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109: Pubs and bars

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another look at Life on Planet Porky with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones. Today they discuss: LAJ's mock graduation, struggling through lockdown, the long-awaited reopening of the pubs and some personal favourite hostelries, Rick Wakeman, a coincidental connection with Peter Myers (of Keswick), Elton John's personal life, the sexuality spectrum, assisting friends with their affairs, Paul Young, the challenges of being a professional singer, Emily Sheffield and the difficulty of editing a paper, Melania Trump, politicians unofficially using licensed music, Chrissie Hynde and victim blaming. Jam packed as always! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest edition of Life on Planet Porky. And I want to say,

0:29.2

Leslie Ann, of course, in the chair with me here in a self-isolating studio, as am I. Some of the

0:35.7

responses we've been getting lately for these podcasts have been very,

0:39.1

very heartening indeed and wide arranging with every broadcast. And happy to be entertaining the

0:47.9

nation. Yes, very happy to be entertaining the nation as well. Now we've got lots to talk about

0:53.2

in this podcast, but there's one particular

0:54.8

issue that I want to bring to the attention of our hopefully millions of listeners, because

1:00.7

I thought that what you did over the last weekend that has transpired between our last podcast

1:08.3

and this one, to salute your children after their years of hard

1:12.5

work and their graduations in their respective studies was absolutely quite marvellous.

1:20.2

Graduation day at home, I mean, we've seen all sorts of things have happened during lockdown.

1:25.0

We've seen Colonel Tom, who's walked in his garden.

1:27.1

We've seen little children who've been in his garden. We've seen little

1:27.6

children who've been hobbling around, you know, and trying so very hard to raise money for

1:33.2

the health service. We've seen all sorts of things. People who have had to, you know,

1:37.5

improvise getting their hair cut and all that. But tell us, please, about your improvisation

1:42.0

for the graduation ceremony for your kids than, of course, they never got.

1:47.1

Oh, my younger two, Henry and Bridie, Henry was a student for four years at Arts Ed in Chiswick.

1:55.3

Bridey was a student of English at Exeter University for three years.

2:00.4

They happened to graduate the same year,

2:02.6

not that they're the same age, but my son had deferred a year because he broke his knee

2:07.1

in a rugby accident. And so he had to, as a ballet dancer, you know, ballet, acting, singing,

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