Baked Off!

Thunder's Mouth Theatre presents "Return of the Bread", a crossover episode in which characters from our two podcast, "Am I Old Yet?" and "Baked Off! Live Laugh Loaves" meet up in Helen's favourite Cheese Shop Cafe in south London, where cafe owner Ilse is getting ready for the lunch time trade. It's been a quiet morning so far, but things are about to hot up when the participants of Caroline's on...

A bonus episode. This is a dramatic monologue I wrote and recorded last week, during a particularly overloaded week of horrors, real and fictitious. Don't expect any laughs, I'm serious about my despair for the future of my grandchildren. The image for this bonus episode is courtesy of The Australian Academy of Science, and you'll find further information at their website https://www.science.org.a...

Thunder’s Mouth Theatre presents: “Breaded Bliss” Episode 8, the finale to this audio fiction podcast “Baked Off! Live laugh loaves”.  In Brisbane, Margot continues to play detective in her efforts to save Arthur’s medical practice.  In Liverpool, Angelica enjoys some of Julianna’s baking and finally reveals to  just what her new job in Edinburgh involves, and how Julianna is implicated in it. In...

Episode 7 of “Baked Off! Live, Laugh, loaves” finds Julianna’s family being both helpful and mysterious, Duncan doesn’t know if he’s coming or going, and Margot is determined to sort out Arthur whether he likes it or not. You heard: Tayo Aluko as Ade, Erika Sanderson as Julianna, Wendy Lap as Heather, Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Flloyd Kennedy as Margot and Edie,  Wendy Lap as Rosemary, Roy R...

Episode 6 of the limited series: “Baked Off! Live, Laugh Loaves” in which we follow the lives of two aspiring bakers of sourdough bread and their online professional chef tutor, each based in a different country. In this episode, Julianna (in Liverpool, England) is in the middle of a health and starter-related crisis, Duncan (in Edinburgh Scotland) offers some support, while Margot (in Brisbane, A...

We catch up with Duncan in Edinburgh, off to enjoy a brisk walk at the seaside with his pal from Uni days, while over in Brisbane, Margot tries to convince her Doctor and old friend Arthur that something fishy is going on in his practice. In Liverpool, Julianna seems to be gaining in confidence where her bread making is concerned, and Caroline is apparently delighted with everyone’s progress. Cast...

Thunder’s Mouth Theatre presents: “A Fistful of Flour”. Episode 4 of “Baked Off! Live, Laugh Loaves” a dip and dive into the lives of a bunch of would-be sourdough bread bakers, and of course, their course instructor over there in Brisbane. This episode finds Margot heading over to the doctor’s surgery for a checkup, where she discovers some dodgy shenanigans going on, while Duncan, Freddie and Ju...

All of our apprentice bakers have posted images online of their first attempts at baking sourdough bread, and somewhere in Brisbane’s West End, chef Margot is enjoying the results. Julianna and Duncan take advantage of Skype to support each other between classes, and Margot is back on form as she takes the students through the process again, helping them to improve as the dough proves. Pun intende...

Episode Two and we are off on a deep dive into the lives of some of the characters. This week, the spotlight is on Duncan in Edinburgh, reconnecting with an old friend from his University days, while in Brisbane Dr Brownlow attempts to keep his old friend Margot on the straight and narrow. On the Zoom class, Caroline finds herself having the run the class herself this week - with mixed results......

Welcome to Baked Off! a brand new audio comedy from Thunder's Mouth Theatre and the team who bring you Am I Old Yet? . In this first episode you are introduced Duncan, a young Scots IT consultant in Scotland, Julianna, a middle-aged wife, mother and ex-dancer in England, and Margot, the retired chef in Australia, as well as some of their friends and family members. In future episodes we'll follow...

Introducing some of the characters who occupy the world of 'Baked Off!'. Duncan is a young IT freelancer in Edinburgh, Heather is his landlady. Julianna is a middle-aged ex-dancer who lives in Liverpool with her husband Ade, and son Sammy. Caroline runs an online cookery class, and she has invited her husband's Australian godmother, an elderly, reluctantly retired Michelin Starred chef, to teach t...