142: The Porky Review of Books (Volume 6)

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🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Mike Parry brings three new titles to Mike Graham's reading desk; Cooperman!: The Life of Tommy Cooper by Ian Carroll, Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian by Jonathan Conlin and Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us by Dan Lyons - (as well as a collection of personal stories) - on this On the Record...

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0:26.7	subject to availability, terms and conditions apply. And the So, So, Welcome back to another exciting episode of On the Record with the two mics. I'm Mike
1:22.1	Growne he's Mike Porky Perry. And of course one of the things that we do on this particular series is we do a bit of Porky Vision, which people very much like. People really enjoy the last one by the way. We do a very much like people really enjoy the last one by the way.
1:33.6	We do a little bit of ask Porky which I think we've already done for this month
1:38.9	so we want to another one in February we also do of course the Porky review of books. Well I brought some books along today
1:45.6	Just slam those down on the table.
1:47.6	Not to make too much noise. Sorry, but they're the ones that I get sent and I have a look at them right
1:51.3	Yeah now one that caught my eye in which I found highly entertaining but somewhat disturbing is the latest
1:58.5	biography and they've been quite a few of them of Tommy Cooper. Oh yes. Okay? Very funny man. Did you see the TV program on
2:04.8	about two or three years ago or three or four years ago and you know it showed him to be
2:09.5	vulnerable to to say the least right but although everybody loved him on stage and all that kind of stuff he
2:15.8	he actually had a lot of problems in his life to start off with he he cheated on his wife incessantly did he a load of mistresses yeah
2:25.2	he look that sort of guy does he well you know how can you tell well I don't know how you
2:29.7	can tell actually it's a very good point but he didn't he didn't come across as a bloke who was particularly a
2:34.4	ladies man. He was a kind of awkward character, was it? Yeah, but I mean you see a lot of them at all courses, if you see
2:39.7	what I mean. Very true. Secondly, he became an alcoholic, chronic alcoholic, and you know you've heard this
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