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It's 20 minutes past two

on Thursday the 27th of August. I'm Lucy White.

I'm a journalist based in the Glasgow Newsroom.

And also joining me today is...

I'm Phil Sim. I'm a political reporter usually based at Holyrood,

but currently in deepest Aberdeenshire.

And it's just Phil and I today of the normal political team, but we are joined by two very

special guests. We have Alice Mumford, who's chair of the Women 5050 campaign. Hello, Alice. Hello.

Hello there. And we also have Mariam Amid, who's a data journalist with BBC News. Hello,

Mariam. Hi. So we've got you guys

on this week because Scottish Health Secretary Gene Freeman's announced she won't be standing

for election next year. And she's joining an ever-growing list of Holyrood heavyweights,

her retiring from the Scottish Parliament in 2021. So we thought with that happening,

now is the perfect chance to look at who could be the next generation of MSPs, who could be some of the rising stars that are coming through, and also what the makeup of the Scottish Parliament could look like, because it's not always done particularly well in getting diversity in there. And, Mariam, your job is crunching numbers on this kind of thing.

So what do the stats say?

Do they have any predictions about what Hollywood could look like in the future?

Well, it's quite difficult to predict what the makeup of Hollywood could look like in future.

But looking at the picture right now, we can say that it looks pretty bleak in terms of diversity.

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