Hawks and Doves
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Olympic medallist Sharron Davies MBE swaps her swimsuit for her spacesuit this week to join Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan on Planet Normal. And with the next games hanging in the balance, Sharron tells us what conditions athletes would accept to see the event go ahead, reflects on her time in the pool, and explains why she feels the rights of female athletes are being eroded.
Also on the podcast: Allison sits on the fence on vaccine passports and Liam sets out why the next budget is the most important of his lifetime.
Allison and Liam will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 18th February from 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/18/human-rights-females-trampled-olympic-swimmer-sharron-davies/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.2 | Podcasts |
| 0:26.2 | The Hawks who want to open in April and the dubs who are talking about July. |
| 0:38.2 | I think I'm probably pro, vaccine passports. I know some people might criticise me for that, |
| 0:45.2 | but I think it means that we can hold a safer Olympic Games than great. |
| 0:49.2 | There's a lot of kidology going on and a lot of judgments that the Prime Minister has to make, |
| 0:55.2 | but really will stop with him. |
| 0:58.2 | It's got absolutely nothing to do with any form of phobia and everything to do with wanting fair opportunity in sport for those that are born female. |
| 1:08.2 | We have left off. |
| 1:17.2 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:21.2 | Hello. |
| 1:22.2 | I'm Alison Pearson. |
| 1:24.2 | The number of daily COVID-19 cases has halved since early January. |
| 1:29.2 | Less than 2,000 COVID patients are being admitted to hospital each day, 60% down on last month's peak. |
| 1:37.2 | Almost a quarter of the UK population have now been vaccinated at least once. |
| 1:42.2 | Hooray! |
| 1:43.2 | Across the EU it's 5%, just one in 20. |
| 1:47.2 | With Boris Johnson due to set out our roadmap out of lockdown next Monday, the 22nd of February, |
| 1:54.2 | are the now grounds for hope? |
| 1:56.2 | Copilot Pearson, you're clearly feeling somewhat optimistic. |
| 1:59.2 | You've booked us some a holiday. |
| 2:01.2 | Is that light at the end of the tunnel or an oncoming train? |
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