"Tales from a very minor celebrity"
“Tales from a very minor celebrity” is the story of how I overcame my acute shyness and went on to have a 35 year career in broadcasting both in the UK and in Spain.
You’ll hear some of my most memorable celebrity interviews and all the adventures I’ve had both in the UK and Spain and the stories behind them…like the time I delivered half a carcass of beef to Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street!
“Tales from a very minor celebrity”, a weekly podcast from me Simon Baldock.
"Tales from a very minor celebrity"
‘It’s child’s play’ Billy Mumy / Butch Patrick
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 throat and come back fit healthy and a little bit tanned to start recording more episodes of my podcast….
As promised at the end of episode 6 I said you’d hear from two child actors who I had the pleasure of speaking to some years ago when I went through a stage of contacting stars from some of my favourite programmes back in the day, and I’m talking about when I was still at school so these are cult classics from the 70’s, all American, programmes such as the original Star Trek, The Dukes of Hazard, Starsky and Hutch, The A team and The Beverly Hill Billies…those sorts of programmes….so what I used to do is contact the stars of these shows through their websites and to my amazement everyone who I contacted, without exception agreed to do an interview with me.
Anyway over the next few weeks I play you some of these interviews starting with two child actors Butch Patrick who played Eddie Munster in The Munsters…and Billy Mumy who was Will Robinson in Lost In Space.
