Fifty voyages, two co-pilots, one podcast
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Journalist Rod Liddle joins Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan to mark fifty voyages to Planet Normal. 1.5 million downloads later, Allison has finally learnt what a podcast is. On this week's birthday rocket, Rod tells our co-pilots why "Super Thursday" isn't really so super, and what it was really like editing the Today programme at the "monolithic" BBC.
Also on the show: Allison shares a glimpse into her exploding mailbox following her recent calls for GP surgeries to end virtual appointments, Liam tells listeners why he believes Sir Keir Starmer has yet to successfully forge a centre-left coalition as the country goes to the polls, and there's a birthday surprise in store for our co-hosts.
Allison and Liam will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 6th May from 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/05/06/rod-liddle-bbc-has-monolithic-culture/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu Telugu. |
| 0:03.2 | Podcasts. |
| 0:09.4 | Five. |
| 0:10.6 | If I hear Matt Hancock say once more that GP and hospital services are looking after all those who need the NHS, I will scream. |
| 0:19.8 | Four. |
| 0:21.2 | It's Thursday, mate. |
| 0:22.8 | It's not super Thursday. |
| 0:25.0 | We're not in the kitchen. |
| 0:26.1 | If maybe, are we? You know, what's going on? |
| 0:28.5 | Three. |
| 0:29.5 | For a while, your line was, I don't need to know what podcast is. |
| 0:32.9 | I am one. |
| 0:33.9 | Two. |
| 0:35.7 | It is monolithic in its culture, the BBC. |
| 0:39.4 | One. |
| 0:43.4 | We have the dark. |
| 0:47.4 | Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello. |
| 0:52.6 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:54.7 | Now this isn't any old trip to Planet Normal Space Travelers. |
| 0:58.6 | For co-pilot Pearson and I blasted off for the first time in late May 2020, |
| 1:04.0 | and Planet Normal hasn't missed a week since. |
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