220: Not just a flash in the (sausage) pan

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

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🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones invite you back to Planet Porky for another incisive look into the worlds of showbiz, current affairs and the printed press.

Topics include: the September heatwave, Manhattan in the sun, Freddie Mercury's posthumous legacy, accommodating Afghan refugees into the UK, the return of Strictly Come Dancing, Sarah Harding's tragic death, a comeback for the Pussycat Dolls, nuts for breakfast, sausage sandwiches, a fry-up in a tin, why we should use more home-grown produce, the death of legendary reporter Donald Zec, the prestige of the Harrods bag, Tony Hadley, weedy lawns vs. manicured gardens, students becoming jail governors and the future of Piers Morgan. It would be criminal not to take the next flight to Planet Porky.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest.
0:11.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest chapter, the latest spectacular edition of the now once a week, life on planet Porky, starring, of course, not just myself, the portmister, but the rock chick writer,, extraordinary, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones. Miss Jones,
0:39.5	how are we? We're very good this morning, Mr. Perry, actually. The weather's picked up.
0:44.7	Yeah.
0:45.6	Sweaty old day yesterday, wasn't it? Oh, God, don't remind me. I thought that had all gone.
0:50.3	You know, I put out a triumphant tweet about a week ago saying, great stuff, September
0:58.6	the first, first day of autumn. Meteorologically, September the first is the first day of autumn.
1:04.6	Most people prefer to wait until the equinox, which is September the 22nd, to sort of welcome
1:10.5	autumn in. But anyway, on September
1:12.3	the 1st, it was dull and grey. And I thought, oh, this is great. This is my kind of weather.
1:17.1	I was doing TV the other morning, and the car comes from me at quarter to six, and I went outside,
1:22.0	and there was a mist lying across the land. And I thought, oh, this is wonderful. Autumn really is
1:26.7	here. And now we've been
1:28.3	hit by what we call an Indian summer and it's sweltering. Yeah, it is. It's not really my kind of
1:35.1	weather, I must admit. And it's just that thing of kind of being dragged down by the sweat of it
1:41.2	all, isn't it? I think it must be something that happens to us later in life.
1:47.1	Women, I mean, because I have never had a sweaty face before. Really? I find that my face is just
1:56.8	pouring all the time. Yeah. It's kind of weather. Do you have that problem? Well, lots of things happen to us in later life as we learn, you know, each day we get older,
2:05.4	so to speak.
2:06.1	But I've always had a problem with the sun.
2:07.8	I've always had a problem with perspiration, to be honest.
2:11.3	In fact, years ago, when we used to have to wear suit and tie, when I was the news
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