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The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman
Sunetra Gupta
Season 1, Ep. 7
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Jeremy talks to Professor Sunetra Gupta, a University of Oxford epidemiologist who has been pilloried for daring to suggest that there could be an alternative response to covid than putting the entire country under house arrest.
Yes this is meant to be a pub lock in rather than a podcast about the news, but these are extraordinary times we're living through and it's perverse to ignore that fact, so this is one of a handful of 'off-script' episodes we'll be putting out alongside our regular chats.
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