The Talk of the Street: A Coronation Street Podcast

March 20, 2019 - End in Disaster

It’s one of those event weeks on Corrie, and in one of the worst kept secrets, something falls on something and the something it falls on winds up being the something you assumed it was going to be ages ago. Beth’s early morning rendition of Edge of Glory in the factory is enough to wake up Gail, but not Gary. A coked-up Natalie is back on the scene taking selfies with Audrey while her hair is inadequately cut and then looking to play table football with Nick for her future. The real reasons for Kate’s jump suit are finally revealed, and Ken does his best to drive Peter to Southampton with a topless mermaid on the back seat, and a packet of mints in his pocket. Oh, and does that roof look safe to you? Okay, if there are any special words you’d like to leave us then you are more than welcome to do so but if you’re going to back mouth the show then please try to do so in a way that is at least partly entertaining which means not saying how crap something is every week for two months. Here’s how you can do that. On email we’re thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, we’re @corriepodcast on Facebook and Twitter, and this week’s episodes may be enough to coax me to write some thoughts on our blog over at thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.

March 15, 2019 - David Scissorhands

Carla speaking Mandarin was the strangest moment of the week until it turned out that Kirk can also speak Mandarin, Michelle takes a football to the boobs and decides she definitely doesn’t want to have a baby. Elsewhere, Evelyn is back and ends up paying off her debt at the garage by polishing windows with knickers that don’t belong to the mother of twins, and Eileen tempts fate by dating another builder. Meanwhile, Lolly goes psycho, Mary’s planning a one-woman show, Gary is so angry he can’t eat his beans on toast, and Nick would rather employ Stevie Wonder. If you want to pull a Robert and blame us for everything, feel free to send us a notice of complaint that we shall delete upon receipt. For all other correspondence, we’re @corriepodcast on Facebook and Twitter, we’re thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com on email and we have a fancy dancy blog at thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.

March 8, 2019 - Paris Hilton of the Cobbles

Shona runs out of the Junkie Paddington House and then runs straight back into it because she forgot to stab her son and then later, a stuffed weasel and a conned grandmother will save the day. Meanwhile, a miscommunicated note leads Seb to see half of Sarah’s bits and pieces and then he has to endure the worst 18th birthday party in the world, Lolly continues to ruffle the feathers of Kate and Rana and has all the eligible bachelors on the street polishing pennies, and Tim’s Dad is a dick when Yasmeen has hole-related issues, Gemma moves in with Chesney, Beth goes looking for custard cremes in the factory office and finds much more, Evelyn has her Lost in Translation moment in Paris, and Summer displays an almost unhealthy obsession with cheese and pineapple on sticks. We may not be able to offer a shave and a trim for a quid, but we do offer numerous methods of ways to get in touch with us. We’re nice people. You should get in touch with us. Our email address and address for Skype voicemail is thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com. Leave us a message and so long as it’s fairly clean, we’ll play it on the next podcast. On Facebook and Twitter we’re @corriepodcast. We have a freshly updated blog that you can acquaint yourself with that’s available on the internet, which is a thing now, at www.thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.

March 1, 2019 - Claudia McClaudiface

We're not sure if he mentioned it or not this week, but if Clayton goes back to prison, he thinks he’ll wind up dead, so he skips through a graveyard at his old man’s funeral and then eats some Jammy Dodgers. Meanwhile, the prospect of a halfway house cropping up in the area is enough to make Claudia get somewhere to the right of Enoch Powell, and Seb is one angry son too many this week. Elsewhere, the one time someone has any liquid in a cup this week, it pours all over Daniel’s laptop, frazzling his uber-important essay and that, Kev clears a few things up for Gina, and Roy snoozes to a record of train noises. Amy’s decision regarding her baby will ultimately result in Tracy and Irish Tina fighting in the street, and Steve will successfully change a lightbulb. If you have a desire to get in touch and tell us of other celebrities who share the initials RP or explain why I can’t get the mix minus thing working on my Behringer mixer, here’s how you can make that happen. Send us an email or a Skype voicemail to thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, you can tweet us and facebook us @corriepodcast and you can read out of date articles and ill-informed opinion at thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.

February 22, 2019 - Sex Boob

In a condensed week, the mystery of the whereabouts of Roy’s slippers and jacket is finally solved with ramifications for Abi, Peter, Carla and an elderly police constable. Bethany is there to help Amy make up her mind about the baby, which is the cue for Steve and Tracy to get the baby fever. Kev is in the habit of accepting packages that are addressed to other people, Kate’s annoying friend Lolly shows up, and Mary isn’t against the idea of procreating with Tyrone but suspects she wouldn’t enjoy it. None of this matters. The only thing that matters is that Mary flosses. If your fingers fancy dancing out a message to us, then here’s the routine. Our email and Skype address is thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, on Twitter and Facebook we’re @corriepodcast, and our blog is thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.

February 15, 2019 - Eggy Pie

Poor Peter will soon be returning his Captain Haddock outfit to his unintelligibly Welsh friend when the boat he’s been working on for the last few weeks turns out to be highly flammable. Irish Tina is back with a recipe for morning sickness and a plan to get herself, and an unsuspecting Tyler, into Amy’s baby’s life. Meanwhile, the show insists that we care about Clayton getting his head kicked in by a bloke covered in pen. Elsewhere, Chesney and Gemma’s pursuit of their hole runs close to infringing the copyright of a Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze movie from the 90s, Dev takes his pet empty cup for a walk around Weatherfield, and Summer is very temporarily in possession of a banana. If you want to send us virtual samples of your writing so we can compare it against Mary’s, please do so in these tried and tested formats. Our email and Skype is thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, if Twitter and Facebook burns your boat we’re @corriepodcast, and you can find our freshly updated blog over at thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.

February 8, 2019 - Shut the Front Door

If you’re one of those people who’ve been sitting at home on tenterhooks for Chesney and Gemma to finally get it on then this is the week for you. For everyone else; not so much. Brian and Cathy’s plans to eventually put in an offer on every commercial building on the street takes another step forward when the Kabin suddenly becomes up for grabs, but how will Rita, who spends all week screaming at people, feel about this development? Elsewhere, Nick and David’s sudden misogyny is only outshone by the return of Shona’s ne’erdowell offspring, Abi will be married to Peter and sailing around the world with him before Spring has Sprung unless Tracy can do something about it, Ron from Goodnight Sweetheart is fencing stolen goods, and rather than appear in court, Liz disappears for a holiday in the sun on a cardboard plane from the 1980s. Okay, so please by all means be aware that most of the people who get in contact with us actively seem to hate Coronation Street, so if you have something positive to say, anything positive to say, you are more than encouraged to do so via email or Skype voicemail (we haven’t had one of those yet) at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com. On Twitter and Facebook we’re @corriepodcast, which I’m still amazed hadn’t been snapped up before we got our mitts on it. And there’s a blog, but you’re not interested in that, but of the sake of consistency it’s thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. 

February 1, 2019 - Pythagoras in Clogs

It’s been a Polar Vortex week which has seen Hell freeze over and Peter get his unmentionables of off Abi, who uses him to good effect to ignore everything else crappy going on in her life at the moment. Steve and Tracy come up with a flawless plan to deal with the Amy Situation, a returning Irish Tina is, very briefly, in the market for a DNA test, and the truth is extracted from Evelyn just before she disappears on her holibobs with that guy from last week. Meanwhile, Mary, when she’s not delivering bad news to the paper shop, is fusing Japanese and Norwegian words to describe her love for clearing out her books about fish, Rita has “that lecture” with Jenny again, Johnny has “that request” to Carla and Michelle again, and the new barber shop is unofficially named Dick’s. If you want to get in contact with us, and it’s warm enough to go without gloves for five minutes, feel free to put virtual pen to paper and drop us a note of your musings, etchings, and all other epistolary chronicles via the following means. thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com is the way to email us or leave a voicemail on our Skype, @corriepodcast is reserved for Tweets and whatever it is you call it when you write something on Facebook. And thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com is where blogs go to die.

January 25, 2019 - Big Ginger Stud

If there was a question on the lips of the soap-loving nation this week it was surely this: so is Bethany going out with Ryan or what? Aside from that, there was relative intrigue around the mystery father of Amy’s baby and poor Simon, despite his highly-publicized virgin status, seems the most likely candidate. In other news, after three nights on a lilo, Sarah would give her kingdom for a futon or perhaps one half of Adam’s waterbed. Meanwhile, Roy’s mum’s dead, Bertie’s bowels are better, Sally ruins the County game score for Tim, Tyrone’s inner calculator refuses to add two and two together following a conversation with an ambidextrous man in a car with a penchant for exposition, and in a moment of faultless honestly, Abi admits that she’s never been to Botswana. If your fingertips are tingling at the idea of telling us how much you enjoyed this week’s episodes, or tell us that The Big Bang Theory isn’t as funny as it used to be, or, as quite a few people like to do, express the notion that Corrie is stumbling from one ridiculous storyline to the next, here’s how you can put that tingle to use. Except for the Big Bang Stuff. Email us or leave a Skype voicemail at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, we’re @corriepodcast at Twitter and Facebook, and we say we blog but we don’t really at thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.

January 18, 2019 - Hashtag Pray for Duncan

If we ever required proof of how small a world it’s becoming, look no further than Duncan’s dead / not really dead wife, May, who flicks the Vickies at the logistic and financial nightmare of getting from Costa Rica to Weatherfield, and turns up at Weathy General in under 24 hours. And it wasn’t even worth the complimentary peanuts. Sally has problems adjusting to life back on the street and jousts Gina with an estate agent sign, as you do. Elsewhere, there’s baby talk between Steve and Tracy that’s really going to take them down an unsuspected path, while all the talk of Baby Bertie is regarding the wee soul’s bowels. Meanwhile, Nick and David’s Mexican Stand-off might see the introduction of hipsters to a Victoria Street Barber Shop, Kate finds a new way to be selfish, and Abi is astounded to learn exactly how many of the female residents of the Street have done time. If you have an overwhelming desire to get in contact with us, who can blame you? Our email address is thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com and I believe you can use the same address to leave us a voicemail on Skype, we’re @corriepodcast on the Facebook and the Twitter, we have a blog thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.