sets to alice cornet. it s the first time in her career the 19 year old has lost the opening match of a grand slam event. now on bbc news, the dark side of direct sales. the world of door to door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips abroad and the chance to work with some of the biggest brands in the uk. but the reality can be very different. i m lora jones and, for the past year, i ve been investigating the dark side of the direct sales industry. are young people chasing a dream they can never achieve? just, like, chews you up and spits you out. i probably blew about £2,000 in, like, road trips and stuff. wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound dramatic but it was like selling your soul. and could direct sales companies be breakin
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It is time for newscast. Alex, if i had to describe newscast, i would say it is a visualised podcast which means it is a podcast, its a radio programme, and its a tv show. Our Subject Material is what is going on At Westminster and beyond. Its a podcast tv radio show, fine. As long as there is interesting news chat. No silly gimmicks or pop culture references. Today i think i will give my long awaited verdict on the taylor swift album really, nobody wants to hear you talking about that, 0k . Just move on. I am sure everyone will be waiting with bated breath, adam. Other stuff we have got in there, back to the politics of course, we have got louise haigh, the shadow transport secretary, who is doing this big announcement about what labour would do with the railways, so that is going to be pretty big, we will talk about that. Ok, so presumably it is alljust serious then, no silly gimmicks . And no comedians on the show . And then we will be lightening the mood because Michael Spicer, the