113: Jack Charlton, a coal miner and a bunch of obsessive Germans

Planet Porky

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🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Spinning through the solar system it's the latest episode of Planet Porky the podcast. Today Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones begin by paying tribute to those important figures we have recently lost including legendary England defender Jack Charlton, former Fairport Convention singer Julie Dyble and Elvis' grandson Benjamin Keough.

After that, it's the usual eccentric mixture with topics including: Brooklyn Beckham's self-worth, Kate Middleton, the unlikely destination for European crop circle aficionados, Robert De Niro and the things the mega-famous do for money, family holidays, Christine McVie, firing rockets to Mars during a pandemic, Lebanon, moving on from grief, David Bailey's chat up techniques and the latest release from Jarvis Cocker. They also discuss whether Beethoven will go down as the first ever rock star. (He's second on the Liszt!)

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0:00.0	So hello everybody and welcome to the latest edition, the latest episode, the latest chapter of life on planet pork.
0:30.6	He delighted to say that we are zooming further and further apart, sorry, not further apart, further and further through the asteroid system,
0:40.4	which leads us to Planet Porky, myself of course, and ably guided by Leslie Ann Jones,
0:46.8	rock chick writer extraordinaire. And Leslie Ann, it's absolutely great to have you on Planet Porky again,
0:52.5	but I have to say, I've got to introduce you this time with a little melancholy because a gentleman who not many would have believed
0:59.7	was a close friend of yours has sadly left and departed this earth. RIP, Jack Charlton, it's
1:08.0	hard to believe that he's gone, isn't it?
1:11.4	Having said that, you know, he was ailing for some years.
1:15.2	He had Alzheimer's dementia.
1:17.4	That's right. I knew he'd been unwell.
1:19.6	I'd spoke to people in the football community.
1:21.3	I don't keep in touch with Sir Jeff Hurst, but I come across Sir Jeff and I always ask, you know, because Martin Peter's another great
1:27.6	World Cup hero also suffered from the same problem towards the end of his life and Jeff's in touch
1:33.3	with all of them. But I mean, people were quite astonished after the news sadly came through
1:38.4	a couple of days ago about Jack Charlton to then see a personal tribute from yourself.
1:44.8	And can you tell me where the origins of the family connection
1:48.0	between yours and Jack Charlton's came from and how it developed?
1:51.4	My father was very close to the 66 World Cup squad.
1:56.6	George Cohen remains...
1:57.8	Father of course being Ken Jones, the legendary sportswriter.
2:01.2	Thank you. And Geoff, sorry, George Cohen remained. The father, of course, being Ken Jones, the legendary sportswriter. Thank you.
2:01.8	And Jeff, sorry, George Cohen remained a very, very close friend of my father's right
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