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Planet Porky

78: Health and well-being

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones return for more close encounters of the heard kind. Today's topics include Storm Dennis, the tragic death of Caroline Flack, looking after your mental health, male models, smiling, the coronavirus, Liz Jones, Morecambe and Wise and the demise of the catchphrase. 

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You can follow the podcast on Twitter. Porky is: @MikeParry8 and Lesley-Ann is: @LAJwriter.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to send a question or comment about the show you can email: [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you. 

And if you or someone you know is struggling and needs someone to talk to, you can contact the Samaritans 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year on: 116 123 or visit samaritans.org for more information. Please don't suffer in silence. 

Transcript

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0:28.9

Okay, folks, you are listening to Life on Planet Porky, the podcast that is spinning up there through the cosmos.

0:36.3

Thank you very much indeed all of you for all the very kind comments and appreciations we've had for the past few months.

0:39.7

And the longer we go on, the longer we like doing it,

0:43.6

and delighted to say with me in the studio again today, Miss Leslie Ann Jones.

0:44.5

She's back.

0:45.3

Yeah, you certainly are. How have they been great, though?

0:46.5

People have been just wonderful and positive and complimentary and hilarious in their responses to us,

0:53.2

which I really appreciate.

0:55.1

I really appreciates it indeed.

0:57.3

We've got a live show coming up in a couple of months, by the way,

0:59.8

so please keep your eyes peeled on the Twitter accounts

1:03.3

because a few of the tickets have been released,

1:06.1

but there is a blockbook in there which is going to be out in two or three weeks' time.

1:11.0

It's the Henan Chickens, wonderful theatre.

1:13.4

I've done shows there before.

1:14.4

Some of you may have come and see me there in the old days.

1:17.8

But it's Planet Porky on stage, Helen Chickens.

1:21.0

That is Sunday, April 5th.

1:23.5

And please keep your eyes on things.

1:24.9

We'd love you to be there.

1:26.9

It's a Sunday afternoon, by the way. So, great to have lunch in Islington, in North London, and get along to the show at 3 o'clock. Now, it's great to have you here today, Leslie, and for every reason, the fact that you are a terrific broadcaster, journalist, rocket chick, writer, extraordinaire. And in a minute, we're going to talk about one of the most tragic showbys cases that you and I have come across for a long, long time.

1:49.4

That's Caroline Flack and her demise, which is terribly, terribly sad.

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