From China to the Clapham omnibus
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan's second trip to Planet Normal, former Head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove tells Allison why he believes the coronavirus started as an accident after it escaped from a Chinese lab, how organised intelligence activities at British universities aren't merely the stuff of spy novels and why he's ticked off with George Osborne.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu- |
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| 0:36.0 | Five. |
| 0:38.0 | I think the basic wisdom, the man who will on the clap and the overly bust, they tend to get these judgments right. |
| 0:46.0 | Four. |
| 0:48.0 | You can be Daniel Greg, I'm going to be Monica Belucci and Richard could be C. |
| 0:52.0 | Three. |
| 0:54.0 | Personally, I've pretty fed up with George Hossport. |
| 1:00.0 | Be a bit like a government of dogs by banning barking, wouldn't it? |
| 1:03.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:06.0 | Halligan and Pearson, if you're looking for things they have in common, they were both useless at university challenge. |
| 1:11.0 | We have the top. |
| 1:13.0 | Welcome to episode two of Planet Normal, a brand new telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:19.0 | Hello. |
| 1:20.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:22.0 | Well, here we are, speeding away from the launch pad for only the second time. |
| 1:26.0 | Alison and I have barely got our flying wings, but we've been overwhelmed with the response to our first episode. |
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