VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 58 - EXTENDED CUT - TOBY HADOKE

The original version of this episode was first broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 14th 2021

In this week's VISION ON SOUND I am very pleased to welcome back an old friend of the show, who’s taken some time out of his extraordinarily busy schedule to talk to me, the actor, comedian, prolific podcaster and all-round good egg, TOBY HADOKE.

It’s been around a year since we last spoke to TOBY on VISION ON SOUND and for him it has indeed been quite an astonishing year. He’s launched a trio of podcasts looking at the subject of the television series DOCTOR WHO from various points of view, all of which go out under the banner of TOBY HADOKE’S TIME TRAVELS and can be found via TOBYHADOKE DOT COM. Alongside those he’s contributed to the Value Added Material on several DVD releases, written scripts for both national radio and television, kept his weekly comedy club going throughout various national lockdowns, and, of course, taken on the role of FERGUS DUNFORD in one of the highest profile programmes on British Television, CORONATION STREET.

In this edition we talk about all these things, including a chat about what it's like joining the cast of a national institution, as well as gaining some insight into the mechanics of turning part of your own home into a television studio, and, as a lifelong DOCTOR WHO fan, we also discuss his reaction to the announcement of the return of RUSSELL T DAVIES to his role as showrunner.

This extended cut also includes a much longer edit of a fascinating discussion we had about keeping the comedy club MALARKEY running during the lockdowns caused by the global pandemic which I had to trim because the conversation ran far longer than our time slot on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL would allow and, sadly, as it was the least "telly" themed part of the conversation, it was the easiest (and also the most difficult!) to trim down, so I hope you can appreciate it far better here in its uncut form.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.