opportunity knocks

In this episode,  Opportunity Is Coming - Be Ready, our host Brigitte Brown Jackson welcomes the incredible Ashling Cole as the guest of Powerful.   Ashling, a San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area icon and top 4 contestant on Season 10  of BET's Sunday Best, shares her transformative journey.

In 2016, tragedy struck when Ashling lost her mother, record producer and singer Prince, and her father within eight months. Overwhelmed by grief, she struggled to find her identity, yet it drew her closer to God. Unimaginably, two years later, Ashling was diagnosed with breast cancer. Seeing it as a divine assignment, she held onto her belief that she was already healed, needing only to endure the process. Join Brigitte and Ashling as they discuss resilience, faith, and the power of overcoming adversity in this empowering episode.

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Welcome to the final edition in Season 12. In this episode I know you’re going to enjoy as I take you back to the height of Cannon & Ball’s success as a double act that lasted decades right up until the very sad passing of Bobby Ball in 2020.

Tommy Cannon, a national treasure and one who admits he owes his career to Bobby in those early years as he talks to Eyes & Teeth about a Weld of Laughter.

Double acts over the years on British television have always been there but they seem to have a decade or so dedicated to them, in that case the 1980’s were Cannon & Balls years. Cannon & Ball have always been there it seems from those early Wheeltappers Shows in the 1970’s too I’m a Celebrity and Last Laugh in Las Vegas in more recent years.

I can relate to double acts as a ventriloquist, but I can’t imagine what I’d do without Arthur Lager. It would be like losing a right arm, literally for me, but when the nation lost Bobby Ball, we all felt a great loss as if he were our funny uncle, but he was someone’s father, husband, son, friend and to Tommy more like a brother.

In this final edition to Season 12, welcome to Eyes & Teeth the big big talent of Tommy cannon

Welcome to Eyes & teeth – Legends of Laughter - Maurice Grumbleweed

The Grumbleweeds TV show on a Saturday night meant it was family laughter times they are moments I cherish and remember laughing with my siblings and parents. I was around 9 or 10 when they were big in the light entertainment world and on constantly. 

Summer seasons and pantomimes, and that famous Grumbleweed song we always sung along to just brought joy to the UK.

My great friend Pete Cutler who will be on a future episode put Maurice Lee and me in touch and I thoroughly enjoyed not only hearing all about those shows I grew up watching but I loved hearing what Maurice was up to now. He loves his work, if its storming a cruise ship crowd to not being listened to in a Blues Bar in Harrogate, its so true that when you have the showbusiness bug it never leaves you.

IN this edition Maurice talks about working Hamberg the same time as The Beatles and working with comedy writer Mike Craig as well as being a success up and down the country selling out theatres and clubs and sometimes working three or four venues a night.

Welcome to Season 11, episode 7 Maurice Grumbleweed

Bobby Crush is a true master at the piano but he is so much more than that, he is a musical theatre performer, a TV Star over the golden years of Television at its best, he was all over it. Bobby is a personality, an entertainer, a pantomime legend who has been at the top for 50 years and he’s proud to tell us. Bobby tells us about his greatest moments over his career, talking highlights and picking out little nuggets like winning Opportunity Knocks more than once. And we get to hear an exclusive detailed story of when Bobby and Keith Harris came up with Orville’s Song in 1982, this is a must listen.

We talk Liberace, the London Palladium, jack Jones, Las Vegas and much more in this final episode of Season 10 when A Touch of Magic is in the fingers of Bobby Crush

Adam Daye had a lovely start to his career knocking on the door and taking mail to the Delfont family at the Palace theatre in London to treading the boards at Butlins where he started his impressions at Minehead. Taking on his TV debut in Who do you do.

We talk about Andrew O Connor, Derren Brown, Ronnie Barker, Jimmy Cricket, Michael Sheen, Victoria Wood, Chubby Oates, Duggie Chapman, Ray Alan, Roger De Courcey & Keith Harris. 

Adam married to the lovely Marilyn Hill Smith of Friday Night is Music Night is now retired but pops out to see friends and support shows now and again and it has been nice catching up with them both. You can hear some of our catch up here on the penultimate edition of Season 9 Eyes & teeth Voices of variety welcome Adam Daye 

Simon Cartwright is an extraordinary actor/performer, he does something wonderful for fans of certain comedy icons such as Frankie Howard & Bob Monkhouse, he brings them back to life with his 100% portrayals, he doesn’t just try their voice he lives and breathes their mannerisms and facial expressions, I mean extraordinary is an understatement. 
I'll leave the conversation to the man himself
Welcome to Eyes and Teeth edition 116 Simon Cartwright

Legendary "Funny Bones" Comedy Actor Freddie Davies talks to Steve Hewlett about his fantastic career in TV & Film, Stage & behind the scenes of comedy. 
Freddie talks of George Carl, Jerry Lewis, watching his grandfather in the wings of the theatre. We also talk about the wonderful prop builder Peter Pullon and Freddie's Parrot which gave him that famous name.
We talk Bob Monkhouse, Max Wall, Lee Evans, Ken Dodd, accents, and recording comedy songs.
Freddie presents talks on "Stagecraft" and I'm blessed to of got my own teaser on "Eyes And Teeth" today.
 

Dave Brock has been in the music and comedy business for over 40 years, he is a well seasoned performer and as I find out has an extensive knowledge of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys and if it weren't for Eyes & Teeth being solely about Comedy & variety we would probably still be talking today about the Beach Boys.
We talk about Comedy and our own TV Talent Show experiences and our time in the Water Rats. 
In 2017 I hosted a Trip to Vevey, Switzerland to Chaplin's Museum which has been on my bucket list and I went twice within 3 years. It was on this trip I got to know Dave more and find out we have more common interests.
He is a talented man and is great at Quizzes too. Welcome to Eyes & Teeth Dave Brock

Tom Jones, Rob Brydon and Mike Doyle are three very talented people to come from Wales, today I talk to Mike Doyle but I get all three and more as his voices are vast in range.
Mike delivers today not only brilliant backstage stories of Bob Monkhouse and Freddie Starr and early talk of touring the Clubs with his bands but you will hear impressions and song and learn much more about an incredibly hard working and modest performer who I have admired for 28 years. Mike is known as Baby Rat in The Grand Order of Water Rats which means he was the last to be proposed into the order before the lockdown.

He is an incredible asset to the GOWR and I look forward to working with him more in the future. www.mikedoyle.co.uk

Singer Songwriter and Comedian Bernie Flint talks to me about his big break on Opportunity Knocks. As well as working with Stan Boardman and Roy Walker. How he started to learn guitar in the Royal Navy and find out who the Three Amigos are?
Bernie tells me of the day he recorded his hit song with an orchestra and what it means to him as well as stories of working the Cruise Ships.
Bernie is one of my favourite entertainers to watch and he's a naturally funny guy as you will find when you follow him on facebook and since lockdown he started to record his "Palace Palace" venture which has me crying with laughter everytime.
Hope you enjoy Bernie Flint.
With Bernie's permission I dedicate this episode to his Brother Roy x

Sermon:  When Opportunity Knocks
Preaching: Rev. Paul Stevens
Reading: Revelation 3:20-22
Season 1  Episode 33

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