Summary
The First Minister of Northern Ireland says goodbye. She tells us about her vow to make tackling online trolls part of her life's work after leaving front-line politics.
Today’s Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey with Producer Caitlin Hanrahan. The Studio Director is Richard Townsend. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Laura, should we do that old thing of which character from friends are you, but do it with |
| 0:08.4 | Chris Mason who's still never seen a single episode? |
| 0:11.4 | What still? |
| 0:12.4 | Still? Well, I suppose it has been quite busy in the last few |
| 0:14.7 | years yeah if I missed this new one as well has that been gone already you would not |
| 0:19.8 | have a clue who any of the people are or what they're talking about. |
| 0:23.0 | Has it been on there? |
| 0:24.0 | It was on today, wasn't it? |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, well it's streaming, so it's on all the time. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, ah, right. |
| 0:29.0 | That's a newfangled, all the kids are doing things that way. |
| 0:31.0 | Didn't exist when France first existed in 1996. |
| 0:34.0 | No. |
| 0:35.0 | But Chris, you still haven't watched any of it? |
| 0:37.0 | No, I, it is on my sort of a to-do list, things to watch. |
| 0:42.0 | The thing is, my wife saw it when everybody else saw it and so you know when am I going to sit down and actually watch it and the children are too young so no I haven't maybe I just watched this new one and just that's it. |
| 0:53.0 | I'll be caught up won't take one go. |
| 0:55.0 | Well luckily us political geeks had the one with Dominic Cummings this week |
| 0:59.0 | which was a special seven hour long reunion episode with many fewer laughs. |
| 1:03.3 | And there weren't many friends in that. |
| 1:05.4 | Boom! |
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