The Talk of the Street: A Coronation Street Podcast

This podcast covers episodes 11,180 to 11,183. Tracy and Tommy O are enjoying a tryst in the flower shop when Steve unexpectedly returns home from France in the mood for love. Desperate for a big scoop, Bethany is determined to get the gossip on Ryan and Daisy’s affair. Dee Dee is appalled when she discovers Ed has been inflating his insurance claim following the builder’s yard fire. Simon’s drinking continues to spiral out of control and he finds himself surrounded by bad influences. Adam is under pressure to progress Harvey’s appeal and suggests finding someone else to take the blame for Natasha’s murder. Harry loves an eccles cake. Joel is a JFK conspiracy theorist. Sarah works on her pelvic floor.

During an autumnal picnic in the community garden, Sinead reveals an unusual dying wish which will involve Kirk getting his kex off. TFD wakes up on Wednesday and decides to make a grab for half of Speed Daal much to Alya’s disgust. A mishap at Weathy County’s turnstile ends in Chesney’s living room filling up with boxes of nappies and Bernie revealing herself to be a PR guru. Shona might need to wait twelve months for that Mother of the Year award and an old face at the jail makes David think that a riot might not be that bad an idea after all. Elsewhere, Ali confides in Toyah, Dev struggles with raising a teenaged daughter, Craig and James are going running together, and the world may just need to go on without knowing what Bethany thinks happens in a New York ad agency.

A slightly longer episode as we cover this week and the tail end of last week. It would appear that Kev is disinterested in renewing his Weathy County season ticket while Sophie manages to forgive Paula of stuff that she probably didn’t need to forgive. Kate wants to keep her room at the Rovers and not pay rent while she has a perfectly good room over the road and she doesn’t take kindly to Jenny’s plans to convert her upstairs (but not like that) into a B&B. Robert’s lying goes to such extents that we have Inception level lies within lies and we’re all going to need a wee dreidel spinner to remember just what is the truth anymore. Abi gets her job back at Kev’s garage and then immediately lays the ground work to lose that job as quickly as possible, although to be fair, she does so with a lovely new haircut. Claudia decides that Ken doesn’t need four brown jumpers. Eileen, inexplicably, agrees to continue a relationship with Jan who has openly lied to her several times and quite frankly, she gets the boyfriend she deserves at this point. Bernie steals a tree and shows Chesney her floof.

Another week peppered with If You’ve Been Affected By This Storyline storylines, but done incredibly well. Paul realizes that his memory of events with Kel may be unreliable and in the Alley of Doom (h/t @merseytart), he comes to a startling realization. Jade is getting her feet under Fiz’s table and her mitts in Fiz’s sideboard and seems to be ingratiating herself very well, with perhaps only Evelyn wondering if our Brummie Mary Poppins is all she’s cracked up to be. Kev’s sister, Debbie, makes a very welcome return and despite being off the show for decades, looks like she’s never been away. She arrives with some sad news about Auntie Vi and some potentially awesome news about Kev’s bank account. Michelle continues to be a cow and not content with keeping two women on the go, Robert takes to impersonating Steve McDonald to get a cheffing job. Asha’s date with Corrie Corey ends up with spilled drinks, an assault from Pastel-Blue with a splurge gun, a birds and the bees talk from Mary, and a heart-breaking scene with Dev who realizes that helping his daughter is going to require more than telling her everything is going to be okay. Adam continues his pursuit of Gary, but not like that. Fiz gets a job, loses the job, gets the same job back again. A woman decides not to buy clogs.

It’s been a while since Paul has been a happy-go-lucky-cheeky-chappy and there’s no sign of that guy returning any time soon, because, instead, a blast from the past in the shape of his ex-step-father has turned up on the scene and despite Billy’s best efforts, Paul’s demons refuse to surface. Daniel insists that Sinead resume treatment and refuses to contemplate a future with her in a hospice, a brace of decisions that come back to take a munch out of his posterior before the sun has gone down, which forces Sinead and Beth to plan The Purge and Sinead to reveal how she wants to be buried. It’s Ed’s birthday and Aggie’s plans for a birthday party cause three or four storylines to combine, culminating in a family member confessing a deeply-held secret to Bethany. Suffering severely from withdrawal, Ali finds an ally in Toyah who is allowed, for the first time in a while, to get some use out of that therapy training she got all those years ago. Elsewhere, no matter how hard Gary tries to be the tough guy, he has no shortage of blokes lining up to question his authority; Ryan won’t pay him back, and now Derek looks to exploit one of many flaws in Gary’s master plan, Jenny’s anniversary with Johnny this year doesn’t feature her getting drunk on her own in a hotel room, but does include Dev trying to flog her some past their sell-by date blooms, Mad Max’s issues are continuing to fester, and Steve’s new haircut is better than anyone could’ve hoped.