The National Covid Service
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
An extra special passenger in the Planet Normal rocket this week, as Telegraph columnists, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan are joined by anonymous NHS GP and Planet Normal listener, 'Clare'. She explains how she feels the NHS is more the National Covid Service these days, how lockdown measures have tragically left some of her patients as "suicides waiting to happen", and why she thinks Matt Hancock could do with spending a day in her shoes.
Also on the podcast: Allison and Liam rejoice at news a vaccine is on the horizon, gawp over the amount of money growing on the government's 'Magic Money Tree' and Allison laments her hometown of Wales cancelling 2021 school exams and warns England not to follow suit.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu- |
| 0:02.8 | Podcasts |
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| 0:27.0 | Slush Puzzles, Dash Planet Normal, today. |
| 0:37.0 | Five. |
| 0:38.0 | It's not an ashy health service, it's a national COVID service. |
| 0:41.0 | And we don't have a health minister, we have a COVID minister. |
| 0:44.0 | Four. |
| 0:45.0 | If we convince ourselves that we can rely on the magic money tree, then lockdown may never end |
| 0:50.0 | or it may certainly be much longer than it needs to be. |
| 0:54.0 | I don't mind in his 30s subbing because he'd lost his job, he can't pay his rent, he can't pay his bills. |
| 1:00.0 | And I thought, you know, he's a suicide way to end up in. |
| 1:03.0 | Now I'm going to say a sentence now, Liam, that we don't often say on planet normal. |
| 1:07.0 | So let's have a bit of a pause. |
| 1:09.0 | All credit to the government, make a two on your trumpet. |
| 1:12.0 | Dada da da. |
| 1:13.0 | One. |
| 1:17.0 | We have liftoff. |
| 1:20.0 | Welcome again to Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
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