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🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Mike Parry reviews: The Real Enid Blyton , Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter and The Reluctant Billionaire on the latest rogerising, bladderating and unashamedly ostentatious episode of On the Record...
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0:00.0 | Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia, |
0:05.6 | Cervesa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out. |
0:08.6 | In the Penlyown and brooding Galithia since 1906. |
0:15.0 | 100% authentic. |
0:17.3 | But not all Spanish beers are what they seem. |
0:19.7 | A bit like me. |
0:21.1 | I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estreia Galicia. |
0:27.0 | Spanish. Not Spanish. And the So, So, This is on the record we are the two mics. I'm delighted to say that after the outrageous success of the first Porky review of books |
1:25.8 | we're ready to do the second Porky review of books installment this will now be a |
1:31.4 | regular feature of course this is where Porky looks at the big books that are out this week and tells you whether they're worth reading. |
1:37.0 | Yeah, absolutely. |
1:39.0 | So what have you got for us this week? Well, I tell you, let me tell you, mate, this is a fantastic book and I get all these books sent to me and |
1:44.2 | can't read them all all the time but I read it the the salient points now when you |
1:48.9 | were a kid did you read Enid Blighten books well do you know not really I I think I mean we always hadid Blighten books? Well, do you know, not really. I think I mean that we always had |
1:54.6 | Enid Blighten books in the house. Yeah. But you know Enid Blighten this, don't you? Yeah, the |
1:59.7 | famous five and all that. Yeah, famous five, Secret Seven. Noddy, she invented Noddy. I remember Noddy. Right. I used to like Noddy. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But anyway, what happened was, you know, she started off as a secretary and started writing books, |
2:16.0 | but she was earning like five million pounds a year the equivalent of |
2:20.0 | in the sort of 1930s and all kind of stuff you know 1950s actually |
2:23.9 | well the young ones did a piss take didn't they they did |
2:26.7 | remember the young ones TV show absolutely yeah they did a sort of piss tape |
2:29.6 | five go mad on masculine yes that's right which right. Well these days a lot of modern books |
2:35.2 | about you know society's problems are called five approach transgender and all |
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