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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. It's the Easter issue. Every week we pick a few of our favourite writers from the issue to read out their pieces.

In this episode, we'll be joined by Carlo Rovelli, the Italian physicist, who reads out his notebook about his time in lockdown in Canada.

Then we'll be joined by the historian David Abilafia, who writes that conservatives need to regain the campus.

And finally, a bit of religious art with Laura Freeman. First up is the physicist Carlo Revelli.

Diary, Carlo Revelli.

Spring, it's coming.

There was snow in the garden till last week here in Canada where I have been spending

this strange winter. But today the sky is shining blue and the sunshine is soft and warm.

I guess this is what Eastern is really about, rebirth.

I have spent months without going farther than the corner of food shop,

a Zoom winter.

I've never been in the same few rooms for so long.

And yet, I've never been so much in video touch with so many colleagues and friends from everywhere.

I feel I have partially migrated

into a semi-virtual reality. It's not too bad. It's relaxing. This week is crazy. My new book,

Helgoland, about understanding quantum reality, is just published.

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