Breadcrumbs of freedom
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Golf is back, "revellers" are enjoying the sunshine and tiny specks of normality are starting to reappear. They can't come soon enough for Telegraph columnists and Planet Normal co-pilots Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan, who this week celebrate "Happy Monday", struggle to crown just one "Numpty of the Week" and award coveted Planet Normal mugs to two moving listener emails.
Boarding the rocket alongside them is Professor Ellen Townsend, leader of the University of Nottingham's Self Harm Research Group. With some disquieting words for the government, she tells our co-pilots why she thinks the UK should hang its head in shame over the way children have been treated over lockdown, and why it's not always easy to be a scientist who subscribes to the Great Barrington Declaration.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | When newspapers are trying to express disapproval, |
| 0:13.0 | it outcomes the word revelers. |
| 0:15.0 | Four. |
| 0:17.0 | Stand away, stand away. |
| 0:19.0 | You're cancelled. |
| 0:21.0 | Three. |
| 0:22.0 | I think if we don't hang our heads in shame, |
| 0:26.0 | we've lost it as a society. |
| 0:29.0 | Two. |
| 0:30.0 | No, we're not lucky to be given crumbs off the banqueting table of freedom. |
| 0:37.0 | One. |
| 0:41.0 | We have left off. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-Off podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello. |
| 0:51.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:53.0 | The number of COVID-19 patients in UK hospitals has plummeted since mid-January. |
| 0:58.0 | Deaths from or with COVID are 95% down from their peak. |
| 1:03.0 | The seven-day rolling average of fatalities is back where it was last June. |
| 1:08.0 | Just as pubs and restaurants were about to fully reopen. |
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