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it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files — all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. where do you think that the story has kind of got to? well, it carries bubbling a...

others and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. the weird do you think that story has got to? weird do you think that story has not to? �* , ., ~' got to? it's not quite i think necessarily _ got to? it's not quite i think necessarily yet _ got to? it's not quite i think necessarily yet at _ got to? it's not quite i think necessarily yet at the - got to? it's not quite i think necessarily yet at the kind l got to? it's not quite i think| necessarily yet at the kind of obvious comparison of the telegraph. generating a lot of news. loads and loads of pick—up and di...

Heard her critique of that process, that sense from her that she thinks it's going to be too long—winded. now, today is world book day, as many parents will have experienced and as i have seen many parents talking about on social media today, so we managed to rope in a real—life author to come and talk to us. it is former children's laureate and broadcaster michael rosen, who is here. hello, michael! hello! so, i am an author specimen for today! well, i mean, your latest book, getting better, has a lot of medical stuff in it because there is a lot that your recovery from covid, so specimen...

Spotted this, did you spot that? because the telegraph used their specialists in different areas. so that is isabel oakeshott's view from telegraph towers. what about the views of some of the people who have been caught up in all this? well, matt hancock in particular is very punchy in his response, as you might imagine, not least because of that sense of betrayal. and he says that it is outrageous and that she is pursuing an anti—lockdown agenda, as he puts it, and that it is not in the public interest, as he sees it, because the forum for that, he believes, is the public inquiry but of cou...