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Hello Paddy.
Laura, hello.
Hello, how are you?
Very well.
I've been interviewing Bjorn from ABBA.
Oh, that's fun.
What did Bjorn from ABBA have to say?
He wanted to pay tribute to his sound engineer who was on all the early work who's unfortunately died at the age of 80.
Well, that's sad news.
Well, he said it was sad but then he said he was full of joy.
He made the job of making ABBA joy and one of the reasons that they decided to split was when the joy went.
Did he say thank you for the music?
He did say thank you for the music.
But a different topic today.
We're talking about a massive, mahoosive, giant subject,
the subject of defence, not just because it's incredibly important.
Foreign relations have been so much of the political conversation for a long time,
haven't they?
But also on Monday, the government's publishing its long-awaited,