66: The Porkfumo affair

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Mike Parry welcomes you to a new year on Planet Porky (but perhaps not a new decade?) in the company of the delectable Lesley-Ann Jones. Today they discuss Christine Keeler and the Profumo affair, the brilliance (or not) of John Thaw, the nightmare of travelling to and from the O2 arena and the Australian bush fire tragedy. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to Life on Planet Porky.
0:26.4	And the first thing I suppose I've got to do is wish you all a happy new year.
0:32.4	Biting my fingers, I do that.
0:34.0	Anyway, look, I'm the Porkmeister.
0:35.4	Delighted to say in the studio with me today,
0:38.4	the return of Leslie Anne Jones. Leslie Ann, lovely to see you, my dear. Yes, I'm back. And
0:43.3	happy New Year. I knew you hate saying that after the actual day itself. Well, I think it's,
0:48.6	I think it's so crass. You know, look, you know, once midday on New Year's days come up, don't say Happy New Year to anybody after that.
0:54.9	Because, frankly, we've got to get on with a new world, you know, a new year, a new life, new challenges and all that.
1:00.0	Anybody who's, you know, floating around for five or six days after New Year's E, oh, it's New Year, Happy New Year, is not concentrating on their life plan.
1:09.3	I take your point, but let me ask you something.
1:11.4	Yes.
1:11.9	Are we in a new decade?
1:14.1	No.
1:14.9	The new decade doesn't start until the end of this year.
1:16.9	That's what I think.
1:17.7	But there's a raging debate on the internet.
1:20.0	Of course there is, yeah.
1:20.6	But you get any newspaper editor to defy the odds and actually do it properly.
1:25.6	The new decade starts on midnight of 2020 going out
1:30.3	of the year, you see what I mean? Exactly that. I'm with you. But because everybody's jumped on
1:34.8	the bandbag, the new decade is 2020, they're completely wrong. Do you remember New Year's Eve
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