Is the Sunday politics record? and is Scotland the only one to do it live?
The English regions record the regional segments on Friday afternoon, can't speak for the nations though. The network segments are live.
Of course, the little mistakes that make it into the Scotland segment have always shown it to be live, but Sunday's episode proved it beyond reasonable doubt.
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More than just little, and the some of the ref, including smoking outside the building. There was other mistake for couple of months ago. (someone pushed the wrong button for 10 secs)
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Well Scottish version HAS at long last been given the updated music for the credits.
Presumably all the regional opts were live today? Considering how quickly things have been moving since the referendum surely it'd have been foolish to record the English regional opts on Friday afternoon as per usual? Indeed, perhaps the past couple of weeks have been live, as in the East the opt has been coming from Norwich recently, which suggests it was live even if it wasn't referred to as such, because the Cambridge studio is usually used for Sunday Politics, but as bulletins are pan-regional at the weekend the Cambridge set is not used/staffed/available/whatever. Based on how Andrew Neil mentioned something that viewers might have seen if they were 'lucky enough to be watching Sunday Politics East Midlands', it would also all seem to have been live.
Northern Ireland was certainly live - although it mostly is. NI crashed out of the Emily Thornberry interview at 11.15am, but then crossed quickly back to network to take Jo Coburn's interview with Martin McGuinness before coming back to Belfast for more discussion.
Quite an extraordinary three hours of broadcasting in general.
