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Obsessed With...

Normal People: 2. The Middle

Obsessed With...

BBC

Society & Culture

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Evanna Lynch and Riyadh Khalaf discuss Marianne and Connell arriving at college.

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

0:10.2

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

0:13.0

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

0:18.0

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

0:22.0

But you know I also know that comedy is really

0:24.4

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

0:29.6

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

0:36.2

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

0:40.0

I did you think that I could read your mind at times?

0:43.0

Maybe that's normal.

0:44.0

It's not.

0:45.0

Obsessed with normal people. Oh how the tables have turned and how satisfying it is to see Connell put in his place

0:59.4

and Marion is cool and she wears eyeliner and has a fringe and it's Donald's turn to to beg.

1:07.0

I know are the tables going to turn in the sexy way too like is he going to be her dirty little secret on the side that no one knows about?

1:16.3

Is he going to get his comeuppance?

1:17.9

I'm Riad Callif, I'm a presenter and author.

1:20.3

And I'm Ivana Lynch and I'm an actress and podcaster and we're obsessed with normal people.

1:26.0

In our first episode of the podcast we focused on the beginning of normal people and if you haven't heard that episode then what are you doing here go back and

1:33.4

listen because we're picking up this episode at the middle the university years we find

1:38.8

Connell and Marianne in Dublin they've arrived at Trinity to begin their brand new lives.

1:44.0

Just a warning. This episode contains spoilers from the whole series,

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