i think— attenborough. it is incredibly exciting. i think none - attenborough.xciting. i think none of us i exciting. i think none of us really knew for sure whether the audience would be back or the artists would be back but here we are and ready to go and the city is buzzing as much as it has ever been. the show did go on last year. a smaller number of them in open avenues like this car park. those who took part so they owed it to attenborough and its festivals. i cut my teeth here. in 19961 was brand—new. as competition god so you think you're funny. i let my craft in it. how to be a stand—up. 0ver i let my craft in it. how to be a stand—up. over the years they have had no mercy at all. they will go for your neck when you are on stage. will go for your neck when you are on stage-— are on stage. the scots are ureat are on stage. the scots are great hecklers. _ are on stage. the scots are great hecklers. and - are on stage. the scots are great hecklers. and it - are on stage. the scots are great hecklers. and it is - are on stage. the scots are| great hecklers.

without recognising that it is a huge asset and when you think about programmes like david attenboroughon the arguments and the conversations about climate change, you cannot get that unless you have got an organisation like the bbc and when you see what is happening in america and you see the amount of fake news and the difficulties people find in navigating their way through opinion and rants and everything else to try and find the truth. it is never been more important, if we want to understand what is going on in ukraine, understand the risk from china, want to understand what is happening with the climate and want to understand and hold our own government to account, then we do need the bbc and i think this is very good news that lucy powell is saying this. also, giving it a longer term for license renewal instead of ten years which is a very short time in terms of planning for a vast organisation. might be a number of changes before all of that. depends when an election is and the outcome of that and who wins the conservative party leadership. let us move on to our final story for

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