On the Terrace is back! Join host Vaya Pashos and writer, star and producer of Night Terrace, Ben McKenzie, as we kick off with a chat about the series two opener, “Sense & Susceptibility”!

Anastasia Black is still travelling through time and space in her house “Night Terrace”, accompanied by hapless idiot Eddie Jones and new housemate Sue, who once spied on them for the DEPARTMENT. They’re free of surveillance now – but their adventures have stalled, as the house can’t seem to land anywhere except 1955 London. The answer to why seems hidden in the most unlikely of places: a studio deep inside BBC Broadcasting House…

Vaya and Ben talk about making a second series, Australian accents, meeting Jackie Woodburne, The Archers and more – including this episode’s stellar guest cast, which includes Colette Mann (Neighbours), Gary Russell (The Famous Five), Ian Smith (Neighbours), Louise Jameson (Doctor Who) and John Clarke (Clarke & Dawe, The Games).

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Episode one of Night Terrace series two, “Sense & Susceptibility”, is available on BBC Radio 4 Extra for 30 days after broadcast. You can also listen to the very first episode, “Moving House”, and purchase the rest of the series, via nightterrace.com or the Splendid Chaps Bandcamp store. Find Vaya on Neighbuzz at neighbuzzpod.com.

Show Notes

• The TV Week Logie Awards, aka “the Logies”, have been running since 1959. The categories are a mix of “Most Popular” awards voted on by the public (originally by the readers of TV Week magazine), and “Most Outstanding” awards voted by a jury of TV industry peers.
• You can find the Logies episodes of Neighbuzz here.
• The live-recorded special episode of Night Terrace, Situational Awareness, is available at nightterrace.com and on Bandcamp.
• Harold Bishop, as played by Ian Smith, was a beloved, fussy, uptight do-gooder character on Neighbours who first appeared in 1987. In 1991 he vanished, supposedly dead, after disappearing from a clifftop on holiday with his wife Madge. He returned five years later with amnesia, having been rescued by a passing fishing trawler. He recovered his memories, but later had a stroke and underwent an extreme personality change. Harold left again in 2009, but returned again in 2011 and 2015.
• The Archers is also available via podcast! You can find it here, in BBC Sounds, or just search for The Archers in your favourite podcast directory.
• Gary Russell did indeed play Dick in The Famous Five.
• The audio of Louise Jameson doing variations on “have you seen the cows” is from her original recording session at Big Finish Studios.
• You can find the full “have I the right?” speech from Genesis of the Daleks on YouTube.
• Clog dancing is a real thing. We can’t vouch for Eddie’s authenticity.
• John Clarke was a very well-known face and voice in both Australia and New Zealand. He’s best known in Australia for his character Fred Dagg, and the long-running Clark & Dawe series of satirical sketches with John Dawe, while UK listeners may have seen his sit-com The Games, about the (fictional) bureaucracy behind preparations for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. He is also fondly remembered for his comedy character Fed Dagg. He passed away in 2017.
• Body Melt (1993) features many stars of Australian television, including Andrew Daddo, Gerard Kennedy, William McInnes and – in one of her earliest screen roles – Lisa McCune. It’s a bit hard to find, but worth a watch if you’re a fan of early Peter Jackson films.
• Strictly Ballroom (1992) is pretty easy to find, and stars Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice and Bill Hunter, the latter of whom was a mandatory presence in every Australian feature film of the 1990s.
• ATA Girl (2018) is available from Big Finish Productions, and was a finalist for “Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama” of the BBC Audio Drama Awards in 2019. You can listen to a free excerpt here.