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11: Porky's Pals: Lesley-Ann Jones

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3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Planet Porky welcomes a visitor today as Mike Parry sits down with Sunday Times bestselling author and long-time showbiz journalist Lesley-Ann Jones about her new book 'Tumbling Dice' and her colourful life on Fleet Street. 

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0:00.0

Thank you.

0:03.0

I'm going to

0:07.0

I'm delighted to say I have an absolutely stunning and fabulous

0:39.5

guest with me it is of course leslie anne jones leslie ann thank you very much indeed for joining me

0:44.4

how are you doing i am doing absolutely fine and i'm doing better because you're here okay planet

0:48.8

porkies a dynamic new podcast right we're soaring very high into the stratosphere, all rockets firing, everything to go for.

0:57.1

And I'm delighted that you are so far my star guest on this mission to educate the world and the followers of the portmeister.

1:04.6

Okay. Now, first of all, let me just tell everybody the sort of background to the relationship you and I have had over maybe 30, 35 years.

1:12.2

Steny.

1:12.8

Yeah, well, you know, all very innocent and we all know that.

1:16.1

But you were the top Rockchick reporter in the 80s, 90s, maybe even earlier than that.

1:24.7

You've got to know so many famous people.

1:26.6

You've already written a Sunday Times bestseller

1:28.9

involving Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody and all that.

1:32.1

But your latest book, Tumbling Dice, is a...

1:34.4

You've called it a memoir.

1:35.7

I call it an absolute voyage through Fleet Street

1:39.7

at the height of the hedonism.

1:41.8

What's the best story in here?

1:42.9

Well, because we know where all the bodies are buried.

1:44.8

Well, that's right.

1:46.1

There's been a lot of you.

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