245: Planet Porky: The Return

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

After a short hiatus, Life on Planet Porky is back with a vengeance as Mike Parry and Lesley-Anne Jones provide comment and analysis on the latest news and stories in their own irreverent way!

Topics include: That slap at the Oscars, being punched in the face, Lady Elspeth Howe, the Falklands conflict, whether Emma Raducanu is losing her focus, Gary Glitter, a benefit lunch featuring very expensive wine, the Education Secretary, Dionne Warwick, the best musician in the Beatles, seeing an obituary of your own death, potentially existing in an alternative reality, and the changing of the clocks. It's the podcast that makes time stand still, it's Life on Planet Porky - and it's back!

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!

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1:01.6	Porky, with myself the Porkmeister, and of course, the rock chick writer extraordinaire,
1:07.2	Ms. Leslie Ann Jones, and Leslie, and I think we owe our listeners, millions of them around the world,
1:14.2	a bit of an explanation as to why we've been away. And if you don't mind me leading that,
1:20.6	because I felt very strongly about it, I just want to say to all of you out there,
1:26.2	I couldn't find it my heart. I couldn't find it my soul
1:31.1	right at the start of the Ukrainian invasion to talk about anything that was lighthearted, anything
1:36.3	that was frivolous, anything that brought joy and laughter to our lives, because the misery
1:41.0	of the Ukrainian people stung me so badly.
1:45.0	And I've felt like that really for the last month.
1:48.0	But due to a lot of appeals from a lot of you, life must go on.
1:51.9	Because if life doesn't go on, then Putin, the tyrant, has changed our lives forever.
1:57.1	And I would say, Ms. Jones, we can't allow that to happen indefinitely.
2:01.5	We definitely can't.
2:03.1	And communication is the point here.
2:06.2	And I think a lot of our listeners felt a bit in the dark.
2:10.0	They felt switched off because we weren't here to bring some levelling to the playing field, I suppose.
2:17.3	Yes, that's right.
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