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The Two Mikes - On the Record

161: The Porky Review of Books (Volume 9)

The Two Mikes - On the Record

The Two Mikes - On the Record

Comedy

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Old MG helps Mike Porky Parry get stuck into the latest works from his gargantuan book collection including: How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s by Virginia Nicholson, The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson, the latest release centred around King Henry VI, and Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith on the latest (highly informative) edition of On the Record...

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1:23.9

Paris and you have got the Porky Perry review of books that's right the review

1:27.1

books yeah I've been reading books assiduously for two or three weeks well you told us just

1:30.9

the other day yes that you've got one of a thousand books.

1:33.4

A thousand books, yeah.

1:34.4

I mean if you keep going at this rate, before you peg out, as some people have rather

1:37.9

unkindly put it, you'll have a couple of thousand, aren't you?

1:40.3

Well, maybe, but I've got to find somewhere to store them all. That's a problem with books, you know what I mean?

1:45.0

Yeah, maybe. Maybe I'll go and flog them to a second hand bookshop.

1:49.0

Because they've got a good price for them.

1:50.0

Car boot sale or something.

1:51.0

Car boot sales. Don't like car boot sales. Full of of criminals criminality I thought car boot sales

1:56.5

were part of the sort of the framework of England well they may be but I mean I

2:01.2

never liked them in America when mean I never liked them. We know we're in America when they're called a garage sale.

2:05.8

Oh the yard sale or something.

2:07.2

The garage sale and Ross Mark who was our Washington correspondent who got so old he went like do lally.

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