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Planet Porky

90: Covering all bases (or should that be faces?)

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are back to hopefully bring you a little bit of light in these dark times. There's plenty on the menu today including: the debate about face masks, wildlife making a comeback, Jon Snow, IKEA's oversized furniture, shoe collections, The Kinks, the man who provided cars (and other services) to The Beatles, entering the lottery and winning big, online dating for silver surfers and loads more. Go ahead and lose yourself on Planet Porky for a while!  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, thank you very much, Adi, for joining us again.

0:22.9

You are, of course, now tuned in to life on Planet Porky, with myself the Porkmeister,

0:27.8

and probably more importantly, with the Rocket Chick-Riter Extraordinary Leslie Ann Jones.

0:34.6

And Leslie, I understand you've got a shiny new pair of headphones

0:38.1

and a shiny new microphone to add to our building technological empire.

0:44.1

We've turned into a complete studio here. It's quite unbelievable.

0:48.3

Yeah, absolutely fantastic. And I have to say, as we talk now, you're talking about, you know, increasing the amount of

0:56.9

equipment you need to do your job and for me to do my job. The one piece of equipment I want to

1:01.5

talk to you about in these vital, crazy days, Leslie Ann, is the face mask. You know, the debate

1:09.1

is now reaching the tipping point, face mask or no face mask. I've

1:13.2

always wanted to wear one right from the start. Government advice, scientific advice, saying

1:18.0

probably better not to, which I've never understood, where do you stand on this? Absolutely,

1:23.2

wear one. What harm can it do? We've been wearing them since the end of February now. We've not,

1:28.3

we've not gone near a shop without a face mask on. Now people might say, well, where do you buy them?

1:33.7

I can't get them. You can make them out of anything. You can make them out of a t-shirt. There are

1:38.7

tutorials online. Or you can just wrap a scarf around your head. You know, what harm can it do? And it might

1:44.9

actually save your life. Yeah, no, I totally agree with that. I totally agree with all of that.

1:49.2

I'm holding in my hand now a full page I pulled out of one of the smallings newspapers.

1:54.3

Packs of 10 super hygienic face masks, only £9.95. Maximum five packs per order online, at, and it's become big business.

2:05.3

But the face masks, they're advertising. I don't even like to look at them. They're thin material.

2:10.9

I've made my own face mask. I don't know where you got yours from. You can tell me that in a second.

2:15.3

But I've made my face mask from a tesco

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