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Planet Porky

253: Domestic and international affairs

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones discuss: the release of LAJ's new book, Vangelis, becoming a nervous wreck when talking to the Royal Family, whether the Queen is in good health, the Ukrainian refugee who broke up the family she was staying with, attending international film festivals as a journalist, meeting Roger Taverner, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, releasing Brits abroad from oppressive regimes, Don Powell's recent issues, Scandinavian countries, Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards, democracy, how Paul McCartney lost his mum at 14, songwriting genius, the story behind the worlds most expensive war medal, and Everton in the 1950s.

It's the podcast that's as sweet as a toffee; 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, welcome to the latest chapter, the latest edition, the latest great episode of life on planet Porky, with myself the Porkmeister, and of course, rock chick writer extraordinaire.

0:34.4

This Leslie Ann Jones, Miss Jones, I have some amazing news for the audience of

0:40.1

millions around the world who listen to the planet Porky and who, you know, who like to know what's

0:45.8

going on. And that is that a certain parcel dropped through my letterbox just days ago, a padded

0:53.3

envelope. I thought, what's this? It's got to be a book.

0:56.4

And feverishly, I tore it open. And there it was, your latest, greatest book. It's not on sale yet,

1:03.9

Leslie Ann, but tell me why I was one of the chosen few who got an early copy.

1:09.4

Ah, this is what they call a review copy.

1:11.8

This is the Stone Age, 60 Years of the Rolling Stones, which is my new book.

1:16.6

You're quite right.

1:17.3

It comes out on the 9th of June.

1:19.8

So the review copies are dispatched ahead of time, obviously, to allow people to have a chance

1:25.8

to read it.

1:26.9

Because it takes quite a long time to wade

1:28.9

through a book of this size, doesn't it? Well, you say that. And yet one reviewer clearly loved it so

1:34.8

much. I think it was a he, got stuck into it. And I'm sorry and put out of tweets. I started

1:39.9

reading Leslie Ann's book, The Stone Age, and I'm 100 pages in and can't put it down. That's a pretty

1:45.9

positive result, isn't it? Well, let's hope all the reviews are like that. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

1:50.7

Let's hope your review will be like that. It'll be positive, believe it, because of course, like you,

1:54.9

I'm a child of the 60s and stones next to the Beatles, probably the most influential bunch of musicians.

2:02.6

And of course, you're not the only one who at the moment is focusing and celebrating on the longevity of the Stones.

2:08.3

Don't know whether you saw the Sunday Times Culture magazine, but Mick Jones, Keith,

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