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210: Living dangerously

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones do battle on Planet Porky once more.

Today's topics include: England's win over Germany, being careful of Covid despite being double-jabbed, chasing Michael Jackson around Rome, Peter Willis and his great legacy, Matt Dickinson's touching letter, Lewis Hamilton's first love, skiing accidents, advances in motor racing safety (and some of the sport's legendary drivers), flying cars, smoking on planes, the difficult legal area of plagiarism, the greatest ever newspaper editor, Tonia Bern Campbell, Burberry, whether Matt Hancock will ever return to politics and LAJ's big new book reveal! It's the podcast which doesn't blow smoke, 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, you are listening to the latest exciting episode of Life on Planet Porky.

0:29.1

And of course, it's myself, the portmeister and the rock chick writer, Extraordinary, Ms. Leslie and Jones.

0:35.4

And, Ms. Jones, this is the first time we have spoken

0:39.8

publicly together since that magnificent England victory over Germany, which means this

0:46.5

very weekend, we're going to Rome and we are going to play the Ukraine in an attempt to get through to the semifinals of the European Championships.

0:57.9

I have to say I'm utterly thrilled.

0:59.9

Did you watch the classic game against Germany, Miss Jones?

1:03.2

And how did you react afterwards?

1:05.3

Well, I was on the train, actually.

1:07.3

Went through Kings Cross and Pancras Station, which was unbelievably deserted.

1:14.5

And of course, temporarily I'd forgotten that this game was on.

1:17.6

And I was looking around thinking, why is this so empty at 5.30 in the evening?

1:22.3

And then got on the train to come home.

1:25.3

And people were watching the match on the train. so I managed to join in that, which was really

1:30.1

amusing.

1:30.8

Excellent.

1:31.7

Because the people I was watching it with were German.

1:34.9

That was lovely.

1:36.6

And they were very gracious about it.

1:38.6

But it was thrilling, wasn't it?

1:40.2

Oh, pretty thrilling, yeah.

1:41.6

Football's coming Rome, as Gary Linnaker said last night.

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