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Planet Porky

201: The twelve-bar blues

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It's Planet Porky time again as Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones guide you through the biggest stories of the week. 

Today's topics include: LAJ's new clerical appointment, the Eurovision song contest, giving ABBA no points, the multi-faceted Martin Bashir BBC scandal and the damage it's done to the Royal Family, Hampton Court, Terry Venables, women taking over the church, the Chelsea Flower Show, Ringo Starr, The Queen's cuties, proposals for a new royal yacht, snooker, the fascination of George Best, gifted genius and Gerry Rafferty. Clowns may well be to the left and jokers to the right, but you're stuck in the middle with 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 you are listening to the latest episode,

0:24.9

latest chapter, latest great adventure of life on planet Porky,

0:29.1

with myself the portmeister, and of course, the Ruchick writer Extraordinaire,

0:34.8

Ms. Leslie and Jones.

0:37.4

Good morning, Miss Jones. Good morning, Mr. Parry. How are we doing today?

0:41.3

Doing very well today, indeed, thank you. There's one issue I've got to bring up before we get going on this marvellous

0:48.5

chapter from Planet Porky, a rock chick writer extraordinaire, the decadence of the life that you've led Miss Jones,

0:55.9

the people that you've known, the rock stars you've mixed with, the shenanigans you've got

1:00.4

yourself into, and it all ends up as you start to grow older and get a bit more mature

1:06.4

with you taking a position in the church. Please tell all.

1:12.8

Well, it sounds like this has just been sprung on me, doesn't it, the last minute?

1:16.7

But actually, as you well know, I've been involved with St. Bride's Church on Fleet Street,

1:21.6

the journalist church, as we've all known and loved it for many, many years, decades in some cases.

1:28.7

I've been involved there for 34 years.

1:33.0

And recently I was asked to stand as a church warden, which was a huge surprise.

1:39.9

A very great honour, and I have accepted the position.

1:43.6

So when you wander into your next memorial service at St. Bride,

1:48.2

you may well see me sort of gowned at the back, showing people to their seats and so on.

1:54.4

Now, you get out the running order and all that kind of stuff, yeah, the service order, yeah?

1:58.4

That is actually what the Guild of St. Bride is responsible for.

2:01.9

So the Guild, which are all the men and ladies nowadays in brown coats, who sort of organise

2:09.1

the service and help the clergy to make things run smoothly.

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