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Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another episode of Planet Porky as Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones steer you into the weekend. Today they discuss: the hopelessness of dating in lockdown, Boris Johnson's parenting skills, Prince Harry finding himself in no man's land, Andrew Morton's royal connections, why journalists stick together, Connie Booth, the future of the office, the Albert Hall, Dickie Davies and slippers. Strap in and get ready for lift off! 

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

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, you are listening or about to listen to another edition of Life on Planet Porky.

0:29.1

The first thing I want to say before I introduce you once again to the wonderful rock, chick,

0:33.8

writer extraordinaire, Leslie Ann Jones, is a really big thanks for the involvement that

0:38.3

you're all taking in the Planet Porky podcast. We're all self-isolating and it's all a bit,

0:43.4

you know, tough hunkering down, so to speak. But I personally want to say that it's really uplifting

0:48.9

to see how much you're all getting interested in what we're doing and for your responses.

0:52.9

What do you think to that, Leslie Ann? Well, I'm amazed. You know that the emails are coming thick and fast. I've heard this

0:58.9

week from Auntie Julie in Salisbury, Natalie and Greenwich and Remy in New York. So the word is spreading

1:07.8

far and wide. Really thrilled to hear from everyone. Keep them coming, please.

1:11.9

Now, what's this about you getting propositions as well? I mean, are we getting just too

1:16.4

close to our audience? Well, you know, I think maybe I revealed a little bit too much about my

1:23.2

personal circumstances on the last podcast. Leslie, I mean, I've revealed too much. Don't worry.

1:27.8

This is what I thought, but I have actually had three invitations to dinner over the past

1:32.7

week since the previous podcast. So, you know, I'm kind of fed up, not hard up, if that's

1:40.3

not a real thing to say. But, you know, I'm not touting for business. Just wanted to make that clear.

1:45.4

No, absolutely.

1:46.9

Would these be Zoom-type isolation dinners?

1:51.3

Because I noticed, by the way, there's, I read every paper every day, as I'm sure you do,

1:55.5

there's a regular feature in today's Daily Mail, the feature they always have about

2:00.1

the dating, you know, they get two

2:02.2

people to meet. And at the moment, they're doing it in isolation. Now, I think they should have shut

2:06.0

it down. I do too. Sorry? I do as well. Yeah, the very essence of the blind date is you've got to

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