107: Pork's sausage (pan)

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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It's the moment you've been waiting for as Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones return to the audio cosmos to bring you the latest look at Life on Planet Porky. Topics today include: Mark Chapman's hopes of parole, Porky's new pan, eating on public transport, social distancing rules being relaxed, Kirsty MacColl, the sordid life of John Huston, the exploitation of women in Hollywood, Cliff Jones vs. Pele, the 'Gentle Giant' John Charles, ABBA's early stage fright, the time when music graced the front pages, using a cat on your dating profile, Annie Leibovitz, racking up millions of pounds of debt, photographing Donald Trump, the Father's Day image of Princes William and Charles together, lucrative boyband associations, accidental medical discoveries, Alan "Fluff" Freeman, and the incredible story behind the TV show 'Murder in the Car Park'.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, welcome to the latest edition, the latest episode of Life on Planet Porky.
0:29.0	It follows the fortunes of myself, the Porkmeister, and of course, the rock chick writer
0:34.9	extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones. Leslie Ann, a big welcome to you.
0:41.0	Thank you, Michael. How are you? Well, I'm pretty good indeed. And listen, before we get going into this
0:45.8	podcast today, and without wishing to drive it home too intensely to our audience, I'm sure you
0:52.3	are as aware as I am that on this day in 1981,
0:56.7	a man called Chapman was charged officially with the murder of John Winston-Lennon.
1:03.0	Doesn't go away, does it? No, never.
1:05.6	He's coming up for parole again this year in August.
1:09.6	I don't think he'll ever get it.
1:11.3	No, he'll never get it.
1:12.3	I read on one occasion because I think Yoko Ono objects every time, doesn't she?
1:19.1	Wouldn't you?
1:20.2	Of course I would.
1:21.5	But the last time I read it, I read it from an American point of view and some commentator over there
1:26.6	so they could never let Chapman out for his own safety.
1:29.2	He said there'd be a queue, you know, longer than the height of the Empire State building
1:33.5	of people who'd want to try and get him.
1:36.0	Would anybody really truly risk their own liberty to assassinate the guy who assassinated
1:41.4	the greatest rock star of all time?
1:43.2	No, but they might arrange for his death, if you saw what I mean.
1:45.4	I think he were going to stand there and shoot him like he shot down John Lennon,
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