The Great British Brain Unwashing
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It's what feels like week number 582 of lockdown, and it's trip number three to Planet Normal. This week, Telegraph columnists, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan blast off into a lively debate on what they'd like to do to a statue of Gavin Wiliamson and whether theme parks could possibly be safer than schools.
Plus renowned oncologist, Professor Karol Sikora weighs in on why he wants the nation to "unwash" their brains of fear, and he submits to the ultimate black hole: a war of words with Piers Morgan.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu- |
| 0:02.8 | Podcasts |
| 0:09.0 | As a planet normal listener, we're offering you three months of telegraph puzzles for just £1. |
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| 0:25.0 | Visit telegraph.co.uk |
| 0:27.0 | Slush Puzzles, Dash Planet Normal, today. |
| 0:36.0 | Five. |
| 0:38.0 | Now we've got to unbrosh people's brains and brainwash them in a different way to get them motivated again. |
| 0:44.0 | Four. |
| 0:45.0 | If there's ever a statue of Gavin Williamson, I'm prepared to pull it down. |
| 0:50.0 | Three. |
| 0:51.0 | I've let my wife cut my hair. It's a disaster, I can tell you. |
| 0:57.0 | There's a bar of outrage and it's getting lower and lower and ministers and everyone in public life are sort of limboing underneath it. |
| 1:11.0 | Welcome again to Planet Normal, the new telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:16.0 | Hello, and me, Liam Halligan. Here we are. Blast off number three. |
| 1:21.0 | The Planet Normal rocket's picking up speed and Houston. There's no problem at all. We're getting into our stride. |
| 1:28.0 | Alison now knows what a podcast is. She's got a new microphone. She's even found the knob for the volume. |
| 1:36.0 | Patronizing or what, Halligan? |
| 1:38.0 | A huge response to your superb interview with Sir Richard Dillove last week, Alison. |
| 1:43.0 | The former head of MI6 talking about China's role in the origins of and response to coronavirus. |
| 1:49.0 | It drove headlines literally around the world, not least on the front page of the telegraph. |
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