Chris, should we explain to people the bold experiment we're about to embark on?
We should.
So we had a bit of an idea, didn't we, a while ago?
I think it was in the autumn, actually, wasn't it, when there was a bit of a flare-up in the Home Office.
And you and I, who are not quite in the veteran category yet, journalistically, but certainly have kicked around for,
what, 20, 25 years, started realising there was a bit of a pattern,
is n't there really, about things that come up again and again around particular government departments,
and particularly.
The Home Office, which made us think, maybe rather than just covering the story and then moving on to the next thing,
we ought to give ourselves a bit of space to think and to share that thinking with newscasters
around whether or not the Home Office, well, how it works, whether it works, could it work better, is it too big?
The kind of questions that tend to come up over and over again when things that the Home Office does make news,
which is frequently.
So we 're making a three-part mini-series where we will delve into the Home Office,
the policy, the politics, the personalities, the history and what 's happening now.
So episode one, which you're listening to now, we will talk to some former advisors and people from behind the scenes.
Episode two, we will get two former Home Secretaries to sit down and go head-to-head about their time in office.
And in episode three, we will talk about how we in the media cover this incredibly complex,
controversial government department.
So that is coming your way in this Newscast miniseries.