3.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | Okay, folks, you are listening to Planet Porky. |
0:25.4 | Thank you very much indeed for tuning in, switching on or filling your ears with the learnings of myself, Mike Parry, the Porkmeister. |
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1:12.8 | you know get sorted as to whether what you're listening to is to your satisfaction and what I'm |
1:18.8 | saying is to mine. Okay folks now I want to tell you about the economist the economist magazine. |
1:24.0 | You might think it's only about economics but it's not. It's about finance. It's about |
1:28.5 | business, but it covers a range of subjects from world politics and business to science, |
1:33.8 | technology, arts, environment. And you know, one of the favourite sections I like? The book |
1:38.6 | reviews, okay? Because when somebody from the economist reads a book and tells you all about it, |
1:43.6 | believe me, you know about it, okay? |
1:45.7 | Now, it sifts through the noise, in my opinion. |
1:48.2 | It focuses on the essential information that tells the real story in a time when facts matter more than ever in this turbulent world. |
1:56.8 | We live in both at home and away, okay? |
1:59.1 | It's true to say the economist has been a trusted source of intelligence for over 170 years. |
2:06.4 | Yes, that's what I said, over 170 years. |
2:09.7 | And it's for the kind of person, you, the reader, who never stops asking those questions |
2:14.4 | and wants to know why the world is the way it is. I love an article |
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