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?