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Eyes And Teeth

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Comedy Ventriloquist Steve Hewlett drops his dummy for Chats with his favourite Comedy & Variety Performers from Theatre, Comedy Clubs, Cruise Ships, Circus, Radio and Television.

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Roy Hudd OBE - Eyes & Teeth - The Specials - Part 2

February 06, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 77.6 MB

Welcome to Part 2 of my tribute to Roy Hudd OBE. In this episode I play more clips from Roy's career and include interviews with Chris Emmett, Debbie Hudd, Jimmy Cricket, Rick Wakeman and Mike Craig. My main goal as well as spreading the word of Roy's amazing work and books out there is to make you aware of www.theroyhuddstaatueappeal.co.uk and upcoming events to raise funds for this project. Your help to share and donate is greatly appreciated. Hope you enjoy the show.

Roy Hudd OBE - Eyes and Teeth - The Specials - Season 16 - Edition 2 - Part One

January 17, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

Roy Hudd, OBE was a comedian, actor, presenter, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment. Roy was a Butlin's Clacton Redcoat but made his name on Radio in many guises including Workers' Playtime, BBC Radio 2's satirical series The News Huddlines which ran from 1975 to 2001. Roy Hudd broke into television in the mid-1960s in sketch series such as The Illustrated Weekly Hudd and The Roy Hudd Show. More TV followed with Lipstick on Your Collar, Common As Muck...

Dave Evans - Eyes & Teeth - The Specials - Episode 1

December 01, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 80.4 MB

Dave Evans was a World Class Entertainer. Truly gifted in music, comedy and impressions which wowed the Cabaret Clubs across the UK and Australia. He astounded audiences for thirty years at sea and impressed us on television when variety was at its height. On this Tribute Season, I talk with friends and colleagues of those no longer with us and I have chosen five of the greatest I worked with to end Eyes & Teeth on. Today you can enjoy clips of Dave Evans he sent me over the years and sadly ...

Jay Osmond - A new Osmond Musical - Eyes & Teeth - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Season 15 - Edition 18

July 11, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MB

Welcome to the last Episode of Eyes & Teeth Theo Worlds Greatest variety Show Season 15. When I think about the Variety in the World and hosting a show that is based around variety there is one family that comes to mind and that is a family who have lived and breathed Variety for over 60 years. Think of the most successful and famous show business family in the world and you will instantly think of the Osmonds. In 2016 my career I felt was made by one phonecall during a shopping trip in Ea...

Jimmy Tamley is Back! Part 2! Ventriloquest! The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes and Teeth - Season 15 - edition 17

June 11, 2023 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MB

In part two Jimmy & I discuss the world of ventriloquists and its future as well as talking about the great vents out there today making the art look easy. It clearly isn't when you realise how many of us are left out there. Gary Wilner to Terry Fator, Darci Lynne to Jeff Dunham, Paul Zerdin to Ray Alan, listen in to a chat about what will be a book by Steve Hewlett and ventriloquists worldwide... YouTube soundbite clips from: Ronn Lucas (MDA Telethon), (,Gary Wilner (ventg99), Paul Levent (...

Jimmy Tamley is Back! - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 16

June 09, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MB

Jimmy Tamley was my inspiration to become a vent act, to be part of showbusiness. He sparked that interest in me but not just to have an act on stage but he is part of me loving the vents before us, he showed me archives of vents and connected me with vent magazines and figure makers worldwide, I have alot to thank him for. In the next two episodes Jim & I chat as we always do about the world of ventriloquism and he wanted to focus on subjects throughout my book Ventriloquest out in the near...

Sharon Hewlett - The World's Greatest (Mum) Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 15

June 06, 2023 16:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth - my MUM Sharon Hewlett This episode in this final special season I talk relaxed to my mum about her growing up in London and me taking on showbusiness which she says has impacted her life in a fun way. There are special little notes from my Lola & Larissa, her own mum Lilian, our nan as well as Shane Ritchie,  Paul Ross, Marti Pellow and his band Wet Wet Wet, Joanna Lumley, Mr Motivator, The Nolans, Mica Paris, Joe Mangle aka Mark Little, Tony Slattery, Carmel McSha...

Jay Johnson - Confused? You won't be - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 14

May 19, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MB

Welcome to Eyes and Teeth Jay Johnson Jay Johnson is an International Success story in the art of ventriloquism highly respected in the land of Sitcom, stage performance, the acting world and the art of Ventriloquism. He was certainly on my Top 10 list greatest vents of all time so you can imagine how happy I am to have him guest on my podcast. Jay has been seen on TV drama’s such as an episode of Mrs. Columbo,The Love Boat, Gimme a Break!, Simon & Simon, The Facts of Life, Empty Nest (reu...

John Cushing - The Thursford Spectacular - Eyes & Teeth - The Worlds Greatest Variety Show - Season 15 - Edition 13

May 05, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB

Welcome to Eyes and Teeth and The World’s Greatest Variety Show On my last tour date in Norfolk I swung by one of my favourite venues called The Thursford Collection. In the spring to Summer it showcases fairground attractions and steam engines of the highest calibre but in October its turned into a rehearsal space for the Thursford’s Christmas Spectacular which has attracted over 5.8 million visitors to date and is the largest Christmas show in the country. I have had the pleasure of host...

Bobby Davro - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 12

April 25, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MB

Bobby Davro is an absolute legend in the world of British Variety and Television from the 1980’s onwards. I first met Bobby at the Wimbledon theatre when I was 16 and visiting puppeteer Simon Buckley who I had just recorded a TV show with in 1993 and he invited me to see his pantomime starring Bobby Davro. Bobby was gracious and always has been to me. We have since worked many variety shows or charity events together and he has me in tears of laughter each time and he is one of the best imp...

Kevin Dean - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 11

April 21, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MB

Welcome to Eyes and Teeth Kevin Dean Kevin and I became acquainted within the GOWR, the Grand Order of Water Rats, which is a Showbusiness charity over 130 years old which included members including Danny Kaye, Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Tommy Cooper, Charlie Chester, Les Dawson, Keith Harris, and those still with us today such as Rick Wakeman, Alfie Boe, The Hairy Bikers, Steve Hewlett, WHO? Well it is a who’s who in the order, we look out for our fellow entertainers wh...

Des King & Cherry - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes and Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 10

April 18, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MB

Desmondo & Cherry King Welcome to Eyes & Teeth a lovely couple who I keep bumping into even into their retirement but who retires in this business? Hardly any of us, if showbusiness is in your blood then you will always want to share your talent and Des King with Cherry have entertained millions world wide up to just a few weeks ago. Des and Cherry tell me of their meeting and seasons they have performed in as well as great talents we have shared the stage with. It's rare I get to record a...

Ian Freeman - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes and Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 9

April 13, 2023 06:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB

Eyes & Teeth would not be here without the Royal Variety Performance, or TV Talent Shows and they were inspirations not just for a budding young ventriloquist wannabe in Basingstoke in 1987 but for 1000’s of comedy, variety and musical acts for nearly a century. Today’s guest is not only related to Lord Bernard Delfont and Lew Grade but he himself has made a huge impact behind the scenes keeping the cogs of showbusiness agencies thriving and the Royal variety charity and Brinsworth House th...

Mark (Elvis) Goddard - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 8

April 07, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth Mark Goddard who for me was one of my earliest colleagues, we were both resident entertainers in 1994 at an Isle of Wight holiday park. I was 18. Mark has such a passion for this business from working holiday parks to playing Elvis on stage.  He worked on the famous Trisha show with all those dysfunctional people, and he has worked with his favourite band MUD which was a dream come true and speaks highly of other loves including Richard Digance. His knowledge of El...

Mama G aka Robert Pearce - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 7

April 04, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 56 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth Robert Pearce a pantomime Dame and performer of poems and stories and a wonderful new way of entertaining families in festivals and theatres across the land. In this edition of Eyes & Teeth I talk to Robert about our time together touring with Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee and we talk of our fondness of meeting the late and very great Roy Hudd. We also talk about the wonderful Dame Edna Everage – Barry Humphries and west country comedian the adorable Andy Ford. List...

Harry Hill - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 6

March 31, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth The Worlds Greatest Variety Show, Season 15 edition 6 with the one and only Harry Hill. Harry is about to embark on a new UK Tour with his new musical Tony Blair the Rock Opera. So today we catch up and talk about his work as a stand up comedian, musical producer, admirer of ventriloquists and their dummies, Sean Lock and much more. Harry’s success on television brought him awards and millions of fans but it was his decision to end the TV show that made him a househ...

Gary Lovini - The Worlds Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 5

March 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB

Welcome to the World’s greatest variety show – Season 15 in Eyes & teeth when I talk to Gary Lovini. Gary is a true showman and he had a full on career in the UK then moved to Florida, USA to start all over and he has made an astounding success out of it. Gary talks About his early years in Talent Competitions, Butlins, inventing a new style of performing with a violin. The local talent shows spread across the midlands and then around the UK and then TV biggest TV Talent show where it went...

Dene Michael - The Worlds Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 4

March 24, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth Dene Michael who is a member of Black Lace from the 1980’s, yes you remember the Agadoo, The Music Man and Superman, these are ingrained into my mind from an early age and of course a huge part of my early work, they were the first dances I nailed as a teenager in barry Island or Whitecliff Bay holiday park. It's Dene who along with new member Craig Harper is keeping the memory of those Holiday Classic dances Live and Well on the Holiday circuit, across Festivals, 80...

Tank Sherman - The Worlds Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 3

March 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MB

Today I catch up with another mate, a comedy colleague I first worked with 20 years ago at Jethro’s club and when I saw him work, I thought where has this guy come from? He was hilarious and even Jethro was standing at the back of his club in tears of laughter. Since then, we have crossed paths and Tank is just a naturally funny bloke and good egg to be around. Tank tells me how he got his stage name, how he got into the business at a late stage in his life as well as talking about Cruises...

Tonya Traylor - The Worlds Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 2

March 11, 2023 01:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MB

Welcome to Eyes and Teeth the wonderful personality of Tonya Traylor  Tonya is a singer come ventriloquist come ventriloquist and puppet collector but its more than just a little side hobby. Tonya’s passion for protecting music hall characters who have worked with ventriloquists for decades and maybe even a century ago. Her collection went from one to over 500 figures which is the largest of all time of independent collection of figures from the vent world and you can hear how dedicated and...

Alan Fletcher - The World's Greatest Variety Show - Eyes & Teeth - Season 15 - Edition 1

March 03, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MB

Alan Fletcher Welcome back to Eyes & Teeth the Final Season… The Worlds Greatest Variety Show Today I talk to one of the longest running much loved Soap characters who for 39 years has been one of Neighbours familiar faces Dr Karl Kennedy. Alan Fletcher actor, musician, singer, photographer, pantomime performer is one of the most hardest working people on stage and in television and this begun way before he joined the hit soap series. We talk about his time working with Arthur Lowe and Bi...

Mike Doyle - The Return - That's Right - That's Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition Final 12

January 20, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MB

Mike Doyle returns as we talk about my return to pantomime in Snow White at The New Theatre Cardiff where he looked after me more than I looked after Arthur Lager.  This was a labour of love recording in his dressing room and updating Eyes & Teeth on his fresh news including the Beautiful song Forever in Wales written by Lloyd Davies. Enjoy this episode as we get closer to my final season... Welcome Mike Doyle

Jimmy Carlo - That's Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition 11

January 18, 2023 14:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – that’s showbiz the penultimate episode of season 14. Today I talk to an award winning Comedy Magician renowned on the Magic and Cabaret circuit. We talk about Sir Ken Dodd, Blackpool Magic, Sumo wrestling, Bob Monkhouse, The Magic Castle in Los Angeles and we chat about Jimmy’s love of working as a drummer in a band as a teenager and the present day.  The hedgehog anecdote is one of my favourites but it is nice to catch up with one of the friendliest most down to...

Sian Reeves - That's Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition 10

January 10, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz the huge talents of actress Sian Reeves. I have just completed a fantastic contract in the capital city of Wales and it was a star studded Pantomime with Sports Star Gareth Thomas, Award winning Pop Star Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Comedy and Vocal sensation Mike Doyle, Jazz performer Denquar Chupak amongst others and todays guest is just incredible to watch. Sian is constantly on television and if not in EastEnders, Coronation Street or Emmerdale, she is in th...

Denquar Chupak - That's Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition 9

January 05, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz Today I invite a cast member from my current Snow White pantomime in Cardiff to join me and share her journey and what a journey she is having. Not just the journey through the woods being chased by a Henchman who is also an icon of Rugby (Gareth Thomas) and a wicked Queen played by one of the UK’s greatest actresses Sian Reeves and saved by Muddles who walks about the palace grounds with his hand up an old man along the way bumping into 7 performers...

Mark Porter - Eyes & Teeth - That's Showbiz - Season 14 - Edition 8

January 03, 2023 15:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz season 14. Today I talk with a fellow Water Rat and Big Band leader Mark Porter.  Mark has been around this business from a very early age starting in Wales and taking an interest in Crooners and their music he sat back and learnt from the best by watching live on stage Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Paul Anka, and what he must of learned at that time he soaked up and now delivers class throughout his touring with his own show as well as...

Renato Pires - Eyes & Teeth - That's Showbiz - Season 14 - Edition 7

January 02, 2023 19:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz Renato Pires  Today a success story in the making from a young man from Portugal who has faced so many hurdles and heartbreaks along the way but it has never stopped him giving up his goals and dreams. He has such a positive outlook on life and business and wants the best for everyone he works with. He seems to use his sad past to make others lives better and at the end of the day just wants to entertain the public with his gift and he passes that gif...

Pete Cutler - That's Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition 6

December 24, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MB

Pete Cutler Welcome to Eyes & Teeth and today is Christmas Eve 2022 so Merry Christmas to all in these crazy times we’re experiencing. It started with Brexit, then Covid years and the crazy news just doesn’t stop which is why a little light relief in your ears is created through the medium of showbusiness as I continue my last few seasons of this podcast delving into the minds and careers of talented individuals and take little nuggets from their entertainment world so the future generation...

Dean Winters - That's Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition 5

December 22, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB

Dean Winters Welcome to Eyes & Teeth, That’s Showbiz and where better to take you than Torquay and talk  about Babbacombe and its very successful summer season still going strong after many decades and one of the last surviving variety theatres running annual shows with casts of many talented folk which thanks to its Producer at Matpro Ltd Colin Matthews and his wonderful team have launched quite a few great names in variety and musicals in recent years. Deano has been on the circuit for a...

Jon Udry - That's Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition 4

December 21, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MB

Jon Udry Welcome to Eyes & Teeth talking Variety and Showbusiness getting to know great performers behind the scenes. We literally go behind the stage door today as I talk to the brilliant Jon Udry about his Lockdown shows, Cruise Ship Life, festivals and his brand new book in which he penned his experience performing in venues beginning with the letters of the alphabet across the UK. Jon also tells me about juggling on the radio and his Variety Bungalow show recorded live in his home. Co...

Helen Ward Jackson - That's Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition 3

December 20, 2022 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MB

Helen Ward Jackson Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz. Thank you for joining me and if its for the first time you have only missed 182 episodes of behind the scenes of Theatre, Comedy Clubs, Cruise Ships, Television and Radio Stars talking about their experiences which in turn could help along the next generation of performers by listening to our successes and mistakes along the way. Trust me we all make mistakes, some bigger than others but we all never stop learning. In this busine...

Tony Dowling - That's Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition 2

December 13, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

Tony Dowling… some of you will know his name and some may not. Tony was not only a successful Comedian and played dream venues along the way but he used his wisdom to start some businesses on the side. He is an inventor and that is I guess what has brought him most of his success, but he would never regret taking on one of the hardest jobs in showbusiness working the clubs and theatres across the UK & abroad. He’s been paid off AND been paid well. You can hear the experience and know how in ...

Lloyd Hollett - Thats Showbiz - Eyes & Teeth - Season 14 - Edition 1

December 06, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MB

Lloyd Hollett Please welcome to Eyes & Teeth a unique entertainer who can have the audience in stitches one minute and in tears the next. His style is so different to many, and I have always been flawed by his skills as a wordsmith.  If you haven’t yet seen Llyod work, then you must go out of your way to do so. He will make you smile if not howl with laughter. He personifies what this Podcast is all about, In fact I was sad he never got back to me as I thought my listeners would love to h...

Roy Walker - The RATS - Eyes & Teeth - Season 13 - Edition 10

November 13, 2022 06:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MB

Welcome to the final guest on Season 13 the RATS with Roy Walker.   Roy, Water Rat, gameshow host, radio star, tv comedian, Edinburgh Festival favourite talks to me today about his early days and talent shows to when he entered New Faces TV show which launched his Comedy Stand up career which led to Catchphrase onto Carpark Catchphrase with Chris Moyles and consequently his hit Edinburgh Festival show. Roy’s career saw him hosting TV shows such as Roy Walker’s TV Bloomers and Roy Walker’s ...

Kaplan Kaye - The RATS - Eyes & Teeth - Season 13 - Edition 9

November 11, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB

Kaplan Kaye Welcome to Eyes & Teeth a wonderful man… PKR Kaplan Kaye Kaplan grew up with his father Davey entertaining the world and Kaplan and his sister Melody have brought joy to audiences ever since. Melody being a Lady Ratling and Kaplan being a past King Rat. Kaplan talks about his Music writing notably Chalkdust The Brat he co Produced with Roger Kitter, a consortway production. In recent years Kaplan tours the Ukaye Ukes with Brother Rat and performer Bill Dare where they merge th...

Mike Martin - The RATS - Eyes & Teeth - Season 13 - Edition 8

November 08, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.2 MB

Welcome to Mike Martin – Scribe Rat and one of the GOWR trustees of the charity Mike made himself known to me once I joined the order and I found out much more about him once I bought a copy of his book BE LUCKY about his father and PKR George Martin the Casual Comedian. Mike recalls those days of his missing father being on the road and of course spying on the windmill theatre waiting of his dad to finish work. Conversations about Equity, Basil Brush, Keith Harris and Harry Worth and the ...

Colin Spaull - The RATS - Eyes & Teeth - Season 13 - Edition 7

November 06, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MB

Colin Spaull Welcome to Eyes & Teeth brother Water Rat the great Colin Spaull. As I head off to another Water Rats Lodge and my next guest is flying out to another Doctor Who convention to meet his fans. Colin has been a very successful and proud jobbing actor who has stayed true to his business. He has loved being on screen or on stage since he was a child actor. That transition is not always easy but his experiences he talks about today show him to care about what he does and that is wh...

George Saunders - The RATS - Eyes & Teeth - Season 13 - Edition 6

November 04, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth The RATS Comedian George Saunders George and I met at the Comedians Golfing Society about 15 years ago and have since become brothers in the Grand Order showbusiness charity and that is what this season is all about. Performers giving their time to raise coins for charities including children's charities and the Royal variety Charity and www.gowr.net was born in 1889 to help those entertainers in hard times and is active today so much so it helped those in need duri...

Bobbo Roberts - The RATS - Eyes & Teeth - Season 13 - Edition 5

November 02, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MB

Bobbo Roberts is a Clown and Circus performer; he has worked with horses as well as a dog and a goose in his act and in recent times has taken on security at concerts in Scotland which is pandemic created. If he can help it, he would rather be out there in the circus ring or back at Edinburgh Festival doing what he knows best and loves and that’s making people happy. Bobbo grew up in a World of Circus, his family history meant that it was inevitable that Bobbo would be mucking out the eleph...

John McKenzie - The RATS Official Photographer - Season 13 - Edition 4

October 24, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 47.3 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth Photographer, Water Rat John McKenzie If you recognise the name McKenzie and associate that with photographs that’s because John one for the sons of Doug McKenzie, famed photographer for the Royal Variety Performance for over 60 years, The Queen Mothers favourite photographer, Rock Stars, Movie Stars and comedians loved Doug as they did John who not only worked alongside his father snapping away but carried on his legacy through a lens for many including The Grand Or...

Ray Martin - The RATS - Eyes & Teeth - Season 13 - Edition 3

October 22, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 42 MB

Ray Martin Welcome to Eyes & Teeth season 13. The RATS The Grand Order of Water Rats is a charitable organisation formed by entertainers in 1889 and 133 years later they found Steve Hewlett. If you delve into the history books of variety, many names from there will crop up mentioning the GOWR. Names such as Wee Georgie Wood, Little Tich, Ventriloquists Fred Russell & Peter Brough, and comedians Sandy Powell or George Martin the casual comedian. Some Water Rats bred natural entertainers and...

Steve Barclay - THE RATS - Eyes & Teeth - Season 13 - Edition 2

October 18, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth Season 13 THE RATS If you are bewildered as to what the Rats are still then you can go to our website www.gowr.net for the history, past members, current members, events, museum details and how to book your visit as well as finding what we do and who we raise coins for.  My second guest in this series is Steve Barclay. We met in a nightclub in Benidorm, we were performing not clubbing. Steve tells all about his experience out there as well as his extensive time in t...

Anthony Bygraves - Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Max - The RATS - Eyes & Teeth - Season 13 - Edition 1

October 16, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MB

Welcome to Season 13 of Eyes & Teeth – This Season is Titled The RATS. The rats have been around since 1889 and there are never more than 200 members in the order at one time. I was member 883 and my proposer was Roy Hudd OBE and seconder was Roger De Courcey. Can you imagine sitting in lodge listening to anecdotes and laughing at fellow comedians or actors, musicians, magicians, ventriloquists or members of the Royal household sharing one thing that is universal and that is laughter. At ...

Tommy Cannon - The Big Big Talent of - Eyes & Teeth - Season 12 - Edition 12

October 14, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MB

Welcome to the final edition in Season 12. In this episode I know you’re going to enjoy as I take you back to the height of Cannon & Ball’s success as a double act that lasted decades right up until the very sad passing of Bobby Ball in 2020. Tommy Cannon, a national treasure and one who admits he owes his career to Bobby in those early years as he talks to Eyes & Teeth about a Weld of Laughter. Double acts over the years on British television have always been there but they seem to have a...

Nigel Hogg - The Big Big Talent of - Eyes & Teeth - Season 12 - Edition 11

October 11, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MB

Nigel Hogg is a familiar face at Cromer Pier in Norfolk. He's part of the furniture and I have been working in that venue with Nigel since 2006. He has a great sense of humour, but he just doesn’t show it. I loved learning more about Nigel and his first introduction to Sir Ken Dodd in those early years and he spent decades working for the King of Diddy Men. Nigel tells me of his RVP with Doddy and many nights backing him which are funny anecdotes only he can share. We talk about Gary Barlo...

Rachel 'Cantrill' Dean - The Big Big Talent of - Eyes & Teeth - Season 12 - Edition 10

October 09, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 43 MB

In this episode of Eyes & Teeth the big big talent of you can clearly hear my genuine reminiscent joy catching up with Rachel who stood side by side with me doing the YMCA at 10am on the roadside entrance to Barry Island resort one of the last realistic replica’s of Hi-De-Hi. I don’t think there is a park open today that possessed and provided that true link to the heyday of holiday parks back then. When they knocked it down they took away a gem and historic part of entertainment history and...

Pat Nearney - The Big Big Talent of - Eyes & Teeth - Season 12 - Edition 9

October 07, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MB

Welcome to another Eyes and Teeth Pat Nearney is a wonderful Norfolk comedian who I met in Norfolk funny enough. Almost every time I worked up there, he would be on the bill or in the audience and he is full of brilliant stories and anecdotes, so todays chat is a delight as we talk about Cromer Pier, Norfolk comedians and accents, Billy Connolly, Ventriloquist Brian Chamberlain, Max Miller, The Morton Fraser Harmonica Gang and so much more on The Big Big Talent of Pat Nearney

Catherine Marks (Magic) - The Big Big Talent of - Eyes & Teeth - Season 12 - Edition 8

October 04, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MB

Catherine Marks:  Lady Ratling Magic Catherine and I have been pals since our summer season at Whitecliff Bay holiday park in 1994 on the IOW. We laughed, boy did we laugh, we clicked right away with a similar sense of humour. After that season I went off to The London Palladium and Cath went to Lapland but we have stayed in touch every year since then.  Cath was always constantly looking for new ideas and ways of working. We shared so much over the years and updated each other on our pro...

Paul Holman - The Big Big Talent of - Eyes & Teeth - Season 12 - Edition 7

September 30, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MB

Paul Holman is one of the UK’s Top Successful Pantomime Producers. Today we talk about his early days and his favourite performers such as Sandy Powell, Jack Tripp, Barbara Windsor and Roy Hudd. There are people we both knew such as the talented Steve & Lisa Bruus of Renleah Experience, Robert Marlowe, Phil Butler AND Paul Eastwood and inspirational people such as Dick Condon from Norfolk. We talk about Eastbourne’s Variety Festival day held annually at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre called D...

Paul Zenon - The Big Big Talent of - Eyes & Teeth - Season 12 - Edition 6

September 27, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MB

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth and The Big Big Talent of Paul Zenon. Award winning Comedy Magician, Writer, presenter, Ted Talk master, actor, director, producer, author, founder of a charity the list goes on and I try and talk about a lot of these things that Paul has turned into magic over the years he has been in the business. From Tricky Business to Edinburgh Festival, receiving a Ken Dodd award from the man himself to sitting next to Susie Dent on countdown on over 120 occasions Paul is a fa...