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Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. It's Friday night and it's just gone 9pm and I've just spent the last 90 minutes watching the BBC's first televised leadership debate of the general election.

Except only some of the parties sent their leaders. Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the SMP and the Tories sent

other senior figures rather than their leaders. And we thought we'd give you a special treat.

The whole thing, unedited in your podcast feed, so you can make up your own minds about what

everyone had to say. It was interesting. It maybe wasn't as cacophonist

as some people had fared.

And there was plenty of politics,

plenty of personalities,

and plenty of policies.

Enjoy.

And me and Laura

have recorded a separate episode

where you can hear us

talking about it.

Good evening to all of you watching and to our live audience here in the BBC Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London.

With less than four weeks to polling day, the parties with us tonight are here because of their performance in recent elections and their standing in opinion polls. The invitation was for leaders or leading figures to take part.

And tonight, the seven debaters with us are. For the Conservatives, Penny Morden, the leader of

the House of Commons, the leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage,

Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rainer,

Greenap Urworth, the leader of Plyde Cymry, the Party of Wales.

Carla Denia, co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales,

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