250: Barbs, Bars and the Bard

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

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🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones reconvene for another in depth look at the week's news as Life on Planet Porky returns.

Topics today include: Sunshine in May, dressing inappropriately for the weather, misogyny in the House of Commons, hypothetical bars in newspaper offices, exchanging messages with a prisoner, Boris Becker, how overpriced hairdressing is, auburn hair, Angel Rayner, Paul and John reuniting, Angela Levin's new book about Camilla, Sheena Easton, Sandy Shaw's number one hits, Everton's relegation battle, Harry and Meghan's fractious relationship, life after Bond, Portugal, and a couple of cracking cases of story-chasing from the Fleet Street days. It's the podcast that spends time in bars, not behind them - it's Life on Planet Porky.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, welcome to the latest edition, the latest chapter, the latest exciting adventures from life on planet Porky, with, of course, myself, the portmister, and more importantly, Rock Chick-Chic writer extraordinaire, Miss Leslie Ann Jones. Miss Jones, how are we this fine
0:41.0	day in the week of the May bank holiday? It's upon us, isn't it? It's crazy how the year is
0:49.6	racing by. I couldn't quite believe that we'd hit the 1st of May already and thought,
0:55.0	where's the year going? It's evaporating. Yeah, no, I feel a bit like that as well. Maybe it's
0:59.4	because we're all outside again now, and for the previous two years we haven't been, you know,
1:03.2	and life seems better and sweeter because you feel the air on your face, and now this time of year,
1:09.0	the blossoms coming out and all that kind of stuff.
1:12.3	Stiff. You're calling you're stiff. No, I'm not calling you a stiff, Miss Jones.
1:17.2	Yeah, Miss Jones.
1:18.9	Oh, Miss Jones. So maybe that's it. I don't know. So I always feel with bank holidays. I hope it's
1:25.0	good weather. I don't like blazing sunshine, but I do feel that
1:28.5	those who rely on their living for it, and I'm talking about people at the seaside or people who, you know,
1:33.9	run outdoor activities, they rely on maybe, I don't know, half a dozen weekends a year to make all
1:40.1	their money, if you see it or mean, and a bank holiday one is one of them. I just hope it goes well for them. Yeah, indeed. The weather's been really inclement, hasn't it, lately? For the
1:49.0	last week, I've been putting a coat on and I've been going out, and it's unusual for this time
1:53.6	year. But anyway, I'm not a... Funny thing about Brits, though, you know. I said this to my daughter a couple of days ago. One little glint of sunshine.
2:02.1	Yes.
2:02.7	And you get all these Brits out in shorts and strapless dresses.
2:07.0	Yes.
2:07.4	Sort of flaunting their tiny bit of fake sunburn and all the rest of it.
2:11.7	And you see them standing around absolutely shivering because they haven't got enough clothes on.
2:16.4	But they're determined to make the most of the exposure to a bit of sunshine.
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