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141: Adding insult to injury

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones burst into your living rooms courtesy of Planet Porky the podcast. Today's talking points include: LAJ's tour of the south taking in Salisbury and Sandbanks, Christmas in October, Dominic West the 'Eton shagger', Lulu Popplewell's on set woes, Hugh Grant, Porky being put in a tough spot by the weekend's football, knee injuries, celebrity marriages and the difficulty of making them work, poor Lily James, Melanie Sykes' new man, Martina Navratilova, talking about sex in your 80s, why mums shouldn't be friends with their daughters, Sarah Ferguson, Track and Trace flaws, David Bailey's seedy diaries, Liverpool's economic struggles thanks to COVID and the possibility of realistically finding a vaccine for the virus any time soon. It's the shot in the arm you're after right now, it's Life on Planet Porky.   

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, welcome you You're listening to the latest exciting chapter on the happenings on

0:29.3

Planet Pork. It's where it all happens. And of course, where it all happens is usually where

0:35.2

Miss Jones is, a very big welcome to you, Leslie Ann, and I'm very

0:41.9

interested to hear about your adventures in the last couple of days. You've been out and about

0:46.7

around the southeast of England, have you not? Well, I have, Michael. Good to hear you again.

0:53.2

First of all, I legged it off to Salisbury.

0:57.1

So, Cathedral, yeah.

0:59.2

Salisbury Cathedral. My oldest friend from school has lived there for some years.

1:04.6

And in fact, my bedroom in her house, we always call it my bedroom, looks out over the cathedral close.

1:11.0

Oh, right.

1:11.6

And it's the most spectacular view when you wake up in the morning.

1:14.7

You know that cathedral spire there.

1:16.8

There's some very interesting sculptures in the cathedral grounds at the moment,

1:21.8

which are well worth going to have a look.

1:23.5

There's one amazing thing, which is like a stairway made of light.

1:27.7

And it's in front of the spire there, and it looks like a stairway to heaven.

1:32.2

Really? Yeah, it's fascinating.

1:34.3

Well, that's a good location for you, then, isn't it? Stairway to heaven, with the obvious connection to a rock chick to a rock band. Yeah, absolutely.

1:43.3

Was that where Ted Heath lived?

1:46.5

Yes, right there in that wonderful, covered-de-ball house, which Tim Rice nearly bought that house once.

1:52.4

Did he? Yeah. But it's been restored. Yes, it's back as a museum. Yeah. It was for sale for quite a long time.

1:59.7

But we did a funny thing on Saturday night.

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