Nicola Sturgeon Interview: The Analysis

Newscast

BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

After Laura’s exclusive interview, she’s joined by Henry and Joe to discuss what Nicola Sturgeon had to say about her estranged husband Peter Murrell’s guilty plea to embezzling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the SNP - as well as the political and public reaction to her words.

Hear the full length interview on the previous episode of Newscast.

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The presenter was Laura Kuenssberg and Joe Pike. It was made by Jon Bithrey with Chloe Scannapieco. The social producer was Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Jonathan Greer. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.4	We definitely do not have quiet days anymore in American politics.
0:12.5	Our podcast will help you cut through all the noise.
0:15.9	Make sense of what's happening in the US,
0:17.9	with new podcast episodes arriving throughout the week.
0:23.2	AmeriCast, Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.2	Lucky newscasters, Laura, are not just getting one edition today, but two.
0:31.0	I'll see your Nicholas Sgton scoop.
0:37.4	It's never enough. So you might have seen on the BBC, different platforms on your phone or wherever, or if you've been watching
0:38.3	the telly or listening to the radio, that we did a full-length interview with Nicholas Sturgeon,
0:43.6	her first proper interview since her husband pled guilty to stealing £400,000 from the SNP.
0:50.9	What we're doing this Sunday is we've put the whole interview, 55 minutes, in the newscast feed. So you can listen to that. Yeah. And there's all sorts of stuff in there. We couldn't fit it all in on the telly. So if you're someone that's really interested in her, or you've been following the story really carefully, or you're just kind of fascinated, the full conversation is there for you in your feeds. So what we're going to do this
1:11.0	afternoon with me and you and also with Henry at home is talk about, I suppose, the headlines
1:16.4	and the highlights and give you a bit of analysis. On this episode of Newscast.
1:21.5	Newscast from the BBC. Humanity's next great voyage begins. We are in the midst of a rupture. Nostalgia will not bring back the old... Order. Six-seven. Yeah. It's supposed to be me as a doctor. Daddy has also a special connotation. Ooh-la-la-la. Thinking about it like a panto helped. Do we play music now? Or what do we do? Hello, it's Laura in the studio.
1:45.6	And it's Joe Pike in the studio.
1:47.7	And hello, it's Henry at home.
1:49.9	So, Joe, I'm feeling a bit knackard, frankly.
1:53.0	So give us a recap of how we got to this place.
1:56.3	Well, it's been a story over many years.
2:02.7	There were, what, five, six years ago, questions about the SMPs' finances.
2:04.6	Different parts of this story.
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