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271: Revenge is a dish best served...with blueberries

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones welcome you to the latest great adventure from Planet Porky - the brightest object in the night sky!

Topics today include: Bryan Ferry, Boy George selling his house, the anniversary of Abbey Road, Paul and John's unique chemistry, The High Chaparral, how you'd spend your Euromillions, newsagents, who shot JR, wellness coaching, super foods and how to live a longer life, Royal houses, the future of the monarchy, living on a boat, the Ukrainian refugee love triangle taking a sinister turn, Colditz, and how Porky was the first to receive the news of the death of Douglas Bader. It's the podcast that gets all the scoops, 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, latest chapter, the latest scintillating adventures from life on planet

0:29.8

Porky, with myself the Porkmeister, and of course, the Rochick writer extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie and Jones.

0:37.4

And Miss Jones, I understand there's going to be a bit more bookism in your life this week.

0:42.3

Freddie Mercury style, yeah?

0:44.8

Indeed, the paperback of...

0:47.3

Paperback, right.

0:50.1

I set you up there, didn't it?

0:52.1

It's the paperback of my latest Friday Mercury book called Love of My Life,

0:57.1

Delving into the Truly Meaningful Relationships of Freddy's Life.

1:02.1

That book was published in Harback, the end of last year, 2021,

1:07.0

and now the paperback edition emerges.

1:09.4

Fantastic.

1:09.8

Which, you know, it makes the book more mainstream

1:13.1

because fans and collectors tend to buy hardbacks but the paperback is is the sort of mass

1:19.4

market that's right for the airport yeah very excited about this exactly yeah well talking about

1:25.5

aging rock stars and of course fred Freddie's not with us anymore, sadly.

1:28.9

Brian Ferry is 77 this week.

1:31.4

I have to say, I think Brian Ferry caused a cultural revolution, you know, when he came on the scene,

1:37.0

wearing that sort of white tuxedo on stage and, you know, smooth, cool, classic looks.

1:43.8

I mean, he had a terrific effect on some of the young

1:46.3

ladies that I was romancing in those days. That was a sort of later incarnation of him,

1:53.0

really, the toxedo look. When Roxy Music first emerged in the 70s, they were much more sort

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