Do you want 'normal'?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 147 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien. |
| 0:14.0 | Three minutes after ten is the time. Very good morning indeed to you. I hope you had a happy and safe weekend with this sense of something coming to an end. |
| 0:22.1 | It's hard to know precisely what is coming to an end or what is going to come next. But there is |
| 0:26.3 | a sort of sense of punctuation in the air, isn't there? Well, I think there is anyway. I'm back in the |
| 0:31.4 | studio today, for example. For how long I have not yet decided, but it seems an opportune moment |
| 0:37.1 | to start at least creeping back towards a semblance of normality. |
| 0:41.1 | And that, of course, prefaces me telling you that some really interesting polling done by UGov finds that only 6% of the British public want things to go back to how they were before the coronavirus crisis. |
| 0:54.7 | I don't know exactly what that means, |
| 0:57.0 | but I may later in the programme ask you, |
| 0:59.2 | what does that mean? |
| 1:00.4 | I'll look at some of the detail of it, |
| 1:02.4 | but what are you most looking forward to not return, |
| 1:05.5 | or what are you most hoping won't return to normal? |
| 1:08.6 | I think I'm going to go a bit meta today. I'll level with you. When the |
| 1:13.8 | program is coming live from my shed, then I don't have the usual technology in front of me that I |
| 1:20.7 | have today. I feel a little bit like Neil Armstrong, getting back into Apollo today. I mean, it is, |
| 1:26.3 | it is fantastic. I've got my team with me. There's |
| 1:28.2 | buzz over there and all the other ones whose names no one can ever remember. They're all on board |
| 1:33.5 | as well. But what it means is that I've been indulging myself a little because I haven't had the |
| 1:38.5 | switchboard in front of me. So as long as I have on the screen in front of me, the knowledge that |
| 1:43.1 | there is somebody to speak to, |
| 1:44.7 | I've been freed from the tyranny of the switchboard, as it were, whereas normally by quarter past |
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