The Talk of the Street: A Coronation Street Podcast

January 31, 2020 - De-Gingered

Somehow, Tyrone encourages Fiz to agree that letting a psycho into their house may be a decent way to appease the behavior of their misbehaving child. Tim finally gets Charlie’s signature on the divorce papers but it might be too little too late. Gemma’s exhaustion is making us to lean that there’s something else going on in this storyline. Maria and Gary have to deal with losing a baby while Gary also makes amends with an enemy and makes and enemy out of someone who probably had no clue who he was. Sarah’s wedding is going to be Charles Rennie Mackintosh themed which may or may not be awful. Tim’s Dad gets TimBot4000 in a profane tizzy. Steve and Tracy read The Notebook. Helen is forced to read Gav’s notes.

January 24, 2020 - Japanese Fish Balloon

It’s difficult to recount exactly what happened in the quads storyline but our understanding is that Billy cutting around his flat half-naked encouraged Bernie to get her taxi off of the Cobbles. Somehow, David is allowed to cart off a clearly terrified Shona out of the hospital and off to a maternity unit in Leeds while Max is shipped to Marion’s who may or may not have a flight of stairs for him to run up. Charlie plays a blinder against Tim and then with the help of Jenny, an utter irritant in everyone’s storylines this week, she finds herself with some hours at the Rovers. Bethany agrees to pick up her creative writing course because Daniel thinks it’s a decent idea. Jade’s heritage remains as confusing as ever and, apparently, police no longer look in attics. Abi is pretty much the only person on the street capable of getting stuff done. Sarah wears leather trousers.

January 17, 2020 - Tea Chest Bass

Steve and Tracy take couples counseling to an oddly violent conclusion. Tim’s Dad plumbs new depths as his emotional coercion of Yasmeen continues, although Cathy is now on the case so there’s hope. A leaflet and a nomination for an award for doing something that was ultimately futile is enough to convince Aggie to go back into nursing. Sally decides that the best way to deal with the Tim situation is to go visit Gina, who was part of another Tim situation not so long ago. Roy and Nina bond over a game of metaphor-laden chess. At the hospital, Max searches in vain for a flight of stairs to run up. Daniel’s beard continues to grow unabated. Bernie is down with the kids. Evelyn makes it clear to Jade that unless she wants to digest her own teeth, she’d best stay away from Fiz and Hope. A very special guest helps Gav through his Hindsight Corner backlog. 

January 10, 2020 - A Chipped Cat

Corrie has been great these last few weeks and this trend continues as Jade finally reveals her true intent while Fiz’s worst nightmares (that don’t involve Tyrone) come true. Shona remains in a coma for another week and despite a brief standoff that everyone seems comfortable in letting pass, David eventually finds a decent ear attached to Aggie. Gemma and Chesney get some sleep in a fancy cottage while chaperones pretend to be them for a Freshco’s shoot, which results in Dev firing Ches twice in 24 hours. Roy has to listen to Aggie’s backstory and pretend that he cares. Tim’s Dad insults Yasmeen’s lovely cardigan. Gail confirms that brain stem activity is a good thing, Daniel’s beard is coming along, and Paula bathes in her work clothes, apparently.

January 3, 2020 - One-Legged Prawns

Ray Weinstein settles in at The Bistro by not sacking everyone and giving away free drink and charity money on New Year’s Eve, ensuring it continues as a loss-making venture into a new decade. For an encore, he precedes to piss all over Kev’s chips (figuratively) and gets his hole off of Abi (literally). Busy week for Ray. Gary’s gangster ways, or some of them at least, come out into the open when Mrs Derek turns up and spills her guts to an interested Izzy about the likelihood of Derek owning a knicker factory, On New Year’s Eve, Tracy wants to drag Steve to see a band that he can’t pronounce but ends up having a more universal conversation with Paula. Shona remains in a coma while David has to struggle with either sitting by her bedside all day or nipping out for an hour or so to testify against Josh. Steve’s got another haircut and a cat, Tim can’t make balloon animals, and Mary is an obvious horse.

December 20, 2019 - Winter Whatchicallit

In our second Christmas edition, stuff be a-building. Michael has turned that wee market place into the Rockefeller Plaza with only the help from unspeaking actors and that guy out of Bread, and a confirmed lack of indemnity insurance. Sally takes particular exception to Tim getting married in Vegas and then forgetting about it for a quarter of a century or whatever. Ryan earns his easiest paycheck by delivering an empty envelope to a shortened Lenny while Gary’s stock of furniture isn’t good enough for Princess Maria. It looks like the writers are determined for Rita to have a lonely Christmas. Michelle shows a staggering amount of concern for the Bistro’s employees, Irish Tina, and Tyler, but only for a very short period of time. Elsewhere, Gemma has the biggest pram in Christendom, Hope’s maniac tendencies see her take out the arch angel Gabriel, and Richard’s desire for a glass of water, twice, might just be the death of him. Have a fantastic holiday season, whatever you have planned, and we’ll catch up again in the New Year. Slainte!

December 13, 2019 - Menopause the Musical

We’ve had a tough week so fly through the stories more efficiently than usual. Gary reacts to news that he’s going to be a daddy again by buying his girlfriend an expensive car and moving her into a fancy flat with a rainfall shower — typical bloody man. The police have no problem tracking down Robert, become suspicious that he’s done in Irish Tina, and demand that Paula shuts her bloody yap hole while presenting evidence at ironic moments. Yasmeen didn’t kill Tim’s Dad in Vegas, Alya didn’t kill him outside the shop, no one killed him at his wedding breakfast, and quite frankly we’re getting a little annoyed by everyone’s lackadaisical approach to not killing this utter monster. After almost half a century on the street where she’s mostly been welcomed with open arms by all her neighbors, two days with little contact with anyone is enough for Rita to decide that she’s lonely. Hope nearly gets pulled over for answering her phone while in charge of a scooter. Cathy is so enraged by Daniel’s melancholy that she runs him over in the street. Bernie’s attempts at catfishing really are shockingly obvious. Tim is in for a shock when he realizes that Vegas weddings are legally binding. The bloke off Bread is a rubbish Santa.

December 6, 2019 - Bryan Maiden

Emma seems oddly threatened by her fledgling relationship with Seb when she offers to eat a hotpot despite being vegetarian, and agrees to attend an Iron Maiden tribute act despite hating heavy metal. Billy almost gets to the end of a wedding ceremony and Robert seems surprised when all his lies come home to roost. Derek is back on the scene as drunk as usual but with an interesting proposition for Nick and Sarah and the rest of the knicker packing people. Despite an extensive list of back-firing attempts to do the right thing by her son, Bernie’s attempts to do the right thing can be counted as one confirmed back-fire with another pending. Elsewhere, Fiz threatens to count up to five then ends up counting down to one, Roy sank Richard’s battleship, Daniel watches some videos in his vest, Rita has no mates, but Mrs McIlroy's cat is going to be fine.

November 29, 2019 - Reminiscent of Wagner

Supernanny Jade’s secret is revealed with the help of a bunch of flowers, a quote from Paradise Lost, and a graveyard with generous opening hours. Kel finds himself in front of the Old Bill who, despite having the polaroids from Bernie, are happy to release him on a burglary charge. Roy makes Richard’s home help cry and then quit after already threatening to make the situation worse by contacting Adult Services and has to rely on Aggie’s cooking in his attempts to make things right. After last week’s reveal, Michael wants to play the responsible father and Grace isn’t entirely against the idea but warns him to keep his mother out of her business. Good luck with that. The Knicker People now insist on being known as the Fifty Percenters, which isn’t nearly as catchy, and they refuse to listen as Nick frustratingly explains why they’re all going to be out of work in six months if they keep up with this slide nonsense, but maybe Sarah has a bright idea that’ll save everyone’s skin. Ray helps himself to an early morning Bistro capachoochoo and then reveals he’s dropping his lawsuit instead of his trousers for a change, and an increasingly scorned Michelle does well to keep her dinner down every time Robert is within two feet of her, which happens a lot. Elsewhere, Emma has an exciting Christmas offer that may be outshined by Steve’s fancy needlework, Brian thinks he looks like Robert from a distance, Nina isn’t going to a fancy dress party, and Mary is interested in getting her hands on Adam’s fusebox.

November 22, 2019 - A Slide With Bouncy Balls

We’re into week ten of Gav’s cold, which sees Sinead committed to the earth, Daniel angry at everything, and a baffled pawn shop owner wondering if keeping the golf clubs out in the open was such a great idea after all. Bernie discovers the truth of Kel and Paul’s past thanks to a well-pitched half-brick. This isn’t the week Michelle is going to succumb to no Robert cooties as she plots to destroy the silver-haired lathario who is all too quick to assume his legs are safely back under the Bistro table. Following James’s walk of shame, Michael discovers that he’s a daddy, but Aggie has her own ideas on the best way to handle this and opts for badly. Elsewhere, David and Shona have an exciting proposal for a non-plussed Lily and Max,  Hope decides to paint a picture of mummy on mummy, the knicker people make a strong case against them ever having a say in how the factory is run ever again, Gemma doesn’t belch, and shamefully no one shouts “Haircut!” at Adam. Oh, and Ken is in hospital but whatever.