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Planet Porky

211: Rough Diamonds

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It's time for the latest episode of Planet Porky the podcast with custodians of the castle Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones.

Today's talking points include: Entering a restriction-free world, Marilyn Monroe's death being reopened, Porky's flowers, Michael Ball's Welsh travels, Julian Lloyd Webber, the enduring popularity of Sweet Caroline and its writer, the Darius Guppy/Stuart Collier case, Liz Jones giving up on men (until Porky comes along?), living with another person, sex offences being tracked on public transport, LAJ acting suspiciously, Gerald Ratner's transformation, whether the truth really does out after a beer or nine, drinking before work, accidents involving seafaring travellers, and why the secretary seems to be dying out. Good times never seemed so good 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, welcome folks to the latest chapter, the latest installment, the latest episode of Life on Planet Porky.

0:29.3

And thank you for joining us.

0:31.0

And of course, it's myself, the Porkmeister and a rock chick writer extraordinaire.

0:36.2

There's Leslie and Jones. Miss Jones, how are you this fine day? A little bit writer, extraordinary. There's Leslie and Jones.

0:38.1

Miss Jones, how are you this fine day?

0:40.4

A little bit tired, actually.

0:42.0

We had a family gathering on Sunday at my mother's.

0:46.9

The first time in, you know, 18 months, I guess,

0:50.3

maybe a bit longer because we hadn't seen each other for a while.

0:53.5

My brother, my sisters, all our children.

0:56.2

My brothers and sisters, we all come together.

1:01.2

That's some soul singer, isn't it?

1:04.1

Yeah, we came together on the lawn of my mother's house

1:07.5

and we had a little sort of buffet lunch and a lot of wine a lot of beers and

1:14.6

yeah it was lovely actually my mother I think my mother was a bit overwhelmed by it all she's

1:20.6

86 yes she hadn't seen us all in the same place together since my father's funeral in

1:26.6

September 2019.

1:29.3

Yeah, so it brought back a lot of memories.

1:32.3

Of course, it was wonderful for everyone to get together.

1:36.3

That's great.

1:37.3

Now, that literally was on the eve of the announcement that we were all expecting

1:42.3

that's an outcome that all these restrictions

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