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This week we're on our summer holidays,

but we've got something from the archives I hope you'll like.

This year, of course, marks the anniversary we would all rather forget, five years since COVID

and the COVID lockdowns. During the summer of 2020, when I and everyone else were shut indoors,

I wrote some mini episodes about what we were learning in real

time over the pandemic. Five years on, are those lessons any different? Here is one of those episodes.

It's called Fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, and afterwards I will be back for a talk with

my producer, Georgia Mills,

about whether we've really learned our lessons.

Imagine the scene. A large ballroom.

1,200 people are seated around tables, enjoying the finest dining that 1977 has to offer,

which, admittedly, isn't saying much.

But everyone's having a wonderful evening at the Beverly Hills Supper Club,

which, naturally, given the name, is just outside Cincinnati.

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