Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.

Youhoo Dolly, youhoo!

It's nice to see your face, your face is cheering me up because this weekend was pretty

disheartening for a lot of people when Boris Johnson did his much-awaited address in which

he proposed his plan to ease us out of lockdown. Did you watch it live, Panda?

I couldn't. I think like a lot of people I'm just feeling too jittery to actually watch stuff

on Telly at the moment. It was of course in keeping with the rest of the government's actions in

the last three months. It was vague and unaccountable and irresponsible and confusing.

The only clear party line I seem to have got from it in the day's sense is that it's definitely

going to be okay to go to garden centres very soon. That's the only like clear take home I seem to

have got. I take a trip to home base if I could. I take a trip anywhere right now actually.

There was one silver lining which was Matt Lucas's uncanny impression of him that I think I have

watched now 300 times. So we are saying don't go to work, don't go to work, don't take public

sense or don't go to work, don't go to work, stay indoors if you can work from home, go to work,

don't go to work, go outside, don't go outside and then we will or won't

do something like that. I absolutely love that clip and I really liked his discussion around

actually because a few people said you know Matt this is really serious people are dying, this is

not the time to be funny and he said yeah I know seven people who have passed away and until that

stops happening I'm going to make satire out of it in the hope that the message gets through

that way and I'm very much paraphrasing there that's not a direct quote but I think that was a really

useful reminder of how kind of sharp and dark satire is like satire is different to just getting

on a banana. Yeah and satire is connecting and informative and useful and is very different to

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