Live webchat with Doodle Do presenter Chris Corcoran, Friday 10 July, 1-2pm

[HelenMumsnet]

Chris Corcoran, presenter of CBeebies' Doodle Do will be joining us for a live webchat on Mumsnet on Friday between 1-2pm.

And, lovely chap that he is, he's recorded a special pre-webchat video for you to watch - see below.

To celebrate Children's Art Week (6-12 July), Chris has joined forces with Haliborange to host a series of exclusive creative master classes for its newly launched Shiny School. Chris has created three imaginative tutorials for Haliborange Shiny School, designed to suit ages 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12 years and needing no specialised or expensive equipment. The site gives parents ideas and tips on how to have fun and learn something new as a family, and also provides nutritional advice.

Chris is happy to answer all your questions (within reason!) during this sponsored chat, and will also be giving some creative inspiration for things to do with your children over the summer holidays.

If you can't make it on the day, please feel free to post your advance questions here.

No he's still a comin' - it's just that BigTech has broken the video [sigh]. Don't worry though, we're confident that HelenMumsnet will be along soon to fix it .

Chris - I love Doodle Do. Here is how it is when you first become a mother: one minute you are a normal person with a job and quite nice clothes, the next you are a big leaky bucket of hormones, imprisoned in your house by a tiny alien creature for whom you are - shockingly - entirely responsible and who is torturing you by alternately screaming and gnawing on your tits. Turning on CBeebies is like russian roulette because you know that if you should accidentally catch a glimpse of Big Cook Little Cook, the last shred of hope will be ripped from your soul. But if luck is on your side, there will be Chris Corcoran, alone again in the prison of his loft where he too is inexplicably responsible for some tiny alien creatures, wearing an air of such good-natured acceptance of this bizarre situation that suddenly everything seems normal and good and full of love again.

So thanks for that.

But I really want to know all about Stick. I suspect that he is secretly the funniest man on children's TV. Is this true?

Chris, will you be doing any gigs in Glasgow/West of Scotland any time soon??

I think my favourite part of Doodle Do is you doing the voiceover for the kids drawings - when they proudly hold up a splodge that you clearly have no idea what it is (like the rest of us), and when they excitedly announce you say something like "Oh yeah, Charlotte's made a stripy octopus... with wings... flying through some clouds..."

hello chris

i am sorry that the video is worn out broken and i didn't get to see it.

anyway, most of the things i owuld like to know have already been asked.

but i would like to know:

1. do you have to sing the song EVERY episode or is it just some sort of edited thing?

2. do you find yourself singing the song elsewhere (shower, bus etc)?

3. are you pals with any other beebies characters or are any of them total nobs in real life?

4. do you get recognised by mners kids and mobbed when you are out and about?

many thank yous

this thread has made me laugh so much. He'd better be good

LOVING morningpaper's Qs!

Hi there Chris, my five year-old son would like to know what you and the puppets do whilst he is at school?

Thanks!

Really sorry about breaking the video.
I was jealous about the credit that HelenMumsnet was taking for the video and i had to assert my power over the wonderful Talk.

Actually, it was an accident.

All fixed now. I'm glad you like it....

OK some proper questions then:

Were you always into arty stuff or did you feign interest to get a job working with spider puppets (it must have been a very tempting prospect, having your leg felt by puppets)? What was the draw with Doodle-Do - the puppets, the attic or the chance to encourage children to get 'doing stuff'?

Do you think there is sufficient arts teaching going on in schools or has it rather fallen by the wayside, along with PE?

Were you envious that Rhod Gilbert was chosen to be the face of Wales in those Wales Holidays adverts? He got to go mountain biking and everything.

By the way, I have an attic available should you ever need it, but my husband is rather frightened of spiders........Stick can come along though, he's great.

And Minature Schnauzers? Genius!

Still not fixed BigTech - says it's a private video and you have to accept the sender's friend request.

Hurrah. It's Chris Corcoran from Cbeebies day. I'm wearing my best hat in anticipation.

Agree with RubberDuck -- this is clearly some new and interesting defnition of the word "fixed" with which I was previously unfamiliar...

if they are spiders, there's obviously been some horrible accident because, well, they only have 5 legs. Perhaps that's how Chris keeps them in check. Threatens to remove more legs...

They are also very large, brightly coloured, with two eyes apiece and the abilitiy of speech, so perhaps they are mutant spiders affected by the radiation levels that have led them all to take refuge in Chris's nuclear shelter "attic" in post- nuclear holocaust Cardiff, which would obviously be much more cheerful than the whole leg-removing option.

PAL, you're thinking of Torchwood.

Actually, can you imagine a Doodle Do / Torchwood crossover? The Torchwood team burst into the Doodle Do attic to apprehend the strange alien spider things...

Or, alternatively, a Cbeebies-friendly version of Torchwood in which Captain Jack and various loveable/cuddly aliens launch into song and dance routines around the Hub before breaking off for a little structured craft activity and learning to tell the time. John Barrowman's got the musical theatre background, after all. And he's done the Cbeebies bedtime story before.

(that was a (largely rhetorical) question for midnightexpress, by the way, not a question in advance for Chris)

...and of course we are all familiar with Mr Corcoran's Elvis impersonation.

Is it just in my house that we call Chris "sarcastic Welsh dude"?

It still won't play BigTech!!!

my friend actually RL knows Chris [boast]

and she really loves him but he doesn't realise

Proper questions. Chris when you did the snow scene Christmas special, you know, ages ago, were you really there...or

in the Cbeebies garden and polystyrene? Big argument between ds and myself can finally be resolved.

Do you make the programme at Teddington lock studios I won't hang about outside I promise?

I'd love to see the Torchwood thing. But that would mean John Barrowman would have to snog all the spidery things, Chris and some of the craft equipment

i think I'm too ill to stay awake for the chat

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