Cackle's After Dark
Podcast series taking a nostalgic look at CITVs The Worst Witch through the eyes of the original cast. Hosted by original cast member, Holly Rivers AKA Drusilla Paddock cacklesafterdark.substack.com
Episode 4 - Cackle’s After Dark with Kate Duchêne - ‘An Inspector Calls’
Welcome to Episode 4 of Cackle’s After Dark! And what a treat we have in store for you witches!
Miss Hardbroom spent her days at Cackle’s Academy, clad in skin-tight dresses, dreaming of discipline, appearing from thin air, and terrifying a generation of young viewers! The actress who played her - Kate Duchêne - has since worked mainly in theatre, often playing powerful, unhinged women, with repeated collaborations with director Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre, London.
It was a delight and a privilege to have Kate in the Cackle’s After Dark studio...
Cackle's After Dark - Episode 3 - ‘The Genius of the Lamp’
Hello witches!
Join me for Episode 3, where I chat to Charlotte Knowles AKA Sybil Hallow. She spent her days at Cackle’s sobbing in a corner, and now she’s an award winning film-maker!
What’s in store in this episode? Auditions, shopping trip faux-pas, Maud’s sunglasses “from Barcelona”, erupting yak’s milk, neurodiversity and … onions!
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Cackle's After Dark - Episode 2 - Carried Away
Hello witches!
I’m delighted to say that Episode 2 of Cackle’s After Dark is now live and ready to listen to. I had a magical time in the studio chatting to my dear friend Katy Allen who played Ethel Hallow (seasons 1 and 2)
We reminisced about her first time on set as the notorious school bully… her favourite scenes to film…hiding from tutors….cheese and bean toasties...fake I.D…and my penchant for blob fishes!
Hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed recording it! There’s going to be a...
Cackle’s After Dark - Episode 1 - Battle of The Broomsticks
Here it is! Episode 1 of Cackle’s After Dark!
This has been such a joy to write, record and edit… so get your headphones on, cast a silencing spell on anything else that needs doing, and grab yourself a bowl of ‘eel-flavoured cauldron noodles’ to munch on!
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