{"podcast":{"title":"The Chatterbox Redux Podcast","slug":"the-chatterbox-redux-podcast-7693873","podcast_index_feed_id":7693873,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-chatterbox-podcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-chatterbox-podcast/feed.xml","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-chatterbox-podcast/20260210_070257_853ad79ea159e542e578e66e0c3dcf20.png","author":"Nick & Sue","episode_count":89,"summary":"The Chatterbox Redux Podcast with Nick & Sue is an off-shoot from the highly successful weekly, two hourly, syndicated Chatterbox radio chat show, which can be heard on over 200 radio stations across the United Kingdom and on further radio stations in other territories, Chatterbox originally started as Chatterbox UK during the first lock down and was born out of regular Sunday afternoon interviews on a tribute version of the former pirate radio station Radio Northsea International. The guests come from the 1950's right through to the present day, and range from A-listers and B-listers, through to wannabe's and has-beens, and range from singers, TV stars and presenters, authors, podcasters through to the odd boxer and missionary. You will also find the odd Beatle. The Chatterbox Podcast format is being used in addition to the new radio shows from February, 2026, while classic and older interviews are all being re-edited to make them suitable for a podcast, and to make older interviews sound time-less to the listener. Many great Rockstar's, Musicians and Singers are among those that have taken time out to chat about their lives and to let us know what they are doing. The songs are n…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T22:19:00.210928+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chatterbox-redux-podcast-7693873"},"episode":{"title":"Jill Saward of Shakatak (2024)","slug":"jill-saward-of-shakatak-2024","published_at":"2026-04-05T11:44:26+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chatterbox-redux-podcast-7693873/jill-saward-of-shakatak-2024","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chatterbox-redux-podcast-7693873","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-chatterbox-podcast/2691216","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/371275/2691216/the-chatterbox-podcast/2026_04_05_10_48_30_67d328a6-57e6-4acf-a1f6-7ad470e6dc15.mp3","summary":"In this edition of the Chatterbox redux Podcast, Sue & Nick are joined by Jill Saward of Shakatak. Here she talks about the groups amazing history and the fact that they are not on the retro circuit as they have never split up. As of 2023 Shakatak have four original members. Jill shares many fantastic anecdotes, including the fact that Shakatak members including herself sang and played on those old Top of The Pops albums from the late 1970's and very early 1980's. Those of us over a certain age will remember those albums on the old Hallmark label, famous for not having the original artists but had songs on them were or had recently been in the UK singles chart Wikipdedia says Shakatak are an English jazz-funk band founded in 1980 by Bill Sharpe , Nigel Wright , Roger Odell and Keith Winter. An initial white label release, \"Steppin\", caught the attention of record labels. The band's name was created by them and derived from the name of a record store in Soho , London called \"Record Shack\". Shakatak have enjoyed 14 UK hit singles. The group is still active and popular throughout the world, particularly in Japan and the Far East, and generally produce a new album every two years on JVC Records . It was the release of the 1981 single \"Easier Said Than Done\" that gave the band the radio exposure needed for their first top-twenty hit. This record introduced their instrumental -unison vocal sound to a wider audience, and the track stayed in the UK Singles Chart for seventeen weeks. The follow-up, \"Night Birds\" (1982), was their first single to reach the top ten and it also peaked in Australia at number 92. The album of the same name gave Shakatak their first gold album , entering at number four and remaining in the charts for twenty-eight weeks. Jill Saward (formerly of F…","meta_description":"In this edition of the Chatterbox redux Podcast, Sue & Nick are joined by Jill Saward of Shakatak. Here she talks about the groups amazing history and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1288,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chatterbox-redux-podcast-7693873/episodes/jill-saward-of-shakatak-2024/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chatterbox-redux-podcast-7693873/jill-saward-of-shakatak-2024.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}