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216: An extremely rocky road

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's Life on Planet Porky with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones.

Today they discuss: the recent heatwave, glasses, Prince Harry becoming an author, ghost-writing, Bill Wyman, Rachel Stevens' lucky break, talent scouts, infuriating speed limits, vehicles polluting the atmosphere, motorway service stations, travelling the UK on holiday, Killing Eve, how actors change their accents, whether wolf-whistling should be a criminal offence, Tony Blair's chances of making a political comeback, Dominic Cummings, caravans, banning ice cream vans, and Carlos Santana. It's another virtuoso performance 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 and hopefully the greatest adventure here on Planet Porky,

0:28.6

life on Planet Porky, of course, with myself, the Portmeister and the Rockyard Writer, Extraordinaire, Ms. Lesleyan Jones.

0:37.3

Miss Jones, how are you this fine day when i say

0:39.5

fine day i mean fine day but still very hot i'm just i you know you can barely breathe can you in this

0:46.6

yeah it's um i've i've been having three or four showers a day just uh staying in the in the house

0:53.6

and and every time i just feel overwhelmed by the heat,

0:56.8

just dodging back in the shower again. No, I totally agree. I've shaved my beard off because it

1:01.1

can be... Oh, have you? Well, it's very, very short now, you know what I mean? I've put the old

1:06.4

sheep's ears through it because you can get very irritating this sort of weather. But there we are.

1:11.1

Talking about the weather, but... I've left mine on. I have to say. I've become accustomed to it.

1:16.3

Excellent, Ms. Jones. Well done. So one aspect of this sort of weather is that it's very bright all

1:23.6

the time. Now, Ms. Jones, in a lot of pictures we see of you, you're often wearing sunglasses,

1:27.3

okay? And, you know, I think it makes you look very elegant and all that kind of thing, the air

1:32.5

of mystery and all that kind of stuff. But I've got two pairs of what I would call, you know,

1:38.6

sort of working glasses. And one pair is a straightforward glass in it and a very thin frame.

1:44.9

But the second pair, they darken depending on how bright it is outside.

1:50.4

Do you see what I mean?

1:51.2

So sometimes if I walk into a pub out of the sunlight, I actually look like I've got sunglasses on.

1:56.3

And they're very, very useful in this sort of weather.

1:58.4

But I was out yesterday and I was probably out in the

2:01.8

day, you know, daylight, sunshine and all that for probably 90 minutes altogether. And when I came

2:09.2

home, my eyes were aching and I was having trouble adjusting to, you know, the amount of light

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