Hello and welcome to the Political Party podcast. This episode features the political

editor of the BBC, Laura Coonsburg. And it's an hour of wisdom and insight about not

just the role of the political editor of the BBC, but just about how important reporting

on politics is and informing the public, holding people to account, how to use sources,

how to use information. They're just loading it. The importance of telling, the importance

of pictures. This is absolutely jam-packed. The one thing I was really left with is,

and obviously I talk to people on this show, talking is their craft, it's their job, whether

that's politicians or journalists or advisors, the words and the way they're said are so

crucial. Some people can just talk so well. Laura Coonsburg, and it's obviously shouldn't

need saying, could just talk really well, and that sounds basic, but I'm sure you know

what I mean. I won't say anymore. We started by the way, with the nugget of information

around. I've been talking to Laura to get her on the show. She'd let me know that where

we record the show is a avalan and entertainment, who represent me as a comedian. It turned

out that a few years ago, well maybe more than a few years ago, Laura had actually worked

here for a brief period. I was a temp in London in about 1854. I think I worked here for

two days, and I was put in a room by myself. Oh man. We've loads of files. We probably don't

exist now, like paper files in the olden days, and told to put them in a big filing cabinet.

I remember the room right under the Westway, which if for our you report cast listeners,

not in the throbbing metropolis, it's a very large dual carriageway that goes to West London.

I had only lived here for about five minutes. I didn't really even know where I was. I

remember getting out of the tube and that grove and wandering around with the nature's

dead, because it really, again, it was the olden days. I spent, I think it was two or maybe

...