248: Opening a can of worms

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones cast out into the clear blue waters of Planet Porky once more.

Today's topics include: losing a child, Paul and Nancy looking young, George Harrison's proclivities, the thousandth day of Boris Johnson's premiership, Harry and Meghan's family meetings, Kate's immaculate dress sense, Porky's wardrobe, dressing accordingly for Fleet Street, the death of the High Street, retiring to the coast, Julia Bradbury, the tragic death of Nigel Pearson, brain related conditions, Chris Tarrant's new book, fishing, civil servants not going back to work, impostor syndrome, and Russell Brand. It's the podcast that puts out as many fires as it lights, it's Life on Planet Porky.

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!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you'll listening to the latest chapter,
0:25.3	the latest exciting adventures from life on planet Porky,
0:29.4	with myself the Porkmeister, and of course the rock, a chick writer,
0:34.2	Extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones.
0:37.3	Miss Jones, I hope you're well well and that you've enjoyed Easter, which of course is now well
0:42.9	behind us.
0:44.8	We don't like to dwell on heavy, serious subjects on life on planet Porky, but nobody can
0:50.3	ignore the very, very tragic news over the last 24 hours that Ronaldo, the world's most
0:56.6	famous footballer, the world's most successful football in terms of goals he scored and awards he's won,
1:03.0	has suffered the loss of one of two twins, born to him and his girlfriend, Georgina. That's a terrible
1:09.9	tragedy for any parent to have to cope with, isn't it?
1:13.1	It really is.
1:14.2	And, you know, it's all very well being the world's most famous footballer, the most successful,
1:18.6	the oldest Premier League footballer.
1:20.8	You know, there are so many things that make him stand out.
1:23.8	Yes.
1:24.4	But this is one of those unifying tragedies.
1:27.3	There is no greater heartache than the
1:30.0	death of a baby. And of course, this is twisted by the fact that one of the twins that they were
1:38.1	expecting, he and his wife, Georgina, has survived. Thank God she has. Yes.
1:46.4	So they've kept their little baby girl.
1:55.9	And that is tinged with the desperate loss of that little baby's brother, who they now have to think about burying.
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