Summary
Holyrood enters recess and the election period begins ahead of the May 6th vote. BBC political journalist Kirsten Campbell joins the team to talk about the last week of madness in Scottish Parliament, the last-minute NHS pay rise announcement, and the friendly end to this term of Holyrood which has been punctuated by intense debate and anger. As the Coronavirus pandemic continues, what will the parties' election campaigns look like?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to |
| 0:13.9 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.5 | coming out of Holyroods and Westminster. |
| 0:20.9 | It is 15 minutes past two on Thursday the 25th of March. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm Lucy White in Glasgow and today I'm joined by. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm Rastip Sundew based in London. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm Lindsay Buse in Edinburgh. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Phil Sim in my house. |
| 0:36.5 | And I'm Kirsten Campbell and I'm also in Edinburgh. |
| 0:39.1 | Kirsten Campbell's with us everybody. |
| 0:41.4 | Woo-hoo! Welcome! First, first full-time podlitical appearance. Thank you so much. |
| 0:47.6 | I know I'm making my debut. I'm very excited. Well, we were talking about this before we started. |
| 0:51.3 | It's not technically your debut, debut, is it? Because you have featured on political way back in its infancy, but just not for a full episode. |
| 1:00.1 | I think I gave an explanation about why we shout questions at politicians when they are walking in and out of offices or up corridors at Parliament. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.1 | It's like a long-time listener, first-time caller situation here. |
| 1:12.5 | Exactly. |
| 1:15.6 | And listen, we were gathered together here on this day. |
| 1:20.9 | It's a happy day. |
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