Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 34 Part 3 Interview with Coral Drouyn (Script Writer/Story Editor)
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- Welcome to Episode 34 of Talking Prisoner. Hosts Ken Mulholland and Matt Batten sat down with the talented Script Writer/Script Editor/Storyliner and Story Editor Coral Drouyn. In this final episode with Coral we discussed why Coral was really sacked from Prisoner, this has never been public knowledge and we broke it first on Talking Prisoner. We also broke down episode 399 (The Death of Hazel Kent) and why Coral came up with that storyline and what the reason for it was to have Hazel written out of the show and how hard it was for Coral to write those scenes. In this episode Coral answered every fan question that was asked of her including other Tv shows she would have liked to have worked on, her time on the short lived soap “Arcade” Why Reylene Pearce (Phyllis Hunt) was written out the way she was, what Coral considered to be the Golden Era of Prisoner, why the disappearance of Nora Flynn and what she thought of Nora as Top Dog, Coral gave us her own personal insight as to why she wrote the scene for Kate Petersons “Tick Tick Tick” solitary scene and what she drew on for that scene, something she has never shared publicly before, This is a ground breaking Episode of Talking Prisoner with so much behind the scenes information that has never been made public before. Please like and subscribe to our TH-cam channel.
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And last night I started the book...."Dirty Laundry - A Life in Soap" - finally!!!
Take my money! Looking forward to it! Thanks for the insights and anecdotes. The sheer commitment and hard work that went into creating enjoyable yet thought provoking entertainment was fascinating to listen to. 👍
Yes yes yes! another buyer right here
Glad to hear it. Please do more talking prisoner I can’t get enough. Love your videos ❤️
Can't wait 😍
@Coral D once again loved listening to you tell it as it is. One character I don’t think I’ve heard talked about is the Ice Lady, Sonia Stevens. I gather you created this character. Can you share any insights to how you came up with this character and what you thought of Tina Bursill’s portrayal.
I love how Coral says it like it is about Val Lehman. 🤣🤣🤣. I hate seeing everyone feed her ego.
Thanks Coral, best writer & story liner on Prisoner by a country mile...yours Will Shaw & thank you x
What an honest, raw, funny and revealing interview. I was so engrossed the time flew by! She was made to write and you can tell so by the way she tells her stories. Thank you!!
What a joy it has been to hear Coral Drouyn talk extensively about her time on Prisoner. I watched the show when it was first broadcast here in the UK and I have watched it all twice since. It remains a masterpiece of television to this day. It had its faults and continuity issues but the characters and stories were what made it. MORE CORAL DROUYN please Matt!
I believe every single word she said about Val. Great interview. Very informative.
Val Lehmann biggest fan was Val Lehman.... Coral spot on with saying there were far better actresses
Yes I believe Coral
Coral is certainly a magnetic person who possesses great lucidity and passion. It was an utterly captivating interview.
Honestly love the in depth, revealing nature of the 6(ish) hours these combined interviews and its been so refreshing and so great to hear. Even if we don't want to hear it, it makes it even more interesting to listen in on. Thank you for sharing your thoughts ,your time, and your truths Coral. It was fabulous.
I’d love to see Janet Andrewartha interviewed - following that question Coral got about who she’d like to see interviewed. Amazing as Reb and Lyn Scully!
I enjoyed this enormously. Coral was at the heart of the show for such a long time. With the greatest respect to the artists, I'm far more interested in hearing about the production and editorial side of the series.
Without wishing to underplay the contribution Ms Lehman made to the show, I personally felt that the character of Myra Desmond was more rounded than that of Bea Smith. The portrayal and characterisation by Ms Phelan had more 'light and shade', therfore more believable. My understanding is that Ms Phelan was a more experienced actor too, and not surprisingly went on to enjoy a long and varied career.
Thank you Coral for your candour and enormous contribution to a great television series. Fond regards, Kenny (Renfrewshire, Scotland)
PS - PLEASE write the book!
Val cemented the show's popularity and that sdhould never be underestimated...but it needed Anne Phelan to takethe show to the next level.
never be
Enjoyed Corals interview so much.
To Matt and Ken. Thank you for another amazing episode
To Coral. Thank you, thank you, thank you! For all the time you have taken to inform and entertain us on this podcast, for al the stories from how this magnificent show was created and for all those wonderful stories and characters which I still love watching today over here in England.
You really do need to write some books - specifically about Prisoner of course, but also any others both about your life and the rest of the career.
As for having been in for 8 hours - I think you'll find that most of us think it's nowhere near long enough, never mind being too long. We need at least another 8 hours and I do you hope you will be back on again sometime soon as there obviously is so much more you have to tell - not to mention all those characters you didn't have time to go through in the second episode.
Again, thank you so much for all of it.
Oh Derek...thanks for your generous words. I'll come back whenever the fans want.
@Coral D Totally my pleasure and huge privilege. My words are inadequate and do you and your work little justice, but I am glad I the sentiment behind them at least comes through and I'm sure you'll find that most, if not all, want you to come back many more times
@@CoralD3158 ☹
Coral, this lifted my heart watching this, you're a truly remarkable lady. Truly. ❤️
I loved hearing the story behind the famous Kate Peterson solitary scene, it’s one of the most memorable in the show, I watched it again after the interview and it takes on a whole new perspective now, superb job Coral and Olivia
Wow! Such informative interviews with Coral, I hope there's a part 4! I would love to ask her about Lesley Baker's Tiinkerbell character and whether its true that she was going to turn out to be Monica Ferguson, had Baker not had to leave abruptly. For me, it is one of the biggest mysteries of the series, and who was the officer she was rumoured to be related to, had the character been sent to Wentworth.
Thanks for asking my question and answering, and you’re right Coral should write a book
What a great series of interviews with Coral. A no nonsense, straight talking individual...excellent!!
Coral - wonderful once again xx Thank you for all of your insights and your time. I am so honoured by your words xx
great isnt she :)
What a great interview over the 3 parts . Coral is such an amazing and interesting person and really tells it how it is . Great stories and some behind the scenes insight which was fantastic to listen to. It would be great to hear some more from Coral not just on the prisoner work but for all the other shows she’s worked on. Keep up the great work guys- these interviews are fantastic to watch 👍
Thanks for your kind words Ryan. We have some things in the works with Coral now and fans will love what we are working on. Stay tuned....Matt
Marvellous great interview once again with coral.thoroughly enjoyed all 3 parts.a fantastic talent.the best writer by far.take care coral and looking forward to other great interviews.great work matt and Ken.
Absolutely amazing interview such a graceful classy lady, she had such grace while discussing her relationship with val . I'm looking forward to the pepe trevor interview as I was obsessed with culture club in the 80s and in Australia in 1984 culture club were massive,
I really wanna know if joan really cut of lexies hair or was it a wig? Well done guys your channel is amazing x
Yet again, an absolute smash! Thank you Coral for sharing your story and please do write that book! It may have been made 40 odd years ago but new people find it and it is as fresh and new and challenging as it was in its day, the fashions and technology are of the time but the stories are timeless.
All good storytelling is timeless Lee....thank you for understanding that.
Oh she makes me laugh here on a number of occasions. She's such fun!
@coral I thoroughly enjoyed this and the other interviews. THANK YOU for taking the time to share your insights into the show. These have been the best interviews of the series. More importantly THANK YOU for your wonderful work on the show and other shows that has brought so much joy to my life and the lives of so many others. I'm 40 and have watched prisoner on repeat since I was 7 having recorded them on VHS back in the day and I'm sure I'll keep re-watching until the day I die.
How many times have you re watched Prisoner ? Matt
@@TalkingPrisoner I'm not sure, I'd estimate about 10
Another excellent interview with Coral. I wonder how she would have ended the show if she continued to the final episode.
I really enjoyed this. If Coral, Matt and Ken have the time, I would love a part four in which Coral discusses and breaks down her top forty characters, which you never had time to get to in the other interviews. It was throughly enjoyable hearing about them from someone behind the scenes rather than just what we get to see on screen.
We do have something in the pipeline ...discussing it now.
@@CoralD3158 Great stuff. Will keep my eyes peeled. Been fascinating hearing your interviews.
Loved every min of it thanks you so much
I bet val isn't happy but I agree with everything coral said about val.
What a fabulous Lady,Thank you yet again Ken and Matt and Coral,Would be great if you got Sonja Tallis on.
Another amazing interview with Coral - 110% gets my vote for more interviews in the future or even a “Talking Prisoner, Talking Coral” spin off, which would be amazing! Thanks Matt and Ken and thanks Coral 🙏! It always amazes me how the creatives are so overlooked - without them, there would be no Prisoner and the characters the fans love! 🤎
Hear, Hear. I couldn't agree more
100% agree with our brilliant Coral on euthanasia.. i hope that should i ever end up in that situation that someone would show me a kindness. what a brilliant interview, as per, you guys pull out the stops with these fantastic cast and crew. Thanks Matt and Ken et al who are involved with these videos, I love them
Really sad to hear what happened with regards to Coral being unjustly fired. I'm not saying this to suck up but these interviews have made me realise why I liked certain eras of the show better than others and I too have always thought the show went downhill in the late 500s and now I know why. Things are different now we have the Internet. I watch all of the American soaps (B&B Y&R DAYS GH) and I am familiar with the work of all the head writers and know what work they've done in the past. When there's a head writer change on those shows I usually know if I'm going to love or hate the change as some are more plot driven while others character driven but back then we didn't really pay as much attention or at least I didn't. So sad to think that if Coral had stayed we would've had a better 600s era and it would probably have lasted longer.
Great interview yet again one of my faves so far . Coral is excellent and right to the point.
We love Coral amazing 3 interviews and fantastic memories
Now that was great, All of it , 😂😂😂😂even the end was funny
You guys talk about Louise Silverson around the 57 minute mark. I just want to add she started off playing an inmate character named Tammy as of 387 which is seen in the credits, but never said by dialogue in the episode. It's not until episode 407 I think where Cass Parker calls her "Lou" but credited as "Louise", so they decided to go by the actress' real name by then. Even then this version of Lou was tame and nothing like how she'll later become. She was better off still being "Tammy" here. The unseen character of Cynthia Leech was also originally named after Coral, first mentioned in episode 482 by Meg as "Cynthia Drouyn". Not sure why they changed the last name to Leech (by the 550s I think), but Leech definitely sounded better for the full name.
A book? Yes please! X
The golden age of prisoner was between 79-83. 1985 sucks with the departures of most of the main cast, the boring Barnhurst 5 mainly Nora , Jenny Hartley, and LOUDMOUTH LEXIE.
@Coral was Joan's friend at Barnhurst, Cynthia Drouyn, named after you?
Yes she was...just for a joke
I was hoping Mr Craven's question about why Coral wrote out Pixie the way she did, was going to be used. Even in the massive amounts of time, time constraints meant the 7 questions were whittled down to just one, about Ruth Ballinger
Absolute nonsense...I discussed why Pixie was written out the way she was in comments on Part 2, and I answered all the questions put. I don't know why you didn't understand it but, put simply, Good people sometimes get really bad things happen to them. Life is NOT the fairytale most TV is.
@@CoralD3158 Life is not the fairytale TV depicts it as. - true, very true
I love coral. Poor Val 😅😅😅
Oh wow... we get a third episode with Coral... that's made my week! At this rate you should just become the third co-presenter 🙂 loving all the stories and could listen to you all day!
No way. She would take over the show and destroy the format like she did in all three parts of this interview.
I want a part 4. Would love to hear more about myra.
Golden era. 1982 all the way.
Which moment does she talk about the Kate Peterson scene? I'm making my way through the podcast but I loved Kate's arc so need to know it now.
brilliant feedback and memories , i should asked was Coral involve in Maxine Daniel death?- I agree about the comments about Nora, she been a better person if not topdog
I always liked Nora,She certainly was a different type of top dog though. Love Aunty May too,Sad that Billie Hammerberg passed so young.
Always liked Corals stuff ,although not the barnhurst 5 ,love her honesty and listening to her memories about the show ,she comes across as a force to be reckoned with and I love it ,great installment in your interviews chaps ...looking good too Matt 😉
Matt's very easy on the eye! ;)
@@DistantCousin that he is
I'm sure you plucked the name out of the air with not much thought so I'm not harshly criticizing you, but naming Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an example of shows that do a musical episode "for no reason whatsoever" was a bit ill-informed. Not only was there an in-universe reason for the musical in the plot which worked perfectly, AND not only was the musical plot the singular force in driving the season arc forward with consequences for the rest of the show, there were external reasons for doing it too. Sure, after the success of this many other shows jumped on the bandwagon and did it half-heartedly for "no reason" other than following the trend.
On a separate note I TOTALLY agree with Coral about Breaking Bad - it's an AWFUL way to write a main character and the host's "defence" of it made no sense at all.
Val Lehman did what the writers provided, Her acting created the popularity of the show...Yes the writers provided the storylines "BUT" the writers were not performing on the Screen...It's nice to feel you are responsible for writing and creating the show ...BUT...You were not the person seen by the public....To believe Val Lehman didn't provide the Image that the Show needed is just sour grapes of some sort...............Rest of the Interview was informative and interesting...................It reminds me of the old Adage: There's My Side, There's Your Side...."THEN"....There's the TRUTH !!!!
There NO absolute truths....everything is perception. Val provided EXACTLY the image the show needed for its first three years or so.....but, a show has to keep evolving or it dies.
Not sure why my positive comment was deleted?
Jonny...there were some tech problems and it had to be reloaded...some comments were lost.
The most neatly written period of Prisoner was the last 40 episodes of 1982, the first 40 episodes of Joan. They really seemed to be on a roll and the stories just played out and interwove wonderfully, culminating with the fire. I liked the beginning of 1983 with Nola too but it seemed to run out of steam. The last of Val 370-400 was awful. Coral clearly thought it was wonderful, but it was boring - sorry. 401 onwards it improved again. 553 until Eve (Barnhurst 5 period) was awful - think of the audience and less of the self-indulgence which was clearly going on there.
Sorry not a huge fan of this woman. But love talking Prisoner. Thanks for asking my question also
Same here. No false modesty. Makes fatuous claims. "Only men say the early episodes are the best" Really? Evidence please. "No other television programme ever did 2 hours of drama a week" Really? What about the US soaps? Crossroads before PCBH? The UK since?
@@johntomlinson6849 I find her overbearing. Have encountered people like that before and I feel crushed by them. Agree with all you say.
@@johnwalters4792 Amazed her daughter, aka "the kid", wrote and distributed a poem attacking her bosses in one of her first jobs. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
@@johntomlinson6849 bang out of order.
@@mychanneliswow Don't worry Jonny...there are always some who are intimidated by strong successful women...as for Andrew's points....Focus groups are the evidence and no PRIME TIME show doing two hours a week is just FACT in the days Prisoner was produced.
Like losing a child 😠 No