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PantoSplaining
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We pluck a poster from panto history and look at what we can find out about it for a real deep dive with many diversions into silliness.

First episode HERE NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovYesOJsi88

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🎭 PantoSplaining is here! 🎭

It's out now, and it's in-vision so you can see the poster (with visual aids) as you listen.

youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88?...

..or wherever you get your podcasts! Just search PantoSplaining!
PantoSplaining - The Pilot Episode
YouTube video by ALFsplaining
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Thankyou to Louis for supporting us on the radio in our contretemps with Jess Conrad (OBE).

You can still listen to and watch the full, unedited pilot of PantoSplaining at youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88?...

We take a deep dive into the poster for Cinderella at Ashton Under Lyne's Tameside Theatre in 1990.
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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That outdoor photo has all the makings of the year's angriest, shoutiest indie album cover which 6 Music are going to *wet* themselves over.
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The @pantosplaining.bsky.social team had a night out yesterday in a storm to see Still Pushing Pineapples, an outstanding new film about Black Lace's Dene Michael. And we took the opportunity for a pic at the Bradford Alhambra.
November 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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There will be some here who will remember when Cook'd and Bomb'd Radio got hold of Jess Conrad OBE's phone number and rang him up in the middle of the night.
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Already my favourite Panto Poster Podcast, and you can quote me on that.
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The slightly edited video version of our first episode is back on Spotify!

open.spotify.com/episode/4EJu...
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Really enjoyed the first episode of @pantosplaining.bsky.social If they want a special celebrity guest star for an episode, I went to this panto and bought a copy of “Ooh I Could Crush A Grape” from Stu Francis himself at the stage door. No memory of the Chuckle Brothers though.
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Just finished listening to this and it's excellent.
Due to a small technical issue the video version of PantoSplaining is temporarily missing from Spotify. But you should really watch it on YouTube, our favoured platform.

youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88?...

Or listen to the audio version and look at this picture of the poster.
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🎭 PantoSplaining is here! 🎭

It's out now, and it's in-vision so you can see the poster (with visual aids) as you listen.

youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88?...

..or wherever you get your podcasts! Just search PantoSplaining!
PantoSplaining - The Pilot Episode
YouTube video by ALFsplaining
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Due to a small technical issue the video version of PantoSplaining is temporarily missing from Spotify. But you should really watch it on YouTube, our favoured platform.

youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88?...

Or listen to the audio version and look at this picture of the poster.
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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What a terrific idea!
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Brian Tilsley in Robocop, Jess Conrad's Sexy Black Stockings and Norman Collier in Freddie Starr's Russ Abbot's Madhouse.

All these things and more are discovered, excavated and archived by PantoSplaining in our first episode. IN VISION!

youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88?...
PantoSplaining - The Pilot Episode
YouTube video by ALFsplaining
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Very much enjoying the Jess Conrad chat, thought you might appreciate this pic of him auditioning for the part of the Dalek Emperor in 1967.
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Loved the first episode of @pantosplaining.bsky.social! I’m still scarred from watching the telethon and now I can add the black stockings song to the list.
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I listened to this earlier today and I enjoyed it a lot.
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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‘The goal with this, perhaps, is for us to actually *be* in panto.’
‘Is it?’

Laughed a lot during this.
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Have you listened to PantoSplaining yet, where two blokes take a deep dive into this poster? Everybody else is talking about it, you don't want to miss out!

youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Here is the first poster we will be looking at in detail, at PantoSplaining!
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Wow, what a first episode. Who knew it would be so personal to me.

1. I lived in Ashton-U-Lyne from 1972 to 2010.
2. Me & Mrs Choons worked for Tameside Council for many years.
3. Mrs Choons was a member of Noreen Dickinson’s Juveniles and Cinderella was her final panto.
She was in these too.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Here’s as essential service I never knew I needed until 2 minutes ago.
Here is the first poster we will be looking at in detail, at PantoSplaining!
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Here is the first poster we will be looking at in detail, at PantoSplaining!
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM