britain and what they get up to. Are Lib Dems...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
Two of the authors of a new book, The British General Election of 2024, joined me for the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts. Among the topics we discuss are whether Labour's post-election slump has made people...
I've popped up on a movie podcast, War Movie Theatre with Rob Hutton and Duncan Weldon. Here is what they have to say about the show: "A 1964 film about accidental nuclear war from a legendary director and featuring a...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
This episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features podcast favourite Phil Cowley talking about his new book, The Smallest Room in the House. It is crammed full of fun yet useful insights from political science. Listen...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts sees a return to the show for Professor Rob Ford. We dive into my favourite political paradox to discuss with him: the long term liberalising trends in British politics...
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts sees me discuss with polling expert Steve Akehurst what has happened to Labour's July 2024 vote. We dive into the characteristics of those who voted for Starmer but are...
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features an interview with Emeritus Professor Jonathan Parry, whose new book, Liberalism, explores the history of liberalism as a political idea in Britain. Parry...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts saw me team up with John Potter and the Lib Dem Pod team to discuss the local elections. How did they go for the Liberal Democrats and what lessons are there for the...
John Potter of the Lib Dem Pod quizzed me about my first experiences of the House of Lords for our latest joint podcast. Show notes Lib Dem Pod . The Government Chief Whip's Ring Binder . Photograph © House of Lords...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another in the occasional series looking back at previous party leaders with Duncan Brack. This time we pick over Jeremy Thorpe's career - securing Britain's place in...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
Peter Kellner join sme to discuss a new report on what is going wrong with our politics, and the solutions. No surprise then that our conversation focused on populism, its causes and how liberals can defeat it. Show...
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts saw Paula Surridge return to the show, talking about the impact of political values and of perceived competence on recent general elections. We got into some surprising...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts takes a look at a book that has made me rethink several things I thought I knew about the history of the Liberal Democrats and Liberals before them. It also contains some...
Never Mind The Bar Charts
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts takes a look at recent research into the impact of electoral reform on the stability of governments. Does PR mean less stable government? Listen to my discussion with the...
Election campaigns often put significant effort into persuading voters that their candidate(s) could win. But does such campaigning really change people's expectations of who might win? And even if it people's views do...
Recent guests on Never Mind The Bar Charts. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
Strategic Lead for Youth and Participation, Chester Hill Anglican Church
UK & International School Leader, The British International School, Ukraine
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Dean for the faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton
Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, Queen Mary, University of London
Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this podcast is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the podcast's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ
