229: Practice what you preach
Planet Porky
Planet Porky
3.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Topics today include: the importance of news, LAJ's Royal engagement at St Bride's, the juxtaposition of the church and the rock world, Maureen Cleave and her influence on the Beatles, watching Macca and his lyrics live, the real Von Trapp family, Julie Andrews, the inspiration for Evita, method acting and how it can be hazardous, Suzi Quatro, taking the booster jab and the impact it could have on the body, capturing a good selfie, Margaret York, the Columbo technique, keeping up with modern times, Barbara Taylor Bradford, facelifts, the man who fixed Porky's oven, filling out tax returns, and needing a woman to sort out a man's life. It's the podcast that knows the real pecking order; it's Life on Planet Porky.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, folks, welcome to Life on Planet Porky, the latest chapter, the latest great adventure here with myself the Bortmeister, and of course the star of the show, who is the rock chick writer. |
| 0:35.1 | Extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones. And Leslie Ann, since we last got together |
| 0:41.1 | exchanging views over the electronic website where we meet each other at least once a week, |
| 0:49.0 | you've been very, very busy. I'm particularly impressed that a woman like yourself, the rock chick rider extraordinaire, can at one moment be a church warden in St. Brides, the journalist's church and one that I know very well and where you're a church warden. And then hours later, you are the rock chick writer extraordinaire and getting down and with it with the kids and all the sort of things that, you know, the rock people do. Please explain your actions. |
| 1:15.9 | Well, I've got to have feet in all the camps, haven't I, Mike? You know, it's the only way to stay ahead, as it were. |
| 1:21.7 | But, you know, like you, I was a journalist for all those years. St. Brides, it's a spiritual home of our industry. |
| 1:28.9 | And we have an annual service to commemorate fallen journalists every November. And it was particularly interesting |
| 1:35.5 | this week because we had some very respected speakers, Tim Davy, the Director General of the BBC, |
| 1:44.0 | and also Anthony Lloyd, the great war correspondent |
| 1:47.8 | of the Times. |
| 1:48.9 | Right. |
| 1:49.7 | I'm sort of reflecting on how truth is more important than ever in this age of social media |
| 1:56.5 | and fake news, that to go to the ends of the earth in search of the truth and to report it back |
| 2:03.0 | to people who want to hold our government accountable and want to know what's going on out there, |
| 2:09.5 | that that job actually has never been more vital than it is today. |
| 2:13.1 | Yeah. Well, yes and no, really. I mean, when you and I were in Fleet Street, |
| 2:18.2 | the only way that people found out what was going on was in newspapers. |
| 2:21.1 | That's why I was in Libya when the Americans bombed it. |
| 2:23.7 | That's why you were in Hollywood and Los Angeles for so long, |
| 2:28.7 | because there wasn't 24-hour television, |
| 2:31.2 | there wasn't access to people like there is now. |
| 2:34.0 | Can I just get back to your |
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