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To The Regiment is a look back and celebration of one of the best British Sitcoms - Early Doors. Follow Phil 'Duffy' Mealey, star, writer, and creator of Early Door discuss all episodes with Ben Steel of the Anyone Can Play Guitar Podcast. And watch out, we will be having special guest interviews from time to time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello and welcome to To The Regiment (apologies for the slight delay this week). In this episode we got some questions from you, the listeners, from Twitter/X, Facebook, and Instagram. Some we may have covered but we cover in more detail or some Ben had just missed. We will be doing this again soon because these questions came in before we even rel…
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Hello and welcome to To The Regiment. The Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. In this episode Ben and Phil have a daft laugh going through episode five of series one. Maybe the sun was out or it was a Friday when the episode was recorded but they seemed very 'ready for the pub'. They look at episode five of series one which has a lot of Ben's two…
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Hello and Welcome to To The Regiment, the Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. This is one of our special guest episodes and we are thrilled to welcome Maxine Peake to the podcast. Maxine played Janice in the first series, the cool, street wise, tantastic, and baby mamma (apparently) of a little tremble in Ladbroke's doorway. We speak to Maxine ab…
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Hello and welcome to To The Regiment, the Early Doors podcast with Phil Mealey. In this episode we're back looking at each episode getting the inside look with Phil. The Grapes itself in this episode is a completely different place. For one, it's packed. But it's a Friday night, Joe and Duffy are standing at the bar (and we discover why), Winnie is…
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Hello and Welcome to, To The Regiment: The Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. This week we very excited to welcome another guest to The virtual Grapes. We are very excited to welcome the delightful and lovely Susan 'Tanya' Cookson to our show. The love interest of our favourite show. Phil, Ben, and Susan talk about Susan landing the role, being …
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Hello and welcome to To The Regiment: The Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. In this episode we are jumping back into talking about series one and this time episode three. This episode is the first time we don't start with people (Tommy) getting there for opening, Liam gets busted, Eddie and Tommy sneak a peak, and the coppers, well they need to…
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Woop-Woop! It's the sound of da police. Hello and Welcome to, To The Regiment: The Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. This week we very excited to welcome another guest to our virtual Grapes. We are thrilled to have one half of our boys in blue and someone with an incredible laugh... James Quinn. Phil, Ben, and James talk about James landing the…
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Hello and welcome to episode five of To The Regiment, the Early Doors podcast with Phil Mealey. In this episode Ben and Phil are back to discuss the Early Doors episodes and get a behind the scenes look at how the show was made, behind the scenes stories, probably some chat about last season football, and I think Ben was off to see Pulp that night.…
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Hello and welcome to episode four of To The Regiment, The Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. In this episode we speak to one half of the heart of Early Doors, Lorraine Cheshire AKA Joan Bell. Phil and Ben caught Lorraine over zoom last year. For those trying to date the recordings by football chat, Phil had just seen Man United lose at Wembley. …
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Hello and welcome to episode three of To The Regiment, The Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. In this episode we pick the conversation back up between Phil and Ben and get into the story of the first episode. We learn some behind the scenes stories, how Phil and Craig developed the first episode to set the scene for the rest of the series, and m…
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Label? Rough trade, Year? 1983. Correcto!
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Hello and welcome to, To The Regiment, The Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. In this episode Phil and Ben discuss the first episode of the first series of your favourite sitcom. As we get into it, turns out we like to talk and love to discuss the show. So this is part one of a chat around episode one. We mainly discuss the characters in this fi…
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Hello and Welcome to our new podcast. To The Regiment - The Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. In this short episode we take you through how this came about, what to expect, where to subscribe, remind you too many times to tell your friends, and generally just welcome you to our new podcast. All about Early Doors. We hope you enjoy it, please ge…
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Hello and welcome to the first full episode of To The Regiment - The Early Doors Podcast with Phil Mealey. In this first episode we welcome you to The Grapes, a fictional pub where the Landlord Ken and his daughter Melanie welcome regulars, Joe, Duffy, Tommy, Eddie, Joan, Tanya (although she also works behind the bar), Debbie, Janice, and Nicola fo…
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