Summary
Jeremy Corbyn has been readmitted to the Labour Party he led until April. Iain Watson brings us up to speed with reaction from all sides.
In other political news - time for a civics lesson for Laura and Adam from Scotland Editor Sarah Smith. The Prime Minister’s walked into another row over devolution - but what is it, exactly?
And as the Government launches its post-Grenfell plan to make sure social housing residents don’t feel ignored again, Inside Housing’s Nathaniel Barker explains what it does and doesn’t achieve.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Alix Pickles, Jo Deahl and Ben Weisz Editor: Dino Sofos
Get in touch: newscast@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, we all woke up to the news today that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine |
| 0:10.6 | partly exists thanks to the generosity of Dolly Parton, who donated $1 million to the Vanderbilt |
| 0:19.6 | Institution for Infection Immunology and Inflamm inflammation at Vanderbilt University in April and they helped to develop the vaccine. |
| 0:27.0 | So we'd love to say thank you to Dolly in person. |
| 0:30.0 | Sadly, she's doing the one show at the moment, but we've got Sarah Jane's Dolly Parton experience. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello, Sarah Jane or Dolly. |
| 0:38.4 | You can call me whatever you want. |
| 0:42.0 | Yes, I'm a Dolly Part and experience. Great to speak to you today Adam. Thank you. |
| 0:46.3 | This is very, very convincing. It's great. So Dolly, what we wanted to do was take your real lyrics and then get our listeners and people on |
| 0:56.1 | Twitter to rewrite them to make them appropriate for the COVID era or make them about the vaccine. |
| 1:01.6 | Unfortunately, our lawyers say that your lawyers say we're not |
| 1:06.7 | allowed to do that. So instead, what we're going to have to do is that using the original |
| 1:12.3 | and I will then speak in a non-rhythmical way to show you the different versions. |
| 1:18.4 | All right, okay, well that sounds like a plan to me. |
| 1:21.2 | That sounds like a very good plan. You ready for this one then I'm going to show one at you. |
| 1:25.0 | Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene |
| 1:28.0 | I'm begging of you please don't take my man. |
| 1:35.0 | There you go. |
| 1:38.0 | So we have Jolene. |
| 1:39.0 | So on Twitter, Gretchen McCulloch, who's a Canadian linguist and author, did a version that says, |
| 1:44.8 | Vaccine vaccine vaccine vaccine. I'm begging you, please go in my arm, vaccine vaccine vaccine vaccine. |
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