Telling it like it is, thats Pete Waterman. I salute you sir.

Pete Waterman, brilliant bloke, talks more sense than any politician

Pete Waterman is a rock of good sense. Straight talker that we need to hear more from. Well done again Nigel.

Someone who actually has done other things In their life, and has great stories to tell. And let's off a bit of steam now and again.

I love a great discussion without the people getting upset. Great program

Great interview, Pete is an icon of music and a train buff, more people should use the trains and leave their cars at home to go to work, whether it's London, Manchester or Newcastle. Never seen a duff Talking Pints yet, brilliant Nigel 👍!!

We would love to travel to London by train to see our son, it is just too bloody expensive.

You can't beat a good train journey.

Please get him back that was great!

A man of passion, a man of vision, a man of money. He can even read and write now! Self motivated winner!

Pete Waterman so good to see you again …Well said Sir ..just talking sense is rare these days .regards from Manchester..

Pete Waterman brilliant lad, finally a talking pints that offers a real debate well done both.

I could listen for hours.

Pete, you are soo interesting..and you talk about lots of honesty... Love to.us all. Kind of you Nigel to bring in Mr Waterman.

I'm from the west Midlands and love pete Waterman! 😊👍he makes more sense than any politician!

Great guy still grounded could do with more like him

I remember in the early 90's coming home from nights out and watching Michaela Strachan and Pete Waterman on 'The Hitman and Her'. Also the cookery programme 'Get Stuffed!'. Great days.

Pete Waterman only two words to say about him ... Top man.

The best one yet! The Hit man and Her from Tokyo Joes in Preston .... I was there! These Talking Pints segments are still far to short - Give us an hour Nige! 🙏🏻👍🏻🇬🇧

The trouble with trains is, they never go from where I am to where I want to go.

The real purpose of HS2 is capacity - the west and east cost mainlines are absolutely RAMMED to capacity, not with people but with trains, having to mix a 60mph freight with 125mph passenger creates substantial issues operationally. The idea should be turfing long distance express services which aren't stopping on to HS2 to basically open the taps wide open and let the thing fly, leaving more room for container trains etc doing 60mph to mix it up with 100mph regional service so the disparity is only 40mph on a route which already has slow and fast lines. Pete is right, the railway network is Victorian, the difference being they would tunnel under a whole mountain inside a month or so, now it would take them 3 years!!

Peter has a good point: funding emotions rather than infrastructure is dimwitted.

What a fantastic interview. Very refreshing indeed 👍

Stock aitken waterman wrote and produced some of the best music. Never really worked with established artists except Donna Summer and Sir Cliff. My music collection has many SAW songs. Thanks Pete. Give me a time machine to go back.

Maybe because I'm not a Brit that I don't know the name Peter Waterman. Clearly though he's a top bloke. This was such an enjoyable interview because I sensed that Nigel wasn't 100% in agreement with Mr. Waterman and yet it was all very nice and polite over a drink. More please.

Brilliant guest

Loved that. Lot of time for PW, says it as it is, And Nigel came across in a different light too, you always get the best out of a guest if you’ve done your homework and show a genuine appreciation. Exactly what NIgel did, well done.

Great, thank you Pete (love your model railways!). Cheap tickets then travel by LUMO.

Yet again, far too short, I could listen to Pete Waterman for an hour

One of the best pub chats yet. Peter is a legend and inspiration. Nice one Nigel!

A very good debate, I'm still on the side of firage, but by God I love waterman passion and (despite the current woke agenda) his open-mindedness to have a decent talk about issues

Talking pints, the best 15 minutes viewing anywhere today.

Could have listened to another hour of that discussion. 👍

AT LAST !! something totaly entertaing in this world gone down the bog.

Love Pete top man!

This is a cool segment, two legends debating the news while drinking a pint.

I am 74 and Neither can I understand why so many drive and are obsessed by cars now! I travelled by train and bus until the mid 70s.

Brilliant interview. No agenda from Nigel or Pete just good open debate and acceptance of right to hold a different views.

At last somebody puts Nigel in his place...well done Pete.

Please listen to him; I wasn't going to but I'm glad I did.

Without HS2 what is going to happen with all the containers? Out them on an already over crowded and under staffed road system? Of course HS2 is needed and the sooner the better.

two top blokes

Woar Nigel. Much love ❤ Love waterman, and his music

Amazing sample for society....

the west midlands.. greatest county in space.. the home of legends

I think Peter likes hs2 simply because he likes trains. I've got an interest in trucks but I still hate to see , British green belt covered over buy motorways and bypasses !

What a brilliant interview

I love taking trains 🚆 😌 ☺ 🤗 so I support HS2 and I also think Leeds Bradford Airport should be expanded and have a train station built next to it and have trains to Leeds & Bradford Forster Sq Station.

Great chat and far too short. I'm six years older then Pete but share his views about the Railways. Dr Beeching destroyed the British rail system because the government had put its eggs in the car market. Thereafter it was a continuous increase in fares and decrease in reliability and service frequency . For years I travelled to work by train and witnessed the reduction of passenger numbers , and formed in my mind what I called the BR syndrome . The more passengers that are lost the more they charge the few remainin g. Eventually I had to get a car because the rail service had became a joke . The last time that I was in Phoenix Arizona about 6 years ago ,staying at Scotsdale you could still catch a bus after midnight , and people used it. What FU this country was unions , and during my working life was a member of four of them , a waste of money .

Loved his music through the 80's, Kylie etc etc...

Pete Waterman has inflicted many cruel crimes on us all with his Music contracts which should never be spoken about again but on the Positive side he is a quality guy with a lot of life experience and common sense

If you build it they will come

He’s right you know. Every £ spent in infrastructure creates many many jobs and wealth for well over a hundred years.

Mr. Farage , Support UKIP s Referendum on Immigratio.

Public transport is too expensive, unreliable, and don’t go where you need to go. Plus the HS2 will be used to transport these immigrants from south to north faster. Out of sight out of mind.

Top bloke

Great man is Peter Waterman.

Goodness me. What a stimulating conversation between two straight talkers.

loved it

I'm a great fan of Pete's being a steam fanatic myself but I'm afraid you have to be rich to travel by train! BEFORE 9.30AM. Can someone tell me how many free tickets my hard earned taxes are Goin to buy me? because I can't afford to travel to work by train so WHY do I have money taken from me for subsidies for people that can.

I think the point of HS2 is rather than improving high speed trains, it's about taking high speed trains off the local routes in order to provide more local trains.

I'm pretty sure HS2 is about more than saving some journey time, that's not the entire picture as you'll be on a brand new train, from a brand new station on a brand new line with up to date tech, people from architects to staff and many more in between will get secure short and long term jobs and the old lines will also get a chance to relax a bit and hear themselves creek. The pro arguments are strong and have substance, HS2 is breath taking on some levels, dynamic on other levels, it fits in with the greats like Brunel and Stevenson, the anti brigade limp points range from the bizarre to the ridiculous, fits in with a handbag and those who were actually concerned already played a constructive part in the planning ... cheers

Don't want people in Leeds getting on the train and telling people the truth

I get the stuff about all the talk of passenger railways but what I don't understand is how people can ignore how freight trains take so many thousands of lorries off the road, surely that's important?

Another great interview Nigel but it was JUST TOO SHORT.........AGAIN.

Could listen to Pete all day long about anything he likes to talk about speaks such sense and his passion for railways is contagious. Want to know anything about pop music he’s your man

Peter is right

Self made man and living legend

Because England stops at the north midlands......

Pete smashed it in the 80s respect

A densely populated country means more cars in a small country .With regret,public transport has to be used .

If you didn’t know this dude, you’d swear the only band he ever produced was bananarama!😂

be nice if investment could be put into the North. The North has been ignored for too long

Had a laugh remembering the 7 pint tins of Watneys Red Barrel the most horrible chemical masquerading as beer. 🤮

WELL IF THE PEOPLE UP NORTH DON'T WANT IT.... THEY SHOULD'NT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.. LET THE SOUTH PAY ALL THOSE BILLIANS.....

Is that Beer..??? "Tetley's Mild or "Tetley's tea bags...looks like cold piss........

Top man you should have made the interview longer .

What we need now is Pre-Election Contracts of Employment for MP Candidates Twixt The Voting Public and those later MPs who should be serving us and not Dictating To us. We need to get them under our Control Where they belong - Public Servants not Tyrants as they are now

I've never owned a car and I never want to own a car. I would travel by train if two things were fixed - 1) the high fares and 2) overcrowded trains!

Pete Waterman wrote a song that scored nul points at Eurovision. Legend!

Sceptical is the right word for the COP 26 spectacle...

This interview never went how you wanted it to go

We Miss Pete

Pete says he is a fan of public transport and doesn't need to drive. While I am a supporter of public transport and think it should get more investment I would like to see how he manages getting on to a bus after doing the big shop at the local super market with 4 big bags of shopping.

Talk about a highly priced but poor administrators.

thats some sorry looking beer

You got me in two minds now.. do I watch Panorama or Bananarama ?

I am not against upgrading the railways, but this HS2 is totally the wrong way to do it! The only way it should have been done is by Mono-rail Magalev systems, as the Japanese have had for decades! They are faster and can be taken overland without tunneling. and raised over agricultural land on pillars!

Too short.

i like waterman but hate his opinion on HS2

East Midlands and Yorkshire don't want to work with the Tories.

While you Remoaners are complaining about every little hic-up of Brexit that comes up in the news, us patriotic Brexit supporting farmers and fishermen and us courageous carworker Brexiteers in Swindon are reaping the fantastic success of our glorious Brexit. Why can't you just let us wallow in our happiness that we won and that you lost. Get over it Remoaners.

Of course Mr waterman loves the railways, he does not have to worry about finding the money to pay those extortionate prices for a ticket.

All this chat and never apologised for the Reynolds girls :)

I couldn't stand, Pete&Co's, productions.That's a personal opinion! What a great, bloke, though.straight, & to the, point, just like our, Nigel!!

Any new-train will not be up to date when it’s running on wheels. Should be raised high in the sky on a single diameter centre rail.

Well the answer to why people drive cars is pretty simple - they get you from where you are to where you want to be whenever you want, in comfort and safety. By contrast, trains outside London and a few other big cities, are dirty, noisy, often overcrowded and in many cases - simply non existent.

TOO SHORT Where's the rest of the Interview!!!

Great argument boys

As much as I detest Farage's politics this was a good interview. I have to agree with him that HS2 will suck people and business to London. Early on it was described as a commuter service for rich people, and I have to agree this is what it will become. If Boris is serious about levelling up, he and subsequent governments, he will have to discourage businesses from doing so be it through tax or subsidy in order to base themselves in the north.