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Planet Porky

263: One giant leap

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The latest Planet Porky podcast is now in orbit as Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones lift off for another episode.

Today's topics include: the sad death of Olivia Newton-John, Judith Durham, the BBC's decision to cut their football results service, change for the sake of change, Vanessa Feltz, crowdfunding for your divorce payments, Neil Armstrong and his famous quote, colonising the moon, the upcoming anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, where in the UK Eurovision should be held, hosepipe bans and water consumption, 'quiet quitting', Nicole Sealey, resentment in the workplace, the Great Train Robbery, and the man who is missing millions in Bitcoin. It's the podcast which gives much more than it takes, 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 edition, the latest chapter, the latest riveting revelations from life on planet Porky, with myself the Porkmeister, and of course, the rock chick writer extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie and Jones.

0:37.4

And Miss Jones, I have to say, we've got to start on rather a somber matter,

0:42.3

although when I say somber, I'm talking about the demise of,

0:47.7

I think she must have been one of the favorite singer-actresses

0:52.3

in the history of certainly musical film or whatever.

0:56.6

And of course I'm talking about.

0:59.2

Olivia Newton-John.

1:00.4

Absolutely.

1:01.4

Or Olivia Neutron-Bomb, as we used to call her.

1:04.7

And she wouldn't mind me saying that.

1:06.5

She had a laugh about that.

1:08.5

She was gorgeous.

1:10.3

There was just something so wholesome and lovely about

1:13.7

that woman. And here's a little example of why. I was in December 2016, I was having

1:21.4

Christmas lunch with Brian Bennett, the drummer from the shadows. And he And he was asking about what are the kids doing?

1:28.5

And I told him that Bridie, my youngest, was currently rehearsing for a production of Greece

1:34.0

that was a joint collaboration between her school and Dulwich College, my son's school.

1:39.7

And he said, oh, I'll have to get Livy to send her a message to say good luck.

1:45.2

So I said, Livy who?

1:46.6

He said, Olivia Newton-John, you know, star of the original Greece.

1:51.6

So I said, okay, I didn't think anything more of it.

1:55.5

Then a couple of weeks later, Bridie came bounding down the stairs.

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