105: Foreign food? It's all Greek to me

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are back for a bumper edition of Planet Porky. Today's episode features topics including: venturing out as lockdown is relaxed, Slade, the irrepressible nature of Alan Brazil, JK Rowling and the transgender controversy, Meghan Markle vs. Jessica Mulroney, the depraved goings-on at the Groucho Club, Damien Hirst, Peter Jackson's new reworking of an old Beatles documentary, Ricky Valance, memories of Steve Stammers, dieting and whether it's a waste of time, winning the lottery, drunken mistakes, the benefits of early mornings, eating abroad and making the most of being able to travel again. It's a veritable feast!

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome folks and thank you for all. Okay, welcome folks and thank you for joining us again on the latest edition,
0:27.7	the latest episode of Life on Planet Porky.
0:30.6	That's myself, the Porkmeister, with, of course, Leslie Ann Jones.
0:35.1	Leslie Ann, it's 10 or 11 weeks now until lockdown. We're all getting
0:38.8	cabin fever and going stir crazy. But there are a few green shoots about that we might be able to
0:45.0	spread our wings a little in the forthcoming days, if not weeks. So how's it going with yourself?
0:53.2	Not bad. You know, as I always say, I've been a lucky one because I have a house full.
0:57.4	There are four of us.
0:58.3	Yeah.
0:58.6	So I have company.
1:00.3	Unlike other people who have been completely on their own all this time.
1:04.2	And when I went down to Peckham Rye Park at the weekend thinking, oh, I'll have a little walk around, you know. I couldn't even
1:10.9	find a parking space and I couldn't see a patch of green grass. It was literally covered with
1:17.0	people, groups of families, groups of friends, all sort of having picnics and so on. So everybody's
1:23.3	getting out there now. Yeah. I tell you, great. I saw a frightening image this morning.
1:27.8	I saw that great TV reporter on travel.
1:33.0	You know, he used to work for the Independent.
1:34.8	He's the best guy.
1:35.9	Everybody knows who he is with his glasses on.
1:37.7	I forgot now.
1:38.5	But we can't think of his name.
1:39.8	A hundred times.
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