The Talk of the Street: A Coronation Street Podcast

May 31, 2019 - Lorraine Kelly on a Pedalo

In Britain’s Got Talent week, we’re warned that the truth hurts. Well, it certainly does for a few characters on the street during a much improved week. The net is closing in on Nick whose lies are becoming more and more fanciful as he tries to talk his way out of his situation, not aided by the fact that Natalie is able to transport herself across vast distances in a heartbeat. Paula’s fancy dinner party and Sally’s horse storylines travel to Cern where they smash into each other in the large hadron collider, where they come out as a storyline from umpteen episodes of Terry & June. Einstein was right after all. Rick the Chin has excess amounts of jam this week and finds Gary’s face very spreadable. And in other news, Carla’s psychosis reaches new levels where she thinks she sees several ghosts from the past and actually does see the new uber-super-villain. Elsewhere, eagle-eyed Imran spots a potential fire hazard, Wayne would be proud, and Gail is arrested for the attempted murder of Lorraine Kelly’s arse.

May 24, 2019 - Another Illusion Shattered

We’re ready for Corrie to get to wherever it’s building towards, but this was not the week where that happened. Instead, Kirk sings a song about Beth’s puppies and then GoLucky’s his backside over the horizon to Pontins for six weeks, Toyah and Imran concoct a cunning plan to catch Nick which also involves Toyah and Leanne being able to break into Rick the Chin’s office, and Steve follows his disastrous week last week with another belter, somehow managing to get himself and the cab firm into more hot water. It’s just lucky that the women in his life have a better idea of how to run things. Elsewhere, Roy continues to behave in a most unRoy fashion, much to the displeasure of Wayne, while Sally jumps on the horsey bandwagon set by Paula and Sophie and ropes Yasmeen, Jenny, and Sinead into a seemingly speculative investment while unashamedly wearing a sleeveless bodywarmer. Meanwhile, Bethany’s latest charity case sees Gary getting a job of some description as a fully-fledged member of the Knicker People, Natalie stops being fun and trots out the same threat over and over again while flirting with David and annoying Shona, the Platt's holiday plans are almost at fruition, and Craig gets a superfluous shave.

May 17, 2019 - Queen of Edge

It’s an up and a down kind of week on the cobbles this week, which sees frantic residents do their best to track down Carla — she’s always round the corner — and Ken becomes very angry with Roy and, oddly, we see ourselves on the side of Mr Barlow for a change. Seb and Alina are getting closer, despite Seb’s inability to keep out of her place of work for five minutes, or read between the lines of what appears to be Alina’s very distressing backstory. Natalie’s back and as hyper as ever, only made worse by all the birthday cake she must’ve eaten before starting her shift on Wednesday. Streetcars is having financial difficulties and Steve, who should know better, follows Tracy’s advice, while knicker-related tensions simmer at home between her and Liz. The Rovers has a talent competition and someone told Tim’s Dad about it. That person, we hope, is no longer in the circle of trust. Oh, and we talk way too much about Game of Thrones. Don’t worry. It’ll be over soon.

May 10, 2019 - My Name Emu

It’s our one year anniversary episode where we’re a bit rushed for reasons that will become clear. Norris is back and appears to have been holding on to some correspondence for Mary without her knowledge, which leads Mary to hold all her happiness hopes in the one basket, and we see more of Asha this week that we have all year as her character attempts to become embroiled with a young suitor unfortunately named like a nickname for the show. Meanwhile, Ryan’s inability to adequately explain a simple series of events lands him in hot water with Bethany and Alya, Tim briefly constructs kebabs for a pregnant Gemma at Prima Donner before learning of the results of his heart challenge and then invites way too many people to have a sniff of his pits, and random characters prove a help and then a hindrance as a deceitful Robert bumps into a lost character and attempts to bring her home. Elsewhere, Paula and Sophie are going pony-trekking if ... ya know what I mean, Emma’s plans on a Rovers’ Talent Show may have to include Dev’s impression of David Bowie, and Gav fantasizes about Tim’s Dad handcuffed to a radiator in Phelan’s basement. Again. Thanks to our listeners who’ve been with us from the start, and also those who have jumped on along the way. Here’s to another twelve months of Corrie! Sláinte!

May 3, 2019 - Sausage Rolls For Heads

It’s our 50th episode! As far as meaningless milestones is concerned, that’s a pretty big one so to celebrate, we interviewed the lovely Glenda Young from the Coronation Street Blog. That comes at the end of our recap of a bunch of episodes where Ken, it seems, has never been to an alcoholics anonymous meeting before and it’s unlikely he’ll ever get invited back as The Bank of Claudia comes to the rescue once again, Imran has his nose punching fists on and woe betide anyone who gets their nose in the way of it, and Tracy reveals herself to be something of a quinoa expert at Sally’s fancy dinner party for Tim’s new health regime, but what on earth has he tried to sneak into the cab office from Dev’s? Meanwhile, Polish builder Jan has no shortage of woman courting him for his attentions, but his habit of lying instead of telling uncomfortable truths will probably mean he has to open an account at the florists, for some reason the writers are ignoring the DNR notice on the Chesney / Gemma relationship and we go around the houses one more time while Gemma looks for somewhere new to live, and an old character reappears with an urn in a handbag.

April 26, 2019 - Your Soul, My Soul, Our Souls

Well, that was a much better week on the cobbles. Gemma, who has reverted back to be more like the Gemma we’ve loved in the past, tries to salvage a relationship by burning a fish pie, while Chesney moans an awful lot about everything, ahead of receiving some startling news, while Seb makes a new friend with Alina, a Romanian nail technician who works for a character Gav completely forgot existed. Meanwhile, Moira looks to get her nails into lovely laborer Jan, Peter’s attempts to find Carla are causing him such stress that ancient demons are reawakened, and at Bertie’s naming ceremony, with tensions raised between the Tinkers and the Barlows, Kirk discovers that there’s not much that can’t be settled by wearing a tie round your head and singings songs about how beautiful our souls are. Yes, you heard right, Tracy. Elsewhere, Gary is prepared to stoop pretty low to salvage his relationship with Sarah and manages to jam a couple more lies into the mix for good measure, Brian thinks Abi is after her jollies from him but the truth, thankfully, is a lot more chaste, and at the Rovers, a shrinking Johnny threatens to disappear into a suit of armor.

April 19, 2019 - Nut Juice

In an underwhelming week, Imran shouts at a health and safety official and then conducts a business meeting in a restaurant despite having a perfectly good office while a jam-smeared Gary does Irish Tina a turn and pirouettes a female debt collector into a wardrobe. Meanwhile, Dev takes a whole day off work to play with a blood pressure monitor at the cab office, as a supposedly busy Kev apparently wanders into the barber’s to play table football with David, Robert has a friend who requires a supportive audience when changing a car tyre and Michelle is unreasonable. In other news, Joseph does his best to not murder Chesney and Gemma, Daniel is put out when Sinead’s family want different things from his family, Jan tells Seb to get on his bike to look for work, and Ken steps in a dog shit.

April 12, 2019 - Polished The Weasel

It’s another tough week for Carla given she doesn’t know if she’s Zola Budd or Doctor John Nash from one day to the next. One minute she’s leaving a bloody trail along the Cobbles from her battered bare feet, the next she’s solving complicated mathematical problems with a marker on Ken’s wallpaper while thinking the crossword is speaking to her. Meanwhile, Sarah’s pleasant, helpful attitude to a request from the police may well be enough to ensure Nick and David end up in jail for Easter, and Natalie stays off the coke long enough to put in a decent trial at the Barber’s, but will it be enough to get the job? In other news, Hardman Rick is definitely not cut out for a career in children’s entertainment if his puppetry skills are anything to go by, Sinead rings a bell while Daniel decides that a humanist christening is more in keeping with their wedding (which definitely wasn’t a thing), Chesney and Gemma plan a filthy getaway to a caravan site and do some practicing on that poor couch, Abi is caught —ahem— taking the TV remote upstairs again, and Steve's heart is older than Ken.

April 5, 2019 - Cheesy Balls

It’s Ranamorial in an eight episode Coronation Street spectacular. This gives Peter his cue to insist to Carla that everything is going to be fine and then go behind her back to get everyone to cover for her. He gets short thrift from everyone and so jumps to his regular plan B; head for the coast. A confession kinda spoils the mood in the Community Garden. The Rage of the Knickerpeople continues to brew. Elsewhere, a slightly less coked-up Natalie manages to secure work at the barber’s and provide Leanne with a reasonable excuse why she isn’t Nick’s solicitor after all. Tim, Steve, and Dev construct the biggest bacon roll we’ve ever seen in our lives, and Robert replaces Ryan with a younger, non-Irish version of Irish Tina then tells Michelle to lawyer up. In other news, during Bertie’s Christening Party — a rival to Seb’s 18th — Ken and Claudia make the other guests throw up in their mouths a little bit, Summer forces Billy and Paul together, Chesney is only now realizing that Gemma is a total nightmare, and the seeds of a pointless Tim’s Dad storyline that were planted six or seven months ago finally bear fruit. The crop failed.

March 29, 2019 - Suez!

In the aftermath of Rana’s death, there’s an awful lot of people shouting at other people. A letter from Kate melts Saira’s heart but not enough to do any permanent damage. Gary contemplates Peter’s offer despite Sarah insisting that if he accepts it, he won’t be getting his hole any time soon. Bertie comes home and sleeps his way through that storyline — good baby. Meanwhile, Wayne steals Brian’s thunder and after inspecting Roy’s Mum’s ring, reckons that the answer may lie in Egypt, and on his return, Robert’s survives a sneaky ninja Windex and pepper mill attack. Elsewhere, Sally feels responsible for Rana’s death, Carla does a runner with Peter, Detective Imran destroys other people’s belongings, and it’ll be a cold day in hell before Tim lets Abi anywhere near that switch. If you have any information on the culprit behind the roof collapse, you can send your thoughts, suspicions and accusations our way and we’ll likely read them out. We’re thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com for email and Skype, we’re @corriepodcast on Twitter and Facebook, and we have a blog that you can find at thetalkofthestreet.wordpress.com. Thanks for making it to the end of another episode. We’ll be back next week with more Talk of the Street.