62: Mike Parry - diplomat
Planet Porky
Planet Porky
3.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, folks, you are listening to Planet Porky. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome on board. |
| 0:26.3 | Thank you very much indeed for joining us today. |
| 0:28.5 | And thank you also for the great responses to our last podcast, which of course starred the wonderful Leslie Ann Jones, who's with me again in the studio today. Leslie Ann, |
| 0:39.5 | once again, it's great to have you back. What is the simple attraction of working with me? |
| 0:45.0 | I can't stay away, Mike, can I really? It's that indefinable quality that you have. |
| 0:51.3 | Yes, yes. We can't put words to these things, really, can I? No, no, not really, no. |
| 0:55.7 | I know exactly how you feel. Lots of people have told me about that. Now, Leslie Ann, of course, |
| 1:03.4 | it's getting near to Christmas. Been to any decent Christmas party since we last met with me? |
| 1:08.1 | I have. I went to the Sods Night at the Savoy, |
| 1:11.6 | which is the Society of Distinguished Songwriters. |
| 1:15.1 | Really? |
| 1:15.6 | It's a gathering that was founded by Mitch Murray, CBE, |
| 1:20.0 | invested at the Palace only the other day. |
| 1:22.1 | Congratulations to Mitch. |
| 1:23.9 | He founded this club about 50 years ago, |
| 1:26.8 | and it's completely non-charity, non-belarveling. |
| 1:30.8 | It's a bunch of songwriters because from the days when there were a handful of people in this country |
| 1:35.6 | who wrote pretty much all the pop songs and gave them away. |
| 1:38.8 | Right. |
| 1:39.3 | So they've been reaping the royalties all these years |
| 1:41.8 | but their songs have been made famous by other people. |
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