Hello, I've taken a couple of days off because it's my birthday, but I'll be leaving you

in very safe hands because you're going to be looked after by Seamick Tatcher from

News Night and Marianna Spring, BBC Disinformation Correspondent. Take it away and I'll see you soon.

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Seamick, one of the stories I saw first

in this morning when I woke up and thought, ah, it'd be quite interesting for us to chat about it today on newscast.

Is this news that it's 50 years since the world's first mobile phone call was made?

Limey. I know, long time, eh?

Which is a very long time. Before our time, Marianna.

Definitely before our time. Martin Cooper, who was a Motorola engineer, used a phone the size of a large house brick.

And I say this as I hold my very small phone to inform a rival at a different company that his invention was a success.

And I spend so much of my time on the phone because I cover social media.

We do, don't we? That's what we, I mean, for our jobs as well.

We're constantly on the phone, aren't we? I mean, whether it's looking at scripts and running orders and all that

jogging that our listeners probably don't want to hear about.

But I mean, I wonder who we could speak to about this. I'm scratching my head here and I'm thinking I have an idea.

I have a plan. Why don't we dial up a couple of people who will remember the very early versions of the mobile phone?

First of all, a friend of the podcast. My mum.

Hello, Sima's mum. Hi. Hi, how are you?

Good evening.

And we're also going to get a new friend of the podcast, my dad, who is joining us on the phone as well.

Hello, Marianna's dad. Hello.

So dad, what was your, what was the first mobile phone that you ever had?

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