It'll all end in tiers
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Hold onto your helmets, it's another explosive week for Planet Normal, where Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan discuss their fears for tiers, shed light on some underreported positive coronavirus survival stats and how Liam almost abandoned us for Number 10.
And filling the passenger seat this week is former BBC star and broadcasting legend Sue Cook. The former Crimewatch and Nationwide presenter airs her disappointment at the BBC’s pandemic coverage, why she now struggles to defend the license fee and shows off her stellar Welsh accent to Planet Normal’s resident Welshwoman.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu- |
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| 0:25.0 | Visit telegraph.co.uk |
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| 0:38.0 | The virus is going to do what the virus is going to do. |
| 0:41.0 | We are not saving lives. We are postponing deaths. |
| 0:47.0 | I think politicians ought to be treating with a little bit more respect than treating them like incident children. |
| 0:55.0 | I told them what I thought in no uncertain terms and then as I walked out of Downing Street, |
| 1:00.0 | I sat in a cafe and wrote a column telling Boris that he had to get back his mojo. |
| 1:05.0 | It's not about information gathering anymore. It's all about scoring points. |
| 1:11.0 | One. |
| 1:15.0 | We have left off. |
| 1:18.0 | And welcome again to Planet Normal, the Telugu- |
| 1:21.0 | Podcast with Alison Pearson, Hello and me Liam Halligan. |
| 1:26.0 | And guess what, fellow planet normal citizens? This is a big moment because this is our 21st blast off. |
| 1:33.0 | Our 21st trip to planet normal, bringing you news and views from beyond the bubble. |
| 1:38.0 | And thank heavens we launched back in May and made it through podcasting adolescence into adulthood. |
| 1:43.0 | Because so many of you now email us at planetnormalattelegraph.co.uk |
| 1:48.0 | leaving comments on the Telugu- |
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