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 online cookery class arrive from various parts of the United Kingdom to meet up with their tutor Margot, who is about to fly in from Australia for a visit.

The cast was, in order of appearance: Flloyd Kennedy as Ilse, Helen and Margot; Wendy Lap as Rosemary and Katie; Erika Sanderson as Susie and Juliana; Andrea Richardson as Caroline, Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Karim Kronfli as Pierre and Roy R Carruthers as Freddie. The music was by John T La Barbera, and the script and production design was by Flloyd Kennedy.

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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.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/australian-bushfires-why-they-are-unprecedented.

My sister, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, tells me the smell of smoke is all pervading at the moment.

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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 Edinburgh, Duncan provides the ‘sannies’ (that’s Scots for sandwiches) for a picnic with Malcy and Heather. And on Zoom, Caroline hosts the graduation party, with a surprise ending.

The cast, in order of appearance, was: Flloyd Kennedy as Margot, Karim Kronfli as Mr Kandinsky, Piyush Agarwal as Raman Gujral, Frankii Phoenix as Angelica, Erika Sanderson as Julianna, Andrew Durning as Malcy, Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Wendy Lap as Heather, Rob Pensalfini as Arthur Brownlow, Andrea Richardson as Caroline, Roy R Carruthers as Freddie, Wendy Lap as Rosemary and Karim Kronfli as Pierre.

The musical themes were composed, arranged and performed by John T La Barbera. Editing and sound design by Flloyd Kennedy, who also wrote and produced the podcast.  

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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 Carruthers as Freddie, Andrea Richardson as Caroline, Rob Pensalfini as Arthur and introducing Piyush Agarwal as Raman Gujral. Stick around next week for Episode 8, the series finale!  Please help us to spread the word to a wider audience, tell you friends to go to bakedoffpodcast.com where they’ll find links to all their favourite podcasting apps.

Thanks to all of our generous donors, helping to provide a small fee to all of the actors who have shared their time and talents so generously, as well as our musical impresario, John T La Barbera, who composed and arranged all the the music through the whole series. 

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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, Australia) manoeuvres her way round the progress of all the online class participants.

You heard (in order of appearance) Frankii Phoenix as Sammy and Angelica, Tayo Aluko as Ade, Erika Sanderson as Julianna, Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Flloyd Kennedy as Margot, Wendy Lap as Rosemary, Roy R Carruthers as Freddie and Andrea Richardson as Caroline. Now, as you know, audio fiction podcasts might be free to listen to, but they are not free to make, so we are running a crowdfunded campaign to raise funds to pay all of the artists involved, including the voice actors, composer/musician (that’s John T La Barbera) as well as the editor and sound designer. You are welcome to donate there, and the link is https://crowdfundr.com/bakedoffthepodcast. Or you can pop over to buymeacoffee.com/bakedoffthepodcast to leave a tip of any amount from a pound or a dollar. Thanks so much to everyone who has donated so far, we are enormously grateful. All of our subscribers, followers and supporters are welcome to join our Discord at https://discord.gg/m3KHAHHqqv.

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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: Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Andrew Durning as Malcy, Wendy Lap as Heather, and Rosemary, Erika Sanderson as Julianna, Flloyd Kennedy as Edie and Margot, Rob Pensalfini as Dr Arthur Brownlow, Andrea Richardson as Caroline and Roy R Carruthers as Freddie. The music is arranged, composed and performed by John T La Barbera.

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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 Julianna seem to be having more success with their loaves. Rosemary, however, has more to contend with than keeping her starter alive. 

In this episode you heard Bernadette Pryde as Hilary, John Warner As William Askew, Rob Pensalfini as Arthur Brownlow, Andrea Richardson as Caroline, Karim Kronfli as Pierre, Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Roy J Carruthers as Freddie, Erika Sanderson as Julianna, Wendy Lap as Rosemary and Flloyd Kennedy as Margot and Edie. The music is composed, adapted and performed by John T La Barbera.  Please support the show, by sharing it with your pals. And you can either leave a one off tip of $1 or £1 (or more) or take out a monthly subscription at buymeacoffee.com/bakedoff. The actual transcript is available on the episode website bakedoffpodcast.com/s1e4. 

And here we are, halfway through the series! Only 4 more episodes to go.  It would be so helpful if you would rate and review, either in your podcasting app, or on the website bakedoffpodcast.com/reviews. Thank you!! 

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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 intended.

Cast:

Flloyd Kennedy - Margot, Edie; Christopher McDougall - Duncan - Erika Sanderson - Julianna; Frankii Phoenix - Angelica; Andrea Richardson - Caroline; Wendy Lap - Rosemary; Roy J Carruthers - Freddie

Music by John T La Barbera

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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...

The theme music for the series and for the Zoom class, is composed and performed by John T La Barbera, who also arranged and performed the themes for Scotland, England and Australia, which are based on the traditional folk tunes “Comin’ Thru the Rye”, “An English Country Garden” and “Waltzing Matilda - the Queensland version”.

Cast: in order that they are heard

Christopher McDougall as Duncan

Rob Pensalfini as Dr Arthur Brownlow

Erika Sanderson as Julianna

Frankii Phoenix as Sammy

Andrew Durning as Malcy (Malcolm)

Roy Carruthers as the Checkout Person

Wendy Lap as Heather

Andrea Richardson as Caroline

Roy Carruthers as Freddie

Wendy Lap as Rosemary

Transcript is available on the episode website: https://bakedoffpodcast.com/s1e2

The theme music for the series, and for the Zoom class, is composed and performed by John T La Barbera, who also arranged and performed the themes for Scotland, England and Australia, which are based on the traditional folk tunes “Comin’ Thru the Rye”, “An English Country Garden” and “Waltzing Matilda - the Queensland version”.

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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 their progress as they try to learn how to make sourdough bread, while dealing with all the challenges that life throws in their way.

There are musical themes based on traditional folk tunes arranged by musician composer John T La Barbera: for Duncan in Scotland, you'll hear "Comin' Through the Rye"; Julianna, in England, is introduced by "An English Country Garden". For Margot, in Brisbane, Australia, you'll hear "Waltzing Matilda - the Queensland Version". The podcast theme, and that of the cookery class, is an original composition by John.

In the regular Zoom sessions, you’ll also encounter Caroline, who produces the classes from her home in Hampshire, Freddie, a retired postman in Lancashire and Rosemary, a young barista in London. And here they all are, in Episode 1 “Loaves, Actually”. Enjoy!

Cast:

Christopher McDougall as Duncan

Wendy Lap as Heather and Rosemary

Tayo Aluko as Ade

Frankii Phoenix as Sammy

Erika Sanderson as Julianna

Flloyd Kennedy as Margot and Edie

Andrea Richardson as Caroline

Roy R Carruthers as Freddie

Editing and Sound Design by Flloyd Kennedy

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