It is presented by The Guardian Dorian Lynskey, politics.co.uk's Ian Dunt, Best for Britain's Naomi Smith, London School of Economics' Truth, Trust & Technology Commission's Research Manager Ros Taylor, former BBC World Service producer and writer Melissa Chemam and Andrew Harrison, who is also the producer. Three former guests, actor and former deputy editor of the New Statesman's Alex Andreou, political commentator and actor Ingrid Oliver have become regular hosts as well. 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 has been both named one of the "Best Podcasts of 2017" by The GuardianMiranda Sawyer, and nominated for a podcasting award, the 2018 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards' "Podcast of the Year", however it lost to Ed Miliband's Reasons to Be Cheerful. The show is made at the back room studio of Soho Radio London, in Great Windmill Street, Soho, London. As well as the weekly show, there has been a series of “Remainiacs Live” shows which the hosts speak among themselves about Brexit. This has been at The Phoenix gastropub in Cavendish Square, Marylebone, the Stoke NewingtonLiterary Festival, and thrice at the Leicester Square Theatre. At the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, they interviewed the cartoonist Martin Rowson. At the third live show at Leicester Square on 7 February, with David Schneider attending as a special guest, Remainiacs was part of the Podcast Live: Politics day long festival of different political podcasts on 7 April 2019 at Friends House, Camden.
Notable guests
Notable guests have included:
''The Bunker''
After the relative success of Remainics, 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. This show follows the same format as Remainics, but without the reference to Brexit. Already after just one show, it became one of top ten politics podcasts on the UK iTunes chart. Due to the large amount of news that being produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, from 26 March short one to one half-hour shows were made under the title of Bunker Daily.
