Eyes on the road
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Lord Grade, former chairman of the BBC and ITV and CEO of Channel 4, dons his spacesuit to join Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan on their trip to Planet Normal. He tells us why he's cheering on Laurence Fox's anti-woke crusade, how he's fed up with journalists trying to catch the government out and why diversity of opinion is sorely lacking in the UK media.
Also on the podcast: Liam makes the case for extra government funding for catch-up lessons in schools, Allison questions why the UK is in one of the world's strictest lockdowns and one of our presenters tells us why they've come to resemble Cut-Throat Jake!
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.2 | decorative |
| 0:20.4 | зовsk for |
| 0:28.2 | 5. I do think the road map is extremely disappointing in terms of its lack of ambition. |
| 0:39.3 | He needs to sell hope to people. |
| 0:42.3 | I really cheer when I watch television, but I did cheer when I watched Lawrence Fox on |
| 0:47.8 | Question Time. |
| 0:48.8 | Let's put it this way. All I need is a parrot for the full Long John Silver look. |
| 0:54.6 | Don't tell me what I should think. Let's have a conversation about it and reach a consensus |
| 1:01.2 | and decide what to do. Don't heck to me. |
| 1:05.2 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. Hello. |
| 1:17.3 | And me Liam Halligan. The third of British adults, 18 million people no less, have now been |
| 1:23.2 | vaccinated. COVID cases and hospital admissions are plummeting. And since mid-January, |
| 1:29.2 | daily deaths from related to or with COVID are down no less than 70%. Yet Boris Johnson's |
| 1:36.2 | long awaited route map out of lockdown unveiled on Monday turns out to be a long and winding |
| 1:41.8 | road. The UK will surely be the first European nation to vaccinate our people. Will be the |
| 1:47.7 | last to unlock the Archbishop of Canterbury got the vaccine early due to his key worker |
| 1:53.6 | status, even though the church is a shot we read at Alison Pearson's Telegraph column. |
| 1:58.9 | Co-pilot Pearson also admits to jab jealousy, jab upmanship she calls it. And here's a |
| 2:04.5 | planet normal exclusive stop press. She's also got a gammi eye. Does this mean dear co-pilot? |
| 2:11.0 | You've swapped your planet normal space helmet this week for a Captain Pugwash eyepatch |
| 2:15.9 | do tell. What was it? Cup throat Jake who had the eyepatch? I can't remember. |
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