Soho Bites Podcast

By Dominic Delargy

A surpisingly large number of films have been set in Soho - that one square mile which has, for decades, been the beating heart of bohemian, cosmopolitan London. In each episode of Soho Bites, we talk... more

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September 17, 2020 Mural Morsels 12 - William Hogarth
A series of short features made for https://sohoradiolondon.com/ (Soho Radio). Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, the subject is William Hogarth and https://twitter.com/dom_delargy (Dom) talks to art historian and Hogarth's biographer, Dr Jacqueline Riding. Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on October 4th 2020.
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September 16, 2020 Soho Bites 17: Cover Girl Killer (1959)
It’s all about mucky magazines in this episode, although the publication at the centre of our featured film is very mild stuff compared to others that would come after. In Cover Girl Killer from 1959, a madman played by Harry H Corbett is bumping off the models who appear on the cover of the fictional, “Wow!” magazine. Theatre director, Luke Dixon joins us to talk about the film and the conversation takes place in the very spot in which at least one of the murders occurs.
This is the second Harry H Corbett Soho film we’ve talked about on Soho Bites, the first was Rattle of a Simple Man in episode 5. There’s one more to go….
Cover Girl Killer trailer
To kick off the show, Dom travelled out to Ealing to meet David McGillivray. Awarded the unofficial title,”The Truffaut of Smut” by Matthew Sweet, David literally wrote the book about the history of British sex films, Doing Rude Things, so Dom picked his brains about an early and prolific Soho smut-peddler, Harrison Marks.
A couple of pictures of Harrison Marks - one where he's promoting Naked as Nature Intended in 1961 via the medium of one of his humorous faces and another towards the end of his life at home in Tottenham
Listen to Luke Dixon’s recent appearance on Mural Morsels talking about Fanny Kelly and follow him on Instagram.
Follow David McGillivray on Twitter and buy Doing Rude Things.
Watch David and Julian Clary at the launch of his autobiography, Little Did You Know. Buy it HERE
The originator of Soho Bites, Dr Jingan Young, has launched a new research project. Find out all about it on the Cities in Cinema website and follow the project on Twitter.
Thank you for listening.
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We're now on YouTube
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We'd love it if you left us a lovely REVIEW.
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Check out our spin-off series Mural Morsels
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47min
September 06, 2020 Mural Morsels 11 - Ronnie Scott
A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom talks to painter, writer, musician & all-round polymath, Barry Fantoni, about his friend, Ronnie Scott.
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14min
September 04, 2020 Soho Bites episode one
In episode one of this new series of Soho Bites, Jingan Young talks to Professor Michael Berkowitz from UCL about the 1963 classic Soho movie, "The Small World of Sammy Lee" and Dom Delargy goes drinking in Soho with the chaps from ReelStreets.com
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40min
August 27, 2020 Soho Bites 16: Soho Conspiracy (1950)
Episode 16: Soho Conspiracy (1950) & Dr Adrian Smith on EJ Fancey
This is our Fancey episode and no, that’s not a typo. Edwin J Fancey (or EJ) was a Soho based film producer and distributor who made a fortune by churning out cheaply made films and by not always operating within those pesky confines of the law.
Fancey would have been forgotten, were it not for the efforts of Talking Pictures TV (who sometimes screen his films and even released a box set of his back catalogue) and those of Dr Adrian Smith from Sussex University who has researched and written about Fancey. He joins us in the first half of the show to talk about this forgotten Soho character.
In the second half of the show, Dom is joined, in a socially distant manner of course, by all three presenters of the Talking Pictures TV podcast – Mel Byron, Scott Phipps and Daniel Reiffersheid – to discuss one of EJ Fancey’s films, Soho Conspiracy from 1950. It concerns the efforts of some people to raise some money…. to do a thing and… to have a… another thing, but the… some Italian people get excited…. er…. people in a restaurant….I have no idea what this terrible film is about.
Not quite a trailer, more of a montage of random moments from Soho Conspiracy
During the course of researching Soho Conspiracy, we discovered it was based on an Italian film called Mad About Opera. Not only based upon it though. It turns out that large portions of Mad About Opera are lifted wholesale and inserted into Soho Conspiracy. See the original, in it entirety, HERE (with English subtitles and a Russian voice over!)
The “hilarious”, “Italian” waiters in Soho Conspiracy were played by tap dancing fraternal double-act, Syd & Max Harrison. You can watch them doing the day job that they arguably should have stuck to.
Adrian Smith has a blog and regularly reviews films on Letterboxd. And today is as good a day as any to read his PhD thesis.
The other projects of the Talking Pictures TV podcast team are many and varied:
Mel Byron is a stand up comedian and Leadership Trainer. Find information about her on her website.
Scott Phipps has, frankly, too many podcasts for one person. As well as TPTV he is part of The Reel Britannia podcast, Stinking Pause, and Rainbow Valley .
Daniel Reifferscheid has two podcasts – brush up your Portugese for Prestes A Ver and if movie music is your thing, check out You Know the Score.
The originator of Soho Bites, Dr Jingan Young, has launched a new research project. Find out all about it on the Cities in Cinema website and follow the project on Twitter.
Thank you for listening.
Follow us on Blue Sky (our Xwitter account is no more)
We're now on YouTube
Email us at [email protected]
We'd love it if you left us a lovely REVIEW.
And if you'd like to help support the show we'd be very grateful.
Check out our spin-off series Mural Morsels
In fact, see all relevant links HERE
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47min
August 21, 2020 Mural Morsels 10 - Angelica Kauffman
A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom talks to London tour guide, Nika Garrett about Angelica Kauffman Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on August 28th 2020.
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14min
August 20, 2020 Mural Morsels 09 - George Melly
A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, Dom talks to Oscar nominated composer, Gary Yershon about Soho polymath, George Melly. Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on August 21st 2020.
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12min
July 24, 2020 Mural Morsels 08 - Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell
A series of short features made for Soho Radio. Each week we talk to a different person about somebody in the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, https://twitter.com/dom_delargy (Dom) talks to Elaine Galloway from the Old Royal Naval College about the magnificently named Sir Cloudsley Shovel. Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on July 31st 2020.
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14min
July 21, 2020 Soho Bites 15: Tonight & Every Night (1945)
This is the third and final episode in a mini-series about films set at the Windmill Theatre. Adam Roche from the Secret History of Hollywood and Attaboy Clarence podcasts joins us to talk about Tonight and Every Night – a glitzy, Technicolor Rita Hayworth vehicle set at the Windmill. We have now done EVERY film made about the Windmill and that’s enough for any podcast. Listen to the episode to hear the official Soho Bites order of preference. We would have called it a chart but four doesn’t seem to be enough to constitute a chart.
In this scene from the film, Rita Hayworth sings You Excite Me
Marc Platt as Tommy, auditions for Mrs Tolliver at the The Music Box Theatre (ie Mrs Henderson at the Windmill Theatre) including a very strange dance to a speech by Adolph Hitler.
The episode contains the last instalment of our conversation with Jill Millard Shapiro who was a Windmill girl in the late 50s & 60s. She talks about Keith Lester, choreographer at the Windmill and about the theatre’s final days.
Former Windmill girl, Jill Millard Shapiro at the end of a very long, socially distancing microphone cable (it was at the height of the pandemic!)
Pictures of Jill then and now.
Jill’s book, Remembering Revudeville will set you back a few quid, but it’s fantastic record of the Windmill Theatre.
Amazing video of girls auditioning for the first Revudeville company in 1932
The founder of Soho Bites, Dr Jingan Young, has launched a new research project. Find out all about it on the Cities in Cinema website and follow the project on Twitter
Thank you for listening.
Follow us on Blue Sky (our Xwitter account is no more)
We're now on YouTube
Email us at [email protected]
We'd love it if you left us a lovely REVIEW.
And if you'd like to help support the show we'd be very grateful.
Check out our spin-off series Mural Morsels
In fact, see all relevant links HERE
...more
45min
July 18, 2020 Mural Morsels 07 - Casanova
A series of short features from Soho Bites made for https://sohoradiolondon.com/ (Soho Radio). In each episode we talk to a different person about a figure from the Spirit of Soho Mural. This week, biographer, Ian Kelly discusses Casanova. Music by https://kerrymuzzey.com/ (Kerry Muzzey). Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on July 24th 2020.
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13min

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