Bonnie Langford

It's known as Trial of the Time Lord Parts 9 to 12.

This serial is the first appearance of Bonnie Langford as companion Mel Bush.

In the serial, the alien time traveler, the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, is put on trial by his p- people.

Yeah, we, we get that point.

For the episode nine cliffhanger, John Nathan Turn- also, we, you kind of spoke about two of these already.

Right.

For the episode nine cliffhanger, John Nathan-Turner asked Bonnie Langford to scream in the key of F, since that would siege perfectly into the closing theme music.

Ah.

And who else? Oh, we've got Jeffrey Stevens as Louie, one of Fat Sam's hoodlums.

Bonita Langford as Lena Morelli, a showy, pompous theatre performer, better known, of course, as Bonnie Langford, later become a Doctor Who companion to Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.

Mark Curry is Oscar DeVelt, a stuck-up theatre producer who would later become a Blue Peter presenter.

Jonathan Scott-Taylor is a news reporter, and Louise English as ballerina Mel.

He'd be up there.

He'd be doing TikTok dances with Bonnie Langford on the set-

Oh

... of Paradise Towers.

[laughs]

Do you know what? I know, I know what you're gonna say.

That sort of Bonnie Langford, uh, ring to her voice and melodrama.

But fuck me, she absolutely-

No, no, it's kind of like, oh shit, what's up? Oh no, they're actually dead.

I mean, it's probably Bonnie's best acting

moment, isn't it? In the entire run of Doctor

Who.

Everyone will be loving it.

I mean, it sounds like a horror show, but people do like going on death-defying holidays.

So, well, if you fancy a holiday with Bonnie Langford, Fraser Tours are now open for business.

And do you know what? Every single...

Okay, I'm slightly freaking out about today's episode because I'm coming to you from the future because it has just happened.

I sat down with the one and the only Bonnie Langford.

That was one of my favorite episodes yet.

Well, this that you're about to hear.

So I thought we do a little hot seat kind of quick fire question round, which actually worked really well.

And I got to learn a lot about Bonnie and her incredible industry experiences and also some amazing people that she's worked with.

literally after the episode she was like oh Bernadette's in town I was like first name basis Bernadette okay okay um hey maybe I'm on first name basis with Bonnie Langford now she's just Bon Bon Bon anyway sorry I'm really digging a hole here can you tell I'm slightly like

fangirling

I was lucky enough to go on the first Virgin flight, and they had this amazing party.

I mean, we talked on the way down to Bonnie Langford, who's in Paddington at the moment, and she was on board as well.

And so we had this amazing, it was like, and you know Richard Branson is a wonderful entrepreneur, a wonderful businessman, and it was like having a party.

in the air and i think there was at one particular point i thought to myself you know i think i better go home now and i went to the door to open it and thankfully someone said no no no no no no and because they there was champagne no one was sitting down there were people playing instruments it was the best flight ever i mean it was just wonderful uh but there was a downsize to all this because all the press on board they stole huge amounts of champagne they kept putting champagne into their camera bags.

And he's got a very nice apartment opposite the Carnegie Hall, and we're lucky enough to stay there.

But, you know, we went earlier...

In the middle of last year, we went to see the Sondheim show that Cameron produced, and our friend, again, Bonnie Langford, was in it, so we went to support her.

And...

he's in? He's in, what's it called? The Warehouse? No, not the Warehouse.

You know, the take on Paradise Towers that they did for Colin Baker and Bonnie.

The warehouse, I think.

No,

sense.

What's it called? It's so annoying.

It's got a picture of Colin Bajor and Bonnie Langford on the front.

That narrows it down.