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LATEST UPDATES (July 2018)

Hello – here are the Hadoke headlines for July 2018, which is going to be a rather hectic month for me. I hope you’re enjoying the sun and whichever sport floats your boat. 

I am still gigging regularly at The Comedy Store and XS Malarkey  until around mid July (I’m not back at the 99 Club until August) but I can’t fit any other gigs in because…

I will be spending the summer playing Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet for Feelgood Theatre – after last year’s five star A Midsummer Night’s Dream this is going to be a spellbinding night because it has the same creative team and most of the same lovely actors. There’s lots of fighting and music and the captivating atmosphere of the open air will beguile you, so please do come. Details and tickets here. 

Romeo and Juliet come to Heaton Park this summer. So does Friar Laurence.

I’m going to be filming a fun little cameo in a feature film later this month. I won’t jinx it until my bit is in the can but it boasts one heck of a cast and a splendid director. I will be playing a comedian (versatility, you see, that’s my strength). 

I have been commissioned to write a mini-play about Spike Milligan for Radio 3 which will be performed in front of a live audience and broadcast at end of September.

I’m back presenting The 7th Dimension on Radio 4 extra for a three weekend stint until the middle of July. 

I’ve tracked down a couple more folk involved in the original serials, as well as some fascinating documents, which should all help to make my forthcoming Quatermass book as close to definitive as possible. It will probably now be two volumes. The first volume is due by the end of the year. More info soon…

Felicity Ward is coming to XS and I couldn’t be more excited. one of my favourites!

This month at XS Malarkey there are more of our Edinburgh previews – they include Felicity Ward, Brennan Reece, Rob Rouse, Laura Davis, Ahir Shah and many more. What a line up! More details are available now at  the XS Malarkey Website.

The Doctor Who Season 12 Blu-Ray box set is out this month and I pop up on one of the documentaries. It looks like a fabulous package (the box set – I’m only filmed from the neck up so quiet at the back). Grab yourself a copy because it’d be nice if it sold well and led to further releases.

Ongoing news but good news …

My dramatisation of Nigel Kneale’s famous lost television play, The Road, for Radio 4 was recorded in Maida Vale at the beginning of February. The cast is phenomenal : Mark Gatiss, Adrian Scarborough, Hattie Morahan, Colin McFarlane, Susan Wokoma, Francis Magee and Ralph Ineson.  It will be the Halloween Fright Night production for BBC Radio 4 on October 27th.  It is one of my proudest achievements.      STOP PRESS: There will be a tie in event on the night (I’ll say it again – October 27th) in Manchester – so don’t go making any plans! More details to follow… STOP STOP PRESS – the play, intended for a late night broadcast, has been promoted – it will now go out in the busier afternoon slot because it has got the thumbs up from on high. Not sure how this affects the Home … more news when I have it.

Adrian Scarborough and Mark Gatiss investigate spooky happenings in my adaptation of Nigel Kneale’s The Road on Radio 4 this Halloween.
 
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Toby Hadoke – June Updates

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LATEST UPDATES (June 2018)

How did it get to be June? It can’t be June. The year’s only just started. Oh well, as we trudge ever onwards towards inevitable collapse and decay… (actually there’ve been some quite exciting developments, such as…) 

I interviewed this bloke – for an hour! – for my Quatermass book last month. Oh, and some guy named John Carpenter…

I have uncovered an astonishing amount of new information and material (not to mention ace interviews!) about Quatermass, so much so that it’s likely that my forthcoming book will now be a two volume affair. The first volume is due by the end of the year but guess what? More info soon…

I am still gigging regularly at The Comedy Store, XS Malarkey until around mid July and the 99 Club until the end of June but one-offs will be scarce or non-existent for the next few months because (and sorry this is all a bit vague, much of it is caught in that limbo between me knowing it’s happening and me being allowed to actually tell anyone that it is)…

I will be spending the summer doing Shakespeare in the open air again: so make sure you’re heading down to Heaton Park sometime around the end of July/beginning of August. Full details will be out shortly. 

I have been commissioned to write a comedy piece for Radio 3 which will be going out live at the end of September. It’s part of a special evening celebrating a comedy legend and I’m in some pretty hefty company so I’ll have to bring my A Game. More details to follow.

I’m back presenting The 7th Dimension on Radio 4 extra for a three weekend stint at the end of June. I’m also recording some more Fantom Films Who Talk CDs.

The mighty Hal Cruttenden makes his first visit to XS Malarkey after about 15 years of trying to get him!

This month at XS Malarkey it’s the beginning of our Edinburgh preview season which includes such impressive names as Ed Gamble,  Dan Nightingale, Hal Cruttenden, Catherine Bohart, Brennan Reece, John Hastings, Rob Rouse, Laura Davis, Ahir Shah and many more. What a line up! More details are available now (yes, now! Not soon, not to follow, not shortly, but right now!) at  the XS Malarkey Website.

Oh, and if by any chance you’re flying to Albania anytime soon and you recognise the voice telling you to fasten your seat belts,  well… you might think that but I couldn’t possibly comment….

Ongoing news but good news …

My dramatisation of Nigel Kneale’s famous lost television play, The Road, for Radio 4 was recorded in Maida Vale at the beginning of February. The cast is phenomenal : Mark Gatiss, Adrian Scarborough, Hattie Morahan, Colin McFarlane, Susan Wokoma, Francis Magee and Ralph Ineson.  It will be the Halloween Fright Night production for BBC Radio 4 on October 27th.  It is one of my proudest achievements.      STOP PRESS: There will be a tie in event on the night (I’ll say it again – October 27th) in Manchester – so don’t go making any plans! More details to follow…

What a team – and they look like they’ve enjoyed going along The Road!
 
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May 2018 Latest News

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LATEST UPDATES (May 2018)

Whilst I am still gigging regularly at The Comedy Store, XS Malarkey and the 99 Club but one offs will be scarce or non-existent because…

Most of the rest of this year will be taken up with putting my forthcoming book about Quatermass (from Miwk Publishing) together. I recently secured some fantastic interviews and this month there is a lot of paperwork to be trawled though, some of it containing some pretty exciting things…

I will be spending the summer doing Shakespeare in the open air again: more details to follow once it’s all set in stone.

Solar bear Oscar McLeod (voiced by yours truly) as imagined by DWM.

If you haven’t already, get Tales from New Earth : out now from Big Finish. There’ve been a few more very positive reviews about it recently, including one in the official Doctor Who Magazine which, ahem, says … “In a blistering performance, Hadoke makes Oscar an instantly memorable and irresistibly endearing character.” So that’s nice.

Michael E Briant and David Sulkin OBE remember Revenge of the Cybermen, whereas I can’t even remember to shave.

A couple more Fantom Films Who Talks are out this month, and I’m on both of them, discussing such disparate fare as The Massacre and Revenge of the Cybermen with such key players as director Michael E Briant, actors Peter Purves, Chris Tranchell and David Collings, script editor Donald Tosh and more… Details here.

Very funny comedian : quietly voiced sarcasm and deadly barbs from Jenny Collier.

This month at XS Malarkey there are some great acts on including the delightfully pesky Jenny Collier doing her first ever headline gig for us. She will doubtless do lots of fabulous material – softly spoken but surprisingly near the knuckle which will have everyone in hysterics. Edinburgh Award nominee Jordan Brookes, who is very difficult to describe – except to say that he’s very funny but not in a way that anybody else is – returns More details at the XS Malarkey Website.

Ongoing news but good news …

My dramatisation of Nigel Kneale’s famous lost television play, The Road, for Radio 4 was recorded in Maida Vale at the beginning of February. The cast is phenomenal : Mark Gatiss, Adrian Scarborough, Hattie Morahan, Colin McFarlane, Susan Wokoma, Francis Magee and Ralph Ineson.  It will be the Halloween Fright Night production for BBC Radio 4 on October 27th.  It is one of my proudest achievements.      STOP PRESS: There will be a tie in event on the night in Manchester – so don’t go making any plans! More details to follow…

What a team – and they look like they’ve enjoyed going along The Road!
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April 2018 – Latest Updates

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LATEST UPDATES (April 2018)

I’ve agreed a deadline with my publisher for the book I have been writing about Quatermass, which means I’ll be keeping my head down for a bit whilst I get the donkey work done on that. I have interviewed Toyah Wilcox, Jason Flemyng and Annabel Lanyon all within the space of a week! I’m on fire!

There’s still room for some live gigs – I’m doing Bury Met on 5th, Nantwich Civic Hall on 6th and The Boo in Rossendale on the 7th. The following weekend finds me at the Manchester Comedy Store from Thursday through Saturday (2 shows on Saturday). And as usual I’ll be at XS Malarkey on Tuesdays, the 99 Club Leicester square on Wednesdays and the Manchester Comedy Store every other Sunday for New Stuff.

I had another obituary for Dorka Nieradzik published, this one was in the Herald. You can read it here.

 

Elf Lyons who makes her XS debut this month

This month at XS Malarkey the headliners whom I will be introducing will be the fabulous Michael Legge, the ludicrous George Egg, brilliant XS debutant Elf Lyons and lugubrious local Mike Newall. More details at the XS Malarkey Website.

Ongoing news but good news …

My dramatisation of Nigel Kneale’s famous lost television play, The Road, for Radio 4 was recorded in Maida Vale at the beginning of February. The cast is phenomenal : Mark Gatiss, Adrian Scarborough, Hattie Morahan, Colin McFarlane, Susan Wokoma, Francis Magee and Ralph Ineson.  It will be the Halloween Fright Night production for BBC Radio 4 on October 27th.  It is one of my proudest achievements.

The current DVD release of The Enemy of the World has an hour long documentary produced by Ed Stradling in which I try to find out some brand new facts about the making of this once lost Doctor Who serial. I interview some hitherto unheard from folks, and get some insights into the leading man who, in this story, plays a dual role.

I have also contributed to the new Season 12 Blu-Ray set which is out in the middle of the year: I wear a cravat and talk about – among other things – Glyn Jones, Sonatrans and a wobbly android.

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Latest Updates March 2018

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LATEST UPDATES (March 2018)

I’m presenting the 7th Dimension again on BBC Radio 4 Extra for three weekends commencing on March 17th. There’s plenty of fabulous stuff for me to chat in between, including a Daphne du Maurier play with Maureen O’Brien and Dinsdale Landen and a horror story involving something being found during the digging of a tube extension (sound familiar…?). Unfortunately my links will not be on iPlayer so you’ll need to listen live!

My forthcoming book on Quatermass benefitted this month from a lengthy interview with – and the seal of approval of – Nigel Kneale’s widow Judith Kerr (who wrote The Tiger Who Came To Tea and the Mog books). She provided some fascinating insights which will doubtless delight my very patient publisher Matt West at  Miwk. I’ll be a bit quiet over the next few months whilst I crack on with the book which I’d like to finish this year.

With the wonderful Judith Kerr.

Two Interviewees from my Who’s Round podcast have died recently. It’s very sad to hear of their passing but fortunately I managed to supply obituaries for them (click on their names for their podcast, and on the paper’s name for the obituary): make-up designer Dorka Nieradzik was remembered in The Guardian and that wonderful actor Peter Miles gets an appreciation in The Herald.

I interviewed the late Dorka Nieradzik (right) and her good friend June Hudson together when they featured on my Who’s Round podcast.

I might just have had a little something to do with the latest Take Back Theatre project Ten Takes On Shelter. It’s all under wraps at the moment (appropriately, because it’s very cold) but worth getting tickets for here.

I play a 9ft tall solar space bear called Oscar McLeod in The Skies of New Earth, part of Big Finish’s Tales from New Earth boxed set which is rather fabulous. It’s a great fun part and I get some marvellous lines and the cherishable character description “ostentatiously belligerent”. I play other bits and bobs too, including the overarching alien baddie and a fellow called Dobtcheff (I know! What’s not to love?). It’s well worth your time and available here. I’m sticking a couple of reviews down here too:

“Toby Hadoke steals the show – Oscar is likely to go down as a fan favourite and will be a perfectly fine reason to start listening”
– Blogtor Who

“A shout out to Toby Hadoke who plays a plethora of parts. I instantly recognised his voice as the debate moderator. But even though I have interviewed him and met him a few times, I would never have guessed him as the Scandinavian Silver haired bear Oscar. A man of many talents indeed and a stand-out character to a lead in any future sets.”  
– Doctor Squee, indiemacuser.co.uk

The fabulous, thought provoking and brutally funny Sean McLoughlin

I’m MCing at the Frog and Bucket on 16/17th March, plus my usual stints at the 99 Club and the Comedy Store. This month at XS Malarkey the headliners whom I will be introducing will be the erudite Matt Stellingwerf, the brutally honest and sometimes dark Sean McLoughlin and the smart and likeable Glenn Moore : rare talents all. More details at the XS Malarkey Website. 

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LATEST UPDATES (February 2018)

My dramatisation of Nigel Kneale’s famous lost television play, The Road, for Radio 4 was recorded in Maida Vale at the beginning of February. The cast is phenomenal : Mark Gatiss, Adrian Scarborough, Hattie Morahan, Colin McFarlane, Susan Wokoma, Francis Magee and Ralph Ineson.  It will be the Halloween Fright Night production for BBC Radio 4 on October 27th.  It is one of my proudest achievements. Nigel Kneale’s widow Judith Kerr (a writer of great repute herself : Mog, The Tiger Who Came for Tea etc) attended the recording and had a lovely time talking about “Tom” (Kneale’s actual first name) and his work.

With Judith Kerr at the recording of The Road.
Adrian Scarborough plays Sir Timothy and Mark Gatiss is Gideon Cobb in the recreation of this lost classic.

I have jumped in at relatively short notice to play Doc in West Side Story at the Royal Northern College of Music at the end of February. There’s a terrific young cast and it’s a great show. Tickets here.

The Guardian asked me to add a positive note to their coverage of the death of actor Peter Wyngarde which I was more than happy to do. The result is here.

Please vote for XS Malarkey as Best Comedy Club (that runs weekly or has a capacity of 150 or more) in the Chortle Awards. Stiff competition this year so please help!! Here.

The forthcoming DVD release of The Enemy of the World has an hour long documentary produced by Ed Stradling in which I try to find out some brand new facts about the making of this once lost Doctor Who serial. I interview some hitherto unheard from folks, and get some insights into the leading man who, in this story, plays a dual role.

Chatting to Mary Peach at her home about Doctor Who and much, much more.