The Talk of the Street: A Coronation Street Podcast

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.

August 17, 2018 - Blame Canada

The fact that it's Gav's birthday and he and Helen were off to see Toad the Wet Sprocket in Detroit (an hour and a half away) on Friday night probably wasn't in and of itself enough to stop us recording a full podcast this week, only delay it. The fact that we were then going to travel on to Burlington, ON (just another three hours or so) on Saturday for square sausage and haggis poutine probably wasn't enough either. The fact that Gav sold his novel and needed to redraft his manuscript one last time by the weekend sadly was more than enough, although for a brief moment, the idea of taking our Blue Yeti mic and a laptop and recording the show in a Canadian hotel room sounded quite indie and cool. So just a very brief recap of Monday and Wednesday's episodes this week which, to be honest, stank to high heaven, and if the Drinking Game Word of the Week had been "ridiculous" I think our livers would have been in serious danger. Here's hoping for better next week. Feel free to drop us a line, we're thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, we're @corriepodcast on The Twitter and The Facebook and our blog can be found at thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. Gav still hasn't got round to writing an article. He knows.

August 10, 2018 - Insufficient Kebab Hours

A great week on the Cobbles sees Gemma lose The Rovers before she actually got a chance to win it and instead there’ll be a different landlady shouting at startled extras. A spooky DVD gives Alya pause with regards to her future at the factory, Steve buys yet another engagement ring and needs just one more to get a free set of steak knives, and Tim and Sally may live to regret not contacting the bank when that dodgy £1,000 just dropped into her account because Duncan’s back and he has a story to tell. And Gav still point blank refuses to learn Tim’s Dad’s name, which becomes annoying when Tim’s Dad shares more than one scene a week with Tim.

August 3, 2018 - Hooks, Crooks and Ferries

Eva enjoyed leaving so much last week that she came back on Friday just to leave all over again, but this time she didn't take Adam. Meanwhile, Gemma finally starts to look like landlady material as she threatens to bar a fighting Mary and Gina, a homeless Sean makes a friend but seems to forget he already has quite a few of them that could help, and we’re forced to look at Daniel’s chest for ten seconds longer than is acceptable. Get in touch with us at thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com or you can find us on Twitter and Facebook @corriepodcast. Drop us a line, whydon’tcha? Also, drop in on our blog at thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. 

July 27, 2018 - Idris Elba's Misplaced Wetsuit

The revolving door on the cobbles continues to spin as two major characters and one minor one get into their final taxi this week. Kayla goes all A Few Good Men in her pursuit of the truth and Bethany’s skull recovers in record time from a vasing. Meanwhile, Beth manages to coax people who hate her to her party, an observant Hope reckons she’s seen Brian somewhere before, an Idris Elba fantasy sees Mary perform a lewd act with a fancy flower, and Christopher Nolan gets in touch with his lawyers. Have a look at out website, thtalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com, for details on how to get in touch as well as a reasonably regularly updated blog page. Well, it will be now that Gav’s got the password reset.

July 20, 2018 - Attack of the Pita

Our first milestone — somehow, this is our 10th podcast. In this week's episodes, Johnny continues to change his mind about who he loves, Liz continues to appear in scenes she has no business being in, and Jenny continues to think her marriage is salvageable. Meanwhile, Gemma performed a full-nelson on Henry in the middle of the street in the name of love, Brian demonstrates the worst time to hand in your notice, Steve is only reasonably sure that he’s engaged to Tracy, and the mystery of the contents of a hot box remains unsolved. For now. Have a look at out website, thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com for details on how to get in touch, as well as a reasonably regularly updated blog page.

July 13, 2018 - Steve's Manly Wrist Action

Jack’s juggernaut of a sepsis story line comes to a heartbreaking conclusion this week with Kev having to make the toughest decision since he wondered about going to that mechanic’s conference last week. In other news, Johnny is at least 9.2 Johnny all they way through Friday, Sean goes bin-raking for a place to stay, Neil had red thrown on him in another disagreement with his fellow inmates, and Steve and Tim camp it up as imposter cleaners also imposing as Starksy and Hutch. David Soul would probably approve. Please feel free to interact with us. Our email address is thetalkofthestreet@gmail.com, we’re @corriepodcast on Twitter, we’re The Talk of the Street on Facebook, and our webpage and blog is thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. Anyone with the slightest of interest in what Gav thinks of movies should check out gaviano.wordpress.com