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Hello and greetings from lockdown.

Welcome to That's Life.

Spectator Life sideways look at what's left of the world today.

I'm Benedict Spence and I'm

Andy Shaw. And on this podcast we'll be poking fun at the people, ideas and events that have popped

up in the news over the past few weeks, all whilst bedecked in hazmat suits and remaining at a

suitable, sociable distance from one another, which frankly is how all interaction should be conducted

in the post-me-2 era.

That's right, folks, the plagues back in town.

Samuel Peep's diaries have sold out, and outside Jeremy Corbyn's North London flat,

a man with a cart is parading up and down with a bell, chanting, bring out your deadweight,

which is pretty poor form from Kirstama, but I suppose what else is an ambulance chase are going to do these days? Elsewhere, the rest of the nation has begun working remotely.

And the President of the United States has been accused of racism for calling the epidemic

the Chinese virus. One can only imagine the fury of the Guardian comment desk when they discover

this thing called the Black Death. But, aside from all of this, we still have a podcast to do.

And our guest for this episode is comedian and political satirist Andrew Doyle,

whose fictional character, Detani McGrath, became the number two Twitter account for satirizing the woke movement,

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