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Planet Porky

146: Stroked, inflated and bruised...his ego that is

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The fireworks may be subsiding in the skies around you but there are plenty here on Planet Porky as Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones return. 

Today's incendiary topics include: the start of lockdown 2, the beautiful autumn weather, Martin Bashir's controversial interview with Princess Diana, John Sessions, the real Paul Vance, a new album from Elvis Costello, using an already famous name, Katie Price's penchant for cosmetic surgery, Sean Connery's not very woke attitudes, Ryan Giggs' personal life and experience with the Porkmeister, LAJ's popularity in Eastern Europe, talkRADIO, the breakdown of Paul and George's relationship after the Beatles, being single during lockdown and choosing to be on your own, Henry VIII, medieval castles, Robert Fisk and his curmudgeonly ways, and receiving a Christmas card from the Prime Minister of Pakistan. It may be getting cold out, so why not warm yourself up with the latest edition of Planet Porky the podcast!

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Follow the show on Twitter: @PlanetPorky or Mike is: @MikeParry8 while you can find Lesley-Ann: @LAJwriter.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest edition, latest episode, latest chapter of life on planet Porky, with myself and of course, with a rock chick writer extraordinaire.

0:35.2

Ms. Lazian Jones.

0:36.1

Ms. Jones, a very good morning to you. And can I remind people,

0:40.2

remind yourself as well, that as we are recording this, the first rockets are hitting the sky

0:47.5

because it's bonfire night. Well, it is, but these fireworks seem to have been going on for days now.

0:54.5

And last night, on the stroke of midnight, there was a flurry of them around here in East Dulwich.

1:00.3

Right.

1:00.9

And I thought maybe this was to signify the beginning of lockdown or something.

1:05.1

Yeah, something like that.

1:05.9

I would say so.

1:07.1

Oh, lockdown.

1:08.0

I don't know.

1:08.3

Honestly, it doesn't have to press me.

1:10.6

Lockdown again for another month.

1:12.3

I saw Pearce Morgan again, our old pal on the telly,

1:15.0

backing it.

1:16.0

He has to back it, Pierce, because he was so stringent about, you know,

1:19.1

the government clamping down and everything when it started.

1:21.8

He's got to pretend to be a friend of it again now.

1:24.0

But there's lots and lots of opposition to it. I haven't seen so much opposition in Parliament

1:28.6

to a majority government for years. It's to do with the economy, isn't it? But as we keep, or as I keep

1:34.6

saying, if everybody dies, there's no economy. So we do need as a priority to keep people alive,

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