Hot off the presses - it's Margaret's conversation with Angela Barnes earlier this week. Angela shares some of Margaret's worst crush excesses. Beardy nerds? Check. Comedians from the 1990s? Oh yes. Angela's crushes include Kenny Everett (note for anyone born after 1979 - he was a very funny, very gay, very rude primetime ITV family entertainer. The 80s was a different time). George Michael gets a mention, as do John Lennon, and a man who once pissed her off so badly she filled his bed with Fros...
Mar 31, 2023•58 min•Ep. 28
Aka, Mr Margaret Cabourn-Smith. And Happy Birthday Crushed - it's a whole year since we released the first episode. It's a special birthday episode, with Margaret put on the spot by her husband, and guest, Dan Tetsell. Dan is a writer and actor who you may have seen in everything from puppet-actor-fest Mongrels to hot-actor-fest Hollyoaks (and most recently Eastenders). He's also Margaret's husband - and the man who has to live with her crushes on a day to day basis. Is that hard? He'll let us k...
Mar 17, 2023•53 min•Ep. 27
Still Game's Sanjeev Kohli is Margaret's guest this week. It's a bit of a tearjerker, looking back at Sanjeev's primary school crushes. As he says - for the first 30 years of his life, all his love was unrequited. Except for his mum. (Life was tough for a Glaswegian metalhead in the 1980s). Sanjeev and Margaret talk about first love, 1980s hedge porn, and running into your old flames at a school reunion. Admin klaxon - We have finally sorted out our first live date - head to Substack for details...
Mar 03, 2023•52 min•Ep. 26
The magnificent Rosie Jones drops in this week to talk to Margaret about her crushes. And it's a doozy. Or should that be doozie? Please advise. Rosie is so prone to crushes that she likes to think of them like a trifle - layers of custard, cream, jam and strawberries. But no sponge fingers. We always knew she was a maverick. It's a wide-ranging episode from the deep to the dippy, with Rosie talking about having to overcome internalised homophobia and ableism to feel worth of love, and why she j...
Feb 17, 2023•58 min•Ep. 25
In this episode, Margaret Cabourn-Smith interviews comedian, and little legend Alison Spittle about her crushes and unrequited loves. We don't want to say she picks badly, but Morrisey and Kanye West both get a mention. Listeners of a sensitive nature may like to know that there are frankly filthy discussions about Bob Hoskins's hairy back. Listener discretion is advised. Find us on substack or email us: crushedbyMCS@gmail.com Check out Alison's tour dates here: https://linktr.ee/alisonspittle A...
Feb 03, 2023•40 min•Ep. 24
Actress, singer, comedian, Twitter star and all round good egg Sooz Kempner is Margaret's guest this week, with crushes that manage to encompass Top Cat and Bruce Forsyth. I'd like to see that Venn diagram. Note to keen listeners - the science this week is... inaccurate, due to Margaret not counting the Vs correctly in this weeks Maths. For those of a more precise nature (as fans of Sooz's big Crush might be), the correct score is 84%, and not, as stated in the show, a measly 17%. Congratulation...
Jan 20, 2023•41 min•Ep. 23
Comedian, musician and improviser Rachel Parris talks to Margaret about Leonardo di Caprio, Spike from Buffy and fills in the gaps on how she got together with last week's guest; crush-turned-husband Marcus Brigstocke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 06, 2023•43 min•Ep. 22
Margaret talks to comedian Marcus Brigstocke about his plethora of crushes ranging from Robert Smith from The Cure all the way through to Susan Kennedy from Neighbours (with a sprinkling of Morten Harket along the way). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 23, 2022•45 min•Ep. 21
Margaret talks to writer, podcaster and producer of this podcast Sophie Black about John Lennon, being attracted to a cartoon wolf, and writing to Just Seventeen to get a photo of a bloke in The Bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 09, 2022•50 min•Ep. 20
Writer-performer Abigail Burdess talks to Margaret about falling in love on a family holiday and a boy with 'the voice of an angel' at whose house she caused a massive security breach. Abigail's novel Mother's Day is out in March 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 25, 2022•37 min•Ep. 19
Writer Daisy Buchanan talks to Margaret about her love of Kermit the Frog, Declan Donnelly and being confident enough to say she loves Mariah Carey (let alone PJ and Duncan). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 11, 2022•55 min•Ep. 18
Relationship expert and comic Rosie Wilby talks to Margaret about a university crush that had her crouching behind the bins and 'the only man for her' George Michael. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 28, 2022•49 min•Ep. 17
Margaret talks to stand up and self-proclaimed 'snog monster' Jenny Eclair about the allure of Rod Stewart, Peter Noone and the-actor-who-is-about-to-play-Elvis-in-an-upcoming-biopic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 14, 2022•48 min•Ep. 16
Actress Mina Anwar talks to Margaret about her Geography teacher Mr Simkins who not only inspired her to sing but also looked uncannily like a ginger Magnum PI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 30, 2022•48 min•Ep. 15
Writer, podcaster and downright comedy legend Richard Herring talks to Margaret about how, as a teenager, being both square and smelly cost him huge. He goes on to talk about how he went out with someone he had made a shrine to on national television and the importance of dealing with his own fans' crushes sensitively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 16, 2022•52 min•Ep. 14
Aussie stand up Heidi Regan remembers loving Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher from afar and harbouring a beautifully life-changing crush on Andrea Corr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 02, 2022•48 min•Ep. 13
Actor and writer Katy Wix talks to Margaret about her most memorable crushes - from Heathcliff to a boy in the canteen to King Kong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 19, 2022•55 min•Ep. 12
Award winning writer and stand-up Sarah Kendall looks back on the crushes from her youth - from Alan Alda to Dustin Hoffman via a boy called Piccolo. She also talks about the challenges of coming out in her 40s and the deeper understanding she has gained of herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 22, 2022•48 min•Ep. 10
Writer, actor and executive director of Wrexham AFC, Humphrey Ker, talks to Margaret about his most ardent of crushes - from Sgt Callahan in Police Academy to Jennifer Aniston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 08, 2022•59 min•Ep. 9
Comedian Shaparak Khorsandi talks to Margaret about all her crushes; from the boy she knew as a teenager to the newsreader Jon Snow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 24, 2022•51 min•Ep. 8
No-one knows more about the power of the crush than comic, writer and actor Sara Pascoe who literally wouldn't exist without it - her mum camped out on her Dad's lawn until they got together. Sara also talks about her own crushes from boys at school to Robbie Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 10, 2022•59 min•Ep. 7
Writer performer Chris Neill talks about growing up gay in the 1980s; the lure of accountants, oboeists and pen and ink drawings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 27, 2022•53 min•Ep. 6
Comic, writer and actor Isy Suttie talks about writing songs for her crushes at school and the art of the double crush; lusting after twins with her best friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 13, 2022•58 min•Ep. 5
Comedian Lucy Porter talks about crushing on indie bands and comedians as a teenager and her first crush of all time - a potentially surprising choice - Spike from Hi-Di-Hi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 29, 2022•49 min•Ep. 4
Comedian Jess Fostekew talks about her first uber crush, her English teacher Mr. Ray. She did what all right minded teenagers would do - write ‘I love him’ about 100 times on her hand and waft it in his face as she left the room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 15, 2022•40 min•Ep. 3
Writer and podcaster Deborah Frances White talks to Margaret about how she ignored the hottest guy in her class to gaze at her music teacher Mr Gilmour espousing the merits of Bach's rules of harmony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 01, 2022•55 min•Ep. 2
Margaret talks to writer and podcaster Dolly Alderton who admits she would find it difficult to deny some of her most outrageous lovesick behaviour as Margaret has witnessed most of it. Dolly talks about DMing her favourite celebrity crushes and remembers falling for her dance partner in a school production of West Side Story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 18, 2022•58 min•Ep. 1
