Welcome to Eyes and Teeth the Podcast. I have loved creating this podcast now an archive of conversation in the World of Showbusiness. You can find them all on You Tube as well as Buzzsprout, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more. Over 200 episodes with very talented people across show business. In this episode I modestly shout about my career from being inspired to working some of the greatest theatres in the UK. I talk about my obvious TV Break on BGT in 2013 as well as my ea...

Here it is... The Final episode of Eyes and Teeth. Over 200 Episodes from Paul Adams to Sir Ken Dodd... This final episode is dedicated to those guests we have since lost including John Challis, Wyn Calvin, Paul Eastwood, Phil Butler, Duggie Brown & Dave Myers. I want to thank every single guest who took my calls and gave their time to make this show a cavalcade of variety chat to last for years to come.

On this final episode with Sir Ken Dodd the tribute to the King of Comedy. Thanks for listening to Eyes & Teeth. Please download, share and review over 200 episodes for free... Sir Ken Dodd was a national treasure and loved for over 70 years across the UK as one of our finest Comedians and Ventriloquists. He was the 6th Beatle, a pioneer, an encyclopaedia of humour and master of his stage craft. Ken adored people and spent time passing advice onto younger performers and even spent ...

Sir Ken Dodd's career spanned over 70 years in show business and might I say at the Top of his game. He was Liverpool's very own and even The Beatles adored him as one of the greatest comedians we have ever seen. Doddy as he was known to millions had an encyclopaedia of a mind for comedy words, gags, routines and song whilst also topping the charts with his own albums as he had a beautiful voice he didn't even need comedy to earn his living. Ken Dodd stayed true to his roots and n...

Paul Daniels was one of the most successful magicians in British Television history. Name a magician today who never learnt from Paul Daniels Magic Set when they were a child? Inspiring as a magician and leader of Variety on television along with The Des O Connor Show Paul would also introduce the best in variety to our TV Screens in his 16 years at the top alongside his Producer John Fisher. Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee were our Saturday night entertainment, they entertained us and t...

Keith Harris a national treasure with his little Green Duck Orville stole the hearts of millions in the 1980's throughout his television and pantomime career. Sell out Summer Seasons and Panto's saw Keith smash box office records and earn himself a brand new generation of fans after creating the 'Duck Off' show for UK Universities and nightclubs. He was a master of entertaining and I am giving back by paying tribute as he gave me so much including his time. Enjoy clips, interviews and tribut...

Keith Harris was one of the most successful ventriloquists in Great Britain's show business history. With record sold out summer seasons at Blackpool's Grand Theatre and pantomimes Keith's Saturday Night TV Show was watched by millions of families in the 1980's and after Orville's Song written by Bobby Crush was released in 1982 it shot Orville into many hearts of children and adults selling a whopping 400.000 copies. Keith worked through the declining decade of variety into the 1990's and t...

Welcome to Part 2 of my tribute to Roy Hudd OBE. In this episode I play more clips from Roy's career and include interviews with Chris Emmett, Debbie Hudd, Jimmy Cricket, Rick Wakeman and Mike Craig. My main goal as well as spreading the word of Roy's amazing work and books out there is to make you aware of www.theroyhuddstaatueappeal.co.uk and upcoming events to raise funds for this project. Your help to share and donate is greatly appreciated. Hope you enjoy the show.

Roy Hudd, OBE was a comedian, actor, presenter, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment. Roy was a Butlin's Clacton Redcoat but made his name on Radio in many guises including Workers' Playtime, BBC Radio 2's satirical series The News Huddlines which ran from 1975 to 2001. Roy Hudd broke into television in the mid-1960s in sketch series such as The Illustrated Weekly Hudd and The Roy Hudd Show. More TV followed with Lipstick on Your Collar, Common As Muck, ...

Dave Evans was a World Class Entertainer. Truly gifted in music, comedy and impressions which wowed the Cabaret Clubs across the UK and Australia. He astounded audiences for thirty years at sea and impressed us on television when variety was at its height. On this Tribute Season, I talk with friends and colleagues of those no longer with us and I have chosen five of the greatest I worked with to end Eyes & Teeth on. Today you can enjoy clips of Dave Evans he sent me over the years and sad...

Welcome to the last Episode of Eyes & Teeth Theo Worlds Greatest variety Show Season 15. When I think about the Variety in the World and hosting a show that is based around variety there is one family that comes to mind and that is a family who have lived and breathed Variety for over 60 years. Think of the most successful and famous show business family in the world and you will instantly think of the Osmonds. In 2016 my career I felt was made by one phonecall during a shopping trip in E...

In part two Jimmy & I discuss the world of ventriloquists and its future as well as talking about the great vents out there today making the art look easy. It clearly isn't when you realise how many of us are left out there. Gary Wilner to Terry Fator, Darci Lynne to Jeff Dunham, Paul Zerdin to Ray Alan, listen in to a chat about what will be a book by Steve Hewlett and ventriloquists worldwide... YouTube soundbite clips from: Ronn Lucas (MDA Telethon), (,Gary Wilner (ventg99), Paul Leven...

Jimmy Tamley was my inspiration to become a vent act, to be part of showbusiness. He sparked that interest in me but not just to have an act on stage but he is part of me loving the vents before us, he showed me archives of vents and connected me with vent magazines and figure makers worldwide, I have alot to thank him for. In the next two episodes Jim & I chat as we always do about the world of ventriloquism and he wanted to focus on subjects throughout my book Ventriloquest out in the n...

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth - my MUM Sharon Hewlett This episode in this final special season I talk relaxed to my mum about her growing up in London and me taking on showbusiness which she says has impacted her life in a fun way. There are special little notes from my Lola & Larissa, her own mum Lilian, our nan as well as Shane Ritchie, Paul Ross, Marti Pellow and his band Wet Wet Wet, Joanna Lumley, Mr Motivator, The Nolans, Mica Paris, Joe Mangle aka Mark Little, Tony Slattery, ...

Welcome to Eyes and Teeth Jay Johnson Jay Johnson is an International Success story in the art of ventriloquism highly respected in the land of Sitcom, stage performance, the acting world and the art of Ventriloquism. He was certainly on my Top 10 list greatest vents of all time so you can imagine how happy I am to have him guest on my podcast. Jay has been seen on TV drama’s such as an episode of Mrs. Columbo,The Love Boat, Gimme a Break!, Simon & Simon, The Facts of Life, Empty Nest (re...

Welcome to Eyes and Teeth and The World’s Greatest Variety Show On my last tour date in Norfolk I swung by one of my favourite venues called The Thursford Collection. In the spring to Summer it showcases fairground attractions and steam engines of the highest calibre but in October its turned into a rehearsal space for the Thursford’s Christmas Spectacular which has attracted over 5.8 million visitors to date and is the largest Christmas show in the country. I have had the pleasure of hosting...

Bobby Davro is an absolute legend in the world of British Variety and Television from the 1980’s onwards. I first met Bobby at the Wimbledon theatre when I was 16 and visiting puppeteer Simon Buckley who I had just recorded a TV show with in 1993 and he invited me to see his pantomime starring Bobby Davro. Bobby was gracious and always has been to me. We have since worked many variety shows or charity events together and he has me in tears of laughter each time and he is one of the best impre...

Welcome to Eyes and Teeth Kevin Dean Kevin and I became acquainted within the GOWR, the Grand Order of Water Rats, which is a Showbusiness charity over 130 years old which included members including Danny Kaye, Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Tommy Cooper, Charlie Chester, Les Dawson, Keith Harris, and those still with us today such as Rick Wakeman, Alfie Boe, The Hairy Bikers, Steve Hewlett, WHO? Well it is a who’s who in the order, we look out for our fellow entertainers who...

Desmondo & Cherry King Welcome to Eyes & Teeth a lovely couple who I keep bumping into even into their retirement but who retires in this business? Hardly any of us, if showbusiness is in your blood then you will always want to share your talent and Des King with Cherry have entertained millions world wide up to just a few weeks ago. Des and Cherry tell me of their meeting and seasons they have performed in as well as great talents we have shared the stage with. It's rare I get to rec...

Eyes & Teeth would not be here without the Royal Variety Performance, or TV Talent Shows and they were inspirations not just for a budding young ventriloquist wannabe in Basingstoke in 1987 but for 1000’s of comedy, variety and musical acts for nearly a century. Today’s guest is not only related to Lord Bernard Delfont and Lew Grade but he himself has made a huge impact behind the scenes keeping the cogs of showbusiness agencies thriving and the Royal variety charity and Brinsworth House ...