And so this is Christmas TV. Across a fun 53 minutes, we bring together our 10 favourite shows to have aired during the festive season. Although we shan’t reveal here which programmes turn up in which position, we can advise you you’ll be hearing a bit of: Sir Jim’ll, the Nativity wrought in paper puppetry, offal tubes, Colin Baker, Cuddly Ken, Edward Heath’s ding-a-ling, “Cupid!”, some television firsts, an inch-worm and, of course, “And a h-happy Noo Year!”

You can download TV Cream’s 10 Favourite Christmas Telly Treats from TV Cream; you can subscribe to it via iTunes; or you can listen to it right here:

Finally, we’d just like to say: HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Please be upstanding for TV Cream’s Right Royal Scene!

Our brand-new, blue-blooded and really regal podcast is our own aural salute to this happy day and you can download it right now! Join TV Cream’s podcasting team as they hover o’er Westminster Abbey in the temporarily chartered TV Cream Commemorative Royal Wedding Airship. On board, we’re hosting what-we’re-calling a ‘Blimp Party’ in honour of who-we’re-calling ‘Wills and Kate’. Baz Bamigboye will be there – will you?!

We also look back at some favourite Right Royal moments, such as Royal weddings of yore, the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations… and the day Kate Thornton invented Candle In The Wind ’97. All that, plus we hit the streets to find out your thoughts about this happy day.

You can download TV Cream’s Right Royal Scene from TV Cream; you can subscribe to it via iTunes; or you can listen to it right here:

Happy Royal Wedding Day, everyone!

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?

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!

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…

Now then, this new bunch of broadcasts is more exciting than a subscription to The Weatherfield Gazette, seeing how it’s a trip back through memory ginnel, celebrating five decades of Britain’s top soap.

In this first part of TV Cream’s 50 Great Things About Coronation Street Podcast, the fellas offer up their first ten things that are great about the Street. That means a bit of Ena, a bit of Oggy and – thank heavens for small mercies – no Cilla Brown.

Plus news on Corriefest, a one-off event happening on 12 December in Manchester, that has nowt to do with TV Cream, and will probably be all the better for that.

So what are you waiting for?  Linda Lusardi’s old fella turning up to terrorise you on the Net? You can download the first 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…

TV Cream had the pleasure of meeting the great man a couple of months ago, and these are the highlights from our interview.

There are also clips from the general elections of 1955, 1959, 1964, 1970, February 1974, 1979 and 1987.

You can download the podcast from TV Cream; you can subscribe to it via iTunes; or you can listen to it right here:

It was the election that saw Paxman proffering hemlock, an asteroid hitting the earth and Edwina Currie being buried under several hundredweight of shingle.

Aside from our usual eye over the Beeb’s election night coverage, we:

- salute the many and varied on-screen election commentariat, otherwise known as humble spear-carriers, in Election Essentials;

- catalogue the calumnies of Lembit “Lembit Opik MP!” Opik;

- rifle amongst the party political broadcasts of 1997, with a quick detour back to Brixton market in 1992;

- once again try to put our finger on the big TV satire show of the year;

- and hear what David Butler thinks will be the result of this year’s general election.

As usual, there are three ways to hear the podcast:

You can download it from TV Cream; you can subscribe to it via iTunes; or you can listen to it right here:

Happy listening – and voting!

With special thanks to David Butler and Brian Lindsay.

Aside from our usual inspection of the Beeb’s results night coverage, this week’s effort offers you a landslide-sized poll-defying deluge of content, including:

- a stand-up routine about proportional representation courtesy of SDP/Liberal Alliance advocate John Cleese;

- David Butler remembering Robin Day and discussing what he hopes to be up to for this election;

- more from our dossier of Election Essentials, this week concentrating on upsets;

- a profile of that short-trousered shibboleth of Thatcherism, Colin Moynihan;

- and a rubber-faced tribute to the finest satire of 1987, Spitting Image.

As usual, there are three ways to hear the podcast:

You can download it from TV Cream (72MB); you can subscribe to it via iTunes; or you can listen to it right here:

(PS: Thanks to Chris Oakley for a very generous write-up on iTunes!)