87: The inside scoop

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Despite the challenges of being in lockdown and not being able to leave the house, Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are back courtesy of cyberspace to do their duty and entertain and inform you as Planet Porky the podcast rolls on!

The pair discuss; Agnetha from ABBA, disco dancing at Stringfellows, what might have happened to Duffy, Boris Johnson's ICU experience, the closure of businesses due to lockdown, the death of Lord Bath, Bond girls, drinking while self-isolating, Porky doing his own cleaning, and celebrating birthdays amid coronavirus restrictions.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to Life on Planet Porky, and I'm delighted to be able to tell you that with me at one end of the technological machine that Leslie Ann Jones has put together and her at the other, we are hoping to be able to extend the
0:40.7	wisdom of life on planet Porky to all you millions of listeners out there who, I am so sorry,
0:46.2	have been deprived of my wisdom and Leslie Ann's intense knowledge as the rock chick writer
0:53.3	of ages in Fleet Street. But we're back in business
0:56.8	and we have an absolute cornucopia of information and entertainment to bring to you. Is that not
1:04.1	right, Leslie Ann? Absolutely right. And of course, isolation doesn't have to mean desperation because
1:09.4	we are here for your delictation.
1:11.7	Oh, yeah.
1:12.9	I like that very much indeed. That was always one of the best.
1:16.1	Why don't you swallow in over there?
1:17.7	A large gin and tonic.
1:19.2	Oh, at this time of day.
1:20.4	Well, I...
1:21.3	Hang on, just let me get mine.
1:22.9	Yeah, yeah, please do. You know, I get terrified about technology, and so I have to have something to drink to just bolster my confidence and resilience.
1:32.6	I'm fine when it gets to the talking bit, but before that, it's never good with me.
1:37.8	You don't need no crutch. Come on. I'm on the Earl Grey Tea here.
1:42.0	Yeah. What's that famous expression that women use to get rid of a bloke? And you remind me of it there. I'm on the Earl Grey tea here. Yeah. What's that famous expression that women use to get rid of a bloke?
1:46.3	And you remind me of it there.
1:48.0	Bye.
1:49.0	What is it?
1:51.8	It's something about you just said there, desperation.
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