The Five Days of Christmas
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Broadcaster Richard Madeley dons the spare spacesuit for this week's trip to Planet Normal. Richard tells Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan why he won't be blindly "following the science" but interrogating it, reveals why he feels let down by his profession when it comes to corona, and explains how his whole life was changed by the twist of a Rubix cube.
Also on the podcast: Allison is fed up of being told that 'Christmas is saved', Liam breaks down the recent spending review and worries the economy could also suffer from 'long covid' and one of our presenters treats listeners to a festive musical interlude!
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | Time to stop playing this national game of hide and seek with the virus. |
| 0:14.0 | Four. |
| 0:16.0 | This is a recession, a depression, a slump that's been completely government-induced. |
| 0:22.0 | The government would say, for good reason. |
| 0:24.0 | Three. |
| 0:25.0 | We've been treated like fools. |
| 0:27.0 | We really, really have. |
| 0:29.0 | And it's only now that people are beginning to quietly wake up and start distrust what we're being told, which is a great shame. |
| 0:36.0 | On the first day of Christmas Boris Johnson gave to me... |
| 0:40.0 | ...five family dinners, four more weeks of lockdown. |
| 0:43.0 | One. |
| 0:47.0 | We have left off. |
| 0:51.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello. |
| 0:56.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:58.0 | So here it is, mini Christmas, as that great 70s band slayed once almost sang. |
| 1:03.0 | Three households can form a bubble from the 23rd to the 27th of December, according to newly announced rules. |
| 1:10.0 | Kids can hug grandma and grandpa, but you can forget popping to see the neighbours to the pub or even to church over the festive period. |
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