Well if that isn’t just the last straw! Here I am: me Rita Sullivan… oh alright – Rita Fairclough as most of you will know me, and I’m pinned to the ground in The Kabin as part of Coronation Street’s 50th anniversary storyline. No it’s not Schmeichel that’s stuck on top of me, getting over amorous, although chance would be a fine thing. It’s that exciting tram disaster we had on Weatherfield just before Christmas. I was buried under a viaduct’s worth of rubble. The kind of raw material, I shouldn’t wonder, that my late hubbie Len might have been able to put to good use, had he not been boffing some fancy piece up the M62.

But now, what am I saying? Here’s a chance for you to put your lug ‘oles to good use, as it’s the last – the very last and that’s a promise – of TV Cream’s 50 Great Things About Coronation Street Podcast. I have to say I’ve listened to every one of them, and I barely get a mention – there’s nowt accounting for taste. But what you do get is a last load of 10 great things about the soap you all know and love.

So what’s the to do? Too concerned about when another tram might crop up and radically change the direction of my life?

You can download episode 5 of TV Cream’s 50 Great Things About Coronation Street Podcast from TV Cream; you can subscribe to it via iTunes; or you can listen to it right here:

The lads at TV Cream have asked me to pass on my best wishes and let you know they’ve had a lot of fun down Weatherfield way – although not that kind of fun. Hang on! Maybe that explains the smile on Emily’s face when she came into the shop t’other day…

Hello luvvies, Betty Williams here – you know the hot pot lady from down Coronation Street way.  Yes, yes that’s it.  Big glasses, always resigning in a puff from the Rovers and then mysteriously turning up again the next day without a word of explanation.

In my many, many years pulling pints I’ve seen all types, let me tell you, but I can honestly say that hand on heart, I’ve never heard anything quite like this shower.  They tell me, this TV Cream lot are back with the fourth episode of their podcast all about us down here at Coronation Street.  A podcast, I ask you?  I can feel a wave of illogical, but soon-to-pass pique coming over me right this minute. So let me just tell you before I start tutting at some our regulars, that this fourth instalment is a selection of 10 more great things and includes an original musical composition from an internet man – whatever that is.

You can download episode 4 of TV Cream’s 50 Great Things About Coronation Street Podcast from TV Cream; you can subscribe to it via iTunes; or you can listen to it right here:

So why the shilly shally?  Too busy trying to think up inconsequential and slight plotlines to see me through another 40 years of Coronation Street?

Hello readers. This “photo” of Deirdre and me was taken back when I was half the man I am now (quite literally) and Deirdre’s voice was two octaves higher than it is today. Since then we’ve had our ups and downs and… ups and downs and – well I am sure I don’t need to belabour the point that married life for us hasn’t always been a straightforward affair, although affairs there have been. And in my case at least, I can vouch they were all of the “straight” kind (ie. man and woman), regardless of what Blanche might have once said.

Well the team at TV Cream have put together another audio “mag” of reports about Coronation Street, and the third instalment, which is also going to be the last before they take a well earned break for Christmas, is out now.

It’s called TV Cream’s 50 Great Things About Coronation Street “Podcast”, and there really is a lot of listenable stuff on there. Things about “Corrie” spin-offs and Baldwin’s cast-offs, no doubt. But seriously for a moment, it really is a fascinating listen.

So what’s stopping you? Too busy rubbing your chin and sitting there in your armchair brooding, with the top buttons on your shirt undone? Don’t delay! You can download episode 3 of TV Cream’s 50 Great Things About Coronation Street Podcast from TV Cream; you can subscribe to it via iTunes; or you can listen to it right here:
 

Oh and merry Christmas to you all!

Hi Corrie fans, Brian Tilsley here.

Coo there’s been a lot going on down the Street in the last week or so, hasn’t there? Although to my reckoning, nothing quite as exciting as my manly fatal stabbing, when I was trying to protect that lass outside that nightclub.

Talking of which, that memorable moment, and at least nine others are recalled in this second part of TV Cream’s 50 Great Things About Coronation Street Podcast.

So what are you waiting for? The ghost of Ivy Tilsley to come down and make your entire adult life a ruddy misery? You can download the second part of TV Cream’s 50 Great Things About Coronation Street Podcast from TV Cream; you can subscribe to it via iTunes; or you can listen to it right here…