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Hello, this weekend I was listening to Lady Gaga's new album.

And on the streaming service I was using, every few songs you get a little message from Lady Gaga where she talks about what was behind the album and what her feelings were and what her thoughts were.

So inspired by that, I'm going to do a bit of that today.

So the original idea for this podcast was the I'm going to do a bit of that today.

So the original idea for this podcast

was that it would be a daily news podcast

where we just talked about the most important,

most interesting news stories that day

and the most interesting, most important way we could think of.

Obviously then coronavirus came along and we changed that plan and we did a coronavirus

podcast.

But what we're going to start doing now just every so often is when there's a massive story that's not about coronavirus, we're going to have a chat about that too.

So for example, today we're going to talk about the quite astonishing

scenes of protests, violence, the police charging crowds, things being set on

fire in America after the death of George Floyd

Because that's a big important story with lots of implications that we think you'll be interested in, but we'll still overwhelmingly

focus on coronavirus related stories, and we're still going to talk about loads of science and medicine and health stuff.

And today we're going to start off, for example, by talking about the changes to the restrictions in England,

particularly the changes that allow some children to go back to school.

And also we're going to hear from someone who's been shielding for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks

who did their first walk to the park today. So all of that, all of it

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