{"id":77000,"date":"2025-10-15T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/77000\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:59:08","slug":"scotcast-whats-the-fms-africa-trip-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/77000\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotcast &#8211; What\u2019s the FM\u2019s Africa trip all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for over a year<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">John Swinney is travelling to Malawi to celebrate 20 years of a Scottish-funded aid-and-development programme in the African country. <\/p>\n<p>Labour\u2019s former first minister Lord Jack McConnell, who signed the Scotland Malawi Partnership in 2005, tells us how it all came about. <\/p>\n<p>And Martin and Natalie discuss why international aid spending has dropped down the political agenda. <\/p>\n<p>Scotcast is the BBC\u2019s Scottish news podcast, with Martin Geissler, Natalie Higgins and Laura Miller. <\/p>\n<p>Get in touch: scotcast@bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002kq0t\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of What\u2019s the FM\u2019s Africa trip all about?\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Programme Website<\/a>Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Available for over a year John Swinney is travelling to Malawi to celebrate 20 years of a Scottish-funded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-77000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}