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Strictly Come Dancing: The Official Podcast

D is for double dances and Debbie McGee

Strictly Come Dancing: The Official Podcast

BBC

Tv & Film

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

2018 Strictly finalist Joe Sugg teams up with producer Kim Winston to bring the fans an Access All Areas backstage pass to the show. Kim has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Strictly, having worked on the show since 2009, and Joe knows first-hand what all the couples are going through, making them the perfect duo to give the listeners an exclusive insight of what really goes on backstage. In this episode it’s the semi final as Joe chats to Kelvin and Oti about the pressure of this weekends double dances and Kim catches up with series 15 contestant Debbie McGee about her time on the show and why she often dances her rumba in hotel lifts! The Strictly Come Dancing Official Podcast is made by TalentWorks at BBC Studios and produced by Kim Winston and Laura Gallop. Listen now on BBC Sounds.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

0:10.2

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

0:13.0

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

0:18.0

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

0:22.0

But you know I also know that comedy is really

0:24.4

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

0:29.6

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

0:36.2

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

0:41.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:45.0

It's week 12 on Strictly Come Dancing.

0:48.0

Welcome to the Strictly Cun Dancing Podcast with your hosts, Joe Sugg and Kim Winston.

0:55.0

Can you actually believe it is the semi-final?

0:57.0

We have four couples left.

0:59.0

We have double dances and we are well and truly into our advent calendars.

1:02.0

That's quite a mouthful. I'm proud you got that. and we are well and truly into our advent calendars.

1:02.7

That's quite a mouthful.

1:04.0

I'm proud that you got that sentence out.

1:05.6

Because I was like there's an iteration in there, all sorts.

1:07.6

We've got it all.

1:08.6

But it is, it's down to the wire now, isn't it?

1:10.4

This is it.

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