The Shy Life Podcast - Episodes 237 to 239

The Shy Life Podcast - Episodes 237 to 239

Paul's taken 'The Shy Life Podcast' out on the road again recently. Actually he's take it out on the canal, as it involved a trip to Venice.

Which makes it even more remarkable that he's managed to release three episodes in less than a week.

We've done a fair bit of recording for it, not all of which we've heard back yet, so here's a summary of what's been happening at Yeti Towers.

Episode 237 of 'The Shy Life Podcast' can be heard here and is the Live Show for March. These are very interactive affairs, with everyone in the chatroom being able to influence the show. In fact, the odder the stuff people can come up with on the night, the better. And blimey, it can get very odd at times. Look out for the next one and feel free to get involved in April's strangeness!

Episode 238 can be heard here and goes by the subtitle of 'Tales Of Randomness And Nostalgia'. We answer all sorts of Random Questions and Nick & Paul remember all the filming we did in 1994, which was a very busy year in front of and behind the camera. Though it's frightening to think that it was 25 years ago!

Finally, Episode 239 can be heard here. This one is called 'Adventures From The Yeti Archives (circa 1998)' and is a welcome wander through the domain of 'Sutton Park'. The sheer amount of material recorded for 'SP' is astonishing and there's lots more yet to be recovered and unleashed...

You certainly haven't heard the last of it!

(Writeen by Andrew Trowbridge)

Deliverance

Deliverance

It's only a few weeks ago that we were watching Brian Blessed in 'Blakes 7', so it was lovely to be able to see his one-man show in Poole the other evening. Our ears might still be ringing from the traditional opening bellow of "GORDON'S ALIVE!!!" but these effects should pass with time.

Hopefully...

'Deliverance' sees the start of a sort-of two-parter as we get of first mention of the mysterious Orac and Avon gets to meet a lady in her flimsies who think's he's a god of some sort. We get the feeling that this plotline went down well with at least one of the regular cast, although Jenna gets a pretty raw deal when she's grabbed by a load of hairy men who take every opportunity to get their rocks out.

At least it gave me a chance to show off an example of Neolithic technology...

Meanwhile in Pertwee-land the obvious-when-you-think about it pseudonym of 'Ivan Orton' allowed me to do a bit of plucking of an imaginary ukulele with a brief silly song which may ring a few bells with followers of one Ivor Biggun.

Which is not a route I expected to go down when we started watching 'The Way Back'...

Our video about 'Blakes 7 : Deliverance' can be seen here.

And our video about Episode 2 of 'Doctor Who : Spearhead From Space' can be seen here.

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)

Bounty

Bounty

We've reduced the frequency of these blog posts in recent weeks as an experiment and it doesn't seem to have affected the numbers very much. So that's probably good news for everyone!

It does mean that we haven't flagged up every video we've done this month, though. So we ought to at least mention one of the more recent ones, if only to use up the rather strange screengrabs we've ended up with.

Our journey through the first year of 'Blake's 7' has reached 'Bounty' and the all obvious chocolate jokes are present and correct, of course. But I've still got my old cloak from our filmed-but-never-edited amateur 'Blake' attempt, so it seemed as good a time as any to present it to the wider world. I'd never claim that it was the best bit of T.P. McKenna cosplay you'll ever see, perhaps, but considering how rare this probably is, I would hope it would make it into your Top Ten.

And my LP of 'Children's TV Themes' by Cy Payne and his orchestra seems to be fondly remembered by a few people, judging by the comments we've received, even if the version of 'The Magic Roundabout' does go all weird in the middle section.

And at least my attempt at reconstructing the Bounty advert (The Taste Of Paradise) terminates quickly when Lisa points out that I'm actually singing the song for Flake...

Our video on 'Blake's 7 : Bounty' can be seen here.

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)

"It's Ethel calling... (from 1992!)"

"It's Ethel calling... (from 1992!)"

Episode 235 of 'The Shy Life Podcast' has recently been released and events take a very strange turn this time when Paul receives a number of odd phone calls apparently coming from 1992.

A strange lady, who just happens to live suspiciously close to Sutton Park, thinks that Paul is about to start studying at the local university and gets in contact to give his particulars a good going-over.

There is clearly something very weird going on with the timelines and the mystery requires immediate investigation.

Ethel has an uncanny knack for saying things that sound very rude (even if she doesn't mean them to) and asks Paul a number of leading questions. So you can find out whether and where he'll be spreading his seed in the holidays, if that knowledge is at all important to you.

I flag this unusual one up in partcular, as I may have helped a bit with this episode...

Episode 235 of 'The Shy Life Podcast' can be heard here.

But be careful not to suck on the wrong sort of musharoom when listening to it!

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)

You're taller than you sound!

You're taller than you sound!

We've sometimes joked about doing a 'Round The Archives' convention, possibly involving lugging our tatty old sofa on stage at some far-flung hotel.

But the logistics of this are very much the stuff of fantasy, so if the sofa can't come to you, you have to come to the sofa.

Thus we were very happy to welcome Andy Priestner to 'RTA' Towers last night, where we spent some quality time having fish & chips and white wine. Plus somehow managing to record some material for a future episode.

We'll not give too much away here (after all, we must preserve our air of pure mystery), but even I was somewhat surprised that we had more indirect connections that either of us knew, having both attended the Exo-Space conventions at the very start of the 1990s.

Andy finds himself in all sorts of exotic places from time to time, but when his work brough t him to Bournemouth, we could hardly pass up the opportunity to meet up. Though his first words to me mostly involved his surprise that I was taller then he imagined. Mind you, Lisa is always telling me to sit up straight in our videos, so it's understandable...

A fine time was had by all - it would have been awkward if we suddenly found we didn't get on in real life - and we think you'll be entertained by the chat we had.

Andy's latest podcast (Episode 10 of 'World Enough And Time') concerns 'The Stones Of Blood' and can be heard here.

In short, any podcast which features two people bellowing 'ODILE DICKS-MIREAUX!!!' to each other is alright in my book!

Andy can be heard talking about 'Secret Army' on Episode 25 of 'Round The Archives' here.

His piece on 'Maelstrom' is on Episode 27, which can be heard here.

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)