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Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Sally Lindsay

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.5566 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

From Corrie, Phoenix Nights and the Madame Blanc Mysteries, Sally Lindsay is here with her Five Brilliant Things and they are belters. It’s a romp through the majesty of Chas and Dave, some strong opinions about loudspeakers on public transport and taking wild train trips from England to Italy in the early 1980s.  As we talked about on the show, Sally stars in and wrote the Madame Blanc Mysteries and you can find that paragon of cosy crime on Netflix or Channel Five.  And if you want to know Russell’s wrestler name and walk-on music, then it’s all in this week’s extra show available on our Patreon offering. If you listen to this podcast regularly then you get a lot of bang for your buck. Check out our Patreon offering at this link: patreon.com/RussellHoward   And that’s the end for today, please let tomorrow be all your yesterdays or some shit. I don’t know, it was meant to be profound.  Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.6

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0:22.6

No.

0:23.6

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0:28.6

Hello, my friends, welcome to the show on today's performance.

0:42.2

I've got one of Britain's most beloved comedy actors for Phoenix Knights, Coronation Street, Madame Blanc and much more.

0:48.5

It's Sally Lindsay, and these are of five brilliant things.

1:01.1

Hello, Sally. How are you?

1:03.7

I've made the mistake of all you, Lindsay, twice.

1:05.5

Does that happen a lot, or am I just a more?

1:08.4

Yeah, it does actually, because I've got two girls' names.

1:09.8

Like, you've got two boys' names. Yep, this is it.

1:28.0

What's your middle name? It's Jane. Oh, lovely. It's quite dull. This is three, isn't it? Sally Jane Lindsay. Yeah, it's not duckless or something. Yeah, yeah. That'd have been more convenient. And I mistakenly thought that you'd come from the north, but you've been a landowner for 21 years. 21 years, yes.

1:32.4

I live in southeast London with my Cockney drummer, fella,

1:37.5

and I've got four kids, two twins at home still.

1:41.0

They're 14, and grunt at me a lot.

2:17.6

Being married to a drummer, are they, is he constantly tapping on stuff? Yes. Yeah. And his brother's a drummer as well, so his brother's Alan White's. So my husband, Steve White, his brother's Alan White, drum, the proasis. So it's interesting when they both go out and then my son now drums. Oh my God. So one of the twins, so it's constantly. It's like a baked bean advert in your house. It is. I'm constantly like, stop it. But we've got at the side of the house, so at the side of the house, Steve's studio, he's like the, it was the big garage at the side and he's converted it. Like before anything else, you know, before the kitchen, before anything, that was done first.

2:19.8

And it's brilliantly soundproof.

2:24.6

So all through the day all I hear is, you know, because he's constantly in there working. So it sounds like my scrabbling.

2:26.3

Yeah, it does.

2:27.5

And then when you open the door, it's like, oh.

2:31.1

That was the thing I was thinking about because it's kind of, it must just be part... In a similar way, if you're a comedian or you're kind of a writer or a painter, you're kind of... You're constantly looking, but... Constantly. With drummers, it must just be that thing. There's so many things you can kind of be telling them. And when he's not in the house... What's he like at a funeral at our wedding? I bet he has to keep everything just.

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