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Hello, I'm James O'Brien, and welcome to the shutdown edition of Full Disclosure, where we look back over a week of radio broadcasts focused pretty much exclusively upon the coronavirus crisis, the continuing coronavirus crisis.

That said, next week we'll see a return to normality of sorts

when I will be interviewing in the spirit of full disclosure's original inception,

somebody famous with whom I've always wanted to spend rather more time

than is ordinarily available.

And I'm delighted to tell you, it'll be Matty Healy of the 1975.

But that's next week and this was this week. It's getting tough now. I can't lie to you. It's getting

tough to focus upon an unleavened diet of COVID-19 related news. I don't have much option. I can't really turn away

in the way that you can. You can, you know, turn the radio off. You can skip the news for three or

four days. And I'm not asking you to get out your violins or anything like that, but it was this

week that it really hit me hard, just how absolutely unprecedented all of this is and just

how uncertain we still are. I don't know whether I'd been expecting a little bit more clarity

to emerge, not necessarily from political leaders, because obviously in the United Kingdom,

or at least in England, any hope

for clarity from our leader is almost certainly misplaced.

But I just thought events might have settled down a bit.

I just felt that perhaps naively some form of consensus about where the road will lead or where the tunnel will end may have emerged.

But of course, even a most cursory glance at other countries and other societies and other

strategies leads you to the inevitable conclusion that we still haven't got a clue, really,

what the right way, wrong way or possibly medium way into it was,

let alone the right way out of it. But Boris Johnson elected to talk of Tunnels ending when he

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