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)
• Toyah’s appearance on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon show goes out on Wednesday 20th March. Steve’s show airs each week day between 2 and 5pm and can be listened to online at the BBC Radio 2 website. (News Source: The Official Toyah Facebook)
• “Just recording Steve Wright In The Afternoon, then Brighton. Its Snowing in london!!!!!” tweeted Toyah today.
• Those Hormonal Housewives begin the second week of their mammoth UK tour at the Theatre Royal, Brighton this evening. Visit the website for details. Tomorrow they play Peterborough’s Cresset Theatre.
• West Sussex Gazette: Some Hormonal Housewives: Following 2012’s incredibly popular show at The Hawth, the irrepressible Hormonal Housewives are back and return to Crawley this spring… This year, the ladies are led by British pop icon Toyah Willcox and writer Julie Coombe.
• Daily Star: A Double Mystery For Toyah: A retro tabloid photo article from the ‘Daily Star’ is included in KajaFax’s look back at 1983. (be warned, there is a “mini pop” in the article!!)
Toyah’s excellent episode of BBC Radio 4’s Ramblings, which aired a couple of times over the last few days, is available for the next four weeks as a BBC podcast.
Ramblings with Clare Balding: Toyah Willcox at Croome Landscape Park
Thu, 28 Feb 13: Duration: 25 mins
Actress and singer, Toyah Willcox, takes Clare Balding on a windy walk around Croome Landscape Park in Worcestershire.
• Visit the BBC Podcasts & Downloads page and the Ramblings hompage.
BBC Radio’s Late Show with Keith Middleton is now available at BBC iPlayer for the next week.
It includes an interesting interview with Toyah, recorded earlier yesterday evening, beginning around two hours into the show. She talks about living in Worcester, ghosts and hauntings, rabbits (and droppings formations!!), being involved with punk and how her music career evolved from cult status in the 70s into mainstream success in the 1980s, alternative career paths (Toyah would like to have been a sculptress), Hormonal Housewives and more.
There are also plays of ‘It’s A Mystery’, ‘Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)’, ‘Thunder In the Mountains’ and ‘I Want To Be Free’. The interview and music runs for around 35 minutes.
Toyah guests on the Late Show with Keith Middleton tonight. The three-hour programme airs across various BBC radio stations (Shropshire, WM, Stoke, Hereford & Worcester, Coventry & Warwickshire).
BBC Radio (Various): Late Show with Keith Middleton: Saturday 2nd March: 10pm
70s Rock: Toyah and The Blockheads. Norman Watt-Roy (from The Blockheads) and Toyah join Keith for a ’70s Rock Extravaganza’. Is there a 70s rock track you haven’t heard for a while? Let Keith Know and he will do his best to play it.
Toyah has guested on Keith’s show a few times previously. I’m not sure whether this is a new appearance or a previous guest recording being re-aired.
• Listen to the show online as it airs, or via BBC iPlayer post-broadcast. (Available for one week only)
Toyah’s edition of Ramblings airs on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon at 3pm. It’s also repeated at 6am on Saturday morning.
Ramblings: BBC Radio 4: Thu 28th February: 3.00pm
Ramblings: BBC Radio 4: Sat 2nd March: 6.00am
Toyah Willcox. Clare Balding is walking for self-improvement. Actress and singer Toyah Willcox takes Clare for a walk in rural Worcestershire.
For Toyah, who has had problems with her joints, including a hip replacement, walking is the perfect exercise. She says it helps her to keep her weight down and remain active. Episode 4 of 6.
The programme will also be available at BBC iPlayer and as a podcast after it airs today.
• Browse all of our Ramblings news here. A huge thank you to bbc.co.uk for including Dreamscape in their Related Links for Toyah’s Ramblings episode.
Toyah guested on BFBS Radio on Monday morning on the Simeon Courtie Show. The short interview was pre-recorded last Friday.
Toyah talks insomnia and acupuncture. She also recalls touring with Vampires Rock and the forthcoming Hormonal Housewives.
It’s available for the next few days at the BFBS website to listen to again.
• Listen directly here or visit the Listen Again page, scroll down to Simeon Courtie’s section and click on Monday: Part 4 – Toyah’s interview begins approximately 20 minutes into the recording and it lasts for around five minutes.
Steve Allen confirmed on his show this morning that Toyah will guest on In Conversation with Steve Allen this Sunday on LBC. The programme can be listened to live, online at the station’s website.
Toyah will talk about her career, marriage, Hormonal Housewives and having a “bionic hip”.
LBC 97.3: In Conversation with Steve Allen
Sunday 24th February: 6am
Steve Allen talks in depth to celebrities about their lives.
• Toyah tweeted a photo of herself and Steve, taken on Wednesday when she visited LBC to record the interview. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
