118: What a load of Balearics

Planet Porky

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It's due to be a sweltering weekend, so let Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones cool you down with the latest edition of Planet Porky. Topics up for discussion today include: the upcoming heatwave, Ibiza and the Spanish islands, Wham's music videos, the extraordinary wealth of top level DJs (and whether they are worth it), Venice, being a gondolier, why people bother to go on holiday in the height of summer, parents spending millions on kids who have no talent, not being able to find your hidden genius, George Harrison, the rock star lifestyle, Tina Turner, groupies, Grace Kelly's fascinating life, inappropriate jokes, Carole Caplin, the skulduggerous world of Peter Foster, going camping, lyric writers, Bond themes, Hugh Hefner's bunnies and female sumo wrestlers. Stay cool!

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to the, or about to listen to, the latest episode,
0:27.4	the latest edition, latest chapter of life on planet Porky.
0:32.5	And Leslie Ann, a very good morning to you.
0:34.8	You're welcome.
0:35.6	I'm not in the happiest of moods today because as we
0:38.5	commence this broadcast and throughout the time, it will be available to our millions of listeners
0:43.8	all over the weekend. It looks like we're going through a kind of August heat wave, end of July,
0:51.7	start of August heat wave. It's going to kill me. I'm not good in the sun
0:54.8	at the best of times, but I've got work in TV studios and all sorts of things over the weekend.
1:00.2	I simply am not looking forward to it, and I know you yourself are not necessarily a sun lover,
1:05.7	are you? I'm not a sun baker, Mike. No, I've had skin cancer a couple of times in recent years.
1:12.3	So I tend to lie low and take cover. You know, Factor 50, big hat, umbrella, stay in the shade, lots of nice cool drinks.
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:21.4	I think you're just going to have to get to the studio by car, you know, have somebody drive you there and back.
1:28.2	And just, and where as little as possible, I mean, I'm not inviting you to go on a naked by any
1:33.3	means, but, you know, you know, just be a bit of a chop for my million.
1:35.6	You've got your sprays and you've got your whites and all those things.
1:38.6	And just keep drinking the water and stay cool.
1:41.6	Oh, it's dreadful. Even at, my car picks me up at quarter six, right, when I'm doing TV.
1:48.2	And even at that time of the morning, it's almost impossible to keep the inside of the car,
1:52.6	cooling it for me, honestly.
1:53.9	Even though it's a modern car, to Mercedes, it's got air conditioning, I don't know why,
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