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
Across europe in the build up and during the second world war, isn t there a bit where you get given a short audio clip of somebody turns out it s a dvd, not a cd, and its four hours long? a dvd of my dad. and if i hadn t had that, i don t think i d have been able to write this book because it told me so much detail about his experience in the state collective farm, his father s experience in the gulag. that was amazing. we didn t have very many records at home, by the way. we only had six. my father had no teenage years, so one of them was sooty and sweep i think that must have been mine. the other five, because he had no teenage years, he had very little music in the house in that way, which is odd, because he had loads and loads of books. tonnes and tonnes of books. he was a very cultured person. give us a potted sense, for people who are just coming across your book, about the extraordinary story that you are telling of the two sides of your family. absolutely so my mother wa