DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 141 – Cob-a-Coaling

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The Three Who Drool travel to a local lighthouse to take a look at the Fourth Doctor story “The Horror of Fang Rock”. Along the way, we revisit Hayden’s childhood reading habits, Doc regales us with tales of cob-a-coaling, Hayden casts John Noakes and Roger Moore in Doctor Who, and Mark reveals which 1970s TV show was “a little like The One Show but even less interesting”.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:02:18) You can hear Hayden’s appearance on the “Vision on Sound” show at 7pm on Sunday 1st November 2020 on the radio station Fab Radio International. Podcasts of the shows can also be found at Visiononsound.blogspot.com.

(00:04:08) Our Top Scary Moments can be found in our podcasts #121 and #122 which can be found here and here.

(00:06:04) Cob-a-Coaling.

(00:09:06) The Hovis Music, occasionally known as Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” was famously used in a UK bread commercial on TV.

(00:10:37) Hayden’s reading record books can be seen on our Tumbr page here and here and here.

(00:18:50) The original radio series of “The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy” was adapted for full-cast two vinyl albums, with incidental radiophonic music provided by Paddy Kingsland. These have now been re-released on vinyl and CD. The original cover art can be seen here and here. The book which Doc has been reading is “Don’t Panic” by Neil Gaiman.

(00:23:40) Kevin (for it is he) Davies was interviewed by Hayden on our podcast #40 which can be found here.

(00:23:54) The panel of Christopher Hitchens, Salman Rushdie and Mos Def can be seen here.

(00:32:10) “Pebble Mill at One” was a British television magazine programme that was broadcast live on weekdays at one o’clock on BBC1, from 2 October 1972 to 23 May 1986, and again from 20 October 1991 to 25 May 1996. It was transmitted from the Pebble Mill studios of BBC Birmingham, and uniquely was hosted from the centre’s main foyer area, rather than a conventional television studio.

(01:00:14) “Leela in a baggy jumper” – this audio clip is by former co-host The Rev and can be found at around 01:03:55 into our podcast #001. This podcast would normally be found here but, in early 2020, with a shock, we finally reached our blog storage limit. To give us time to mull over the practicalities and costs of upgrading or seeking another host, we started deleting our early podcasts from this blog in order to make space for new ones. However, they’re saved forever or our own hard drives so, if you’re yearning to listen to these early podcasts, email us at [e-mail] and we’ll be happy to send them to you in some other way.

(01:09:12) The “Max Headroom” clip can be found here together with a mix of news reports.

(01:22:41) “There’s somebody at the door” was a catchphrase from “The Pink Windmill Show” from the mid-1980s.

(01:24:20) One version of the ” Cob a Coaling” song can be found here.

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