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🗓️ 29 January 2025
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Martin Geissler on the BBC's new Scottish news podcast.
A new episode of Scotcast is published every Monday to Wednesday by 5pm.
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0:00.0 | Hello there. If you liked listening to Podlitical and now have a Scottish news-shaped hole in your podcast feed, I bring good news. |
0:08.3 | Scottcast is a new podcast from the BBC. It's hosted by me, Martin Geisler, and I think, or at least I hope, you're going to like it. |
0:17.3 | It's not a politics show, but we have and we will cover plenty of politics and policy. |
0:23.6 | If you head over to our feed, you'll find an episode now about how John Swinney plans to fix the NHS. |
0:29.6 | There's one about the rights and wrongs of a tourist tax, and another about President Trump's links to Scotland. |
0:34.6 | Donald Trump is going to be the biggest rainmaker, political |
0:38.7 | rainmaker of this decade. A bit like the Hebbadian weather, fair or foul, we're going to |
0:43.0 | have to go along with that. We've also got stuck into big issues, which maybe aren't the top |
0:48.0 | stories in the news every day, like housing, online pornography, and the rise in shoplifting. |
0:53.9 | This particular person had a foil-lined pram. |
0:58.0 | A foil-lined pram, but it never just stopped at that. |
1:02.0 | It had a fake pair of baby legs sticking out of the bottom of it. |
1:06.0 | And who in their right mind is going to wake a sleeping baby |
1:09.0 | when their mother's just got it off to sleep. |
1:11.1 | And I was really pleased with the episode we did reflecting on the Lockerbie disaster. |
1:15.2 | Here's Kay Adams telling us what it was like to be one of the first reporters on the scene that night. |
1:20.7 | This incredible fireball that was sitting, you know, just beyond. |
1:25.3 | And I clearly remember the debris. |
1:27.8 | There must have been inches of debris underfoot, |
1:30.9 | cars sitting there burnt out. |
1:32.5 | And I could see fire, |
1:34.1 | fire men and women there trying to attend this massive crater. |
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