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Planet Porky

217: A night on the tiles

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones have finally cooled down only to heat up the airwaves with the latest look at Life on Planet Porky.

Topics include: the spate of unusual recent weather events, Porky and LAJ's night in Leicester Square, Blondie, fashion nightmares, being a member of the MCC, the importance or otherwise of a dress code, Peter Willis' legacy, the knock on effect of having (or not having) the vaccine, the perilous life of a war correspondent, John Stonehouse, the troubled recent past of Dr Fox, Kitty Spencer's wedding, a new makeup store for men, and the years of graft behind each Tunnock's tea cake. It's the podcast that gets up at 5am every morning, 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

Righto, folks, this is the latest chapter, the latest edition, the latest great revelation from life on planet Porky, with myself, the Porkyster, and of course, rock chick-chick writer extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie M. Jones, how are you this fine day? And I say this fine day, because in the last 24 hours before you and I have sat down in front of these microphones, the weather's been a bit inclement, hasn't it?

0:48.3

I feel much better, thank you. I've cooled down. I was very hot and bothered during all that ridiculous weather.

0:57.2

I don't like the heat.

0:59.3

I'm like you.

1:00.0

I prefer it like this, I must admit.

1:02.9

I don't sombath.

1:04.2

I'm not somebody who lies out on a beach baking for hours on end.

1:08.1

So this is much more comfortable.

1:10.0

I can sleep.

1:13.3

But I feel very sorry for all those people who've been drowned out by the weather this we can. Shocking. You know, we've had

1:18.1

flooded tube stations and all these people that were up in South World, you know, Suffolk,

1:24.8

I should say, for the Latitude Festival.

1:29.8

They all must have drowned, come away like drowned. I live very near there, as you know, in Orwell Key, which is a marina just outside Ipswich,

1:34.4

you know, so I'm not very far away from South Wales at all.

1:37.3

And the weather there sometimes, you know, can be excessive because it's near the coast,

1:42.6

but not like we've seen it lately we're only talking

1:45.1

about london here you know sort of you know subways being flooded and close to me in stockbroker belt

1:53.1

surrey by the way well it's a few miles away but there's a place called worcester park and it's a

1:57.9

suburb of greater london just off A3, the main artery down to the south

2:02.6

coast, I couldn't believe the pictures I saw of four or five feet of water on the streets.

2:08.2

I mean, I don't know where it came from.

2:10.0

It's, you know, you look at your local high street and imagine it now walking along it

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