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It takes you behind the big stories coming out of Holyroods and Westminster.

It is 27 minutes past two on Thursday

the 15th of October. I'm Lucy White, a reporter based in the Glasgow Newsroom. And today I'm

joined by. I'm Lindsay Bues in Edinburgh. In Nick Hurley at Westminster. I'm Phil Sim in my

airing cupboard. Yes, Phil, you really are broadcasting from a cupboard this week, which is new lows or new highs for you.

The quest for sound quality in the home, just reaching new peaks.

You seem to broadcast from some really interesting parts of your home on this podcast.

You like, I mean, so that one of the things that's always a bit of a joke at Westminster is,

where is Ian Blackford going to do his questions from at PMQ's?

Because he seems to have a few rooms.

He rotates between yours is like a low-budget version of that,

under the bed and the airing cupboard, on the roof.

Just wherever there's not, a low-budget Ian Blackford, that could go on my Twitter bio, couldn't it?

I think the cupboard sound quality is pretty good to me, but...

Yeah, like this is one up on the under the duvet on top of the drying rack.

I don't know, I'll ask Andy, our sound engineer, what he thinks? Good, good enough.

I mean, broadcasting is basically talking into a microphone in a cupboard, isn't it?

Yes, just a lot of my job. Just a nice kind of glamorous one. Yeah, so this week we're going to talk about an issue which isn't actually coronavirus related for once, but it's been bubbling away in Scottish politics and now it started to draw even more attention. It's the inquiry underway at Holyrood right now

into how the Scottish government handled sexual misconduct complaints against the former

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