Summary
Laura Kuenssberg is back in Westminster as MPs return from their summer breaks. She has a big old catchup with Adam about what's happening in the House of Commons and the growing political storms around social care and vaccinations. And the tech trial of the century kicks off on Tuesday in Silicon Valley... Elizabeth Holmes (who was called "the next Steve Jobs") goes on trial for fraud. Who is she and what is going on? We chat with the technology author, Margaret O’Mara. Today’s Newscast was made by Caitlin Hanrahan and producer Ben Cooper. The studio director was Emma Crowe. Sam Bonham was the Assistant Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, bit of a sad start to today's podcast because Sarah Harding, |
| 0:10.9 | the fifth member of Girls Alloud, died on Sunday morning from breast cancer. |
| 0:17.1 | And it really hit home to me because, as you'll know, I'm a huge girls allowed fan and also she became a pop star |
| 0:27.3 | at exactly the same time I was becoming a journalist on Newsround. |
| 0:31.8 | The sound of the Underground's turned into the sound of |
| 0:34.4 | success. The girls offering has records shot till's ringing. And then of course I'd |
| 0:39.5 | meet girls aloud like every couple of months because when you were doing like a kids showbiz |
| 0:43.8 | news program then you spoke to girls allowed every couple of months and I just |
| 0:48.2 | remember her being a combination of the most naturally glamorous of them all, but also the most kind of like a normal person. |
| 1:01.1 | And she just always had this sort of feeling that she couldn't quite believe her luck. |
| 1:05.0 | I think to come this far, it's, I class myself as a winner just as same as everybody else. |
| 1:10.0 | I feel so brilliant and that I've achieved this this much. I can't complain, you know, |
| 1:16.8 | something good's going to come out of it no matter what. My sort of attitude to the whole |
| 1:21.2 | thing before I came was, well we're going to go to the house, |
| 1:24.0 | have a laugh, be myself, and whatever happens happens. If it's your time, it's your time, if it's not, |
| 1:28.4 | there'll be another time. And if you want it that badly, what's to say you can't stop trying, you know? |
| 1:34.0 | So it's definitely, don't give up. |
| 1:38.0 | And also that's how she was seen by Pete Waterman, who was one of the judges of that series of pop stars. |
| 1:44.3 | To me, this was a normal young girl that suddenly found herself going to be on top of the world. |
| 1:50.4 | I mean, when I told her that she was she'd made the you know that the finals |
| 1:54.8 | She ran upstairs on the bed and jumped up and down on a bed you know and we joined her her mom and I joined her because that's how excited she was that's how ordinary she was that was just that was Sarah Harding and all her bandmates |
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