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5. I've been absolutely shocked at the relentless

morcuseness of our television news and our broadcast news in general.

4. We trained soldiers to go to war and seriously life is daily war.

3. You can have non-alcoholic, mild wine Liam, but you can't have actually have a bloody

journal and tonic. There is a reluctance to put forward a line of thought that is orthogonal

to the orthodoxy. 1. We have left off.

Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. Hello.

And me Liam Halligan. This is of course our final trip to Planet Normal in 2020 and what

of the year it's been. We're devoting this episode to an end of year review, a round up

of clips from our favourite Planet Normal interviews, which themselves tell the story so far of

Covid, lockdown of the Brexit endgame of the ups and downs of a truly tumultuous year,

which since our first Planet voyage back in May, we've been delighted to share, haven't

we Alison, with our incredible Planet Normal listeners.

We certainly have Liam, I remember you suggesting that we did this podcast and as you know I

didn't know what a podcast was, but we overcame that initial small problem and I said,

but we are really bad time to launch it in this year, wouldn't it, during lockdown,

what a ludicrous time to start a podcast, but you were right, co-pilot, Halligan. Now that's

not a sentence you often hear from your co-pilot. You were absolutely right, the capsule

of common sense I think has kept both of us going and of course the fantastic listeners

who piled in. Just yesterday rather a good way to end the year with the Oxford AstraZeneca

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