274: Thou dost protest too much

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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It's another razor sharp episode of Life on Planet Porky with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones.

Topics today include: the Harvest Festival, depressing news bulletins, power struggles in Fleet Street, unceremonious sackings, working with the Clintons, Cynthia and Julian Lennon, Being the real man behind the Benefit of Mr Kite poster, pressure cookers and air fryers, Chris De Burgh, artists who only appear at Christmas, WAGs, the controversy around the Qatar World Cup, England v Iran, the Dartford Crossing protests, Britain's tolerance as a nation, the climate emergency, a new album by the Rolling Stones, why it's best to play the hits, IKEA furniture, The Crown, and why fiction is always behind on-screen 'fact'. It's the podcast that does real drama, it's Life on Planet Porky.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you're listening to the latest chapter, the latest greatest
0:25.6	adventures from life on planet Porky, with myself, the portmister, and the rock chick
0:31.4	writer extraordinaire, of course, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones, Leslie Ann, hot on the heels back from St. Brides, where you were officiating at the Harvest Festival Service. I love Harvest Festivals. When I was a kid, we used to go to Sunday school to a church on Hool Road in Chester. And the one weekend of the year year I really loved was when we all took something
0:56.1	mum had cooked at home and put it on the table, you know, for the food, for little Jesus and all
1:01.0	that. Is it still like that? Not quite. In the old days, we used to turn up at church, didn't we,
1:08.1	with cabbages and carrots and parsnets and all the wonderful
1:13.1	produce that we grew on our allotments and so on, or the parents did.
1:17.1	Well, that was all about, we plow the fields and scatter the good seed on the ground.
1:26.2	I remember it.
1:30.7	Something like that, yes. We always do have that hymn.
1:36.4	But because nowadays, I mean, certainly with our church, it's a non-residential parish,
1:42.0	meaning that it's on Fleet Street, nobody lives around there. So we don't have an immediate parish to distribute these goods too.
1:45.4	So we collect non-perishable goods nowadays that go to the Bishop of London's Fund to assist people in need.
1:53.7	Oh, okay.
1:54.4	So it's more tins and packets and toilet trees and that kind of thing nowadays.
2:00.0	You talk about packets.
2:01.9	I had an old auntie in Birkenhead.
2:04.1	We used to go and see her about once a year.
2:06.0	That's a bit rude calling her a packet.
2:08.4	A packet.
2:09.0	A packet. Now she's a packet.
2:10.7	But for some of no reason, we always used to take her a packet of tea.
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