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Making The Cut with Davina McCall & Michael Douglas

SERIES 17: Episode 8 - Tea & Tonic, Hope 93, Legends, The Glitter Store, Lie Down and Listen

Making The Cut with Davina McCall & Michael Douglas

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Society & Culture

4.5547 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the last edition of this series, we give you plenty of ideas to occupy you over our break. Like an immersive listening experience, a television series and we sprinkle it all with glitter. While we’re gone, please send your ideas to our instagram @makingthecutpodcast.


Richard Bacon - https://www.instagram.com/richardpbacon/?hl=en

Frost/Nixon - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/

Tea & Tonic - https://www.teaandtonic.co.uk/

Hope 93 - https://hope93.com/

Legends - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33265765/

The Glitter Store - https://theglitterstore.com/

Lie Down and Listen - https://www.liedownandlisten.com/

GALLiVANTER - https://soundcloud.com/galli_vanter

Detail - https://www.detailmaguk.com/shop


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0:00.0

We are recording.

0:05.2

Hello everybody.

0:07.5

Hello everybody.

0:09.2

I was just looking at something on my computer.

0:11.1

It says Google Tag Manager.com was prevented from profiling you across four websites.

0:18.2

How horrible is that?

0:20.0

Like it's just like so weird. As soon as you, it's just, like, so weird.

0:22.2

As soon as you go on the internet, you're being tagged. I know, I know. Mm. How's things? Good, very busy today. I mean, we're tired. Yeah, we are tired, aren't we? We're burnt out. So this is going to be the last one of this run. For a little bit. Yeah, yeah, it'll take a few weeks off.

0:36.9

Yeah, because we just, we need, like, it's, I mean, it's eight o'clock in the evening.

0:43.2

We've both just sort of finished working. Yes, I mean, even that's not a good sign, is it? Like, we don't know what day it is.

0:51.4

This is my second podcast record today. Yeah, and I've done a live already.

0:55.6

You had Richard Bacon in Begin Again this week. Yes. Oh my God, can we please discuss this man?

1:02.2

Yeah, he's mega Richard. I really, really like him. I had no idea really about how multi-layered he was. But I thought he'd been a media

1:16.6

mogul forever, but he's literally come to it in terms of starting his own business so recently,

1:23.9

really. And it's been so obvious that that is what he should do he's such an

1:29.4

but the idea that he just up and left what was a very solid stable safe career in

1:36.1

radio in the UK where people absolutely loved him took his entire family to Los

1:42.3

Angeles for a brand new start yeah Yeah, a completely different life. Yeah, like, that's bullsy. He's bullse. It's very bullse. Big inspiration to me, really. Yeah, he's amazing. So I've been doing his hair for about 15 years. I met him on a TV show called Back to Reality. For anyone who's listening who doesn't know, Richard Bacon was a disgraced, a blue Peter presenter. I mean, it's so funny because he was only there for a year. It's all anybody talks about. He got cold taking drugs and he was about 19 or something. And he got fired. But then Chris Evans offered him a job on the big breakfast because Chris Evans was a bit naughty like that. And Richard Bacon's career took on a whole new kind of... Well, he became edgy, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, everyone said to me, if I hadn't got caught taking drugs, I would be Matt Baker now. Yes, he would. You know, I'd be presenting the one show. Yeah. And he said, but look at my life. You know, look at all the interesting things I get to do now. So he said it was the worst and best thing that ever happened to me, really.

2:37.0

And the other thing I really, really liked about him, which made me think a bit about how

2:40.7

similar actually you two are.

2:43.1

You are always incredibly giving about me and generous.

2:48.6

And he is really, when he talks about Rebecca, his wife, it is such a

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