Behind the Scenes with Colin Edmonds

Behind the Scenes with Colin Edmonds

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Behind the Scenes with Colin Edmonds episodes

  • From Bob Monkhouse, John Cleese and Sir Roger Moore to appearing on Top Gear – the incredible career of radio host and master interviewer John Foster

    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 Roger Moore. With almost every major British and Hollywood performer having guested on his daily shows, and appearing worldwide on Top Gear, John also tells what it was really like at the centre of major and often tragic breaking news stories in the North East. We also find out why, with his passion for show business and natural talent for hosting the highest rating regional shows in the country, he decided to take a step back from his dream job…

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    1 hr 5 min
  • From operating cameras to directing them – top LE executive Mick Thomas on working with Cilla, Ant & Dec, Jonathan Ross, Bradley Walsh and Barbra Streisand.

    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 & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English

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    Buy Steam, Smoke and Mirrors

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    Buy The Lazarus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 2

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    Buy The Nostradamus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 3

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    1 hr 9 min
  • Graham Norton, Ant & Dec, Cilla Black and Radio Caroline – the amazing world of top TV Sound Supervisor Rob Ashard

    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 Saturday Night Live’. Not his words, but director Ian Hamilton’s. We also learn how Rob spends his spare time behind the mic at the Santa Pod Raceway and spinning the discs as a much-respected popular DJ on Radio Caroline.

    Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English

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    Buy Steam, Smoke and Mirrors

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    Available on Audible

    Buy The Lazarus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 2

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    Buy The Nostradamus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 3

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    1 hr 10 min
  • TV Legend Ian Hamilton returns to talk about David Frost, Frankie Howerd and more. Oh, and The Playboy Mansion!

    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.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Working with the great figures of history, plus Sir David Jason and Sir Ridley Scott - the remarkable career of documentary film-maker, John Naylor.

    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. He’s worked on Time Team, Scrapheap Challenge and Timewatch. Also a master prop maker, we hear how, with his son Sam, John once built an entire Tardis console from scratch in less than 3 days - and recently designed and opened a brand NEW television and film studio and costume facility in Sheffield.

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    1 hr
  • Puppets to the Palladium, Cilla to I’m A Celebrity, Michael Parkinson to Miss World – the award-winning career of entertainment Producer-Director Ian Hamilton

    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 spare time. Also, what was it really like in the Australian jungle during that first pioneering series of I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!?

    Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English

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    Website: https://www.steamsmokeandmirrors.com/

    Buy Steam, Smoke and Mirrors

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    Buy The Lazarus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 2

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    Buy The Nostradamus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 3

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    1 hr 14 min
  • From Universal & Hammer film horrors to Neil Gaiman & Stephen King - crowd-pleasing entertainer Joe Pasquale returns to talk about his writing, paintings & passion for all things fantasy & horror

    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

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    Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English

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    Website: https://www.steamsmokeandmirrors.com/

    Buy Steam, Smoke and Mirrors

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    Available on Audible

    Buy The Lazarus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 2

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    Available on Audible

    Buy The Nostradamus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 3

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    1 hr 12 min
  • From Larry Grayson and Danny La Rue to Sir Terry Wogan and other Royalty – BBC TV Producer/Director Kevin Bishop’s stellar career

    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 by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English

    Facebook: colin.edmonds.73

    Instagram: colinedmondsssm

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    Website: https://www.steamsmokeandmirrors.com/

    Buy Steam, Smoke and Mirrors

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    Available on Audible

    Buy The Lazarus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 2

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    Available on Audible

    Buy The Nostradamus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 3

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    58 min
  • Liverpool legend Pete Price fondly remembers Cilla Black, Tommy Cooper, Spike Milligan and Bob Monkhouse

    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 internationally acclaimed radio talk show.  

    Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English

    Facebook: colin.edmonds.73

    Instagram: colinedmondsssm

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    Website: https://www.steamsmokeandmirrors.com/

    Buy Steam, Smoke and Mirrors

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    Available on Audible

    Buy The Lazarus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 2

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    Available on Audible

    Buy The Nostradamus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 3

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    1 hr 21 min
  • Scandals, scoops, sackings and secrets of the media – Garry Bushell’s back to dish the dirt.

    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 music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English

    Facebook: colin.edmonds.73

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    Website: https://www.steamsmokeandmirrors.com/

    Buy Steam, Smoke and Mirrors

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    Available on Audible

    Buy The Lazarus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 2

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    Available on Audible

    Buy The Nostradamus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 3

    Available at Caffeine Nights

    Available at Amazon

    1 hr 5 min

About Behind the Scenes with Colin Edmonds

From the publisher's feed

After 50 years of writing comedy for most of the UK's highest-profile comics and performers, Colin now chats with those who work behind the scenes in television: from the camera operators, and sound supervisors to the directors and producers; and in show business: from the stars to the stagehands - who all share their never-before-heard memories and anecdotes.