Jay Lafferty, Robin Ince, Sam Lake and Amanda Hursy

About this episode

Des and the teams break down the week's significant news events with a comedic twist.

Des and the teams break up the week's big news. Including: the arrest of Peter Mandelson, the opening of new walk-in GP Surgeries in Scotland, if people in their 60s are the luckiest generation, the proposed addition of snowball fighting to the Winter Olympics, Alan Carr’s new Scottish property and more. Lead Writer: Adelle Cliff Additional material: Sean Gorman, Alex Buchanan and Mark Granger, Louis Beer, Fearghas Kelly, James Docherty, Nathan Cowley, Jon Paisley, Cooper Mawhinney Sweryt, Oli Higham, Gordon Watson, Stuart Cooke, Neil Bratchpiece, Heather Kondak Ross Producer: Chris Quilietti Senior Producer: Lauren Mackay Researcher: Jodie White Script Editor: Keiron Nicholson An Eco-Audio certified Production

People in this episode

Host: Des

Guests: Jay Lafferty, Robin Ince, Sam Lake, Amanda Hursy

Topics covered

• news commentary
• Scottish healthcare
• generational luck
• Winter Olympics
• celebrity news

Keywords

• Peter Mandelson
• GP Surgeries
• luckiest generation
• snowball fighting
• Alan Carr

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC Radio Scotland, Winter Olympics

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