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Planet Porky

178: Anything to get ahead

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones return for another look at Life on Planet Porky.

Today they discuss: Roy Greenslade and his terrible breath, editors who try to seduce junior reporters, Max Clifford, a Beatles connection to the Bear & Billet pub, the students who had an unlucky lottery win, a pair of Liverpool legends, Sarah Sands, the Sony Walkman, Patsy Kensit's many affairs, Shakin' Stevens, Dolly Parton's vaccine song, Miranda Richardson, the absurdity of trying to host the Olympics this year, green cars, Taylor Swift's sexism row, The Night Manager, and the circus that is Meghan and Harry and their upcoming tell-all interview. It's another episode full of thrills and spills, it's Life on Planet Porky!

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

Or you can email us questions or comments to: [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you! 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, welcome to the latest episode, the latest edition, the latest fantastic revelations from the rock chick writer extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones and myself, the Porkmeister. You have arrived on planet Porky. Welcome, Miss Jones.

0:40.3

Thank you very much, Mr Parry. How are we? Still breathing?

0:44.3

Oh, yes, still breathing. Well, yeah, when I last looked I was. Yeah, I occasionally have to hold a mirror to my face, obviously, to make sure I'm still breathing, but you know how it is. Now, Leslie Ann, I'm very excited

0:55.1

to talk to you right now because I've been looking at a blog you've put out in the last sort of 36, 48 hours

1:02.9

about two subjects which you and I both know quite a bit about. One of them is Max Clifford,

1:08.6

which we've already spoken about in our podcast, but the other is a person we both mutually worked with in Fleet Street called Roy Greenslade.

1:16.9

Would you like to explain to our audience first off, Ms Jones, as to why Greenslade has hit the headlines?

1:23.7

Well, Roy Greenslade wrote a piece declaring his allegiance to the IRA, effectively, and had been part of their organisation, or supporting their organisation, I should say, for the entirety of his Fleet Street career.

1:41.2

So he was working for editing and managing editing, major national

1:46.6

newspapers which were anti-terrorist and putting out stories on a regular basis against the IRA

1:53.7

and all that activity going on in Ireland while secretly being a supporter of them.

1:59.4

And obviously he was married to an Irish journalist, Noreen Taylor,

2:03.0

somebody else we all knew.

2:04.5

Did they actually get married?

2:06.2

I didn't even know they ever got married.

2:08.4

I think he did.

2:09.9

I could be wrong about that.

2:11.6

But she's obviously the mother of Natasha McAlone, quite a famous actress.

2:17.2

Yeah.

2:17.9

And they lived together, Roy and Noreen, in a three million pound palace in Donagall,

2:25.3

County Donegal in Ireland.

2:26.9

Yes.

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