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Planet Porky
Planet Porky
3.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today's topics include: Piers Morgan's TV return, LAJ's latest book, Angela Rayner, the childhood memories of Edwina Curry, Porky's school days, playing pranks, Live Aid, events you wished you'd attended, Porky's painful tooth, a return for the Cheeky Girls, Lembit Opik's party trick, Rising Damp, holding a concert in space, Howard Wilson not returning John Lennon's letter, Porky's Christmas Card from 'Margaret Thatcher', and Benazir Bhutto. It's the podcast that doesn't need to beg, steal or borrow, it's Life on Planet Porky.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest chapter, the latest exciting edition of Life on Planet Porky, with myself, of course, the Portmeister, and the Rock Chick-Riter Extraordinaire, Ms. Lesion Jones. Ms. Jones, how are we this fine day? |
| 0:39.2 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:40.1 | Sparkling here, Michael. |
| 0:41.1 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:41.9 | Absolutely. |
| 0:42.8 | Our old colleague, Pearz Morgan, right, two shows now, okay? |
| 0:46.2 | Both dominated by Donald Trump, but Peers in imperious form, I would say. |
| 0:50.7 | You've got a particular interest, haven't you, in Pearz, apart from the fact that he's been a colleague of ours for a good 30 years in Fleet Street and television. |
| 0:58.2 | But I understand you've focused on him in your new Blockbuster bestseller due out quite soon. |
| 1:06.2 | Well, Pear's my favourite boss of all time. |
| 1:09.4 | You know, he hired me to work for him at the News of the World, |
| 1:12.6 | where I had a column, a celebrity feature, double spread every week for some time |
| 1:18.8 | before he left to go to The Daily Mirror. |
| 1:21.2 | I've got a lot of time for peers. |
| 1:22.9 | He's a very grounded blood. |
| 1:24.4 | He is. |
| 1:25.1 | You know, he might be being projected as a global celebrity right now |
| 1:29.7 | and all power to him. But whenever he see him bump into him in a bar or memorial service or |
| 1:36.0 | something, he's just the same peers as he always was. Yes, I agree. So it's, you know, the |
| 1:40.5 | professionalism is an act, but he does have his feet on the ground. |
| 1:45.3 | I really admire him. |
| 1:46.2 | Oh, yeah, I do as well. He hasn't gone to his head. |
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