However bad you think Russell Grant's 1983 BBC Records single was, it's far far worse. youtube.com/shorts/EtU1Y... The full story is in the latest PantoSplaining, episode 6, at linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

I recommend this on the Mayfair set of posh creeps & loons that included Lord Lucan & Damian's dad (holder of daft Tarzan-like beliefs about how humans and wild animals should co-exist) and no spoilers but the baby/gorilla thing only merits 5/10 on the crazy scale. www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...

Donna Air was my number 1 childhood crush and now I find out she was sacrificing babies to bloody apes! True loss of innocence moment.

Did #BykerGrove star Donna Air really give her newborn baby to a gorilla? The answer may surprise you, but only if you didn't already know that she gave her newborn baby to a gorilla. Linktr.ee/ALFsplaining

Our revelation that Brian Tilsley Was In Robocop 2 has been quite the hit on TikTok of all places. How do you do, fellow kids? youtube.com/shorts/SX7HV... #BrianTilsleyWasInRobocop2

We're really trying to build the PantoSplaining audience, so any help you can give driving people to linktr.ee/PantoSplaining is gratefully received. Episode 6 is our latest monthly edition and features this biography of 1989's Cardiff panto star Russell Grant. www.youtube.com/shorts/Lzjb2...

Help me and @benbaker.bsky.social become podcast millionaires.

We're really trying to build the PantoSplaining audience, so any help you can give driving people to linktr.ee/PantoSplaining is gratefully received. Episode 6 is our latest monthly edition and features this biography of 1989's Cardiff panto star Russell Grant. www.youtube.com/shorts/Lzjb2...

Far and away our most popular feature on PantoSplaining episode 5 was when we took a deep dive into Ian Beale's 1995 moustache era. linktr.ee/PantoSplaining youtube.com/shorts/kdl5L...

It'd be great if Brando had ever thought of this as a career move. 'The Godfather's Don Corleone'.

Yes, I think he tried to make it in America but his deep, richly-layered and delicately-nuanced dramatic portrayals - cleverly hidden under a lumpy, constantly wooden and expressionless exterior - just didn't catch on.

The mysterious and enigmatic Grand Order Of Water Rats is indelibly linked to most showbiz stars, so it was only a matter of time before we found ourselves sucked in... linktr.ee/PantoSplaining youtube.com/shorts/N35Sy...

Did you know that Chris "Brian Tilsley" Quinten was in Robocop 2? If you listened to PantoSplaining you would! youtube.com/shorts/SX7HV...

Did you know that Chris "Brian Tilsley" Quinten was in Robocop 2? If you listened to PantoSplaining you would! youtube.com/shorts/SX7HV...

As you've listened to episode 6 of PantoSplaining (at linktr.ee/PantoSplaining) you'll know all about Ruth Madoc's single releases - so why not listen to one of them? Here she is at one end of the musical scale, with Bill Tarmey at the other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t043...

Chris Quinten one of two celebs I encountered on different occasions when getting into a lift at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. The other one was Hurricane Higgins. [Prodnose: you should save this stuff for your autobiography, where nobody will have to read it.]

Me and my mate once followed Chris Quinton around Middlesbrough town centre. He sussed us and led us a merry dance.

Did John Nettles really play a unicorn in a terrible CGI film with Rik Mayall? We find out in episode 6, but to be honest the answer is going to be yes isn't it? linktr.ee/PantoSplaining www.youtube.com/shorts/3wn-k...

How do you think Chris "Brian Tilsley" Quinten met his wife Leeza Gibbons? If you said "live on a telethon in New Zealand" you're absolutely correct! Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

How do you think Chris "Brian Tilsley" Quinten met his wife Leeza Gibbons? If you said "live on a telethon in New Zealand" you're absolutely correct! Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

It's not just terrible records from the likes of Russell Grant and Jess Conrad OBE we cover on PantoSplaining, we also cover ace ones as well. Such as this tribute to stock car racing by TV's Selwyn Froggitt, from episode 4. Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

It's not just terrible records from the likes of Russell Grant and Jess Conrad OBE we cover on PantoSplaining, we also cover ace ones as well. Such as this tribute to stock car racing by TV's Selwyn Froggitt, from episode 4. Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

What was *your* favourite Unlikely Celebrity Who Fronted A Video Game in the 80s?

Here's @outonbluesix.bsky.social singing the praises of PantoSplaining on Radio Berkshire yesterday. Thanks Tim!

Ruth Madoc's discography? Is this the sort of thing you want from your podcasts these days? If so, then listen to PantoSplaining at linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

Here's @outonbluesix.bsky.social singing the praises of PantoSplaining on Radio Berkshire yesterday. Thanks Tim!

Something I was trying to find after hearing this, which unfortunately has disappeared, is an HTV pilot called Shaping Up, about a fitness group that RM made in 88 just after Hi-De-Hi! wrapped. Through no fault of hers, it's terrible. But it was the On the Buses writers. www.imdb.com/title/tt6717...

Ruth Madoc's discography? Is this the sort of thing you want from your podcasts these days? If so, then listen to PantoSplaining at linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

Obviously we edit these little clips to entice you in to listen to the whole thing. But with this one even if you've no intention of doing that *please* play this snippet and listen to another one of Jess Conrad OBE's truly jaw-droppingly awful records from the 1st episode. Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

Burned in my head as the computer in Kappatoo

Not just ‘helped get Peep Show on telly’ - co-created, co-produced and co-wrote it. It blows my mind that it’s the same person as well tbh.

Meanwhile over at PantoSplaining we're getting all confused. youtu.be/plWUBpdcQes?...

Obviously we edit these little clips to entice you in to listen to the whole thing. But with this one even if you've no intention of doing that *please* play this snippet and listen to another one of Jess Conrad OBE's truly jaw-droppingly awful records from the 1st episode. Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

BLOODY HELL TIM! @outonbluesix.bsky.social shouting out @pantosplaining.bsky.social with a clip live on Radio Berkshire! I'm genuinely beaming!

"That's Magic!"

You can't say you don't learn stuff listening to PantoSplaining. Whilst looking into videogame star Geoff Capes in Episode 2 we investigated the world of The Budgerigar Society, of which he was president! Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

The comedy text adventure Dennis Through The Drinking Glass, which you play as Denis Thatcher. I never got very far with it, as you had to remember to take a drink every 10 turns.

Sadly the Spectrum version was never releases

Now, there was this one I had for my ZX Spectrum. I mean, I didn’t even know who Frankie Goes To Hollywood were at the time.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie...

How about Sabrina (of ‘Boys Boys Boys’ fame) and her self-titled game from 1989?

If we can extend it beyond the 80s, this one is highly topical…

I didn't own this..... *cough*

Hitler in ‘Nutter’ where the aim was to move him around and headbutt bombs before they landed.

This game frustrated me so much to the point of denting the keyboard on my +2 Could never get past the second boxer

For the loading screen alone, Peter Beardsley

Jonah Barrington's Squash, where it looks like he is weirdly suspended in mid-air on the cover.

And slightly off-tangent, we had this ‘game’ as kids. We had an Acorn Electron and a BBC ‘B and someone gave us a big box of shitty Acornsoft games….

All I remember of it is the West Yorkshire media terrorists Smile Orange used elements of the Geoff Capes Spectrum soundtrack in their early films, for some reason. And if it's good enough for St Etienne's Gus Bousfeld...

What was *your* favourite Unlikely Celebrity Who Fronted A Video Game in the 80s?