The six-part radio drama, The Older Woman, in which Toyah plays Elsa airs again from next week for the first time in many years 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: Thursday 23rd May: 7am/5.30pm
The Older Woman: BBC Radio 4 Extra: Friday 24th May: 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. (A BBC Radio 4 Extra debut). The Older Woman is written by Tony Bagley.
Toyah guested on Jo Davies’ show on ‘BBC Radio Nottingham’ on Sunday afternoon. The short interview is available to listen to, for the next four days, at BBC iPlayer.
Toyah talks Hormonal Housewives and her career. There’s also a blast of ‘It’s A Mystery’
• The interview begins at approximately 13 minutes into the show and runs for around five minutes. Listen here.
Toyah guested on Laura Rawlings’ show on ‘BBC Radio Bristol’ last Thursday. The interview is still available to listen to at BBC iPlayer for the next couple of days.
Toyah talks Hormonal Housewives, thinking positively, celebrity culture, not becoming a politician, and her parents meeting in Weston-Super-Mare.
• The interview begins at approximately 12 minutes into the show and runs for around 14 minutes (which includes a play of ‘Mrs Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel). Listen here.
Toyah guested on Paula White’s show on ‘BBC Radio Stoke’ yesterday afternoon. The interview is available to listen to at BBC iPlayer and will remain online until next Thursday.
Toyah talks Hormonal Housewives and her early career. There’s also a blast of ‘It’s A Mystery’.
• The interview begins at approximately 2hrs 5ms into the show and runs for around seven minutes. Listen here.
Five more recent radio interviews with Toyah are now available, as transcripts, over at Lärwi’s fantastic fansite The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive: Radio Eagle, BBC Radio Derby, BBC Radio Leicester, BBC Radio Wiltshire and BBC Radio Humberside. Catch up on all of Toyah’s recent radio interviews and appearances in Dreamscape’s news feed here.
Toyah guested on David Burns’ show on ‘BBC Radio Humberside’ today. The interview is available to listen to at BBC iPlayer. It will remain online until next Wednesday.
Toyah talks Quadrophenia and its enduring legacy, Hormonal Housewives and more.
• The interview begins at approximately 2hrs 7ms into the show and runs for around six minutes. Listen here.
Toyah is guesting on David Burns’ show on BBC Radio Humberside tomorrow morning.
The programme begins airing at 9am and runs for three hours. It can be listened to live online at the BBC website, and will also be available at BBC iPlayer post broadcast.
David Burns: BBC Radio Humberside: Wednesday 1st May: 9.00am
Burnsy makes sense of the day’s big stories with your help.
Toyah guested on Kat Orman’s show on ‘BBC Radio Oxford’ yesterday afternoon. The interview is available to listen to at BBC iPlayer. It will remain online until next Thursday.
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• The interview begins at approximately 2hr 6ms into the programme and runs for around 25 minutes (including the music and a travel update). Toyah talks about what she’s been doing, enjoying work, her inspirations, how a lack of support drives her on, Madonna, memories of the 80s, Hormonal Housewives, previous visits to Oxford and more. There’s also plays of ‘I Want To Be Free’ and David Bowie’s ‘Life on Mars’.
Toyah guested on Su Davies’ show on ‘BBC Radio Wiltshire’ on Monday afternoon. The interview is available to listen to at BBC iPlayer. It will remain online until next Monday.
Toyah Willcox talks about Hormonal Housewives at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon. Find out about the first Festival Of Local in Purton. And Salisbury Arts Centre on Monday’s Movies.
• The interview begins at approximately 1hr 14ms into the show and runs for around six minutes. Toyah talks Hormonal Housewives, performing comedy, living in Wiltshire and more. She also participates in a short quiz. Listen here.
Monica Winfield’s BBC Radio Leicester show, which aired on Saturday morning and includes an interview with Toyah, is now available to listen to at BBC iPlayer.
There appears to be a fault with the audio for this and the first hour or so of the programme is silent but luckily it begins working just before Toyah’s interview begins, at just after 1hr 15m into the show.
Toyah talks Hormonal Housewives, touring and more. The interview lasts for around six minutes.
Toyah is guesting on Monica Winfield’s show on BBC Radio Leicester this morning.
The programme begins airing at 6am and runs for three hours. It can be listened to live online at the BBC website, and will also be available at BBC iPlayer post broadcast.
Monica Winfield: BBC Radio Leicester: Saturday 20th April: 6.00am
Olympic Gold medalist and Toyah Willcox. Find out why an Olympic Gold medal winning cyclist will be racing through the Leicestershire countryside this weekend. Plus, can answer Monica’s question of the day?
Toyah guested on Andy Potter’s show on ‘BBC Radio Derby’ yesterday afternoon. She talked Hormonal Housewives, her career, not looking back too much and more.
The interview begins around 17 minutes into the show, with a play of ‘I Want To Be Free’, and runs for approximately 11 minutes. ‘It’s A Mystery’ was also played.
The full programme is available at BBC iPlayer for the next week.
Toyah was interviewed by Stuart Provan on Eagle Radio last week. The interview is available to listen to at the station’s website or you can download a podcast. It’s located under “Local Theatre”.
Hormonal Housewives: Eagle Radio’s Stuart Provan chats to actress Toyah Willcox about Hormonal Housewives, which is coming to Guildford’s G-Live on Monday 8th April.
Toyah’s interview from the Justin Moorhouse show, which aired this morning, on ‘BBC Radio Manchester’ is now available to listen to at BBC iPlayer.
The interview begins at approximately 2hrs 3ms into the programme and runs for around 12 minutes. Toyah talks about her career, imagery, the difference between then and now, the power of comedy, Hormonal Housewives and more. There was also a play of ‘It’s A Mystery’.
The programme will be online at iPlayer for the next week.
Toyah is guesting on Justin Moorhouse’s show on BBC Radio Manchester on Monday morning.
The programme begins airing at 9am and runs for three hours through until Midday. It can be listened to live online at the BBC website, and will also be available to listen to at BBC iPlayer post broadcast.
Justin Moorhouse: BBC Radio Manchester: Monday 1st April: 9am
Justin speaks to Toyah Willcox about her latest project.
Toyah’s interview from yesterday’s Steve Wright In The Afternoon show on ‘BBC Radio 2’ is also now available for the next week as a podcast. It’s included in the latest “Steve Wright’s Big Guests”, which also includes Charlie Watts and Marcus Brigstoke.
Steve Wright’s Big Guests: 20 Mar 2013: Daily highlights from Steve Wright’s afternoon show on BBC Radio 2. Featuring chat with top showbiz guests. Steve and the team chat to The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts about his latest live gigs. Plus Marcus Brigstocke tells Steve about his comedy tour and Toyah Willcox tells all about her new touring show.
• Visit the BBC Podcasts & Downloads page.
A great interview with Toyah on today’s Steve Wright In The Afternoon show on ‘BBC Radio 2’, with Steve delving into Toyah’s past and talking about her early career and pop success in the Eighties. He also enquired whether her late 70’s/early 80s image was actually a persona or real.
Toyah also talks about currently touring with Hormonal Housewives, impersonating Madonna on crutches and much more. There were plays of ‘It’s A Mystery’ and ‘I Want To Be Free’.
The full show is available to listen to at BBC iPlayer (Toyah’s interview begins approximately two hours into the show and runs for around 20 minutes including the plays of the songs) or you can listen directly here or by clicking on the photo of Toyah below, taken at ‘BBC Radio 2’ last week when the interview was recorded. (Photo © BBC Radio 2)
Steve Wright’s interview with Toyah airs today on his BBC Radio 2 show. It was pre-recorded at the beginning of last week.
Steve Wright In the Afternoon: BBC Radio 2
Wednesday 20th March: 2.00pm
Steve chats to comic Marcus Brigstocke, singer Toyah Willcox and Stones drummer Charlie Watts. Plus, more fascinating Factoids to impress your friends and family with, the very latest lifestyle and entertainment news, half an hour of Non-Stop Oldies and a load of great music to see you through the afternoon.
The programme can be listened to live online at the ‘BBC Radio 2’ website. The show will be available to listen to at BBC iPlayer after it airs. Toyah’s interview may also be included on Steve Wright’s Big Guest’s Podcast: Daily highlights from Steve Wright’s afternoon show on BBC Radio 2. Featuring chat with top showbiz guests. The podcasts are updated daily and available for seven days.
A full transcript of the episode of Ramblings Toyah guested on, at the end of last month, is now available for your reading pleasure at The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive.
The interview was recorded at Croome Park, Worcestershire in January and aired on ‘BBC Radio 4’ on 28th February. It’s still available to download as a podcast from the BBC’s Podcast & Downloads page.
Read all of Dreamscape’s news on Ramblings here.
• Toyah makes her first live music appearance of 2013 today, at the ‘Here and Now: The Very Best Of The 80s’ Weekender in Bognor Regis. Also playing over the weekend are Midge Ure, Hazel O’Connor, Paul Young, Curiosity Killed The Cat and many others. Stay updated by following ‘Here and Now’ at Twitter.
• BBC Radio Three Counties: Toyah’s interview from Roberto Perrone’s show yesterday is now available to listen to at BBC iPlayer. This is a mammoth four-hour show. Toyah’s interview begins at approximately 3hrs 7m into the programme and runs for around six minutes. She talks movies, Hormonal Housewives and more. Listen here.
• Toyah was played on Alex Lester’s ‘BBC Radio 2’ show, early Friday morning. ‘Thunder In The Mountains’ was included on his programme playlist in the “Listener’s Library” strand, requested by Sam Spam from Birmingham. Sam said ” There’s not enough Toyah on the radio. Eat your heart out Lady Gaga, Toyah did it all first”. The full show is available to listen to here. Alex also posted the TITM single cover on his Facebook page.
• Theatre in Wales: Hormonal Housewives at the New Theatre, Cardiff: Following their hugely successful 2012 tour, the irrepressible Hormonal Housewives are back at the New Theatre, Cardiff from Thursday 4 – Friday 5 April. Having caused mayhem and mania on their last visit, Toyah Willcox leads the girls in this side-splitting evening.
• Gloucestershire County Council: Council Staff Climb Mountain for Comic Relief: All council employees have been asked to release their inner Adam Ant, Boy George or Toyah Willcox and dress in 80s fancy dress on Thursday 14th March.
• Toyah’s travel woes from Monday were even reported on by the RAC.
Toyah is guesting this evening on Roberto Perrone’s show on BBC Three Counties Radio.
She is scheduled to be interviewed at around 6.10pm. Listen online to the programme here.
(Thanks to Hormonal Housewives at Facebook for the info)
