160: Happy Birthday Porky!

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🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's the last Planet Porky podcast of the year and Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are determined to end this terrible year with a bang.

Topics include: Mike's Birthday celebrations, buying a new washing machine, Noel Edmonds, former Mirror editor Mike Molloy, Don Mackay, LAJ's presents to herself, Barbara Amiel's candid accounts, Susannah Constantine, the new strain of coronavirus, how to get the country back on its feet, the search for the Holy Grail, fresh footage from the new Beatles movie, famous athletes making their kids tread the same career path, women who take up boxing, Carrie Symonds' influence over the running of the country, having eight kids, China's aim to take over from the USA as the world's biggest economy, and Mike's love of Iceland...not the supermarket.

From all of us at Planet Porky, have a very Happy New Year and we look forward to seeing you in 2021!!

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, welcome to the latest, and I have to say the last of 2020 podcast of life on planet Porky.
0:33.5	And of course, I'm with the rock chick writer Extraordinaire,
0:38.9	Ms Leslie Ann Jones this morning.
0:40.4	And I have to say, Leslie Ann, none of us will be sad to see 2020 go, will we?
0:46.3	No, certainly not, Michael.
0:48.0	But before we go any further, I found some friends of yours lurking about this morning
0:52.4	who just want to say a quick hello.
0:54.6	Oh, really? Really? That's very much. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Mike.
1:09.0	Happy birthday to you.
1:13.6	Yay!
1:14.6	I have to say, that's an absolutely wonderful tribute.
1:20.5	Thank you very much indeed.
1:21.9	And to all of you there, that's very, very kind.
1:24.7	And in fact, I think I'm right in saying, aren't I, that amongst those voices were professional songsters, yes? So I write it?
1:33.4	Absolutely. Arts Ed trained and raring to go back to the West End.
1:37.7	Yeah, blimey. Well, thank you very much indeed. And, you know, I suppose I better admit to our audience of millions out there.
1:46.1	Yes, it is indeed my birthday today.
1:48.7	Thank you very much everybody who've already sent me messages this morning, actually,
1:53.1	expressing that.
1:54.6	But thanks in particular to that wonderful choir.
1:57.8	Talked about choirs, Leslie.
1:59.5	And did you get a choir, a choral version of what you wanted on Christmas Day? It's in Brides?
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