The Keep Dancing Podcast

Episode 4: A Series of Really Cool TikToks

Ellie is joined by Ann, Meg and Elliot at the movies (or is it Musical Week Part 1?) where weirdness reigned and nothing made vast amounts of sense.

Topics tackled:

- A lengthy diversion in general praise of drag kings

- Are the AR graphics a treat or a punishment?

- Is Luba Santa?

- We get distracted and think about a totally different cha cha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf2wJ8CZY1s

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Ellie is joined by AJ, Emily and Elliot to talk about the second competitive week of Strictly.

- Max Wanted can finally be his own, wholesome man

- Elliot reacts live to the potential horrors of Movie Week

- James Clerk Maxwell, the musical?

- Sleeves and collars in ballroom wear: a conspiracy theory

- A little bit of the theory of pedagogy as it relates to Anton’s partners

- Complete meltdown over a very special outfit

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Ellie is joined (even more remotely than usual) by AJ, Emily, Elliot and Meg to talk about the first competitive week of Strictly.

We’ve had a bit of an epic technical fail so the format is a bit less interactive, but we’re still here to get judgey about the judging, praise our faves, declare our inexplicable grudges and work out who wore the Frock of the Week.

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Ellie is joined by Anne, AJ, Emily, Elliott and Meg to cast their eye over our twelve brand pairs competing for the sanitised, socially-distant 2020 glitterball. Our predictions are historically entertainingly wrong, but we’re making them anyway.

Also in this show:

- Hug Curtains, how and why?

- Has Men Behaving Badly aged well? No.

- Please yeet responsibly

- Who’s sharing a box of white toner?

- A big NO to men with two first names

- What does Dave Arch’s Orchestral Filter look like?

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It’s the Keep Dancing Podcast preview of the 2020 series of Strictly Come Dancing. Ellie is joined by the full pod roster of Ann, Elliot, Milly, Meg and Vikki and we have a lot of questions, including:

- How does perfect pitch help you find the groove?

- Has Max been to America?

- Who is now as relevant as a tamagotchi?

- Who should dance with our fave, Nicola Adams?

- How have Strictlies around the world been dealing with the ‘rona?

The finale of Sewing Bee contains some incredible sewing, dizzying heights of embellishment and significant others.


The finale of Keep Sewing contains incredible chat, dizzying heights of double entendre and significant digressions.

- The nicest fabric Ellie ever touched

- Maths anxiety and dyscalculia

- The most disgusting tartans

- Esme’s impressive name drop

- ’That sweaty leatherette feeling’

- Sentimental feelings about the contestants <3

- What are we sewing this summer?

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Film week seems to have not been a terrific box office hit, but there’s always something to discuss. Ellie is joined by Meg and Milly to talk screen lewks. Featuring:

- Milly has fantastic fabric facts!

- What underwear do you wear with the 7 year itch dress

- Hunting through Dad’s garage, but make it fashion!

- Ellie recommends the film Paradise Heights

- The very first Pun Run in Keep Dancing Pod history

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The loosely themed ‘international’ week provides plenty of cause for digression. Join Ellie, Meg and Milly to talk about another week of the Sewing Bee! Includes:

- Would we prefer technique based themes?

- What does Imelda Marcos have to do with it?

- Upholstery fabric syndrome

- The ration book sewing challenge

- Words finally fail Ellie

- And a mouse

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Ellie, Milly and Meg go back to the Imaginary Eighties, where everyone is a power suited capitalist monster.

- A mathematical description of a tailors ham

- What are the washing instructions on a PVC blazer?

- When did fashion start repeating itself? We investigate

- Acid house: the genre that apparently isn’t allowed to be described

- It’s always gussets with us

- A lengthy digression about the London Boys which was originally EVEN LONGER

- How much fabric are they allowed to buy?

Ellie and Meg try to make something new out of a bag of old bits in Reduce Reuse Recycle week. Featuring:

- Varying levels of nostalgia for charity shops

- We’re living for small, peculiar insights into the inner life of Patrick Grant

- We would not like to comment on Therese’s buttons

- The joy and thrill of recreational steeking!

- A lengthy diversion into wild early 90s knitwear magazines

- A surprising appearance and much-needed call out