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24: Porky's Pals: Ben "The Arrow" Fletcher

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A new voice is welcomed to Planet Porky today as newsreader and presenter Ben Fletcher joins Mike Parry to put the other world to rights. Topics include the French, the death of the high street, how everything used to be better (including TV) and exorbitant parking charges in overrated places. Buckle up...you're heading back in time on this voyage. 

You can find Ben @bfism on Twitter and Mike is of course @mikeparry8. Don't forget to give the podcast a five star rating on iTunes and remember to download new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, you are listening to Life on Planet Porky, okay?

0:26.5

I, of course, am Mike Porky Parry.

0:28.7

Delighted to be with you again today for another scintillating and invigorating and entertaining and educating podcast.

0:36.5

And I'm delighted, absolutely delighted folks

0:39.5

today to introduce you to a new co-presenter, Mr Ben the Arrow Fletcher. Ben. Thank you very much indeed

0:46.6

for joining me today. Tell me about your initial response being in this studio with the Planet

0:52.6

Porky Crew. Well, hello, Mike, and hello everybody.

0:55.2

I mean, absolutely, it's a privilege to be here.

0:57.3

It's a pleasure to sit alongside you, as I have done many, many times.

1:00.5

Elsewhere.

1:01.1

I feel we should tell the story of how this actually came about.

1:03.8

I was actually flying back from Edinburgh, and I got to get at a wedding.

1:08.2

Oh, you weren't at the festival then?

1:09.5

No, no, no. The fringe started just after I left.

1:11.7

Right.

1:11.9

So I got out before all that nonsense started.

1:14.2

I'm not really a fan of all that type of thing.

1:15.8

But we got back and got to Gatwick, booked a cab via an app,

1:19.2

get a phone call from an unknown number and I thought, well, this is going to be a guy saying,

1:22.2

where do you want to be picked up? it'll be the Soffatel, will it be here, will it be there? So I'm reduced to the ranks of Uber driver, am I?

1:27.9

Well, I answered the phone and said to you, if you remember.

1:30.6

Hello, mate, where do you want to pick me up?

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