who s got loads to say. it s thangam debbonaire, shadow leader of the house of commons. hello, hello, hello. and thank you so much for mentioning us in the house of commons last week. this is how it went. the leader famously once reassured this house that another prime minister wasn t hiding under a desk. words immortalised on the bbc s newscast intro. now i hear from the parliamentary press gallery reception news that she s a big fan of the podcasts. so, mr speaker, i ll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. is that where the prime minister really was on monday evening, hiding under a desk? so this is a great way for our politicians to get on the podcast. just name check us in parliament, put us in the historic record forever for historians to read about. and then you can come on. yeah, but i m the first, i was the first to put newscast in hansard and that was very exciting moment. i mean, if this starts an arms race, it will be amazing. who knows? bu
which is no small task which we share as commissioners. so we get to work together quite a lot in a completely different way. now, talking of double acts, you ve got you and penny, you ve got me and chris. the latest podcasting double act is george osborne and ed balls. they re going to be doing podcasts. what do you think of that? well, as a podcast aficionado. right. let s get on with this episode of newscast and see how long chris mason s voice will hold up for the newscast. it s adam in the studio. and it is croaky chris in the studio. chris, put it on a t shirt. i m joined by thangam debbonaire, who is the shadow leader of the house of commons, who very nicely mentioned newscast in parliament for the first time ever last week. so thank you again. chris, i m just working out how this is going to work out tonight. am i going tojust say all the news and you lljust sort of like cough if i got it right or give me a thumbs up. so for people watching or maybe i can do sort of thumbs up o