The Keep Dancing Podcast

KWP TM E3: A GAGGLE OF AIRBAGS AJ is joined by Asha, Jo, Mark, with Ellie, Ewan and Martin in absentia and guest-starring a random blackbird, to pick apart the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin show! Featuring: Disco lighthouse tips Passenger princess etiquette Fatiha’s murder plans An ill-advised Channel 5 show suggestion Special guest Dylan Thomas Podmaster task steward’s enquiry CHAOS Sho...

KWP TM E2: DON’T FURK YOUR PHALANX AJ is joined by Asha, Ellie and Mark (plus Ewan and Martin all the way from Switzerland) to yeet the hot take grape into the podcast air on the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin show! Featuring: The Live Laugh Love Axis Oppidans Wall Game deep dive Stevie’s Pee Arc Reithian Corner The first Podmaster task results! Show links: After The Screaming Stops https...

KWP TM E1: A Little Bit Of Dirt Never Killed Anyone AJ is joined by Asha, Ewan and Mark to pick apart the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin-filled reality show! Featuring: Everyone vs Jason Mantzoukas GoggleMaster Look and Read Nostalgia Corner AO3 Roundup New vegetable-based Pokemon CHAOS RAISINS Podcaster Task of the Week! Episode links: Equinox opening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjKR...

Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha and Mark to discuss what we’re watching to cheer ourselves up amidst The Current Circumstances. Ellie is also joined by a creaky chair and cat. It’s cosy! Like murder! Things mentioned: - Black Mirror, passim https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/70264888 - Charlie Brooker’s games writing https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_20_November_1994/page/n105/mode/2up - Baldur’s Gate...

KWP S1 E12: An Unknowable Enigma AJ is joined by Asha, Jo, Mark and Martin to review the grand final and look back at the second series! Featuring: Some better star prizes The Millennial Nostalgia Hour Ol’ Horse Legs Gladiator of the Series A Butlins Electro Surprise The Big Gladiators Quiz! Episode links: Stars In Their Eyes Shirley Bassey performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn3h3gwlKRg E...

KWP S1 E11: Sometimes VAR Is Just A Bitch AJ is joined by Asha, Jo, Mark and Martin to examine the last semifinal and look forward to the grand final! Featuring: Scurrilous podcaster rumours! A new northern food truck suggestion The VAR klaxon The ACL injury to ‘fund women’s football’ pipeline The tinfoil influence of arts and crafts lesbians ‘Gladiator’ of the Week Episode links: The ACL Effect h...

KWP March Round-up: Better Than Babylon 5 Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha and Mark for a cerebral, historical voyage into television. Also we discuss Reacher. Items discussed: - Farscape https://www.youtube.com/@FarscapeOfficial - Australians in Space 🥰 - The Devil’s Arithmetic https://youtu.be/UjzRSrOZfjc?si=nVmERat2UmTiyBW6 - That Sinking Feeling https://archive.org/details/that-sinking-feeling_202...

AJ is joined by Asha, Mark, Martin and newcomer Jo to discuss more hot semifinal action! Featuring: Fantasy Gladiator panto casting Yeetgate That Locker Room Showmance (featuring ill-advised SFX) Soft Play Bionic Barney’s villain arc Amanda of the Rovers Show links: Comic Relief sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0NMJQhHXE Strictly Comic Relief sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmmFmnWm...

AJ, Asha and Mark examine the UK’s favourite lycra-clad athletics-based pantomime, this time through the power of poetry… Featuring: Poetry Corner with Apollo Steel’s after-dark GoPro Phantom’s Philosophy Corner Nitro’s nightmare knits Athena’s Art Attack Les Gladiateurs Français Show links: French Gladiators intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxT4ms1n7yA Comic Relief sketch https://www.youtube...

KWP February Round-up: We Just Want To Watch The Thing Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha and Mark for a surprise family friendly themed round up of what we’ve been watching in February. Topics covered: - Mallory Towers https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0872dbq/malory-towers - The boarding school books of Enid Blyton - The Faraway Tree Movie! - Cobra Kai https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81002370 -...

AJ, Asha, Mark and Martin take on another quarter final of the nation’s favourite lycra-clad athletics-based pantomime! Featuring: Incredibly topical sport and gender Discourse Clattenburg’s Wheel O’ Rules Nitro’s part-time arena job A canine Crash Course suggestion The Five Stages of Legend Apollo’s secret TV binge obsession Episode links: Sarah Hadland and Bionic: https://www.instagram.com/p/DG1...

Podcasters, ready! Gladiators, ready! Join AJ, Mark, Ariadne, Asha and Martin as they dive into the reboot’s first celebrity special. Featuring: - A plea for a Viper Shakespeare play - Rob Beckett Nickelodeon Proustian Rushes - Four Men, One Bin with Joel Dommett - Louise’s Dainty Tesco Trip - Ellie’s Jet fangirling - The Gladiators/Strictly podcast crossover we desperately need If you’d like to g...

We Keep Watching Gladiators! AJ is joined by Asha and Mark to give you the rundown on our Saturday teatime demigods.

AJ, Ariadne, Asha, Mark and Martin take on the second episode of the UK’s premier lycra-clad athletics-based light entertainment show! Featuring: Cyclone fangirling Alan Bennett-esque Walsh fanfic The referee monastic tradition A sensation of pizza Giant’s 4 Lads Outside All Bar One tribute Viper job of the Weeeek! Episode links: Crowdfunder for Carel Struycken https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-c...

KEEP WATCHING PODCAST E4: WE’RE JUST NORMAL GLADS, INNOCENT GLADS AJ, Asha, Ellie and Mark [with a bonus voice note Martin] take a look at the latest episode of the UK’s favourite lycra-clad athletics-based pantomime. Featuring: Deconstructing the circular brilliance of dad jokes Apollo, at least you tried AO3 shipping update VAR the panto villain A plea for Junior Gladiators Fury’s detective spin...

AJ, Asha and Mark dive into another hour of the UK’s favourite lycra-clad athletics-based pantomime, this time with 50% more innuendo! Featuring: A dinnerlady spy adventure coming to Netflix soon Apollo image rehabilitation Floppy doodah physics Pottery Throwdown sponge crossover Giving the BBC socials folk their flowers Gladiators Epic Pranks Episode links: The People’s Friend https://www.thepeop...

WP S1 E6: Doing Dynamite Things AJ, Asha, Mark and Martin take another dive into this week’s Gladiators action! Featuring: A collective exasperated sigh at Andy Just doing Dynamite things

AJ, Asha, Mark and Martin dive into the first quarterfinal of the UK’s favourite lycra-clad athletics-based pantomime! Featuring: Legend’s highbrow era Apollo’s lowbrow era Welcome Hammer! Gladiators Spring plumage Standard Banana Units A Viper quiz! Episode links: Mr Bean’s Twiglets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniNaDReqUk Gladiators Ready book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gladiators-COMPANION-FAV...

Ellie is joined by Ariadne, AJ & Asha to go through what we’ve kept watching in January. It’s another experimental format and this time it’s show and tell of what we’ve been watching, what we got out of it and what you could try watching in the future! Featured shows: - The Great Pottery Throw Down - The Junior Bake Off - Snooker (all of it, all the time) - The Last Kingdom - The Traitors - Talkin...

It’s CHRIIIIIISTMAAAAAAS! So it’s time for something a little bit silly (and also a clip show). Ellie is joined by Meg and AJ to sift through the leftovers. We’re a little late because nobody knows what day it is. Merry Christmas x

KDP S9E14: Claudia’s Liminal Space We bid farewell to Strictly’s most unhinged series yet with a late and live and out of order pod. Ellie is joined by AJ and Meg and Vikki (by voice note) to join in a great big blubby group hug. Also covered: - Commissioning guidelines for road trip TV series - Vito’s trousers (RIP sound effect) - Love for Chris and Dianne - Love for all our finalists - Love for...

Double the trouble and double the fun in the semi-finals! It’s all playing out basically as expected and Ellie is joined by AJ, Meg and Milly to bid farewell to the first person ever to stop being an inexplicable grudge during a series. Also discussed: - Some lifts we don’t want to see - Brief digression about the absolute state of the 2019 series - Don’t play any Sting at a wedding - It takes a v...

After a week of normal dance-themed dances, the producers dive once more into the magic of themes as we discuss the experience that is Musicals Week on Strictly Come Dancing. AJ has the playbill, with Millie, Vikki, Elliot, and Ewan in the grand circle.

It’s the post-Blackpool week of dance-themed nice ballroom dances! Surely some mistake? Ellie is joined by AJ, Elliott, Meg and Vikki to sigh over the Sambathon. Apologies for Ellie’s audio, she is occasionally trapped in a fish tank and can’t work out what happened. Also discussed: - Pete’s arc is complete? - Wicked discourse - Are they overworking them on Eastenders? - The role of a comedian on...

The majesty of Blackpool is on show this week, as AJ works through the dance card with Ellie, Meg and Ewan. Also discussed - The condiment conundrum. - Disney’s greatest dancing queen. - A matte painting and the trapdoor. -D ave Arch’s Monday morning reactions. If you’d like to get in touch with us, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on instagram at @keepdancingpod. Keep Dancing...