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So you have very good morning to Guy Lloyd in for Danny Pike joined by the acts here Brian kept on nice to see Brian Martz lovely to be here so you have just come off tall and sound so I walk involved to say that. There was it was. Well it kind of was it was a it was a very big tour a very big investment and a very big show called Dr Doolittle Yes and sadly the show has been pulled after 5 months and the White Castle was future bookings it's bricks it's all that kind of thing it's such a big show that that it would hemorrhage money very very quickly cause I got 2000000 to put it on and I had to make a very very difficult decision and this produces been going for like 9 years you put such a teacher bang bang and that this was a show that was put on by all the producing houses in the in the country and and it's so sad that it's had had to come off it was one of the biggest and best shows I've ever been in was it had 33 puppets or by the War Horse people my brother was people beautiful puppets that came alive you know under the lights temp piece orchestra 26 piece on Song me Mark Williams Vicki and it was so. Heading up and I played the circus owner with a wonderful wonderful number which went on for 8 minutes. Who would never seen anything like it and if they sang in the sand yeah you had to pick songs in it and Lizzie Brooker's who wrote the original He's 87 came into rehearsals he rewrote it took out the racism sexism a little bit you know that we were in there from the fifty's and and made a kind of a new show of it and everybody loved it we played up in Manchester for a month all over Christmas and we had over a 1000 people in every time they did. Did really well but the trouble was it had such a big show I mean 7 Penn technic and you know full of full of stuff going between theaters on tour and it was such a big show I had to do 2 weeks everywhere and I think that was that that's a big ask in some place Yes And so we finished in Oxford and I had to make a very difficult decision because I had to get 80 percent. Of the producing houses to make a profit OK and it's not supported by anything else you know these are completely independent and it's just very very sad but you know we did it and it was it was a very successful show it was a lovely show to be in LA and the worst thing is for young people I mean I've kind of had my career. But for the youngsters and it's very hard when you're on the sawmiller and you're seeing a dancer because normally are booked about 6 months ahead they were they were booked in April we started in September and of course they're expecting to work for a year yeah given up their rooms in London or ever they live on the course when it ends suddenly they've got to wait even if they get something another 6 months before they can work and yeah see what I mean yeah and they just do anything they can in between and very tough life being a singer dancer is much harder than I like to actually was I mean it's it's tough as it is it's tough in the states is that as you say these uncertain times with Rex It has affected all theatre bookings you know and you'll notice that there are many plays going around for instance it's all musicals now you know and it's anything to get people in I think so I didn't know about the singing side of your career. But you've lot recently also. I fell into it because I was doing after Coronation Street I did 3 years on where the heart is and I was taking a break after the 3rd series thinking we were going back to do a 4 series and i asked me to just do the narrator in Rocky Horror Show and I said Well um I'm not musical theater person I said well you don't have to do a little bit singing you know so I did Rocky Horror and it was fantastic and I did it for 3 weeks and halfway through that period my agent rang said You won't believe this they're not doing any more where the heart is because they're bringing Downton Abbey and things like that and I was really sure we were all short because. The ratings were good and we were told it was going to go against Arthur oh my God what we're going to do and ambassadors theatre who are running Rocky Horror said Would you like to carry on with that take in the West End and I said oh yeah OK and did some more onto it and then asked me to do Guys and Dolls which was which I did we clear Sweeney which I'd never done anything like that and again Nathan Detroit is not strong singing part it just has 2 songs so that kind of gently got me into the musical theater world and ever since then it's been another string to my bow so in a sense I say thank goodness for for them taking off where the heart is because I wouldn't of had this up fabulous opportunity although it's been pulled after 5 months it's been a wonderful opportunity and I've done some wonderful things and I've done I never did pantomime before that yeah so so I've done you know quite a few singing quite a few so I didn't Irving Berlin musical are done so many scene bits but basically I'm not a singer but I can put some across let's I know yeah OK Your career is very very My . Mad basically go you know what you have to do you know you just have to adapt to the Times Yeah absolutely and talking of times the 1st time we sort of came to prominence for me and a lot of listeners I'm sure would be a great help as Mr Hopwood Yes yes. If you can he's got. The people students called you so. Yeah I really remember that said So how was that and what was the transition what we doing before that before you got the call to do that and did you have any idea how big it was going to be Grange Hill No I didn't I felt very lucky to get the job because I had young kids at the time and it was a wonderful job because it went from like June to February so it was a long job and also in those days it got repeated when the new year on B.B.C. 2 So you got to Hollywood. So it was a wonderful job I felt very lucky to get it and before that I was I did Connors Zed cars and. I start Intel in 9073 of that program called general. Spittal. I did lots of lots of stuff tells them expected all those kind of things Sweeney and then suddenly I got great show which was lovely so I did that for 4 years. And I loved it because it was a very different it was a real cult programme in those days it got about 12000000 viewers you know it was a. Lot of adults watched it a people used to kind of attack me in supermarkets I know you're in that dreadful program but it was all those children speak so badly and I was I was a so well you must watch quite a few to recognise me they go but they're lovely and we had the 40th anniversary last year and all mile pupils turned up were all of. 5 So we're talking people like I mean I randomly I am friends with Lee MCDONALD Yeah he plays that IMO Yes he was in it when I was and in fact that there were there were 2 characters. And there was another boy who was with him that there were there were a couple to get along well with no road land has their own land was there ever such strong characters when they really were and in those days we did it B.B.C. T.V. Center moment of the 40th anniversary this year we went back there yeah because they still we have got 3 studios although it's all changed yeah. There are 3 studios and it's just the same and it kind of brought back all the memories of Agrippa you know yes. Tucker JENKINS Well to work with Todd and I sort told recently actually and we're going to meet up in about a month's time because they're launching a D.V.D. Of us getting all together on the part of Iowa City of the forward. Pass they're also releasing the D.V.D. Of episode $5.00 and $6.00 OK which I did episodes 345 and $6.00 I did it for 4 years it was such a lovely job also as an actor I learnt a lot because the actor kids were very natural and I wanted to be like them and in those days there was much more kind of acting going on and on T.V. So it taught me a lot I learned a lot from them and I absolutely loved it and they were such nice kids yeah I do be interested to see how we go down. Now me my boys 15 I'd love to see his reaction to say you know what you know David that you now yeah now that we have is how many courses of the sets are picked Creek all that kind of think of it but the characters are still very strong Yeah are the best episodes to do with the ones on film but I need to do 2 on the film and has to do it it was a was a a jarring experience when you suddenly caught 2 out side because they did on 16 Male So you went from that are ordinary video to 16 Male Yeah and suddenly it was very strange because we do the outside stuff in the summer and then we'd be catching up in the studio the following February so people are driving about 2 inches by the end of their voices. Yeah it was it was very funny and I guess that when you went to the reunion I mean I'm guessing not everybody has been lucky enough to stay and I think most of them haven't Yeah you know very very few of them went to towards a rarity and because told went on to do Eastenders and then the Bill of course yes and I don't pantomime retard Have you a lovely guy he's the sweetest guy's name and he really had the world is feet up on time he's is typical of a child actor it's very hard I think for a child actor because they grow up in an adult world for marriage if you know 91011 and it's very hard for them to adjust and their lives are quite difficult later on sometime yeah absolutely OK Prime Stay with us because we want to talk about I mean you went from that when we talk about career variation you went from a teacher that you trust to a serial killer. So let's talk about that I want you up to this year after Lady Gaga. That's right maps on the B.B.C. Sussex and B.B.C. So we got Lloyd in for down the pipeline Hey I we're talking about Grange Hill days lovely child friendly very good style to it with all about but with that for 4 years and you suddenly left you were saying yes well my agent thought the 4 years was enough for myself I wanted to go if not the year and I did say that I'd do another year but in those days they didn't used to contracted to have just literally few weeks before so I didn't I met one day and said that come through for another series or Grandcolas it all just a one more shot you're not doing any more and I went I must. Go on and should not know you thought it. That's it and I said to my comment talked about it yes I went in to talk to about it she was actually adamant she was right and then I went to a completely different direction and picked up a. Comedy series called Full House which people don't really remember but remember but I do it did 3 years and it got to number 2 in the ratings did 50 and a half 1000000 viewers so it did really well were for unknown's. And it was it was a it was a very exciting to do to do sitcom it was a bit it was a bit rubbish when I look back on it. But. It was very very nerve wracking but it's a good thing to do as an actor because it's live and you only have a week 3 hours or you know so I did that and then I went in a completely different direction after that so. If I had a plan it was to get known on television or to be able to do theatre which is my 1st love I'm not trained in the theatre for 3 years and the people I was in rep with are quite interesting because that was were like Robert Lindsay. John that was you know this guy's you know what was it about theatre that you love. I think most actors like theatre because they get proper rehearsal because when you do film and television you don't get any sort really just a particular doing soap it's just absolutely really instant quite frightening and must say that I admired soap actors much more after I did after I'd gone in and done Coronation Street because it's really you don't have any time you hard to get time to even go through a scene with somebody else and if there's 4 or 5 in a scene you can there's never time for everybody to get together so it's like a factory and it's very very nerve racking OK So that was you know so you've again a good example of like variation in your career. And then probably the peak of like . Your career in terms of people watching and being known We're going to put more the flame of this in terms of how it was in your personal life you became a serial killer. Straight I sort of said that as if you sort of like qualified to be a serial killer yourself Richard Hellman. Between 20012003 I remember watching that I was like what's happened to hopping here. So what was that like as a role and how did it effect on that scale I mean obviously you know you've been very lucky to be involved in shows that attracted millions of viewers carnations it's a big deal and it's on regularly during the week to Peter I'm so weak so what is that playing What's it like playing that the wall what how did it affect your personal life because I gather from talking to previous site stars that a lot of people think this is real life sometimes deadly Yes yes of course they do yes and you do kind of attacked in the streets and people to shout at you and even even now all these years later but there was something about Richard Herman It was a character he wasn't he didn't love him with a kind of you didn't hate him with a cold hate I think you kind of loved to hate him as it were because he in his mad world he was doing it for a reason he was doing it for his family. So he was quite a complex character and I think people I don't know what I get mostly might be I was an airport last year in New York when someone just kind of walked past me when mudra. That kind of fun think there was a big black little reminder of your dark past then it also was a lot of black humor that they put in around the character I mean I remember that I was walking down the street and I was after Audrey at the time and I meet her in the street and I walked past her and she goes oh how Richard and I go goodbye Audrey and it was those little moments of humor which which gave him something a bit special I think as I say he was occur. He could love to hate so other people kind of had not a sneaking regard for him but I don't think I kind of just hated him if you said I mean there were there was something about the character that was quite complex. It was a wonderful character to play I was just lucky it was a confluence of circumstances because Coronation Street wasn't doing very well at the time and they brought in a new producer and a new executive producer and they changed they changed everything brought back the writers that had left brought in new writers and it was one new writer who took hold of Richard Hellman and took him to where it went yeah this mad journey and I was just the lucky actor that happened to be there at the time and they thought I was ripe right for so it was out it was so funny that 20 years before my agent was worried about me becoming type causes a nice friendly teacher. And after that worried about me feel a psychopathic killer. So how are we all did because he was killed off and they thought yes yes I was I was OK Did you have a good sense that was going to how well the only the only power that you have that I had was that I never wanted to move up there and live there because I live in private and my family's down here so I said I said if the character successful I have to tell you now that 2 years would be my absolute maximum So that's that's what it ended up being 2 years and I did over $200.00 episodes in 2 years as a moved up that I had to live out there you know so as to come back one day a week basically come back on a ride drive back on a Friday and I have Saturday off and go back there like you said earlier it's a very intense very different yes it's unusual because normally we have a storyline as a as a character you maybe have a story on the fridge for 5 months and then you have a few months where you're just going in the Rover saying 2 pints please you know this character was relentless because also they aimed at the SO poured for the 1st time they felt too grand about the soap world but the end of story and they cleaned up 12 Soap Awards you know and I managed to scrape 5 Not that it means anything but but you know that they had to do that to get Corey back on top and it peaked out around 20000000 viewers which isn't which was amazing even then it was I'm heading off yes. Very lucky to be that and. Then that was 15 years ago and I'm still going . The. Same to one. Very very lucky to have. Ended my career if your life was 5051 when that happened and it's given me you know yeah. A question was she would