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156: Hurly-Burley

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Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are back with some more festive cheer from atop Planet Porky.

Today's subjects include: a couple of early Christmas lunches, closing pubs unnecessarily, Kay Burley flouting the rules, British Airways, ginger, buying your own vaccine, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Sue Lawley, Salt Lake City, Porky's quest to get an alcoholic beverage in Pakistan, the perfect Christmas gift for the Porkmeister, LAJ's McCartney recommendation, Mike Tindall's baby faux pas, boarding schools, the credibility of Eton and Jean Rook. Mr Parry and Ms Jones will see you in the classroom now.    

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest episode, the latest edition as we get towards Christmas of life on planet Porky and, you know, sleigh bells jingling and all that kind of stuff.

0:33.9

And good morning, Miss Jones, good morning morning good afternoon or good evening depending to people

0:39.2

when they're listening to this on this fine friday well you can listen to it on saturday if you want

0:44.1

but it's uh it's friday today and um i have to say miss jones as we move towards christmas

0:50.2

we're starting to spread our wings a little bit, get out and about and meet a few people.

0:54.6

You've been around a bit yourself this week, haven't you?

0:57.0

In the nice...

0:57.4

Yeah, a little bit.

0:58.4

In the nicest possible way, yes.

1:00.6

I mean, it looks as though London is tumbling towards a tier three situation.

1:05.9

So normally by now I would have had about a dozen Christmas lunches and raring to go for some more,

1:15.7

you know, but having to be a bit modest about it this year. But I did have a wonderful lunch at the RAC Club on Palmel yesterday with a very good friend of mine. And it's just, it's like

1:22.8

going back into the 50s in that place. You know, it's so old and it's so traditional.

1:28.5

And they know you're coming.

1:30.3

They've got your name, not on a list, but in their heads when you walk in.

1:34.2

They know exactly who you are.

1:35.9

They escort you to the cloak room and they take you up to that lovely little place where

1:40.9

there's a huge Christmas tree by the car there.

1:43.6

There's an old sort of ancient Rolls-Royce in the top tree by the car there. There's an old

1:44.2

sort of ancient Rolls-Royce in the top of the foyer there. And you wait there. Do you know, I think

1:49.5

I've been there once in my life and I can't quite remember the detail. I remember it being very

1:53.1

traditional and all that kind of stuff, you know. But the dining room is huge and it has a ceiling

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