The Keep Dancing Podcast

After week 2, we've got all sorts of strong views, especially about the end result. We're sorting the Improvers from the Dead Ringers with the help of new crew member Ann - she's sort of like our Shirley Ballas. Emily still likes Davood, Richard ventures views on frocks and Ellie has plans to start a commune with Susan, Susan's wife Lee, Jonnie and everyone else who loves Jonnie.

And just in case you were wondering, the velvet & ermine robe is faux. Obviously.

After the first live show, we try to work out who meets our expectations, who confounds our expectations and what our expectations were in the first place. Ellie is joined by Lisa, Emily and Richard to discuss the dances and by Ewan to try and work out the storyline of the whole series.

In our 2017 Strictly Come Dancing preview show, Ellie, Lisa and Emily assess the new contestants, make tentative forecasts on who would be their most suitable partners, bid a fond farewell to Bruce Forsyth and have the most incredible trouble remembering the names of the male pros.

We're back for more Strictly chat with a new judge, three new dancers and the first hints of the Strictly Class of 2017. Ellie and Lisa are your hosts and there's a couple of special, unexpected cameo appearances.

In Episode 18, we're recording straight after the result and we have a special guest - Ellie and Emily's mum, Julia.

- Did we approve of the judge's choice selections?

- Was the big prop in Ore & Joanne's show dance too big? (No!)

- The rules of the Eurovision drinking game and how they apply to Strictly

- Ellie & Emily's mum shaming them for being mean to Kevin

- Dawn leaves us a voicemail

As well as the usual chat and analysis we've got Frock of The Series to award.

Congratulations Ore & Joanne!

In Episode 17, it's the Semi Final and we're not so much angry as disappointed. Between the baffling scores and random judges comments we didn't get the best possible final line up.

Also this week:

- The most ridiculous prop of the series

- Claudia treated as an adult by everyone except Tess

- Ore rediscovers his charisma

- Danny and Oti created a perfect moment

- Louise fails to go Full Pineapple

Musicals week showcases the very best and very worst of Strictly's theme week excesses. In homage, this podcast contains some of our very best and very worst jokes.

We're sad about Rob Rinder leaving the competition, we're angry about the general concept of jukebox musicals and we are prepared to be slightly more patient with Louise. This lasts about thirty seconds.

Who wins Frock of the Week? Who do we think will be in the Final? And will we ever get to the bottom of why Anton looks and sounds exactly like Bruce Forsyth?

Episode 15 - Goodbye and thanks for all the GIFs.

We bid a sort-of fond goodbye to Ed Balls and tie ourselves in utter knots trying to work out if Danny & Oti’s incredible samba tips over from cultural celebration into cultural appropriation (in the end we decided that we don’t get to decide)

We ask if Joanne is trying to hide a love-bite with that spangly polo neck?

Tables in dance routines: good thing or bad thing or terrible thing?

Ellie has finally worked out what she wants from Louise

Whose idea was it for Robert to do a ‘friend’ rumba?

What is the deal with Claudia’s marks? They make no sense.

Why you should never go Doublé Bublé, even if very tempted.

We have a conspiracy theory about Ellie Goulding, Strictly and The Queen.

Also, we finish up with some outlandish predictions for the finals and the return of Nightie of The Week.

In Episode 14 we're chatting Blackpool and everything is at a sort of fever-pitch.

- Our props warehouse obsession continues

- The spreadsheet collapses in on itself

- You get your money's worth from Neil Jones

- Would Cersei Lannister flash her knickers in a paso doble? Yes, she would.

- Are our winter party looks based on our favourite childhood party frocks?

- We are all basically Team Oti in the final now and we don’t even care.

- Will Ed Balls Boaty McBoatface his way to the glitterball?

- Was ‘The Nicest Kids In Town’ an appropriate choice for a pro number?

Also, huge big love for Greg and Natalie! We’ll really miss you on our Strictly screens!

In Episode 13 we take a look at a show packed with incident, dense with desperation to get to the Blackpool Tower Ballroom.

In this episode:

- Emily gets put in charge of making the Playlist of Unbridled Joy

- We want to steal Daisy's moves

- We uncover a shocking omission from The Spreadsheet and get Ellie's views on Ceefax.

- We love Rob Rinder’s authentic self and demand that he does a rumba to the Cuban version of Woman In Love from Guys and Dolls.

- What Manic’s song could you do a rumba to?

- Ed’s trying. He’s really trying.

Next week, we'll be following 7 articulated lorries full of glittery props going up the M6 to Blackpool. What magic awaits us?