Still not quite sure how Mrs Dominic Cummings ended up on Today this week. A BBC spokesperson tells the Mail: 'We are running a series of short essays by people who have had different experiences of the covid virus. Mary Wakefield’s essay was based on a column she has written for the Spectator.'
That sort of suggests active commissioning. Unusual, then, that the same recording appears at length as part of a Spectator podcast, also released on Saturday. I'd like to bet it was a Today producer rather than a Spectator operative who spent the night hours slicing it down from 5 minutes 30 seconds to 3 minutes 5; and leaving out the bits about never trusting the Chinese again, and Islington feeling like East Berlin.
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