there was, of course, the controversy over having the comedianjoe lycett on the first programme.ou and the team learnt from the reaction to his sarcastic comments about liz truss? one of the things that me and the programme editor and the team wanted to do in the show is to try and open up our conversations a bit more. and maybe that might mean hearing new voices, hearing people who haven't been traditionally part of the political conversation. and the other reason to bring the panel in is to bring other expertise, to bring other reactions. and i think also to try to help the audience sometimes make sense of what they've just heard. and one of the things people might have noticed is that the main interview in the show, we're tending to do that at the beginning of the programme rather than waiting to the end. and that means then there's more time to digest, to chew over what you've heard, to think about it in different ways, and to to think about what it might mean. i mean, i know you'll know there, shaun, that on that one of the biggest enemies for any political broadcaster is th

there was, of course, the controversy over having the comedianjoe lycett on the first programme.out?" so, one of the reasons we're having the panel, go, ok, what did that all mean? what did you make of that? so, often, members of the public are looking at what happened in westminster and thinking like, why are they on a boat? what does it all mean for me? —— what are they on about? and i want the show on a sunday morning, particularly if people are at home, got the coffee on, got the kids running around to think that they've watched the programme and they've got something useful to take away from it. notjust for those people, myself included, who love the political argy bargy that maybe is more traditional. barely a month in, you've already had three former prime ministers, two serving prime ministers — of course, the current prime minister before she took up the job — 2a hours after you had interviewed her, she became conservative party leader. let me ask you the perennial question — why interrupt your guests? our contributors say they'd like to hear more of them, maybe a bit le