We can't we all just get along?
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Broadcaster Iain Dale hops into the passenger seat to join the Telegraph's Liam Halligan and guest co-pilot Kate Hoey on this week's voyage to Planet Normal. Iain tells Liam why he's been known to shame people for rudeness on social media, how he suffers from imposter syndrome, and why he's written a book about listening to the other side of the debate.
Plus, Kate and Liam discuss why it's hard to talk about immigration and how Liam's the only person from last week's episode not to have been awarded a peerage. Plus the pair reminisce over the time Liam played bus driver to his co-host in Northern Ireland...
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| 0:38.0 | If you seriously think that you're being more informed by watching RT than the BBC, you need your headread. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the engine room of Britain's economic success. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, I didn't really mean you. I was in a bad mood. I'm really sorry. |
| 0:55.0 | Perhaps I was so scared of your driving that it's been a sort of traumatic thing in my head that I've forgotten. |
| 1:01.0 | One. |
| 1:03.0 | We have left off. |
| 1:06.0 | And that's the sound of blast off number 11. |
| 1:10.0 | Strap yourself in for another mid-summer touchdown on planet normal. |
| 1:14.0 | This is the telegraph podcast offering down to earth, news and views from beyond the bubble with me Liam Halligan, an ordinarily Alison Pearson. |
| 1:23.0 | This week, though, Alison still on holiday. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm joined again by former Labour MP Kate Hoey and Kate, part of the news we need to discuss is you. |
| 1:32.0 | Because it seems your parliamentary career, it's about to be relaunched. |
| 1:36.0 | Well, obviously appearing as on planet normal was very good. |
| 1:40.0 | Because the next day it was announced that I'm going into the lords. |
| 1:44.0 | And that's obviously an honour for me, but an honour for lots of people who've worked with me over the years and on my constituents |
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