Planet Normal: Ex BBC Chairman Lord Grade on why he’s cheering Laurence Fox’s anti-woke crusade

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Lord Grade, former chairman of the BBC and ITV and CEO of Channel 4 dons his spacesuit to join Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan on their trip to Planet Normal. He tells us why he’s cheering on Laurence Fox’s anti-woke crusade, how he’s fed up with journalists trying to catch the government out and why diversity of opinion is sorely lacking in the UK media.

Also on the podcast: Liam makes the case for extra government funding for catch-up lessons in schools, Allison questions why the UK is in one of the world’s strictest lockdowns and one of our presenters tells us why they’ve come to resemble Cut-Throat Jake!

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