Lucy Easthope

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Emergency Planner and Disaster Expert Lucy Easthope has advised on everything from plane crashes and tsunamis to pandemics and terror attacks. Lucy speaks to James about the Government’s decision-making during the coronavirus pandemic and what life was like for disaster planners under austerity. Her new book, When The Dust Settles, lifts the lid on a career spent picking up the pieces.

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0:32.3	This is a global player original podcast.
0:55.6	Okay. Global Player Original Podcast Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast that is well dedicated entirely to letting me spend much more time with interesting people than I would ever get on the radio. And I wonder if you can tell from my
0:59.6	voice already that I am uncharacteristically cowed by this week's guest. Lucy Easthope, welcome.
1:06.5	Thank you. And the reason I'm cowed is, well, there's various reasons.
1:11.9	We met at a literary festival and I was charmed by you.
1:15.6	And I was also told by several people that I must both read your book and interview you.
1:20.9	Thank you.
1:21.6	And from a standing start, it was quite a bizarre experience to discover what you do what you have done what what
1:30.9	what you care about and and where you come from it blew me away completely you are to give you
1:38.8	your foot well you tell me what what is what job description do you see yourself as operating under
1:43.1	I'm a very proud emergency planner.
1:45.5	That's the phrase, emergency planner.
1:47.4	But that is misleading because you also...
1:50.7	Planned the aftermath.
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