The Keep Dancing Podcast

We’re feeling iconic! It goes wrong almost immediately as we consider the semiotic journey of the wrap dress, invent Chintzpunk and develop an explicable grudge. Ellie is joined by Asha, Ariadne, Milly, Meg and Elliot to complain about fabric. Also discussed: - Walkaway dress pattern challenge reminiscences - Lamé, you say? - Sides - Trinny & Susanna & Trin-E & Zu-Zana - Chintzpunk interlude - A t...

Ellie and the Keep Sewing Crew are joined by An American, BEN! (@benmsmith.com‬ on Bluesky) to discuss Sports week with its hat-based eye crimes and stretch fabric hubris. Topics discussed: - Bagging out - Minty abomination away kits at Euro 2025 - Italy we are particularly disappointed with you - Devolved nation status for Yorkshire - Surprisingly technical hat chat - Cycling top logistics lingui...

The Keep Dancing Podcast crew return to play a low scoring game of 'Predict who will be in the 2025 Strictly cast'. If you’d like to play along at home, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social. Don’t forget the shop at http://www.totallyflagulous.com where there’s things and also stuff Support AJ’s GoFundM...

Ellie and the BIGGEST POD GANG EVER (possibly?) convene to ask each other if they wear clothes. Are ruffle blouses too difficult? Are circle skirts too round? WHAT CONSTITUTES A PLEAT? These and other questions will be asked. No answers will be given. Also discussed: - Tilly and the Buttons https://www.tillyandthebuttons.com/ - Fabric selection as a reality TV trap - The least outrageous transform...

AJ is joined by Asha, Ellie, Jo, Mark and Martin for the final dive into the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin show! Featuring: Murder bin day etiquette H&S in the country park A new niche life drawing idea Fizzy coleslaw trauma An epic Podmaster final showdown! Show links: That Liz Truss Rumour https://wegotthiscovered.com/celebrities/what-is-the-liz-truss-collar-conspiracy/ Stevie’s TM deb...

AJ is joined by Asha, Ellie, Joe, Mark and Martin to examine the penultimate episode of the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin show! Featuring: Decolonialising the BM with jelly Anticarceral loos A racy Back To The Future remake Nish Kumar’s new mannequin-based home Pipe Beast live at the Fringe A Big Bodyform Conspiracy Proscribed Monologues Show links: Jason’s food poisoning https://www.ins...

KWP S2 E8: Nonbinary Hobbits AJ is joined by Asha, Ellie, Ewan, Mark and Martin to pick apart the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin show! Featuring: Good Housekeeping pelvic exerciser update A bowling steward’s enquiry A plea for hobby-based sponsorship Sapphic Witch King fangirling Figurative masturbation as class allegory Mark’s Turner Prize entries Show links: Rosie and her sister on ‘jui...

AJ is joined by Asha, Ellie, Ewan, Jo, Mark and Martin to fill the leaky hot take bucket on the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin show! Featuring: MI5’s role in the Big Crisp conspiracy Podcaster bag content Some very niche magazine chat Shout out to Northern Mam Humour A plea for Olympics spoon-fencing A new Keep Watching Podcast mascot! Show links: Rube Goldberg machines https://www.youtub...

KWP May Round-Up: The Existential Horror of Rylan Is your show In Crisis? Would you know? Is it even a real thing? Ellie is joined by AJ,Asha, Ewan and Mark to chat about the choicest chunks of content. Also… introducing the concept of being Star Wars Straight Edge Kidfluencers https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81728889 Welcome to Planet Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6OzezkCzoI&ab_channel=...

AJ is joined by Asha, Ewan and Mark to pick apart the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin show! Featuring: Fatiha’s brat top energy Easyjet dead dog policies Release the 233 Question Cut! JB Martzoukas Roofers Extraordinaire A plea for Baynton folk horror Scatological credits Show links: Matt’s Instagram Williams Syndrome auction https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkEeyFIVQv/?img_index=1 Bodyform ht...

KWP S2 E5: All Roads Lead To Alan AJ is joined by Asha, Ewan, Mark and Martin (plus Jo in absentia) to pick apart the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin show! Featuring: Bishcourse Alan Bennett’s Taskmaster Some A-level English revision tips More BBC road trip suggestions An artistic depiction of AJ’s breakdown MORSE CHAOS Show links: Send glitter to your enemies https://www.glitterretributio...

KWP TM E4: VISCOUNTESS MINCY TIPTOE-WALKER AJ is joined by Asha, Ellie, Ewan, Mark and Martin for an especially unhinged exploration of the UK’s favourite task-based chaos gremlin show! Featuring: A big cock debate The perfect museum heist guide Mannequin graveyard analysis Teen movie pitch corner Fond Front Ham memories A surprise podcaster race! Show links: Alex leg chat https://www.youtube.com/...

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.