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Planet Normal

Planet Normal’s Lockdown Heroes

Planet Normal

Louisa Wells

News Commentary, Society & Culture, Current Affairs, Planet Normal, News, Telegraph, News And Current Affairs

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In the second of this two-part lockdown retrospective, your co-pilots welcome back onto the rocket some of their heroes from the pandemic, those they feel that have spoken out against the mainstream.

Previous stowaways Sir Graham Brady, Professor Pat Price, Laura Dodsworth, Lord David Frost, Luke Johnson, Lord Jonathan Sumption and the infamous 'George' all strap in to share where they were in March 2020, reveal what they think the collateral damage has been, as well as how they think historians will remember it.

And co-pilots Pearson and Halligan delve into the  rocket’s bulging mail bag once more to share listeners' own retrospectives from the lockdown.


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0:00.0

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0:38.0

I realise that liberty and democracy were a minority interest, a bit like opera or bridge.

0:44.0

Thank God for Sweden.

0:47.0

Thank God for Florida and those places around the world, very few in number,

0:51.0

which took a more balanced, more rational approach.

0:56.0

There were imaginary short-term gains from doing this, and terrible, long-term damage.

1:02.0

We can't avoid a pandemic, but we could have avoided this cancer catastrophe.

1:14.0

And welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-

1:16.4

Podcast with Alison Pearson.

1:18.4

Hello.

1:20.4

And this is a landmark visit to Planet Normal co-pilot, part two of our lockdown special.

1:26.4

We're marking the third anniversary of that infamous moment in March 2020,

1:30.4

when then Prime Minister Boris Johnson first told us to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.

1:37.4

Last week, Alison, you and I shared our personal reflections three years on,

1:42.4

describing the abuse we took for speaking out about the collateral damage of lockdown,

1:47.4

and thanking the many thousands of Planet Normal listeners who wrote us messages of support.

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