A case of Covid-mania
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Buckle in, it’s been a news-laden week. On today’s podcast: Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan commiserate the lads and lassies of Newcastle for having to stay at home, bemoan fat-cat University Chancellors, and struggle to read one heartbreaking listener email.
Plus you asked, we listened - this week's guest is lockdown-sceptic and listener favourite Ivor Cummins. He accuses world leaders of "walking away from the science", muses about imaginary tigers (yes, really) and tells us why we ought to sit up and listen to him - even though he's not an epidemiologist.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu- |
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| 0:36.0 | Five. |
| 0:38.0 | We've got Covid-mania to be quite honest. |
| 0:41.0 | Four. |
| 0:43.0 | We mustn't joke about these things, but you know, as we suffer the sound planet normal, you got a laugh, right? |
| 0:48.0 | You got a laugh at times like this. |
| 0:50.0 | Three. |
| 0:51.0 | We stop following the science even when we had the data. |
| 0:54.0 | Two. |
| 0:56.0 | And love of my life, I have not been able to hold in my arms since March. |
| 1:01.0 | Liam, can you read the next bit? |
| 1:03.0 | One. |
| 1:06.0 | We have left off. |
| 1:11.0 | And we have liftoff again. |
| 1:13.0 | Another trip to planet normal, the Telugu- |
| 1:15.4 | Podcasts with Alison Pearson. |
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