99: A bee in my bonnet

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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It's time for another exciting edition of Planet Porky the podcast with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones. Some of the people and places featured today include: George Osborne, Charles Dickens (rather living up to his name), JK Rowling, York, Niall Horan being vertically challenged, those people who take the fall for the rock and rollers, Feargal Sharkey, Tom Bradby, bumblebees we like and moths we don't and Eddie Jones' life coach. Plus there's the usual array of news, views and more in another packed instalment. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, welcome to the latest edition of the podcast, Planet Porky, with myself, the Portmeister.
0:28.6	I'm the junior member of the partnership here because, of course, the blossoming star of all things celestial is Leslie Ann Jones.
0:37.0	Leslie Ann, a very good morning and a big welcome to you.
0:40.8	Good morning, Michael. How are we doing? Well, we're doing very well indeed. I'll tell you what, I,
0:44.8	you know, I'm an avid reader of the newspapers as you are. It's been our life. And some things I see
0:49.8	sometimes. Have you seen the image of a family out on Beachy Head yesterday and a little girl, aged
0:55.3	about 10, wanted to look over the edge of this cliff, which is about a hundred...
0:59.2	Oh, don't, don't, don't. I had to look at it through my hands. It was the most terrifying
1:05.7	picture over the weekend, wasn't it? Yeah, and the mother is actually holding the back
1:10.4	of her daughter's anorak and allowing
1:12.0	it to appear. I mean, my God, I know quite a bit about the coast. I live down there and my family
1:17.6	are down in Bournemouth, and particularly in Bournemouth, we walk along the tops of the cliffs,
1:22.5	and the actual safety barrier between the pathway and the edge of the cliff is at least 12 feet. It has to be
1:29.6	because cliffs crumble at the edge, you know. And this little girl was being allowed by her mother
1:35.7	to get within inches of the edge. I mean, it made me physically sick. I suffer from vertigo anyway.
1:42.4	Yeah, no, no. Anyone who takes their children up at top of a cliff
1:46.4	and allows them to look down into the abyss, I mean, they want their brains testing,
1:50.7	or they fit parents. It really did make me feel ill as well. I couldn't look at that picture
1:55.6	properly. So please, everybody, keep your kids away from the edge yeah absolutely and sometimes by the way even in
2:03.1	bormouth we see a family where they're letting the child scramble over the safety fence to go through
2:10.0	some bramble to get near the edge of the cliff and we have to actually say stop that you know what
2:14.8	an earth do you think you're doing it honestly it beggars belief the intelligence of some people, but never mind about that.
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