Baked Off!

Thunder's Mouth Theatre presents "Return of the Bread", a crossover episode in which characters from our two podcast, "Am I Old Yet?" and "Baked Off! Live Laugh Loaves" meet up in Helen's favourite Cheese Shop Cafe in south London, where cafe owner Ilse is getting ready for the lunch time trade. It's been a quiet morning so far, but things are about to hot up when the participants of Caroline's online cookery class arrive from various parts of the United Kingdom to meet up with their tutor Margot, who is about to fly in from Australia for a visit. The cast was, in order of appearance: Flloyd Kennedy as Ilse, Helen and Margot; Wendy Lap as Rosemary and Katie; Erika Sanderson as Susie and Juliana; Andrea Richardson as Caroline, Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Karim Kronfli as Pierre and Roy R Carruthers as Freddie. The music was by John T La Barbera, and the script and production design was by Flloyd Kennedy. Please head over to amIoldyet.com to catch the new season dropping at the end of this month. And if you would care to support our production costs, please consider donating or subscribing at buymeacoffee.com/bakedoffpodcast. Please support our sponsors by visiting fableandfolly.com/sponsors Thanks for listening. Stay safe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Speaking Truth to Power

Thunder’s Mouth Theatre presents: “Breaded Bliss” Episode 8, the finale to this audio fiction podcast “Baked Off! Live laugh loaves”.  In Brisbane, Margot continues to play detective in her efforts to save Arthur’s medical practice.  In Liverpool, Angelica enjoys some of Julianna’s baking and finally reveals to  just what her new job in Edinburgh involves, and how Julianna is implicated in it. In Edinburgh, Duncan provides the ‘sannies’ (that’s Scots for sandwiches) for a picnic with Malcy and Heather. And on Zoom, Caroline hosts the graduation party, with a surprise ending. The cast, in order of appearance, was: Flloyd Kennedy as Margot, Karim Kronfli as Mr Kandinsky, Piyush Agarwal as Raman Gujral, Frankii Phoenix as Angelica, Erika Sanderson as Julianna, Andrew Durning as Malcy, Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Wendy Lap as Heather, Rob Pensalfini as Arthur Brownlow, Andrea Richardson as Caroline, Roy R Carruthers as Freddie, Wendy Lap as Rosemary and Karim Kronfli as Pierre. The musical themes were composed, arranged and performed by John T La Barbera. Editing and sound design by Flloyd Kennedy, who also wrote and produced the podcast.   Please share this with a friend, or a random stranger. Tell them they will find it at bakedoffpodcast.com, or wherever they listen to podcasts. Or if they don’t, then it might be a good place to start!  Thanks to the Fable and Folly Network for their support, both practical and emotional. Thanks to everyone who donated to the crowd funding campaign. I’m happy to report that all of the actors and John received an honorarium in return for their generous gifts of their time and talents.  And if you aren’t already listening to it, why not try our sister programme, “Am I Old Yet?” created by the same team, with very much the same gentle humour and pace. Available at amIoldyet.com and on all the podcasting apps.   That’s all folks.  Stay safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 7 of “Baked Off! Live, Laugh, loaves” finds Julianna’s family being both helpful and mysterious, Duncan doesn’t know if he’s coming or going, and Margot is determined to sort out Arthur whether he likes it or not. You heard: Tayo Aluko as Ade, Erika Sanderson as Julianna, Wendy Lap as Heather, Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Flloyd Kennedy as Margot and Edie,  Wendy Lap as Rosemary, Roy R Carruthers as Freddie, Andrea Richardson as Caroline, Rob Pensalfini as Arthur and introducing Piyush Agarwal as Raman Gujral. Stick around next week for Episode 8, the series finale!  Please help us to spread the word to a wider audience, tell you friends to go to bakedoffpodcast.com where they’ll find links to all their favourite podcasting apps. Thanks to all of our generous donors, helping to provide a small fee to all of the actors who have shared their time and talents so generously, as well as our musical impresario, John T La Barbera, who composed and arranged all the the music through the whole series.  Join us over at Discord to talk about all things Baked Off and baking generally. https://discord.gg/m3KHAHHqqv And please, check out the Fable and Folly sponsors at fableandfolly.com.  We couldn’t do it without their support - and yours.  Thanks for listening. Stay safe. SFX FILE CABINET METAL OPEN DRAWER NEARBY ROOMY +CD DROP ON TABLE.FLAC BY KYLES -- HTTPS://FREESOUND.ORG/S/454015/ -- LICENSE: CREATIVE COMMONS 0 KEY OPENING AND CLOSING FLIMSY FILING CABINET FAST BY PEACH50 -- HTTPS://FREESOUND.ORG/S/528714/ -- LICENSE: CREATIVE COMMONS 0 FILINGCABINET.AIF BY KLAKMART -- HTTPS://FREESOUND.ORG/S/108268/ -- LICENSE: CREATIVE COMMONS 0 TRAIN AT STATION INTERIOR.WAV BY THEPLAX -- HTTPS://FREESOUND.ORG/S/613873/ -- LICENSE: ATTRIBUTION 4.0   KOOKABURRA.WAV BY RIMMER -- HTTPS://FREESOUND.ORG/S/662080/ -- LICENSE: CREATIVE COMMONS 0POND5: 008717778-birdmagpie (Australian) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 6 of the limited series: “Baked Off! Live, Laugh Loaves” in which we follow the lives of two aspiring bakers of sourdough bread and their online professional chef tutor, each based in a different country. In this episode, Julianna (in Liverpool, England) is in the middle of a health and starter-related crisis, Duncan (in Edinburgh Scotland) offers some support, while Margot (in Brisbane, Australia) manoeuvres her way round the progress of all the online class participants. You heard (in order of appearance) Frankii Phoenix as Sammy and Angelica, Tayo Aluko as Ade, Erika Sanderson as Julianna, Christopher McDougall as Duncan, Flloyd Kennedy as Margot, Wendy Lap as Rosemary, Roy R Carruthers as Freddie and Andrea Richardson as Caroline. Now, as you know, audio fiction podcasts might be free to listen to, but they are not free to make, so we are running a crowdfunded campaign to raise funds to pay all of the artists involved, including the voice actors, composer/musician (that’s John T La Barbera) as well as the editor and sound designer. You are welcome to donate there, and the link is https://crowdfundr.com/bakedoffthepodcast. Or you can pop over to buymeacoffee.com/bakedoffthepodcast to leave a tip of any amount from a pound or a dollar. Thanks so much to everyone who has donated so far, we are enormously grateful. All of our subscribers, followers and supporters are welcome to join our Discord at https://discord.gg/m3KHAHHqqv. We are also grateful to the Fable and Folly network for their support, please • find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners Thanks for listening. Stay safe SFX: Footsteps heels outside by YannSauvin -- https://freesound.org/s/777603/ -- License: Creative Commons  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices