Westend Wendy & The Turns
Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen & Suzi Ruffell
Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen & Suzi Ruffell
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Comedians and dearest pals Tom Allen and Suzi Ruffell chat friendship, love, life, and culture... sometimes...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to like-minded friends with me Susie Ruffle. |
| 0:21.2 | Me, Tom Allen. Hello. |
| 0:23.4 | Now we are coming to you on Monday evening. |
| 0:26.1 | Yes. |
| 0:26.5 | Monday the 16th of February. |
| 0:28.6 | Yes. |
| 0:29.5 | We're recording today. |
| 0:31.7 | Different lighting. |
| 0:32.6 | Different lighting. |
| 0:33.6 | It's night time. |
| 0:35.3 | Normally we record on Tuesday mornings. |
| 0:37.2 | But Tom, why can't we record tomorrow? |
| 0:39.0 | Well, because it's my first day of rehearsals on Titanic. |
| 0:43.2 | West End Wendy. |
| 0:44.3 | West End Wendy over here. |
| 0:46.5 | Firstly, Susie, thank you for making this change to our long-established schedule. |
| 0:50.5 | Tom, it is my pleasure. |
| 0:51.9 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:52.6 | I thought well, it would be nice to check in with the like-minded friends before, you know, this exciting and, I'll say, a little nerve-wracking adventure. |
| 1:01.7 | Sure. |
| 1:02.5 | I was with Laura Checkley and her wonderful wife, Claire, this weekend, and there were a group of musical theatre people that were, we were doing a fun queer quiz. Oh, yeah. And Laura referred to them all as The Turns. Oh, they're all a table of turns. And so I might start referring to you as a turn. How do you feel about that? I would love to be referred to as a turn. Yeah. I think we do get referred to as turns without perhaps us realizing. Yeah, it's very old-fashioned, |
| 1:28.4 | isn't it? Mm, the turns. I think, I think probably it's sort of what they then say |
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