Best Simon Baldock Podcasts (2024)

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My Favourite Interviews - John Motson 7:21

1+ y ago7:21

7:21

On the 23rd February, 2023 is was announced the football commentating legend John “Motty” Motson had died at the age of 77. He started working on Match Of The Day in 1971, and covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals for BBC Sport before retiring from the organisation in 2018. I had the great pleasure of interviewing hi…

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My Favourite Interviews - Uri Geller 3:11

1+ y ago3:11

3:11

I’m a bit short of time this week so I’m just going to okay you the interview without all the preamble that usually comes with my weekly podcast. As you’re well aware I’m sure the World Cup has started and this week you can hear an interview I did with Uri Geller, the spoon bending physic who back in 2002 asked the whole nation to collectively try …

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My Favourite Interviews - Jane Birkin 10:19

1+ y ago10:19

10:19

Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 7 of this new season of Tales From a very minor celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. This week you’ll hear an interview I did with a woman who has a handbag named after her and recorded one of the most iconic love songs o…

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My Favourite Interviews - Jade Goody 10:58

1+ y ago10:58

10:58

Hi everyone….we’re up to episode 6 of season 2 of tales from a very minor celebrity, a look back at some of my favourite interviews during my 35 year plus media career. Now Jade Goody was born 5 June 1981 and died 22 March 2009. She came to public prominence in 2002 when she appeared on the third series of the Channel 4 reality show Big Brother. Sh…

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My Favourite Interviews - Michael Barrymore 10:40

1+ y ago10:40

10:40

Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 5 of this new season of Tales From a very minor celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. Michael Ciaran Parker better known by his stage name Michael Barrymore was born in 1952. During the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. he hosted sh…

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My Favourite Interviews - Ford GT 40 9:42

1+ y ago9:42

9:42

Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 4 of this new season of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive and a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. and as I always say I hope you will like listening to them as much as I did recording them. Now this week my guest is not so much fl…

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My Favourite Interviews - Tandile Mandela 10:59

1+ y ago10:59

10:59

Hi everyone, and welcome to episode three of this new season of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity, a delve into my audio archive and a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. I hope you will like them as much as I did recording them. This week you’ll hear an interview I did with a young lady called Tandile…

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My Favourite Interviews - Ruby Wax 10:55

2y ago10:55

10:55

Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 2 of this new season of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive and a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. I hope you will like them as much as I did recording them. Now this week it’s the turn of Ruby Wax, the American-British actress, co…

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My Favourite Interviews - Michael Palin 9:28

2y ago9:28

9:28

Hi everyone, and welcome to a new season of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity. Yes I’m back and this time I’ll be delving into my celebrity archive and looking back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV….now to be included as a favourite they can either be because the person is really nice, it was a particularly fun…

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‘Taking The Lead’ Judith Durham / Marti Pellow / Tony Hadley / Martin Fry / Richard Clayderman 33:44

2y ago33:44

33:44

Hello once again and thank you for once again joining me for another edition of ‘Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity’, a look back at my life in TV and radio and a delve into my celebrity archive looking back at some of the many interviews I have done over the years and continue to do as well.. This week is a bit of a milestone for my podcast, episod…

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‘Light My Fire’ Jose Feliciano / Ralph McTell 26:54

2y ago26:54

26:54

Hola Todos, that’s hello everyone in Spanish just in case you didn’t know…and welcome to another edition of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity…a look back at my career in radio and TV and a delve into my celebrity archive looking back at some of the more memorable celebrity intervierws that I have done over the past 30 plus years. This week English …

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‘Everybody Needs Good Neighbours’ Alan Price / Tom Oliver / Neighbours 22:37

2y ago22:37

22:37

Hello everyone and thank you for joining me for another edition of Tales from A Very Minor Celebrity… now in this weeks episode you’ll be hearing again from one of the many musical stars that I interviewed over the years…today Alan Price the original keyboardist with the animals, who had a string of hits including the iconic House Of The Rising Sun…

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‘Unforgettable’ Natalie Cole / Petula Clark 25:57

2y ago25:57

25:57

Hi there..and thank you all once again for tuning in for another edition of tales from a very minor Celebrity. This week you’ll be once agin hearing from two musical greats…a two part interview with Petula Clark and also a chat I had with the late Natalie Cole who sadly died in 2015….By Simon Baldock / Natalie Cole / Petula Clark

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‘Mc Madness’ McFly / Steve Hackett 13:55

2y ago13:55

13:55

Thanks for joining me again for another edition of tales from a very minor celebrity…a look back at my life in the media, specifically radio and TV and the many celebrities I’ve interviewed and adventures I’ve had during that time…and continue to do so..I still work in radio as a freelance roving reporter for a radio station based in Colchester, a …

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‘Addicted to Love’ Robert Palmer / Roger Mcguinn 14:47

2y ago14:47

14:47

Welcome to anther episode of my podcast Tales From a Very Minor celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive, a look back at some of the very famous people who I have interviewed over the years and the stories behind those interviews…we continue a series of well known musicians and singers and in this episode you’ll hear from Roger Mcguinn, frontma…

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‘Lady Marmalade’ Patti Labelle / Marie Osmond 15:37

2y ago15:37

15:37

Thanks for tuning into another episode of ‘Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity’, and the second in a series looking back at some of the very famous singers and musicians who I’ve spoken to during my broadcasting career…this week you’ll be hearing from Marie Osmond and the “Godmother of Soul”, Patti Labelle.…

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‘Essex girl’ Alison Moyet 22:49

2y ago22:49

22:49

This week it’s the start of another series of interviews with a common thread running through them…these are all musicians and singers I have been lucky to chat to over the years…and we start with a lady who comes from my neck of the woods in the UK, the county of Essex and the lady concerned is singer songwriter Alison Moyet noted for her powerful…

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‘M.A.S.H up’ Mike Farrell / Robert Vaughn 16:48

2y ago16:48

16:48

In this week Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity it’s the final two stars from shows which I grew up watching and which were huge hits during their time; coming up Robert Vaughn who played Napoleon Solo in the TV series The Man From Uncle and one of the coolest spy’s of his generation….but first Mike Farrell best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hu…

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‘Royal special’ Lord Litchfield/ Ralf Little 13:33

2y ago13:33

13:33

Hello and welcome again to another episode of tales From A Very Minor Celebrity…..now I know I said last week that you’d be hearing from the man from Uncles Robert Vaughn and Mike Farrell from M.A.S.H…the final two stars of another couple programmes from my youth…but there’s been a small change of plan due to a little celebration that our Queen is …

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‘One of the Best’ James Best / Antonio Fargas 18:36

2y ago18:36

18:36

Hello again and thank for downloading this weeks episode of Tales From a Very Minor Celebrity…I must say that this short series of podcasts featuring the stars of programmes from my youth are proving very popular..programmes from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s do seem to hold a special place in many of our hearts and the reruns continue to get very decent…

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‘A Stargate team’ Amanda Tapping / Dirk Benedict 16:35

2y ago16:35

16:35

This is episode nine of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity and another in the short series of recordings looking back at some of the stars of American 70’s sci-fi programmes, and classics from the 80’s and 90’s as well….this week you’ll hear interviews with Faceman himself Dirk Benedict from the A Team and Battlestar Galactica and also a lovely lady…

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‘To boldly go’ William Shatner / George Takei 15:18

2y ago15:18

15:18

This weeks episode of Tales From a Very Minor Celebrity is another of a short series of shows that Im currently doing looking back at some of the interviews I carried out from stars from programmes which I followed when I was a youngster. I was obsessed with a number of American sci-fi shows which when you look back at now seem very crude in the sp…

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‘It’s child’s play’ Billy Mumy / Butch Patrick 14:28

2y ago14:28

14:28

I’m back…and so is my voice…welcome to another edition of tales from a very minor celebrity and thank you for your patience…I’ve spent a lovely few weeks back in Spain where I lived for 6 years and got over a throaty infection which I’m sure I picked up on the flight…anyway it was great to get some Spanish sunshine on these old bones, rest my throa…

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‘Pick of the week’ Fatima Whitbread / Carol Smillie 17:18

2+ y ago17:18

17:18

Now this week you’re going to hear two very different interviews from my archive, one serious and one very frivolous …the first is with champion javelin thrower Fatima Whitbread and the second with Carol Smillie, the former presenter of Changing Rooms the series which paved the way for a plethora of home improvement programmes. First though Fatima …

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‘A week to remember’ Bill Wyman 15:46

2+ y ago15:46

15:46

In this weeks episode of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity I’ll tell you about a trip of a lifetime when in 1982 I went to Spain and saw a World Cup semi final, World Cup final and the Rolling Stones in concert and you’ll also hear an interview I did with former Stones bassist Bill Wyman who was still with the band when I saw them and who had some …

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‘What’s cooking?’ Delia Smith / Keith Floyd 19:01

2+ y ago19:01

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This week’s episode is called, ‘What’s Cooking’ and features two TV celebrity cooks, the late Keith Floyd and the queen of cooking Delia Smith…and also a very funny interview with a group of junior’s in their school cooking club when they were making brioche. And it got very messy!By Simon Baldock / Keith Floyd / Delia Smith

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‘Straight down the middle’ Michael Bolton / Englebert Humperdinck 19:23

2+ y ago19:23

19:23

This episode is a bit of a golf fest…but don’t worry if you’re not a golf lover you’ll still enjoy these stories from some very interesting and entertaining guests. You’ll hear first from Tim Brooke Taylor who told me about the time he played with Seve Ballesteros in a celebrity pro am tournament…then an interview with Peter Allis on how he went fr…

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‘Just like that’ Andy Summers 12:32

2+ y ago12:32

12:32

I aways really enjoyed interviewing people that I could link to one of my personal experiences…..with Police guitarist Andy Summers it was the fact that they were the only band I’d ever camped out overnight to get tickets for and the only concert where the warm up act was boo’d off stage…and that warm up act was Tommy Cooper. I’d wondered for years…

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‘When Dame Judi got drenched’ Dame Judi Dench 10:28

2+ y ago10:28

10:28

When people find out that I’ve worked in radio and TV they often ask me about the famous people I have interviewed and who are some of my favourites. Well Dame Judi Dench has to be in the top five and this episode is an interview I did with her when we met on the Carnival Legend cruise liner in Harwich on Aug 21 2002, and which had a very surprisin…

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‘Tales from a very minor celebrity’ - Introduction 3:07

2+ y ago3:07

3:07

Is it possible for someone with very little self confidence and who is also very shy to go on to become a radio and TV presenter interviewing royals, Oscar winning actors and musical superstars as well as hosting shows in front of 20,000 people and even moving to a foreign country to start a new career…. Well I’m here to tell you that it is. My nam…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Simon Baldock Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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"Tales from a very minor celebrity"

Simon Baldock

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My Favourite Interviews - John Motson 7:21

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My Favourite Interviews - Uri Geller 3:11

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My Favourite Interviews - Jane Birkin 10:19

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My Favourite Interviews - Jade Goody 10:58

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My Favourite Interviews - Michael Barrymore 10:40

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My Favourite Interviews - Ford GT 40 9:42

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My Favourite Interviews - Tandile Mandela 10:59

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My Favourite Interviews - Ruby Wax 10:55

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My Favourite Interviews - Michael Palin 9:28

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‘Taking The Lead’ Judith Durham / Marti Pellow / Tony Hadley / Martin Fry / Richard Clayderman 33:44

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‘Light My Fire’ Jose Feliciano / Ralph McTell 26:54

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‘Everybody Needs Good Neighbours’ Alan Price / Tom Oliver / Neighbours 22:37

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‘Unforgettable’ Natalie Cole / Petula Clark 25:57

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‘Mc Madness’ McFly / Steve Hackett 13:55

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‘Addicted to Love’ Robert Palmer / Roger Mcguinn 14:47

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‘Lady Marmalade’ Patti Labelle / Marie Osmond 15:37

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‘Essex girl’ Alison Moyet 22:49

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‘M.A.S.H up’ Mike Farrell / Robert Vaughn 16:48

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‘Royal special’ Lord Litchfield/ Ralf Little 13:33

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‘One of the Best’ James Best / Antonio Fargas 18:36

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‘A Stargate team’ Amanda Tapping / Dirk Benedict 16:35

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‘To boldly go’ William Shatner / George Takei 15:18

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‘It’s child’s play’ Billy Mumy / Butch Patrick 14:28

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‘Pick of the week’ Fatima Whitbread / Carol Smillie 17:18

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‘A week to remember’ Bill Wyman 15:46

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‘What’s cooking?’ Delia Smith / Keith Floyd 19:01

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‘Straight down the middle’ Michael Bolton / Englebert Humperdinck 19:23

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‘Just like that’ Andy Summers 12:32

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‘When Dame Judi got drenched’ Dame Judi Dench 10:28

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‘Tales from a very minor celebrity’ - Introduction 3:07

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