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Planet Porky

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🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Time for another look at Life on Planet Porky with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones ready once again to get stuck in to some of the world's biggest issues. Today they include: big developments with LAJ's Lennon book, the importance of a good cover, the author who bought his own books, Brian May, milk alternatives, the changing face of Iraq due to Western intervention, Slash, Princess Beatrice's wedding, how Jeffrey Epstein may have made his money, who the next President might (and might not) be, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's latest batch of dirty laundry, back pain, Cat Stevens, the future of high street banking, Daniel Radcliffe (and the importance of trying to move on from a major role), Todmorden, the juggling act for journalists when covering a powerful human story and nefarious ways of getting inside someone's home (for an interview). This podcast doesn't enter via the tradesman's entrance, it's front door only here on Planet Porky.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, welcome again to Life on Planet Porky, the latest podcast here from myself,
0:28.2	The Porkmeister, and of course, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones, Rocket Chick, writer, Extraordinaire.
0:34.2	Leslie, Anne, as we're recording, welcome and great to be conversing with you again,
0:39.0	but you're actually on the brink of a bit of a dramatic development, and I say dramatic, I mean
0:43.9	dramatically good, in the passage of your book to the market, the book on John Lennon,
0:50.7	Who Killed John Lennon? Tell me all about it. Well, thanks, Mike. We've just gone
0:55.3	live with the big cover reveal, which is always a thrilling moment for an author, because we
1:01.9	tend to put out holding covers, you know, just a temporary for now kind of cover, but then comes
1:08.7	the moment of the big reveal. And we've gone live with that, so everybody can have a look and see what that looks like.
1:15.8	There's a great little film on my Twitter that people can check out if they would like to,
1:20.9	and also a little system for the pre-order of both the book and the audiobook.
1:26.9	That's fantastic. You know a lot more
1:29.2	about these things and me because you've written a lot of very successful books, but how important
1:34.1	is it to have a picture of the book subject on the cover? I know that might sound mad, but
1:39.1	a lot of people experiment with covers and it doesn't always work. It doesn't. I mean, it can sort of make or break a book, really.
1:48.0	I think with a big biographical subject, you really need to have some sort of image of the subject on the cover.
1:55.0	Because, you know, pictures speak louder than words, don't they?
1:58.0	It's the instant contact that we make with a book when we
2:01.9	look in a bookshop. I mean, obviously fiction is different, but with a biographical subject,
2:07.6	I think we do need to see their face. Yeah. No, I totally agree. I've written one very successful
2:13.1	book and a couple that, you know, were just sort of very average, to be honest.
2:18.3	But the one that got into the Sunday Times best seller list was there's an awful lot of
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