One hell of a week on Planet Earth
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Time to pack our bags and head for Planet Normal? Horrifying events in Afghanistan leave Allison Pearson and fellow columnist and guest co-host, Tim Stanley feeling as if they've woken up in a dystopian nightmare. Allison hopes the evacuation process will start to prioritise women and children, Tim argues that withdrawing troops a decade earlier could have seen the very same outcome and both our co-pilots question President Biden’s motivations in leaving the country in the first place.
Also on the podcast: parish priest and broadcaster the Reverend Canon Giles Fraser boards our rocket of right thinking and tells former Sunday school teacher Allison why the gap between a Left and Liberal Church of England and the Brexit-voting public is ‘a real problem’, and why virtual worship just doesn’t cut it.
Plus: Allison shares details of a very Welsh reunion with her mother after more than 18 months, while Tim tells listeners how a recent clumsy mistake is proving rather costly.
Allison will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 19th August 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/08/18/gap-church-england-brexit-voting-public/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The telegraph. |
| 0:03.2 | Podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | 5. |
| 0:10.6 | The heart sinks when Dominic Rab uses the word bespoke, bespoke, resettlement scheme. |
| 0:15.9 | That's always political for something we're scrabbling together at the back of the scenes, |
| 0:20.0 | isn't it? |
| 0:21.0 | 4. |
| 0:22.0 | You've got to choose your battlefield. |
| 0:24.2 | And I just think Afghanistan is the wrong battlefield and history has proven that. |
| 0:29.0 | The people's Republic of Drakeford make skilliac look like a beath they're basically |
| 0:34.7 | known. |
| 0:36.9 | In my church we have people with Corbin badges all the way through to people who are deri say |
| 0:44.2 | even to the right of you, Alison. |
| 0:46.2 | And all shows in the audience. |
| 0:48.2 | They are sitting on the edge. |
| 0:49.2 | One. |
| 0:50.2 | We have the dark. |
| 0:56.8 | Welcome to Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast which tries to make sense of an increasingly |
| 1:01.6 | mad world. |
| 1:03.0 | Copilot Halligan is still missing on a wind surf a summer off Greece. |
| 1:07.0 | Don't worry, we've got a satellite looking for a large Irish moon and tiny speedos. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm joined again by Tim Stanley, telegraph columnist leader writer author and humble servant |
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