Best Voyages from the Rocket 2025 Episode 3
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The winter break continues on Planet Normal! In this, the third and final part of the three part best of the rocket series, our co-pilots take a look back at some of their most explosive voyages on the rocket of right thinking from 2025, before our intrepid co-pilots return next week!
Back in November Liam spoke to Scottish born Rosie Kay who enjoyed a highly successful international career as a performer and choreographer, and in 2004 established the Rosie Kay dance company. Rosie tells the co-pilots how she was ousted from her own company following controversy of her ‘gender critical views’.
We also feature a special report not from Planet Normal, but Planet Earth, when back in October, Co-Pilot Pearson joined the Pink Ladies Protest in Westminster. The Pink Ladies formed a network to take a stand against the impact of illegal migrant hotels on the safety of women and girls and communities up and down the country.
And finally we hear from Tory heavyweight Suela Braverman who tells out co-pilots what she thinks Conservative party policy should be towards the ECHR.
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read Allison 'Twitter makes Two-Tier Keir look ridiculous, so of course he wants to ban it' : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/14/two-tier-keir-ban-twitter/ |
Read Allison 'The West Midlands police chief represents everything that’s wrong with Britain': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/13/west-midlands-police-chief/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:12.5 | Hello. |
| 0:13.5 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:15.5 | Fear not, dear listeners, co-pilot Pearson and I will be back with a bang next week on Thursday the 22nd of January. |
| 0:22.7 | But to keep you sane and warm in the meantime, this is the last instalment of our best-of- 2025 cockpit stiraways |
| 0:30.6 | to remind you of some of last year's madness here on planet Earth. |
| 0:36.0 | As Panto season geared up in November, |
| 0:38.2 | I decided to put on my two to |
| 0:39.9 | and point the rockets of right thinking |
| 0:41.3 | towards the world of contemporary dance. |
| 0:44.4 | Scottish-born Rosie Kaye enjoyed a highly successful |
| 0:47.1 | international career as a performer |
| 0:48.8 | and in 2004 established the Rosie Kay |
| 0:52.3 | Dance Company, |
| 0:53.6 | which won funding from the Arts Council and elsewhere, |
| 0:56.5 | staging productions across the world. Then in December 2021, despite multiple awards and rave reviews, |
| 1:03.9 | Rosie Kay resigned from the Rosie K dance company, after she was, in her own words, |
| 1:09.5 | cancelled by members of my own cast of dancers at a dinner party in my own house, having stood up for the rights of biological women and the need for single-sex spaces. |
| 1:19.6 | Rosie says her dancers lodged a grievance with the company's board, with her directors then putting her through two arduous investigations, |
| 1:29.1 | which she says made her tenure impossible. Rosie Kay has since set up the campaign group, |
| 1:34.6 | Freedom in the Arts, to emphasise our statistic excellence over identity politics, along with |
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