96: The distress of the mistress

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones return to ease you into the weekend with the latest look at Life on Planet Porky. Today's topics include: bogus bookshelves, maintaining professionalism in the presence of celebrity, Porky's record rage, coronavirus concerns, the curious case of Melanie Blake, Michelle Obama and fascination with first ladies, having a bit on the side, the madness of Peter Sellers, famous last words, disguising yourself for the cause and single French women. Ooh la la.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, welcome. And when I say welcome, I mean a big welcome to Planet Porky. Planet Porky,
0:27.5	the place where you can dispense all your cares and troubles in these difficult times for about 45 minutes, listening to myself, the Porkmeister, and of course, a rock chick writer,
0:41.1	extraordinaire, Leslie Ann Jones. Leslie, Anne, a very big welcome to the domain of the planet.
0:47.6	How have you been in the last couple of days? Well, thank you. I've been fine, and you're sounding
0:52.1	very perky-pokey today, amazing. That's very kind of you. As I been fine. And you're sounding very perky, porky today, I may say.
0:54.8	Well, yes, that's very kind of you. As I've just said to you, because I'm doing a bit of
1:01.0	telly at the moment, I've had to rearrange the backdrop behind me because one thing you can't do,
1:06.3	Leslie Ann, is let people see the wrong book, you know what I mean?
1:10.2	Have you seen some of these shelves? Some of these MPs on television book, you know what I mean? Have you seen some of these shelves?
1:12.2	Some of these MPs on television with, you know,
1:14.7	they're carefully rearranged bookshelves to make us all believe that they're super clever
1:19.7	and reading all that stuff all the time because we know they're not.
1:22.7	Yes.
1:23.4	Well, in fact, funny enough, you say that.
1:25.3	I saw a survey this morning.
1:26.7	Two things came out of it.
1:29.5	One is that people buy books just so that when their friends come round, they think that their
1:35.6	host is very intelligent and clever. And they haven't read that two-thirds of the books on the
1:40.4	bookshelves that you've seen in the past week, months, haven't been read by the people
1:45.6	who've got them. They just buy them for effect. And even more so, when people get to the age of
1:50.1	about 45 or something, they've gone out and started to buy vinyl LP records, right, just to have
1:57.4	them stacked up in their lounge in Islington at home when they're, you know,
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