The Talk of the Street: A Coronation Street Podcast

October 26, 2018 - Squirrel Proof!!

Well, that was a long eight-day week. Tracy is only in one of the four days’ worth of episodes but still manages to throw Abi under a bus while taking advantage of peculiar police procedures. Sinead’s story inches along with the only real changes this week being that Claudia now knows and Daniel knows how to say hyperemesis gravidarum. Elsewhere, we’re expected to care if Chesney and Gemma ever become a thing, Brian continues to be a sniper’s dream, and Helen and Gav learn about the strange idiosyncrasies of the iTunes rating system. Oh, and please buy Gav’s book. So if you want to get in touch with us to tell us what our iTunes ratings are like in the country where you happen to find yourself, not that I care, I really don’t care, you can do so. Here’s how. Our email address is thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, we’re @corriepodcast on Twitter and Facebook, and we have a blog that’s been updated with non Coronation Street content in the past week, go check it out at thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. Please like and subscribe and leave a review on the iTunes. Please do that. Not that I care, but please definitely do that.

October 17, 2018 - I'm Going Nowhere

A shortened week on account of stuffs and life to do on Friday. We’ll make it up to you next week. Monday and Wednesday served up enough talking points, though. Michelle is threatened with an old-fashioned running down for the second week on the bounce, Jenny’s brave face is deserving of a Victoria Cross, Peter is the undoubted winner in his factory hissy fit with Daniel, Leanne’s solitary tear is enough to melt a Scotman’s ice-cold heart, and Nick is going nowhere, unless you ask him to leave. If you want to get in touch with us to ask us what happened to our recap of Friday’s episodes, you can either go back to the beginning of the podcast or you can send an email to thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, tweet at us @corriepodcast, find us on Facebook @corriepodcast or hack into our blog which is the talkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com, and if you do so, please feel free to make yourself useful and write us some new content.

October 12, 2018 - Everybody Dies

Belter! What a wild week of weddings, car chases, massive reveals, and then everybody died. Steve is prepared for The Lift but he isn’t at all ready for The Punch, Ronan might be a top gangster but his driving skills leave a lot to be desired, Sinead reacts better than she probably should’ve at her surprise wedding, and Hannah has a bit of news for Liz and Jenny. I’m only slightly disappointed that she wasn’t the one to tell Hope and Ruby that Brian isn’t Santa. In all this excitement, what on earth is going to be Boring Moment of the Week? Email us at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, find us on Twitter and Facebook @corriepodcast, and we also have a blog, but doesn’t everyone, and we rarely update it, well doesn’t everyone, at  thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.

October 5, 2018 - Proper Fingers

The show feels a bit emptier after the Josh & David storyline bumps into a few things before finally making its way to its conclusion this week. Cormac’s death is felt pretty hard, particularly as we don’t really know if or when his corpse was lifted from Michelle living room carpet, and Ryan is so worried for his own safety that not even a trip to Ibiza can cheer him. Elsewhere, Johnny and Carla play Jim and Hannah at their own game in the blackmailing plot, Brian’s got an interview, Jude turns Weatherfield Psycho and has to return some videotapes, Sinead’s pregnancy is causing concern, and Tracy’s wedding to Steve is revealed to be next Monday, but will the free pass confusion spoil the plans? Yeah. It really has been one of those weeks. Never mind. Next week, everybody dies. Email thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, Twitter @corriepodcast, Facebook @corriepodcast, Blog, thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com.  Capiche?

September 28, 2018 - Blame San Diego

In a move that was baffling even by Steve’s standards, an ambiguous note leaves him thinking that Tracy has given him the green light to sow whatever potent oats a six-time married man can have ahead of wedding number seven. Meanwhile, Billy gets a visit from a partially blind rapist and lets him in. In other news, Johnny finds out the cost of a bonk with Liz, Cormack shouldn’t be buying any green bananas, Ken can’t write publishable fiction, Jude faints, and we’re pretty sure Sean has forgotten Carol ever existed. It’s a shorter episode, but not as shorter as Gav thought it would be. Email us at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter @corriepodcast, like us on Facebook @corriepodcast, visit our blog, and lends us a fiver until payday.

September 21, 2018 - No Bamber Gascoigne

Imran can’t have had a more eventful week since his parents tried to kidnap his sister. First, he has his poker in two Battersby fires, then it’s his big pre-trial hearing, and finally Tim would like to him to have a word with Fist One and Fist Two. Elsewhere, Liz is falling further under the spell of Hannah and Jim’s lies, Peter gets his knickers in a knot about Simon’s bag being launched over a bridge, Steve draws the line at Mary’s armpit, and Ken disappears up his own nipsy. Oh, and there’s a pub quiz. Everyone loves a pub quiz. Feedback and comments welcome at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com on the email, @corriepodcast on the Twitter and Facebook and there’s a blog, don’tcha know, thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. A review or rating on iTunes wouldn’t go amiss neither.

September 14, 2018 - Sweating Bacon

It’s a tough week for fans of the Cobbles as common sense falls asleep on the backseat while the plausibility bus drives off a cliff, despite Eileen’s best efforts to wake it up. Jim reveals the reason for his return and safe to say it’s probably not what you think. Elsewhere, Imran is collecting sisters but will need to go to France to complete the set, people inexplicably watch kids play football on iPads, Dame Maureen Lipman shows up and saves the week, sales of Gazza: My Story skyrocket, and characters leave their work in the middle of the day to take care of random tasks at an alarming rate. Please drop us a line on email at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, follow us on The Twitter or like our page on Facebook @corriepodcast and have a shoofty at out blog, thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. Or don’t. But please do.

September 7, 2018 - Steve's Banjaxed Stag-Do

There’s never been a busier Monday on the Cobbles as Simon finds out what his evidence means to the rogue Tyler’s future, Jude’s ostrich approach to a vow renewal with Angie looms and Jack returns to the street for the first time since his foot was chopped off. In other news, Steve’s stag do proves more eventful than successful, Carla has alternate plans for Peter than you might initially think, Max signs Robert Lewandowski to his football team for ten pounds and sends the global football transfer market into a tailspin, and Lily may just have found the final Golden Ticket. Plus, gnomes. If you want to get in touch with us, you can’t. Oh, wait, actually you can. Email us at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, find us on Twitter and Facebook @corriepodcast or have a look at our blog, thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. Please drop us a line and if you can muster up the enthusiasm, please rate and review us on the iTunes. Curtsy.

August 31, 2018 - Clichéd Jazz Bolognese

Psycho killer! Qu'est-ce que c'est? It’s a week on the cobbles that has everything for fans of the more psychotic characters, and fans of High School French phrases. Mostly the former. Zut alors! Chesney and Gemma have ice-cold reactions to the predicament and the backseat a pleading Henry finds himself in, the hoodie gang who stole lunches from Roy’s have graduated to colorful drive-bys, and Jude has the look of a man who has thought “it puts the spag bol on its skin” more than once as he ignores the obvious destination his marriage is heading to. Matters take a further sinister turn when, for the second time in a month, Helen exposes Gav to an image he will spend the rest of his life trying to unsee. Please drop us a line at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com or get in touch with us on social media, we’re @corriepodcast on The Facebook and The Twitter and our blog is thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. Send us your comments. We’ll more than likely read it out.

August 24, 2018 - To Our Lesbian Daughters

It’s a funny old week on the Cobbles. Johnny and Jenny have massive plans for the Rovers that involve removing a dartboard and a picture of Betty from the walls and the inclusion of the letter Z. Or do they? Henry has posh people chase after him for the money wasted on a wedding that didn’t happen, Kate is selfish, Claudia is fabulous, and Audrey would rather hang out with Nigel Havers than Gail and who can blame her? Mary and Jude, along with Billy and Josh, have scenes that mean nothing to the grand scheme of things. Rita has thousands of pounds fall into her lap and lesbian daughters are celebrated. If you want to get in touch with us you there is an embarrassment of riches in terms of ways to do so. Email us at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, find us on Twitter and Facebook at corriepodcast or mosey on over to our website which is thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com and see if I’ve been bothered to update it at all recently. Hint: no. Drop us a line. It makes our day.