Reliable Sauce with Kirsty and Jonelle BBC Sounds

Every Wednesday, Jonelle and Kirsty will be here to serve up the week’s biggest stories, with the perfect amount of sauce

Jonelle and Kirsty on escaping a festival mud bath, why everyone's worried about school buildings collapsing, and who'd be on your list of biggest Love Island stars? Plus why are more retail staff wearing bodycams?
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Technical Producer: Christina Cuevas | Producer: Tom Roles | Editorial Advisor: Sam Bonham | Editor: Nicky Birch
0:00 Intro
1:30 Love Island All Stars
5:14 The Crumbly Concrete Crisis
14:37 More bodycams for retail workers
20:53 Stuck in the Mud: festival edition

Jonelle and Kirsty on the man whose nudes were used to blackmail him on Snapchat, the Wandsworth prison escape, and why the government’s going to ban the possession of NOS by the end of the year. Plus, new stats reveal the UK's dirty home-hygiene secrets.
Let us know your thoughts on any of this week’s stories by emailing reliablesauce@bbc.co.uk.
Technical producer: Chris Edwards | Editorial Advisor: Chris Flynn | Producer: Tom Roles | Editor: Nicky Birch
0:00 All Wilko stores are closing
2:51 The NOS ban
4:55 Wandsworth prison escape
9:13 Blackmailed with Snapchat nudes
16:05 Revealing the UK's dirty home-hygiene secrets

Jonelle and Kirsty on the Russell Brand allegations, the phenomenon that is Tube Girl, and some extraordinary extra-terrestrial "evidence". Plus, why are so many TikTokers talking about the Roman Empire?
Let us know your thoughts on any of this week’s stories by emailing reliablesauce@bbc.co.uk.
Technical producer: Rafael Bujosa | Editorial Advisor: Chris Flynn | Assistant Producer: Madeleine Drury | Producer: Tom Roles | Editor: Nicky Birch
0:00 How often do you think about the Roman Empire?
3:03 Russell Brand allegations
11:22 NASA's UAP (UFO) report
16:05 Tube Girl
20:19 Fashion icks

Kirsty and Jonelle chat TikTok "frenzies" with the BBC's Marianna Spring, Elon Musk's brain implant and a first of its kind undergraduate degree in social media influencing.
Let us know your thoughts on any of this week’s stories by emailing reliablesauce@bbc.co.uk.
Editorial Advisor: Sam Bonham | Producers: Luke Eldridge and Madeleine Drury | Editor: Nicky Birch
0:00 Usher
3:00 Marianna Spring
12:31 Influencer degree
17:56 Elon's brain implant
23:11 So much good TV

Jonelle and Kirsty speak to the 24-year-old left with life-changing injuries after a dog attack, and discover how social media magnified her trauma. Plus, is the UK getting gayer? And which celebrity would you want as your chatbot cheerleader?
Let us know your thoughts on any of this week’s stories by emailing reliablesauce@bbc.co.uk.
Technical producer: David Kwan | Editorial Advisor: Chris Flynn | Producers: Tom Roles and Madeleine Drury | Editor: Nicky Birch
00:00 Boy math
1:47 Intro
2:35 Is the UK getting gayer?
7:19 Dog attack interview
16:51 Shrinkflation
23:31 AI celeb chatbots
29:36 Outro