A news tsunami
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan don their pilot gloves and make the voyage to Planet Normal, where they give their verdict on a bumpy week on both sides of the Atlantic. Lockdown returns in England, the US election keeps everyone guessing and Allison shares a positive update following last week's interview with Planet Normal listener, Robert, who had been separated from his wife, Josephine for months because of care home lockdown rules.
Taking the passenger seat in our rocket of sanity this week is former Telegraph editor and author, Charles Moore. Fresh from the paperback publication of the third instalment of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, Charles reveals what Mrs Thatcher would have thought of Brexit and the lockdown. Plus, he admits he thinks the biggest problem in the fight against covid-19 is the NHS itself, and weighs in on the new BBC Director General, following speculation he was Number 10's top choice to become Chairman.
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| 0:38.0 | Saturday night was unfortunate. Boris was clearly bounced into doing that presentation, |
| 0:42.0 | but he shouldn't have started with the two boffins and the graph, as if to say to the country, not me, Gav. |
| 0:48.0 | For... |
| 0:49.0 | I think the news coverage in the BBC has been much too inclined to create division and stir up trouble |
| 0:56.0 | and apportion blame. |
| 0:58.0 | Really like to go back to time when I could be a lady who lunches rather than the hospital bed occupancy correspondent. |
| 1:07.0 | Two. |
| 1:08.0 | It's China that gave us the disease, and yet now everyone's admiring China for the way they've overcome it. |
| 1:14.0 | I mean, hang on. |
| 1:15.0 | One. |
| 1:18.0 | We have left off. |
| 1:21.0 | And welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:27.0 | Hello. |
| 1:28.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:30.0 | And as we speed towards Planet Normal, we're soaked up to the waste because back on Planet Earth, we're engulfed in a new tsunami. |
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