Soho Bites Podcast

By Dominic DelargyTV & Film Society & Culture Documentary Arts Film History

Soho Bites Podcast episodes

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.
14 min
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.
12 min
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.
14 min
July 21, 2020 Soho Bites 15: Tonight & Every Night (1945)
Windmill part 3
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
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45 min
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.
13 min
July 08, 2020 Mural Morsels 06 - Fanny Kelly
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, theatre director, Luke Dixon, talks about actress, impresario and drag-king, Fanny Kelly. Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on July 17th 2020.
13 min
July 04, 2020 Mural Morsels 05 - Shelley
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, Ken Hollings, talks about a former resident of Poland St, Percy Shelley. Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on July 10th 2020.
13 min
July 01, 2020 Soho Bites 14: Murder at the Windmill (1949)
Windmill part 2
As far as we know (and please do let us know if we have got this wrong) there have been four films made about the Windmill Theatre. Murder at the Windmill was the second of these and is the film under discussion in this, the second instalment of our three-part mini-series about “The Mill”. Dr Ellen Wright of De Montford University joined us to talk about this low budget comedy / musical / thriller from 1949.
The other three Windmill films are Secrets of Windmill Girl (1966) which we talked about in episode four, Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) which was the subject of our last episode and Tonight & Every Night (1945) which is the film we’re talking about in the next episode. We will then have done ALL the Windmill films. Enough already!
Murder at the Windmill is available to view on Archive.org, listed by it’s US name, Mystery at the Burlesque
In this episode we have the second instalment of our conversation with Jill Millard Shapiro who was a Windmill girl in the late 50s & early 60s. She tells us about her time there, how she got her big break, some of the household names who kickstarted their careers on Great Windmill Street and about her Soho film-star boyfriend/not boyfriend.
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.
Dr Ellen Wright and her attractive assistant in an episode of the their cheese themed vlog – “Fun with Fromage”
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A 1949 article about Murder at the Windmill
Jill’s book, Remembering Revudeville will set you back a few quid, but it’s fantastic record of the Windmill Theatre.
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
47 min
June 27, 2020 Mural Morsels 04 - Jeffrey Bernard
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, the cartoonist, Michael Heath, talks about his friend, the notorious Jeffrey Bernard. Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on July 2nd 2020.
14 min
June 24, 2020 Mural Morsels 03 - Jessie Matthews
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 we talk to Rob Baker about Soho's very own film-star, Jessie Matthews. Originally broadcast on The Soho Hour on June 26th 2020
13 min

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Soho, that one square mile at the heart of bohemian, cosmopolitan London, has been the setting for a surprisingly large number of films. In each episode of Soho Bites, producer and presenter Dominic Delargy is joined by a special guest to discuss a different Soho film, accompanied by a shorter, thematically linked item drawing on Soho's rich history of crime, music, art, vice & film.

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