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🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are here again for more verbal back and forth. Today they discuss: BBC star salaries, the ongoing Wagatha Christie affair, words that have gone out of fashion, trying to get naughty terms into print, Mariah Carey, The Savoy Hotel, Gordon Ramsay, the Scouts, William and Kate, John Lennon's interview with Whispering Bob, Brian Epstein's prized possessions going up for sale, keeping a diary, letting your employer know who you've had horizontal refreshment with, misandry vs. misogyny, whether a glass of wine counts towards your 5-a-day and Porky's teeth.
Meanwhile LAJ rants about the future of the Royal Family and Porky admits he doesn't believe in Seasonal Affective Disorder. It's a good job Planet Porky is in top form all year round...

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest episode of Life on Planet Porky.
0:27.2	And thank you very much indeed for joining us today.
0:29.7	And thank you also.
0:31.3	And I'm sure this will be endorsed by my co-presenter, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones, rock chick writer extraordinaire.
0:37.9	I have to say, Leslie Ann, isn't it nice to have so many people getting back to us with,
0:42.5	you know, their views on the podcast?
0:46.6	Overwhelmed, Monsieur Parry.
0:48.2	It's been so enjoyable this week to hear from so many people.
0:51.9	And very grateful for that.
0:53.9	Yes, no, I totally agree with you.
0:56.4	Now, talking about communications and we're all in the communications business, I see Ms. Zoe Ball
1:03.1	has stepped forward and said she is asking for a reduction on her million pound a year pay rise,
1:13.0	given to her after she cost a million listeners and honestly i'm not i'm not smirking here you know we're all in this business and your
1:18.1	figures go up and down but do you know what i think's happened there leslie ann i think that all of a sudden
1:23.3	the pressure of having become the highest paid person at the BBC has rattled Zoe and it would
1:29.5	rattle me because of course that rise coincided with Gary Lineker taking a cut and she suddenly
1:35.4	became the highest paid earner at the BBC by taking a cut she drops back below Gary Lineker
1:41.7	and let's Gary carry that cross again. I think that's quite
1:45.0	clever, really. Well, you know, the question is, of course, they shouldn't be paid that much
1:50.8	in the first place, should they? I think it's absolutely ridiculous. Just because she gets up at the
1:56.0	crack of dawn, how is dawn, by the way, you know, what exactly is she bringing to the nation
2:02.1	that justifies a gigantic salary like that?
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