80: Alcoholics not so anonymous

Planet Porky

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3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On this alcohol-soaked episode of Planet Porky, Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones discuss pointless gap years, HS2, the greatest TV shows of all time, 'Whitney Houston's' new tour, Jimmy Greaves, the life of an alcoholic, drinking habits before and after work and breakfast at hotels. You may be nursing a hangover by the time you get to the end of this one!

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to Planet Porky. Thank you very much indeed for joining us today. I have, of course, got Leslie Ann Jones with me in the studio. Leslie Ann. Thank God the bad weather's behind us, brightening up a bit now and not nearly as in Clement as it was a week ago.
0:39.9	Quite right.
0:40.4	So I want to say thanks again to everybody for getting in touch about our last podcast,
0:45.8	which was greeted very warmly.
0:48.2	Lovely people.
0:49.2	I'm really enjoying the interaction.
0:51.6	And a lot of them agreeing with me that the soon you can get into the
0:55.1	workplace, because we were talking about your daughter, becoming a theatre director, then the better
0:59.7	it should be. I didn't say to you because you brought me up and reminded me that the gap year
1:07.7	comes after leaving school and before going to university. But I think that was the biggest waste of time in the world.
1:13.3	Yeah, I agree.
1:14.3	My elder daughter said when it was time for her to go to uni,
1:18.8	Mommy can have a gap year.
1:20.2	And I said, you've just had 17 gap years.
1:23.5	Get on with it.
1:24.1	Yes, I totally agree with you.
1:25.2	Well done. Because by the time you come back from your gap year,
1:28.4	you've got a relaxed brain,
1:30.2	which you've then got to rev up again into, you know,
1:32.7	academic study type mode.
1:35.1	But your friends are already up and running.
1:37.3	And the other thing we didn't discuss was when you said polytechnics,
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