Behind the Scenes with Colin Edmonds

This time we go Behind the Scenes with Producer, Director, Former BBC Departmental Head, Format Creator, Consultant and international TV Executive Jonathan Glazier. From his first television job in the Sound Department at ATV Elstree to more recently overseeing multi-million dollar productions in the Middle East, Asia and New Zealand, Jonathan recalls his unstoppably versatile 40-year career. To m...

This time we go Behind The Scenes with incredibly prolific and hugely versatile scriptwriter Alan Wightman, who chats about his long and non-stop career in movies and light entertainment. Alan shares memories of his friend John Sullivan (Only Fools & Horses), his time penning gags for top turns Jimmy Tarbuck, Jeff Stevenson and Des O’Connor, plus landing the job of producing the highest rating...

It’s the third in our trilogy of our scandalous glimpses Behind the Scenes of the music industry and Fleet Street with author, TV critic, punk band front man and show business journalist Garry Bushell. On the music front Garry shares wild stories of guitar legend Ritchie Blackmore, Judge Dread and Bad Manners. He also talks about landing in trouble by TV Exec Nigel Lythgoe and surviving a close ca...

This time Behind the Scenes goes international, chatting with top TV executive Sean Kneale in Sydney, Australia. Former LWT Producer Sean reflects on his years working in the UK with most of Britain’s high-profile performers before travelling the world to oversee the production of the biggest television franchises on the planet. The Masked Singer. The X Factor. And Mongolia’s Got Talent? You bet i...

Production Manager of most of the top Entertainment ratings-winners over the last 40 years, Adrian Pegg looks back on his role on the early series of BBC sitcom mega hit Only Fools & Horses and how he helped set up ITV’s hugely successful arena spectacular, Gladiators. Adrian also talks about Noel’s House Party, working with Michael McIntyre and his recent move to Producing the award-winning c...

Award-winning Showbiz Simon chats about his glamorous 30 year career starting as a TV Production Graduate in Manchester and his appearances on screen, to heading up an entire channel, earning Producer credits on the last 2 Royal weddings and as the driving force casting and compiling some of the popular clip shows on British television. Simon also talks about producing comedy icon Griff Rhys Jones...

We’re finishing 2021 on a high, reflecting on some of the fascinating guests who’ve graced the microphone on our Behind The Scenes podcast over the past year - and a look forward to what’s coming up. A massive thank you to all the masterful talents who shared with their amazing, never before heard memories of working in TV, radio and on stage – and to you for your incredible support! Steam, Smoke...

In this special Christmas cracker we’re chatting about, and celebrating, that Great British theatrical tradition – Pantomime – in the company of a Master of the Craft and the King of the Dames, Pete Price. Comedian, actor, columnist, multi-award-winning radio and television personality and Liverpool’s finest ambassador, Pete shares his often outrageous and frequently raucous Behind the Scenes reco...

International Producer-Director Paul Giddings tells how his television training in the BBC’s Children’s Department led to a career making shows celebrating Family Guy, Star Wars, Les Dawson and Bob Monkhouse, what it was like treading in the footsteps of Larry Grayson and starting a second career as an actor on stage and screen. Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and a...

From the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside, during a rare break in her relentless schedule, high profile Portaprompt operator, the magnificent Penny Swiergon, chats about her role Behind the Scenes on British Saturday night television’s entertainment ratings giant Strictly Come Dancing, and shares the joy of what it’s really like to be relied upon by TV legends, including Sir Bruce Forsyth and...

Taking us Behind the Scenes this week is former BBC Tees and BBC Radio 5 Live broadcaster John Foster. With his trademark easy eloquence and illustrated with historic clips, John shares stories of his fascinating and remarkable lifetime behind the microphone: from a tenacious teenage presenter landing an interview with Bob Monkhouse, to scooping one of the last major radio appearances made by Sir...

Taking us Behind the Scenes this week is one of British television’s busiest and most experienced entertainment directors. Mick Thomas charts his incredible TV career from Ravensbourne College and LWT to directing the RVP, Comic Relief and the most successful quiz shows currently on our screens. Oh. And Mick also ‘reveals’ what happened to him at the opening of EuroDisney. Steam, Smoke & Mirro...

In this week’s Behind the Scenes, audio wizard Rob Ashard chats about master mixing the sound desk on The Graham Norton Show, The Last Leg, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and the hundreds of other programmes with which he has been associated over the last 30 plus years. We reminisce about LWT’s Blind Date, Gladiators, Live from Her Majesty’s, The Brian Conley Show and ‘saving the day on S...

In this week’s episode, top British Producer-Director Ian Hamilton returns to continue sharing memories of his incredible career in television – from the start-ups of TVam and The Chase, fond recollections of David Frost, Clive James and Frankie Howerd, to his adventures in EuroDisney, Las Vegas and at The Playboy Mansion. Listen by clicking here: https://open.spotify.com/show/12mxZrfS7Hyl9dTgwo83...

In this week’s episode, multi-talented and innately modest John Naylor, opens up about his incredible 20-year television career behind the scenes as a history documentary film-maker for Discovery, Yesterday and the History Channel. A cameraman, director, fight and stunt co-ordinator, armourer and weapons adviser, additionally, John’s a consultant, specialising in Egyptian, Greek and Roman warfare....

This week British Academy Award-winning television executive Ian Hamilton chats about his early fascination with show business which took him from watching Sunday Night At The London Palladium as a youngster, to producing and directing Live From The Palladium, 30 years later. We also hear what it was like working with Michael Parkinson, Cilla Black, Paul Daniels - and directing News at Ten in his...

Making a welcome return to Behind the Scenes, Joe discusses how a shocking childhood accident gave him the determination to conquer his fears, led to a life-long love of horror films and literature, testing his expertise on BBC TV’s Mastermind, and inspired his new careers as an artist, painter and best-selling author of chilling and macabre short stories www.caffeinenightsbooks.com Steam, Smoke &...

In this week’s episode, one of British light entertainment television’s most successful and prolific ratings winners, Producer/Director Kevin Bishop, chats about heading up Eurovisions, Royal Variety Performances, and his many other incredible achievements during a 35-year career working with the great and the good (and occasionally me) at the BBC. Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed b...

This week one of Merseyside's finest ambassadors, hilarious raconteur and comedian Pete Price, chats about his love for Liverpool and show business, the Cavern Club, The Shakespeare Cabaret Theatre and New Faces, along with his friendship with some of the biggest stars in entertainment. Not forgetting those triumphant and sometimes traumatic years hosting his iconic, award-winning, late-night inte...

In this week’s episode, the writer of the longest running newspaper column in Fleet Street, TV critic and entertainment/music editor, the unstoppable Garry Bushell returns, this time taking us behind the scenes of his journalism and broadcasting careers, his relentless work schedule and tells why, after 35 years of Bushell on the Box, it might be time to move on. Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme m...

In this week’s episode, Tony Nicholson takes us Behind the Scenes of his 40 year show business career, writing, researching and producing some of the most entertaining shows on TV, and penning the best-selling biographies of comedy icons Larry Grayson and Sir Ken Dodd. Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English Facebook: colin.edmonds.73 Instagram:...

This week on the podcast, Colin chats with one of entertainment’s hardest-working, most experienced stand-up comics, Jeff Stevenson, who takes us Behind The Scenes talking about his incredible career in comedy; his early TV success, changing with the times and how a return to acting (45 years after his screen debut in ‘Bugsy Malone’) has recently won him international film awards and serious criti...

In this milestone episode, Mark Edmonds returns to prompt Colin to share more recollections of Bob Monkhouse, reflect on the BTS stories so far and remember the fun times with the great Tom O’Connor. Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English Facebook: colin.edmonds.73 Instagram: colinedmondsssm Twitter:@ColinEdmondsSSM Website: https://www.steamsmo...

In this week’s episode, Scala Radio’s brilliant breakfast show host and former BBC Radio 2 broadcasting stalwart Charles Nove takes us Behind The Scenes on Wake Up To Wogan, The National Lottery Live, the famous tongue-twisting Radio 4 Shipping Forecast and a whole lot more. Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English Facebook: colin.edmonds.73 Insta...

This week on the podcast, Colin chats with former ballet dancer and award-winning restaurateur turned television director/ producer Charles Garland, discussing the magician Paul Daniels, TV game shows, “Oh, Dr. Beeching!”, editing “Dad’s Army” and why he left the BBC to became a novelist. Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English Facebook: colin.ed...