# UK Defence Investment Plan finally unveiled, Maternity Care Report reveals issues of racism and discrimination, Serena Williams crashes out of Wimbledon Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/uk-defence-investment-plan-finally-unveiled-maternity-care-report-reveals-issues-of-racism-and-discrimination-serena-williams-crashes-out-of-wimbledon Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/uk-defence-investment-plan-finally-unveiled-maternity-care-report-reveals-issues-of-racism-and-discrimination-serena-williams-crashes-out-of-wimbledon.md Podcast: [The Smart 7](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360) Published: 2026-07-01T05:13:26+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/thesmart7/episodes/uk-defence-investment-plan-finally-unveiled-maternity-care-r Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/thesmart7/e/6a44a1f606fb5d326d6c1906/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-smart-7-1227360/episodes/uk-defence-investment-plan-finally-unveiled-maternity-care-report-reveals-issues-of-racism-and-discrimination-serena-williams-crashes-out-of-wimbledon Duration seconds: 450 ## Resource The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast, in association with METRO, that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7am, 7 days a week… With over 20 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and we’ve won Gold at the Signal International Podcast awards If you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps...  Today's episode includes the following: https://x.com/i/status/2071895492871549297    https://x.com/i/st atus/2071957751756902486 https://x.com/i/status/2071866235650810265   https://x.com/i/status/2071933570403238370 https://x.com/i/status/2071982437010145781 https://x.com/i/status/2071984593050173720   https://x.com/BBCMOTD/status/2072089315304231232/video/1   https://x.com/i/status/2071902190516506879   https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2071989630182842678/video/1    Contact us over @TheSmart7pod or visit www.thesmart7.com   or find out more at www.metro.co.uk   Voiced by Jamie East, using AI, written by Liam Thompson , researched by Lucie Lewis and produced by Daft Doris . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-smart-7-1227360/episodes/uk-defence-investment-plan-finally-unveiled-maternity-care-report-reveals-issues-of-racism-and-discrimination-serena-williams-crashes-out-of-wimbledon/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-smart-7-1227360/uk-defence-investment-plan-finally-unveiled-maternity-care-report-reveals-issues-of-racism-and-discrimination-serena-williams-crashes-out-of-wimbledon.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.