150: The nightmare before Christmas

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🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones discuss: whether Christmas should be cancelled to prevent further lockdowns, the resurgence of the Oxbridge elite in the Government, sexism aimed at female ministers, 50 years of Page 3, Sam Fox, Little Mix going solo, the gruelling nature of touring, Porky sleeping with the fishes on a particularly tough assignment, Nigella Lawson's toast recipe and marriage to John Diamond, the crazy life of Jaci Stephen, how to help beggars in a cashless society, Kim Wilde and her famous family, embarrassing hobbies, naturism, PJ Proby, Mrs Hinch the cleaning sensation, the sad demise of the black cab, and journalists who can't keep it down. You won't need to regurgitate Planet Porky though...it'll be with you forever.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest episode of life on planet Porky.
0:27.8	And, of course, I am not the only occupant of Planet Porky.
0:31.4	Also, coexisting here is, of course, a rocket chick extraordinaire writer, Ms. Leslie and Jones. Ms. Jones, how is
0:40.0	life treating you this fine day? You know, good enough, Mike. I think everybody's a little bit
0:45.4	fed up now this time around, aren't they with the lockdown? Because the weather isn't good.
0:50.4	We can't all pile out in the back garden and have barbecues and go walking around the park.
0:55.1	And I think people are fed up now. Yeah, I think they're terribly fed up. And that means that we've got
1:00.5	to think about compliance now. Now, as you and I recording, we've only just sort of learned that
1:06.1	something which you kind of predicted was going to happen is probably going to happen.
1:11.0	And that is if we get five days lift of all lockdowns over Christmas,
1:14.4	so pubs can stay open until one in the morning and loads of people can mix with the members of their family,
1:20.6	no restriction on the number of people in the house.
1:22.8	The price to pay will be that for every day of that over Christmas, five days, you pay a penalty of five days
1:29.0	lockdown in January. So most of January would be locked down. On that basis, Ms. Jones, I mean, I don't
1:35.0	like lockdowns. I don't think they work. But if that's going to happen, I say scrap Christmas.
1:40.0	Yeah, you know, it's been an argument raging for a while, hasn't it? We live in a largely secular country.
1:46.7	Most people are not religious.
1:49.6	And for Christians, Christmas will happen whether we have a shopping and a feast fest or not.
1:56.1	It'll still take place because Christmas is still celebrating the birth of Christ.
2:00.9	It's not about eating quality streets and, you know, ripping tinsel and paper.
2:06.4	Well, yeah, but that's not the meaning of Christmas.
2:09.5	No, no, the only time in the year, now I eat chocolates out of the roses chocolate tin or the, whatever the other ones are called, is Christmas.
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