A reminder that Toyah is guesting on Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable on BBC Radio 6Music today. The programme will be available at BBC iPlayer after it airs.
Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable: BBC Radio 6Music
Thursday 12th March: 4.00pm
Steve hosts Roundtable and is joined by Toyah Willcox and Gideon Coe.
Toyah is making a return to Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable on BBC Radio 6Music later this month.
Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable: BBC Radio 6Music
Thursday 12th March: 4.00pm
Steve hosts Roundtable and is joined by Toyah Willcox and Gideon Coe.
There have been a number of radio interviews with Toyah over the last few weeks. Some have been converted to text articles over at The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive, with more to follow. Click below to read the transcripts.
As mentioned, Toyah guested on Eleri Sions show on BBC Radio Wales yesterday afternoon.
Toyah’s interview begins at approximately 2 hours 15 minutes into the programme. She talked about her tours for 2015, The Humans, Valentines Day, King Crimson, appearing on Top Of The Pops in the 80s, imagery, current female singers, and more. There was also a play of It’s A Mystery from The Acoustic Album.
• The interview runs for around 15 minutes and can be listened to, for the next 29 days at, BBC iPlayer.
Another radio interview with Toyah today. She is guesting on Eleri Sions show on BBC Radio Wales this afternoon.
Eleri chats to Toyah Willcox ahead of her brand new tour and has her mind read live on air by a master magician.
• The programme can be listened to live at the BBC Radio Wales website, or after it airs at BBC iPlayer.
As mentioned, Toyah was interviewed on The Afternoon Show with Claire Cavanagh on BBC Radio Bristol yesterday.
Toyah’s interview begins approximately 42 minutes into the programme. She began by recounting the story of how her Mother and Father first met in Weston-Super-Mare. Toyah also discussed her Acoustic, Up Close & Personal tour, the origins of her name, a future trip to Japan with the King Crimson tour, reality TV in general and the recent series of Celebrity Big Brother, using full cans of hairspray in the 80s, her diet, cookery programmes, unfulfilled ambitions, and more.
There was also a play of Good Morning Universe from The Acoustic Album.
• The interview runs for around 15 minutes and can be listened to, for the next 27 days at, BBC iPlayer. Browse the full schedule of forthcoming Acoustic, Up Close & Personal tour dates.
Toyah is guesting on The Afternoon Show with Claire Cavanagh on BBC Radio Bristol (also airing on BBC Radio Somerset) today at 2.40pm. The show begins at 2pm and can be listened to live at the BBC Radio Bristol website or at BBC iPlayer after it airs.
Toyah will be talking about the forthcoming Acoustic, Up Close & Personal gigs in Frome and Cardiff, taking place later this week.
Toyah is interviewed today at Monocle Radio, www.monocle.com, in a music magazine special of The Stack.
A music magazine special with Tony Herrington, the Editor-In-Chief of underground music magazine The Wire and music journalist and author Andrew Mueller. Also Toyah Willcox shares her experience as one of the 80s most featured musicians on the front cover of magazines.
The Stack – Essential listening for anyone who cares about what they read – and how they read it. The Stack is Monocle’s take on the world of print, focusing on everything from the glossiest fashion title to the grittiest newspaper.
• Listen to the programme, which runs for just under 35 minutes, at Monocle Radio. A podcast of the programme will also be available.
Toyah hosting The Personality Test, the radio quiz that’s all about her, airs again later this month on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
The 30 minute radio show, originally broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2007 and again in 2009, with guests including Sue Perkins and Robin Ince, will be available at BBC iPlayer post-broadcast.
The Personality Test: BBC Radio 4 Extra: Thursday 18th February: 9am/6pm
The Personality Test: BBC Radio 4 Extra: Friday 19th February: 1am
Toyah Willcox chairs the comedy quiz in which all the questions are about the guest host. Panellists are Sue Perkins, Caroline Quinlan, Robin Ince and Will Smith.
The first series of The Older Woman, the six-part radio drama which was originally broadcast in 1993, has been airing again on BBC Radio 4 Extra over the past few weeks.
Toyah plays Elsa, alongside Martun Clunes and Zoë Wanamaker as Roy and Jane. Episodes 5 and 6 air this week and next.
The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra
Wed 11th Feb: 7am/5.30pm | Thu 12th Feb: 5.30am
Episode 5 of 6. In a rare moment, Miss Callaghan apologises to her ex, lovestruck pupil Roy. Stars Zoe Wanamaker, Martin Clunes and Toyah Willcox. From February 1993.
The Older Woman: BBC R4 Extra: Wed 18th Feb: 7am/5.30pm | Thu 19th Feb: 5.30am
Episode 6 of 6. A letter and phone calls lift the lid on Jane’s chaotic love life. Stars Zoe Wanamaker, Martin Clunes and Toyah Willcox. From February 1993.
• Listen to episodes 1 – 4, which are currently available at BBC iPlayer. Episode 1 has less than a week left though!
Toyah guested on Afternoon with Alison Fearns on BBC Radio Sussex yesterday.
She chatted about her career, The Humans, Bill Rieflin, the forthcoming (Humans) gig at Trading Boundaries in Uckfield, her childhood, keeping healthy and more.
• The interview begins approximately 2 hours 38 minutes into the programme and runs for around 10 minutes, ending with a play of These Boots Are Made For Walkin’. It’s available at BBC iPlayer for the next 27 days.
Toyah guested on Philip Solomon’s Music and Memories show last night on WCR FM, chatting about her forthcoming Acoustic, Up Close & Personal gig at the Robin 2, Bilston in Wolverhampton. She also talked about her early life in Birmingham, husband Robert and more.
• The full show, and interview, is available at the WCR FM website on their Listen Again page. Toyah appears at approximately 17 minutes into the programme.
Toyah’s interview from last week’s Nicola Gilroy Show on BBC Radio Lincolnshire is available to listen to at BBC iPlayer.
There are short bursts of I Want To Be Free, It’s A Mystery and Thunder In The Mountains, before Toyah talks about her music career, her early acting career, the difference between the early 80s and now, her childhood, and punk. There’s then a full play of Free and more chat from Toyah, on Quadrophenia, working with Katharine Hepburn and more.
• The interview begins at approximately 2hr 6minutes into the show and runs for around 22 minutes. Listen here.
Toyah is guesting on Nicola Gilroy’s show on BBC Radio Lincolnshire tomorrow afternoon, ahead of her live date at Yardbirds Rock, Grimsby in March.
The Nicola Gilroy Show: BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Monday 19th January: 2pm
Entertainment, arts and what’s on in the afternoon with Nicola Gilroy.
• Listen live at the BBC Radio Lincolnshire website, or post-broadcast at BBC iPlayer.
The six-part radio drama, The Older Woman, in which Toyah plays Elsa airs again in January and February on BBC Radio. Originally broadcast by ‘BBC Radio 4′ in January and February 1993 it also stars Zoë Wanamaker and Martin Clunes as Jane and Roy. It’s being repeated by BBC Radio 4 Extra. Toyah also sings the theme tune – Listen here.
The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra: Wednesday 14th January: 7am/5.30pm
The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra: Thursday 15th January: 5.30am
Episode 1 of 6. Local hack journalist Roy Hitchcock tries to win the heart of his former teacher. Stars Zoë Wanamaker, Martin Clunes and Toyah Willcox, with David Troughton and Nicky Henson. The Older Woman is written by Tony Bagley.
The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra: Wednesday 21st January: 7am/5.30pm
The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra: Thursday 22nd January: 5.30am
Episode 2 of 6. Can Roy impress Jane by joining a green pressure group? Meanwhile, Pavarotti appears in his dreams with some invaluable advice. Stars Zoe Wanamaker, Martin Clunes and Toyah Willcox. From January 1993.
Thanks to Andrew McDougall for letting Dreamscape know about his latest radio show, which aired on “Radio Today” in South Africa on Wednesday. Andrew included info on The Humans and a play of the wonderful Amnesia, and it’s available to listen to as a podcast.
Canon Piper responds to listeners requests. The short story “”Willem Prinsloos peach brandy”” by one of South Africa’s greatest writers, Herman Charles Bosman, is read, along with a short bio and a song of the English rock band The Humans. Kensington has Scottish and English roots. We are still blessed to have the Scottish Pipers practice every Sunday right within our midst, and of course we have the Kensington Castle. Radio Today broadcasts on 1485 AM in Johannesburg and nationally on DStv audio channel 869. Radio Today also streams on its website www.1485.org.za and on cell phones on 1485.mobi. Radio Today. Radio that delivers.
• Listen to the show at Podomatic.
Six songs from Toyah’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane gig, and the final of the Good Morning Universe European Tour, from Christmas Eve 1981 have been aired by BBC 6 Music for the first time in over three decades. Listen for the next week at BBC iPlayer.
Toyah and The Moondogs: Chris Hawkins presents recordings from the BBC’s archive of live music. Tonight including Toyah recorded at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London in 1981, plus The Moondogs in session.
6 Music Live Hour: BBC 6 Music Thursday 11th September: 2.30am Chris Hawkins presents recordings from the BBC’s archive of live music, including Toyah at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London in 1981 plus The Moondogs in session. (Available at BBC iPlayer after airing)
Toyah discusses Kate Bush on today’s World at One. Click below to listen.
Tune into World at One today at 1:40pm, on BBC Radio 4, to hear Toyah on a feature which looks forward to Kate Bush’s opening night of ‘Before The Dawn’ tonight at Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith.
World at One: BBC Radio 4: Tuesday 26th Aug: 1pm
National and international news with Edward Stourton. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.UK or on twitter: #wato.
A Good Read: BBC Radio 4 Extra: Monday 25th August: 6.30pm
A Good Read: BBC Radio 4 Extra: Tuesday 26th August: 1.30am
4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Mavis Nicholson and Toyah Willcox discuss books by Anne Tyler, Ben Okri and F Scott Fitzgerald. From March 1998.
