The Sunday Edition: They said Covid would change everything. Did it?

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🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today marks five years since the first Covid lockdown. We were told that we would never be able to go back to pre-pandemic times: we could only enter a ‘new normal’. Is that what happened? How much did the pandemic change us?

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Host: Luke Jones.

Guests:

Dan Atherton, Deputy Data Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Tom Whipple, Science Editor, The Times

Producer: Taryn Siegel.

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Clips: The Telegraph.

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0:34.7	Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off.
0:39.2	The night will be wild and untamed.
0:41.4	Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin.
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1:03.6	From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story.
1:07.1	I'm Luke Jones.
1:10.2	Music I'm Luke Jones. Would you believe we are a full five years on from the start of lockdown?
1:22.1	Good evening. The coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades.
1:29.8	From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction.
1:34.7	You must stay at home.
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