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THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

EP.116 - DR XAND VAN TULLEKEN (RE. CORONAVIRUS)

THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

Adam Buxton

Comedy

4.821.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Adam talks with Dr Xand van Tulleken about the Coronavirus crisis, how it's being handled in the UK and how Adam's own family has been adjusting to social distancing. 

This episode features two Skype conversations recorded on March 16 and March 22, before the announcement of the UK lockdown.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support.

RELATED LINKS

XANDER van TULLEKEN ON TWITTER: @xandvt

CORONAVIRUS, HOW TO ISOLATE YOURSELF (CHANNEL 4)

AUSTERITY BLAMED FOR LIFE EXPECTANCY STALLING FOR FIRST TIME IN A DECADE (GUARDIAN ARTICLE, FEB, 2020)

'MARMOT REVIEW 10 YEARS ON' (PAPER ON EFFECTS OF POVERTY) (FEB, 2020)


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Transcript

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0:00.0

I added one more podcast to giant podcast bin

0:05.0

Now you have blocked that podcast out and started listening

0:10.0

I took my microphone and found some human folk

0:14.0

Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke

0:19.0

My name is Adam Baxter and I'm a man

0:24.0

I want you to enjoy this, that's the plan

0:30.0

Hey, how you doing in these strange and uncertain times podcasts

0:39.0

That's how you have to begin every email these days, isn't it?

0:45.0

Some variation of that

0:48.0

You can't just go in and say, hi, Manjala

0:52.0

I was wondering if you could send that invoice again

0:55.0

I seem to have lost it

0:57.0

Instead you are obliged to acknowledge the current situation

1:03.0

And because it's a serious situation

1:07.0

You should do so in a way that is somewhat poetic

1:13.0

Something like, I hope you and those close to you

1:17.0

are managing to stay safe in these anxious and unsettling times

1:23.0

And I was wondering if you could send me that invoice again I seem to have lost it

1:30.0

Or you could go for something even more ambitious

1:34.0

I've had a couple of these recently

1:37.0

I urgently hope you are well and able to find tiny moments of solace in these dark and uncharted waters

1:48.0

And if you could send me that invoice again

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