It's the start of a new year, which means time to dust off the old crystal ball and see what could be coming to the cobbles in the next twelve months! In this episode, we chat about our predictions for 2025, discuss what we're squeezing our hands together tight and praying will happen, and get our creative juices flowing by coming up with some storyline pitches for the year. Of course, it wouldn't be a prediction show without us looking back to last year's ideas and seeing how many of them we got right (spoiler alert - not too many!) and also hear some ideas from our lovely listeners. Honestly, who needs TV guide spoilers and leaks from The Sun when you've got this?

On our latest episode of the podcast, we chat about everything that went on in Weatherfield between the 13th and the 17th January (Episodes #11,467 - 11,472)

Despite dominating our screen time last week, there was relatively little follow-up to the stabbing story this week - at least for the kids involved, that is. Abi, on the other hand, has been having a proper rough old time of it, culminating in yet another ghostly return to the cobbles in the form of Seb! And she's not the only Webster with issues this week either, as Kevin's having problems of own downstairs... Also this week, Lauren's trial kicks off, there's a hostage situation at the prison, and a merging of Barlow storylines sees Cassie and Daniel finding out a few of each other's secrets...

Up next on the podcast, we celebrate the birth of Lucy Fallon's new sprog in The Kabin, before hearing about your reactions to the stabbing story in the feedback section. We round off the podcast with our reaction to this week's cast news in a spoilery Kabin Extra.

Street Talk - 00:17:54 The Kabin - 03:17:05 Feedback - 03:24:10 Kabin Extra - 03:47:07

After his dramatic exit from the Street last week, Corrie actor Luca Toolan comes onto the podcast to talk about his year and a half playing bad boy Mason Radcliffe. We chat about Luca's interpretation of his thought-provoking exit episode, the secrets behind his final scenes and what it was like acting alongside the likes of Bill Fellows, Sally Dynevor and Vicky Myers.