Toyah’s first professional acting role, first television appearance, first music performances – all included in Glitter, a 30 minute drama from the BBC’s ‘Second City Firsts’. Also appearing are Phil Daniels, Noel Edmonds and Doremy Vernon (probably best remembered as the Canteen Manager in Are You Being Served?). Toyah’s character, Sue, also performs two songs with the band Bilbo Baggins, ‘Floating Free’ and ‘Heartbreaker’. Further info on Glitter here.
Awash With Colour, from BBC2 September 2001, with Toyah learning to watercolour, has just been uploaded, in three parts, to ‘You Tube’. Click on each cap below to view each part.
The scenery in this programme is stunning. Presenter Dermot Cavanagh and Toyah visited Yeats’ country, Co. Sligo in Ireland. Toyah talks about her career. Toyah and Dermot then paint the picturesque Glencar Loch, set in the shadow of the majestic Benbulben Mountain. Toyah recalled an artist using watercolour on her face to create her ‘Brave New World’ look.
Just a reminder that Celebrity Fantasty Homes with Toyah is showing again this evening on Home (and Home +1)
This originally aired on Home back in October 2010.
Celebrity Fantasy Homes: Home: Sunday 15th April: 6.00pm
Celebrity Fantasy Homes: Home +1: Sunday 15th April: 7.00pm
Toyah Willcox. Celebrities hunt for a new home. Gaby Roslin helps punk-pop princess Toyah Willcox search for a second home, in Richmond upon Thames, with a budget of £650,000.
Just a reminder that Celebrity Antiques Road Trip with Toyah and Tony Blackburn, which originally aired last October, is showing again this evening on BBC2.
The programme is airing simultaneously on BBC HD, and will be available to view, post-broadcast, for one week only at ‘BBC iPlayer’ here.
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip: BBC2
Thursday 12th April: 6.30pm
Episode 4. Tony Blackburn and Toyah Willcox take to the road with antiques experts Charlie Ross and Charles Hanson. Their journey starts in the historic town of York and ends up with an auction in Stanstead, Essex.
Toyah guested on BBC1’s Ask Aspel on 16th June 1981, talking music, songwriting, acting, presenting and answering viewer’s questions. Includes clips from the ATV docu and The Tempest. Not great quality but interesting all the same.
There are two opportunities to catch Toyah’s “classic” Tales Of The Unexpected episode, ‘Blue Marigold’, on UK television today. Set your recorders as you will most likely be at work/asleep.
The episode, from the fifth series of the much-loved 70s/80s drama, is airing at 1pm and 1am on Sky Arts 2 (Sky Ch 130, Virgin Media Ch 283).
It’s almost exactly 30 years since this first aired on ITV.
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts 2: Tuesday 27th March: 1.00pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts 2: Wednesday 28th March: 1.15am
Blue Marigold. Series 5, Episode 1. Dropped by her agency for her diva-like behaviour, supermodel Marigold’s mental health deteriorates. Years later, she plots a comeback. Director: Giles Foster. Starring: Toyah Willcox, Ralph Bates, Sharon Duce, Helen Fraser, Billy Hamon, Edward Jewesbury.
The full edition of Tonight with Jonathan Ross, which originally aired on Channel 4 in January 1991, with Toyah guesting is available to watch at ‘You Tube’. Watch here and click below to view larger versions of the caps.
