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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the New Statesman podcast I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week I talked to Laurie Penny and Caroline

Crampton about the BBC zombie drama in the flesh

Tom Gatti talks to author Mark Haden and I chat to Ian Stedman about wearable technology. I'm joined by a contributing editor Laurie Penny and our web editor Caroline Crampton

to talk about the zombie drama in the flesh. If you've missed it it's on BBC I Player

at the moment and the second series will start in May.

Laurie you were the one who got me into this actually.

I've only watched the first episode,

but you and Caroline, I know,

have watched the first series,

and you've also seen a preview of the second series.

So, explain the premise to us. The premise is very different from your

standard shooting up zombie drama and it centers on a young recovered zombie or PDS sufferer, partially deceased syndrome

sufferer as we're supposed to call them now. So it's all very kind of PC.

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