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Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are on rare form as Planet Porky returns for another cracking episode.

Today's topics include: Scotland, the Isle of Skye, Jim Diamond, Porky's travelling hopes, why it's difficult to define English culture, Marti Pellow, beautiful people aging ungracefully, David Essex, Dynasty, GB News, Peter Sheridan and Emma Samms, living in California, Porky's 'taking a call in the pool' story, life in Los Angeles, the red hot weather, Linda McCartney's amazing legacy, talking to a dead friend for advice or inspiration, why some people don't grieve at funerals, Sean Bean, being wrongly sent to prison, Anthea Turner, and the highest mountain in Switzerland. It's the peak of podcasting - 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!

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, thank you very much indeed for joining us again today.
0:26.1	I am the portmeister.
0:27.5	You are listening to Life on Planet Porky.
0:30.3	And Life on Planet Porky wouldn't be anything without the star of the show.
0:34.7	And that is the Rock Chick writer Extra extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones,
0:40.8	who of course joins us now. Leslie Ann, what's it like being back in the real world?
0:46.0	We spoke in our last podcast about your journeys to the north. And may I just say,
0:51.9	a journey to the north might one of these days involve you going to Scotland,
0:57.0	because this very evening, as people are listening to this podcast on day one of it being released,
1:02.8	Scotland are playing England. What do you think about that?
1:05.6	It's a tricky one, isn't it? I mean, I love Scotland. I spend a lot of time in Scotland when I was a child.
1:10.6	We always used to go up to the locks when we were little with my mum and dad to go. Did you ever meet the monster? We went looking for it lots of times. Yeah, my dad used to tease the life out of us about Loch Ness Monster if we were naughty, you know. We always went to Lochness and had a look.
1:27.9	In fact, I've paddled in Loch Ness.
1:29.9	Yeah.
1:30.2	But never seen the monster.
1:32.3	I used to go up to the Isle of Mull every August with my family when the kids were small.
1:38.4	Yes.
1:38.9	Beautiful beaches up there.
1:40.3	And we stayed in a mance opposite facing the Isle of Sky so you could stand on the beach
1:46.2	at Sondown and look at the Isle of Sky. I always said that looking at the Isle of Sky was infinitely
1:51.8	preferable to being on the Isle of Sky which is quite boring when you're there.
1:56.3	No, I totally agree. The view, you know, over the sea to sky.
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