231: Highs and lows
Planet Porky
Planet Porky
3.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Topics today include: Henry's professional panto debut, HOGO syndrome, Benny Hill making a return, craving a past that didn't exist, Freddie Mercury's enduring legend, stereoscopy, the death of Mick Rock, getting vertigo from an observation deck, the cost of a pint in London, Don Black, the art of writing lyrics, how the subscription services are taking over, single sex awards, The Princes and The Press, Tom Stoddart, council tax increases in Wales, and Porky's caravan of love. It's the podcast that welcomes you knocking even when it's rocking, it's Life on Planet Porky.
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| 0:32.1 | Music Okay, folks, you're listening to the latest chapter, the latest episode, the latest |
| 0:58.7 | exciting adventure from life on planet Porky, with myself the Porkmeister, and of course, the |
| 1:04.8 | rock chick writer extraordinaire, Miss Leslie Ann Jones, who of course is here with me now. Leslie Ann, it wasn't in fact a rock concert you were attending last night. It was something else, wasn't it? And I can tell you very... Oh, yes, it was. Yes, I'm very happy about the outcome. Oh my goodness. I went, well, I hacked all the way over to Basilden in Essex, which felt like another country, I have to say. |
| 1:29.7 | It's a bit of a schlep, and it's right on the edge, isn't it? |
| 1:34.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.8 | Of England. |
| 1:35.9 | To see my son star as The Beast in Beauty and the Beast. |
| 1:40.1 | And it was the first night. |
| 1:42.1 | It was the opening night last night. |
| 2:19.2 | What an extraordinary show. They've had about two weeks of full rehearsals to pull this together. And it's phenomenal. It could be a West End production. Really? Honestly. They all surpass themselves. They're all absolutely brilliant. Seasoned professionals, of course, many of them. You know, the dancers, I think about half of them, came out of thriller in the West End, the Michael Jackson musical. All the children are from local theatre schools. And some of them are really little, sort of seven years old. You know, extraordinary, |
| 2:25.5 | absolutely astonishing stuff. It's on my seat. Yes, your son is Henry Shine, is that right? |
| 2:32.2 | He is. And he plays the Beast. That sounds like quite a prominent role. It's the lead part, really. And he's played the beast before when he was in in South London |
| 2:36.5 | Youth Theatre and it's a role he was born to he's a gigantic boy. You know he's big and bulky |
| 2:43.9 | and handsome and he had a fan club I went round to the stage door afterwards and people were |
| 2:50.3 | queuing up to |
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