Sleaze, statistics and a sing-song
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It’s the 75th voyage to Planet Normal, but our co-pilots Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan aren't popping corks just yet. On this week's episode, they have strong words for the head of NHS England Amanda Pritchard, whose recent error on Covid admissions statistics had them putting their heads in their hands. Luckily Planet Normal's resident hospital bed occupancy expert (AKA Ms Pearson) is on hand to set the record straight. Plus, our co-hosts disagree entirely respectfully on the NHS "jab for jobs" announcement.
Joining us on the rocket of right-thinking is Oxford emeritus fellow Professor Lawrence Goldman, who doesn't hold back on the problems in UK university fundraising in the wake of the Mosley money row. But it's not just Oxford accepting money from dubious sources. He tells Allison and Liam why he believes the problem is 'systemic', with institutions throwing 'academic principles and common sense out of the window'.
And brace yourselves, co-pilot Halligan treats listeners to a special musical performance...
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | It's the lack of strategic and political acumen within number ten |
| 0:15.0 | that led to this huge U-turn |
| 0:18.0 | with regard to our impatterson. |
| 0:20.0 | Four. |
| 0:21.0 | What I want to know is why have we not been recording planet normal |
| 0:25.0 | from the British Virgin Islands being paid 11,000 pounds an hour? |
| 0:29.0 | If we apply present moral and political standards to the past, |
| 0:34.0 | then there's hardly anyone who will meet our ethical criteria. |
| 0:39.0 | Apple trees and honeybees and snow white turtle doves. |
| 0:44.0 | One. |
| 0:47.0 | We have let it go. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu off podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello. |
| 0:56.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:58.0 | As the COP26 chess beating reaches a crescendo, |
| 1:02.0 | and the po-face Glasgow summit comes to a close, |
| 1:05.0 | as we consider from our beloved planet normal, |
| 1:08.0 | the madness of planet Earth, new vistas of woe come into view. |
| 1:12.0 | Slees is unacceptable, it needs to be stopped, |
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