Who'd be a student?
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
University is the time of your life - unless you're living through a pandemic. Third-year student and listener, Lucy takes a ride in the Planet Normal rocket to tell Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan why her generation feels forgotten by the government, why she worries about her peers, and how the crisis has left her embarrassed to be a young scientist.
Also on the podcast: Liam laments the reappearance of the Brexit wars in vaccine rhetoric, and Allison reveals some of our listeners' 'exotic' lockdown highlights.
Allison and Liam will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 28th January from 11am-12pm here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2021/01/28/students-like-last-thing-governments-mind/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.2 | Podcasts |
| 0:31.8 | Five. |
| 0:33.8 | University has meant to be when you become a young adult. |
| 0:37.8 | And you know, we never get these years back. |
| 0:39.8 | Four. |
| 0:40.8 | I think it's a shame that this rollout of vaccines |
| 0:44.8 | is becoming embroiled in Brexit war. |
| 0:48.8 | We'll forever be tarnished with, oh well, yours doesn't count as much |
| 0:53.8 | because you're the COVID generation. |
| 0:55.8 | But of course, because the European Commission is so arrogant, |
| 1:00.8 | no mistakes can be admitted to. |
| 1:03.8 | One. |
| 1:06.8 | We have left off. |
| 1:11.8 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:15.8 | Hello. |
| 1:16.8 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 1:18.8 | Well, it's another grim week in lockdown Britain. |
| 1:21.8 | But amidst the gloom, there is light. |
| 1:24.8 | Because the UK's now administered almost seven million vaccines. |
| 1:28.8 | Well, over one in ten of our population. |
| 1:31.8 | More than four fifths of the over eighties have been jabbed at least once, |
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