Refreshing Pod - SaturdayMornings.co.uk

Saturday Morning Kids TV was a staple on BBC One for decades, from it's beginnings in the shape of 'Saturday Swap Shop', to 'Live & Kicking', 'Dick & Dom in The Bungalow' & so much more!

This October, it’s been 50 years since the Saturday Morning schedule changed forever, with the introduction of 'Swap Swap', which launched on the 2nd October 1976.

The time slot from 9am - midday featured many presenters, using the BBC’s own talent at Radio One, like Noel Edmunds and Mike Read, using children's TV veterans like John Craven & Sarah Greene host, plus helping launch the career of Caroline Flack & Fearne Cotton, and catapult the likes of Emma Forbes, Andi Peters, Zoe Ball & Jamie Theakston into superstardom.

Most recently from 2017 the 'Saturday Mash Up' on the CBBC Channel is the closet thing to the old skool programming from the past, and it remains to be seen if the BBC have any plans to celebrate this milestone in it’s 50 year on any channel.

Johnny speaks to Saturday Morning Super-fan Martin Whale, who’s website SaturdaysMornings.CO.UK is a Mecca for all things broadcast since October 1976 … It’s live and kicking right now, with a good old chin wag including those shows that were on in the summer holidays, and plenty of nostalgia guaranteed.

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Refreshing Pod is a magazine style podcast, giving you ideas, interviews, big name guests, and guaranteed laughs along the way, with new content every few weeks, now in it's 9th series.

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Refreshing Pod - Selina Mosinski (Fringe Festival 2026 Exclusive)

A different view for Charity Shop Sue. Fringe Festival 2026 brings a new character from Selina Mosinski, in her debut Edinburgh Festival appearance with a show called 'Puss in Boots, A Working Class Fairytale' live at the Pleasance.

It gives a view of what life was like for Selina during the 1990's when she was a stripper (for 5 years) under the name of Randy Cain.

Experience the glittering page-three dreams and sticky-carpet ambition of Britain's 90s strip club scene. In her debut character comedy hour, Selina Mosinski, known for playing the icon that is Charity Shop Sue, tells the (mostly true) rise-and-stumble story of her time as stripper Randy Cain. Part confessional memoir, part riotous character comedy, join an ambitious working-class girl from Derby on a mission to conquer it all, or at least Tony and Barbara’s Midlands “Titty Bar.”

Determined to chase stardom, Randy hitchhikes to London — only to be derailed by an audition at a working men’s club off the A52, where prestige looks suspiciously like a birdcage stage surrounded by dodgy hen dos dressed as Papa Smurf. She lands the gig, and with it, her first taste of show business, sticky floors, chaotic crowds, and dreams held together with body glitter.

The show captures a decade when celebrity culture was gloriously unfiltered — when Jodie Marsh turned underwear into headlines, Gail Porter was projected onto Big Ben, and Monica Lewinsky became global news thanks to Bill Clinton. It was also the boom era of Britain’s strip-club circuit — and Randy was right in the thick of it.

Narrated by Randy’s formidable mum Jackie (Derbyshire’s answer to Bet Lynch from Corrie) — this is a raucous, tender story of ambition, class, and carving out a spotlight when the world insists you belong in the wings.

Johnny ends his interview with a brilliant '90's This Or That' game! .. Time to reminisce.

Today (1st April) 1,730 shows have been added for for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, bringing the current total number on sale for 2026 to 2,083 .. and counting.

Follow Selina

Insta: @selinamosinski_

Insta: @charityshopsue

WWW: www.edfringe.com/tickets

Refreshing Pod is a magazine style podcast, giving you ideas, interviews, big name guests, and guaranteed laughs along the way, with new content every few weeks, now in it's 9th series.

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Refreshing Pod - Dr Maggie Leiu (AKA Space Mog)

Blast off for a chat with Dr Maggie Leiu, AKA Space Mog for a dive into Space!

Hopefully (after 2 launch's being pushed back) in April 4 humans will leave earth, on a trip back to the moon, the first since Dec 11th 1972.

Dr Maggie chats about how much she loves space, and where her interest began, and about how she was close to moving to mars & never coming back.

Maggie gives her full view (and brilliant technical expertise) about the longterm Artemis II program (ending in 2035) that will eventually put humans back on the moons surface (due to happen inside the next 2 years).

Johnny also brings up a certain Elon Musk, and how soon could humans and space tourism could soon become the norm, plus who actually owns (or could own) the moon ... will Trump try to buy it?

Oh & of course, Johnny gives Maggie a quick quiz ... but how well does Space Mog actually do??

Dr Maggie (the podcasts most educated guest to date) is one not to miss!

Follow Space Mog:

Insta: Space_Mog

WWW: maggielieu.com

YT: www.youtube.com/c/SpaceMog

For Artemis II information, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/

Refreshing Pod is a magazine style podcast, giving you ideas, interviews, big name guests, and guaranteed laughs along the way, with new content every few weeks, now in it's 9th series.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.