{"podcast":{"title":"Scotcast","slug":"scotcast-7160589","podcast_index_feed_id":7160589,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/m00272kp.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00272kp","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0ndvlj6.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":345,"summary":"The BBC's Scottish news podcast, with Martin Geissler, Laura Miller and Natalie Higgins.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T06:18:18.280212+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scotcast-7160589"},"episode":{"title":"Does it matter who leads Scottish Labour?","slug":"does-it-matter-who-leads-scottish-labour","published_at":"2026-07-28T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scotcast-7160589/does-it-matter-who-leads-scottish-labour","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scotcast-7160589","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zgc7","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0p19cdl.mp3","summary":"If you’re interested in this episode you might also like https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p0pr05 Michael Marra (pictured) has announced that he will stand to become leader of the Scottish Labour Party, following Monica Lennon (also pictured), who announced her candidacy on Sunday. Martin is joined by the Daily Record’s political editor Paul Hutcheon and the BBC’s David Wallace Lockhart to discuss who else might fancy a go at the top job, and whether any of them can really make a difference to Labour’s fortunes in Scotland. Scotcast is the BBC’s Scottish news podcast. This episode is hosted by Martin Geissler. Get in touch: scotcast@bbc.co.uk","meta_description":"If you’re interested in this episode you might also like https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p0pr05 Michael Marra (pictured) has announced that he will st…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1475,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scotcast-7160589/episodes/does-it-matter-who-leads-scottish-labour/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scotcast-7160589/does-it-matter-who-leads-scottish-labour.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}