106: We'll meet again

Planet Porky

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🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Porky and LAJ discuss Vera Lynn, Sir Paul McCartney, Liz Hurley, the Williams sisters, noisy neighbours, the rain, sunglasses, feats of architectural wonder, press funerals, the bleak future for the theatre, going back to pubs and restaurants, fighting on film sets, contract riders and India. It's the latest Planet Porky!

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, thank you very much indeed for joining us for the latest episode,
0:26.6	the latest edition of Life on Planet Porky.
0:30.9	And there's been quite a bit happening on Planet Porky since we last communicated with the audience,
0:35.7	Leslie Ann, some of it really good stuff,
0:39.2	some of it tragic stuff. And although you can't really call the death of a British icon tragic,
0:46.3	because of course she had a wonderful life, it hits us right between the eyes, did it not,
0:51.9	when we heard of the death of Dame Vera Lynn?
0:56.3	Well, you know, 103 is 103, but I was incredibly sad. I was privileged to have spent some time with
1:03.5	Dame Vera filming a documentary in her house. And I had a wonderful...
1:08.0	Who did you do that for, by the way?
1:09.6	Oh, that was originally for vintage TV, but because vintage TV collapsed, it never aired.
1:15.2	Right.
1:15.7	But we made it with Paul Gambaccini, in fact.
1:19.0	That's what I mean.
1:19.2	Yeah, you had a great professional team there.
1:21.3	That's great.
1:21.9	Yeah, he and I've been talking, and we're going to try and resurrect it because we feel that...
1:25.9	Oh, you must do now, yeah. Yeah, this was the final interview that Dame Vera ever gave for British television.
1:32.3	Incredible.
1:33.1	Yeah, the public has a right to see it.
1:34.6	We've got a campaign to resurrect that without a shadow of doubt, yeah.
1:37.7	Yeah, we just need to raise the money to make it into a program because what we have at the moment is the foot. Yeah, but I think we will because it's a
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