Everyone Dies In Sunderland: A podcast about growing up terrified in the eighties and nineties
46 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEveryone Dies In Sunderland is a podcast about growing up terrified in the eighties and nineties. Ah, the good old days. People left their front doors unlocked. Children played out in the street. Everyone got burgled. Children got murdered, like, most days. Then there was Mad-Cow Disease and the Animals of Farthing Wood. It was a truly terrifying time to be a child. And those children are adults now. Adults with children and mortgages and Senseo Machines and jobs with actual responsibilities.And three of them have started a podcast where they laugh nihilistically at their own childhood trauma. Each week John, Gareth and Claire travel back to a year of their childhoods in North East England - like a True Crime Geordie Quantum Leap - and talk about what scared and scarred them that year, taking a closer look at one of the notorious crimes which were happening within walking distance of their childhood homes while they were watching Going Live.
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PMs in the DMs: Anthony Eden
June 11, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBHello, this is PMs in your DMs - it’s like Tinder, except with Prime Ministers This panel show from the makers of Everyone Dies In Sunderland takes two of the 54 men and 3 women to have been the British Prime Minister and imagine they’ve matched with one of our panel on a dating app – are they swiping left or are they swiping right? In show one, Hannah said she would immediately rule out any man called Anth from Sunderland – so what will she make of Anthony Eden, a Prime Minister called ...
Everyone Dies In Sunderland presents... PMs in the DMs!
February 11, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBHello, this is PMs in your DMs It’s like Tinder, except with Prime Ministers In this panel show from the makers of Everyone Dies In Sunderland we take two of the 54 men and 3 women to have been the British Prime Minister and imagine they’ve matched with one of our panel on a dating app – are they swiping left or are they swiping right? And by the end, we hope to know for certain which UK Prime Minster Consett’s Premier Ellie Kemper Impersonator would feel the most comfortable with one ...
Everyone Dies In Sunderland’s Christmas Presents
December 25, 2022 09:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBYou know when Noel Edmonds would turn up in a helicopter on Christmas morning to deliver Christmas presents to deserving members of the public? Even through there was no indication they wanted him to? We don’t have a helicopter, but we do have 22 minutes of bloopers from the last 12 months – SOME OF IT ORIGINALLY CUT FOR PROFANITY AND ALL OF IT WE HOPE YOU KNOW WE’RE JOKING – including some extra chat with our friends Scarred for Life. Carnations you mistook for roses, that’s us. Anecd...
Tiny Supervillans (It's 1996 and Claire is introduced to Mr Pinkwhistle)
November 06, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBIn the mid 1990s Britain carried out an interesting social experiment to see if taking a children from a chaotic and poverty-ridden childhood in some of most deprived parts of the North, giving them a dehumanising nickname, making them some kind of weird celebrity, and repeatedly publicly condemning in the hope that would stop their offending behaviour. Rat boy. Spider boy. Worm boy. Boomerang boy. Balaclava boy. The singing defective. Who were they? And what became of them? Did widespread...
The Devil’s Bridge - the site of Britain’s worst road accident. Twice.
July 17, 2022 08:00 - 42 minutes - 28.3 MBSomething particularly alarming about growing up in the eighties and nineties was how ambivalent everyone was about basic road safety – even though horrific accidents happened with terrifying regularity. In June 1925, the brakes failed on a coach as it made its way down a steep hill at Dibbles Bridge, in North Yorkshire. Seven people would die in what was at the time the worst road accident in British history. Fifty years later, thirty three people would die at Dibble’s Bridge in identic...
The Devil’s Bridge - the site of Britain’s worst road accident. Twice.
July 17, 2022 08:00 - 42 minutes - 28.3 MBSomething particularly alarming about growing up in the eighties and nineties was how ambivalent everyone was about basic road safety – even though horrific accidents happened with terrifying regularity. In June 1925, the brakes failed on a coach as it made its way down a steep hill at Dibbles Bridge, in North Yorkshire. Seven people would die in what was at the time the worst road accident in British history. Fifty years later, thirty three people would die at Dibble’s Bridge in identic...
Jack the Stripper (Or, Little Chef – Don’t Die of Ignorance)
May 08, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBBetween 1964 and 1965 a still unidentified serial killer took the lives of six sex workers in London, earning the nickname “Jack the Stripper” as their bodies were left naked or undressed in public. Was the killer someone famous enough to have had their own This is Your Life and had Bruce Forsyth as a pallbearer at their funeral? This is a story with everything. The Krays. The Masons. James Bond, The Profumo Scandal, a beloved sport-star turned TV personality, his boyfriend, the popstar, ...
The man who admitted to killing 300 people in the local press
March 24, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBIn today’s show we revisit the time in 1999 when a Northumberland doctor casually admitted to killing 300 people in a local TV interview. I’m genuinely surprised you don’t remember. Doctor David Moor was a much loved GP who would often appear in the regional media as a local medical expert. But one such appearance would lead to him facing a murder charge for helping an apparently terminally ill patient to die. But was Britain’s approach to end-of-life care what was really on trial? And if ...
The man who went out for a pint and was never seen again (Featuring The Unseen)
March 09, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBMichael Straughan was 23 stone and nearly two metres tall, so he was certainly conspicuous. But on the 18th of June 1992 he was seen waiting for a friend outside a pub in Newcastle City Centre... and he hasn’t been seen since. In June 2005, Janet Brown spent the day working as an extra on a TV show being filmed in Northumberland called “Distant Shores”. She too would never be seen again. Although it did take the police five years to notice she was missing. We are also joined by Capr...
Talking terrifying telly with Scarred for Life
February 06, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBWe interrupt this podcast for a very special episode where the gang talks harrowing children’s television of the eighties and nineties with Dave and Steve from the deservedly popular Scarred for Life books and stage shows. As regular listeners know, for the true crime happening literally down our roads, the most upsetting moments of our childhood were televised. Moments like Captain Planet meeting Hitler, Nutsy doing the Green Mile in Lady and The Tramp, Barney Rubble’s suicide attempt, tea...
Who really killed Jack Royal? (It’s 1990 and it’s Robbo vs the Really Wild Show)
January 01, 2022 16:00 - 55 minutes - 36.7 MBClose to midnight on March the 19th 1990 the doorbell rang at the home of Gateshead science teacher Jack Royal. As he looked though the porch window to see who it was, he was shot in the face at point blank range. Jack had enemies – he’d twice stood trial for murder – but over 30 years later, we still don’t know who killed him. But we do know it wasn’t Andrew Adams, which is a bit of a shame for Andrew Adams, who spent 14 years in prison for the crime This is the story of how in a blink o...
Everyone Dies In Sunderland's Christmas Bloomers
December 28, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes - 17.4 MBRemember Christmas TV before the BBC gave up? You know they have. Even people who actually like Call the Midwife and Mrs Brown’s Boys are like, “what, again?” Anyway, back when Everyone Dies In Sunderland is set, Terry Wogan would come on at Christmas and present a show called “Auntie’s Christmas Bloomers”, which was like a gag reel for the entire BBC that year. Yes, an entire hour of one of the cast of the Lion and the Unicorn fluffing their lines and saying bugger. There was a funny once...
Murder in Room 101: It’s 1980 and aliens are invading Suffolk
December 02, 2021 08:00 - 57 minutes - 38.3 MBOn November 26th 1980 John Welch checked into room 101 of the Swallow Hotel in Newcastle – but he would never check out. Welch was found murdered in his room the same evening. Nothing had been taken, no weapon ever found. Half a cup of tea and a half-eaten sandwich next to his body. After 40 years, the murder is still unsolved . We also take a look at the Rendlesham Forest Incident, where aliens briefly invaded Suffolk, and the Southern Television Broadcast Interruption when Vrillon fro...
Murder in Room 101: It’s 1980 and aliens are invading Suffolk
December 02, 2021 08:00 - 57 minutes - 38.3 MBOn November 26th 1980 John Welch checked into room 101 of the Swallow Hotel in Newcastle – but he would never check out. Welch was found murdered in his room the same evening. Nothing had been taken, no weapon ever found. Half a cup of tea and a half-eaten sandwich next to his body. After 40 years, the murder is still unsolved . We also take a look at the Rendlesham Forest Incident, where aliens briefly invaded Suffolk, and the Southern Television Broadcast Interruption when Vrillon fro...
The unsolved murder of Julie Perigo: It’s 1986 and Berwick is at war with Russia:
November 14, 2021 09:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBOn May 23rd 1986 Julie Perigo told a friend that she was meeting a man named “Old Geoff”. A week later she was found murdered in her home. Police have never traced “Old Geoff” and 35 years on, her killing remains Sunderland’s longest unsolved murder – despite a list of 6000 suspects. But could Margaret from the chip shop hold the key to solving this case? 1986 was also the year the bloody and brutal 300 year war between Britain and the Netherlands finally came to an end – we’re surprised...
The unsolved murder of Julie Perigo: It’s 1986 and Berwick is at war with Russia
November 14, 2021 09:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBOn May 23rd 1986 Julie Perigo told a friend that she was meeting a man named “Old Geoff”. A week later she was found murdered in her home. Police have never traced “Old Geoff” and 35 years on, her killing remains Sunderland’s longest unsolved murder – despite a list of 6000 suspects. But could Margaret from the chip shop hold the key to solving this case? 1986 was also the year the bloody and brutal 300 year war between Britain and the Netherlands finally came to an end – we’re surprised...
The Ferryhill Axe Murders: Demonic possession in Country Durham
October 27, 2021 19:00 - 57 minutes - 37.6 MBIt’s spooky season, so the gang takes a trip back to 1683, when the devil arrived in Country Durham and commanded a farm hand named Andrew Mills to murder three children with an axe in a crime described as “the most horrid and barbarous murder that was ever heard in the North”. And if you so wish, you can try and summon the killer at midnight on Halloween - although you will have to go to the fancy hotel built on the site of the murder these days. Look, we never said we were growing up ter...
It’s 1988 and Britain has gone bezerk: The Funeral Murders
October 21, 2021 10:00 - 56 minutes - 37.8 MBIn March 1988 Britain experienced an odd couple of weeks of public executions, lynchings and even a gun attack at a funeral. You’d think you’d remember it. In the concluding episode of our three episode series the bodies of the so-called Gibraltar Three – IRA members shot in the street by the SAS – are returned home for burial, but a mourner at their funeral has murder in mind. This in turn will lead to another funeral in which two more people will lose their lives in events described as ...
It’s 1988 and Britain has gone bezerk: The Funeral Murders
October 21, 2021 10:00 - 56 minutes - 37.8 MBIn March 1988 Britain experienced an odd couple of weeks of public executions, lynchings and even a gun attack at a funeral. You’d think you’d remember it. In the concluding episode of our three episode series the bodies of the so-called Gibraltar Three – IRA members shot in the street by the SAS – are returned home for burial, but a mourner at their funeral has murder in mind. This in turn will lead to another funeral in which two more people will lose their lives in events described as ...
It’s 1988 and Britain has gone bezerk: Part 2 – Ignorance and chips
October 06, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBIn the spring of 1988, Britain lost its mind. Public executions. Lynching. A gunfight at a funeral. Four million chickens dying in the aftermath of an interview on regional TV. We’re genuinely surprised you don’t remember. In the second of a three part series we examine the aftermath of the SAS’ very public killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar, as an establishment ties itself in knots trying to explain how three terrorists so determined to avoid casualties that they will go to extraord...
It’s 1988 and Britain has gone bezerk: Part 2 – Ignorance and chips
October 06, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBIn the spring of 1988, Britain lost its mind. Public executions. Lynching. A gunfight at a funeral. Four million chickens dying in the aftermath of an interview on regional TV. We’re genuinely surprised you don’t remember. In the second of a three part series we examine the aftermath of the SAS’ very public killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar, as an establishment ties itself in knots trying to explain how three terrorists so determined to avoid casualties that they will go to extraord...
It’s 1988 and Britain has gone bezerk: Part 1 – Death on The Rock
September 23, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBIn the spring of 1988, Britain lost its mind. Public executions. Lynching. A gunfight at a funeral. Unforeseen consequences for the makers of Count Duckula and Danger Mouse. We’re genuinely surprised you don’t remember. In the first of a three part series, we return to March 1988, when the SAS used lethal force to prevent an IRA bomb attack in Gibraltar, when in retrospect they didn’t have to. Or, if you’re less charitable, the British government straight up murdered three people, in public...
The unsolved murder of Stephen Sweeney: Sexy literary parody, yoghurt and robot dogs.
August 01, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 39.6 MBOn July 8th 1998, Stephen Sweeney didn’t come home from work. Maybe this wasn’t unusual – his furniture business had been struggling lately, so it’s to be expected that he was working every hour he could to keep the factory open. But he wasn’t answering his phone. And at 9pm his partner went to the Gateshead factory to see where he was. She found him shot dead at his desk. There was no sign of a struggle or break in – and nothing had been taken. There was a security guard on duty, but th...
The unsolved murder of Stephen Sweeney: Sexy literary parody, yoghurt and robot dogs.
August 01, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 39.6 MBOn July 8th 1998, Stephen Sweeney didn’t come home from work. Maybe this wasn’t unusual – his furniture business had been struggling lately, so it’s to be expected that he was working every hour he could to keep the factory open. But he wasn’t answering his phone. And at 9pm his partner went to the Gateshead factory to see where he was. She found him shot dead at his desk. There was no sign of a struggle or break in – and nothing had been taken. There was a security guard on duty, but th...
Peak bleak: The dead of Everest and the lonely death of David Sharp
July 18, 2021 17:00 - 55 minutes - 36.7 MBSomething you might not appreciate about climbing Everest is... it’s a bit fiddly. Lethally fiddly. And lethally chilly. And lethally tiring. In fact that 4% of people die while doing it. And in most cases, it’s impossible to recover their bodies. As a result there are as many as 300 dead bodies on the mountain, including the remains of David Sharp from Teesside. In 2006 he climbed Everest at the third attempt, but on his descent cold, fatigue and darkness forced him to take shelter in a...
Decoy Flamingo! (It’s 2010 and we could not care less about Raoul Moat)
June 30, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBOn July 1st 2010 Raoul Moat was released from Durham prison. 5 days later - after the largest manhunt in Northumbria Police history – he would be dead, having shot three people, declared war on the police, seen 35,000 people join a supportive Facebook group and had a football legend in a dressing gown turn up to take him fishing. But he was an utter dullard and we couldn’t care less. This week we instead take a look at a remarkably similar case from 100 years earlier which saw a man called...
Decoy Flamingo! (It’s 2010 and we could not care less about Raoul Moat)
June 30, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBOn July 1st 2010 Raoul Moat was released from Durham prison. 5 days later - after the largest manhunt in Northumbria Police history – he would be dead, having shot three people, declared war on the police, seen 35,000 people join a supportive Facebook group and had a football legend in a dressing gown turn up to take him fishing. But he was an utter dullard and we couldn’t care less. This week we instead take a look at a remarkably similar case from 100 years earlier which saw a man called...
The Nude in the Nettles – aka Sutton Bank Jane Doe (It’s 1981 and we almost killed Bucks Fizz)
June 18, 2021 11:00 - 59 minutes - 40.4 MBAt 8am on Friday August 1981 the phone rang at Ripon police station. A voice announced police would find “a decomposed body among the willow herbs” at a particular grid reference close to Sutton Bank top. The caller refused to give a name “for reasons of national security” and hung up. Police attended the scene and, at popular picnic site, found the bones of a naked woman in a large patch of Rosebay Willow, in a case that became known as “the nude in the nettles”. Even though it wasn’t ...
Arthur Hutchinson, Slapstick Bundy: It's 1986 and Everyone Dies in Sunderland meets It’s Murder Up North
June 04, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBIn this very special episode, Everyone Dies in Sunderland teams up with the wonderful Jenny from Its Murder Up North to take a look at the crimes of Hartlepool-born multiple murderer Arthur “The Fox” Hutchinson, one only 23 prisoners to be serving a whole life tariff. Don’t compare Bold the Fox Cub to a murderer though – call him “Slapstick Bundy” or “Twat Mustard”. In September 1983 the police left Hutchinson unattended by an open window at Selby police station. Three people – a family ...
The unexplained death of Peter Maine: It's 2016 and do Richard and Judy have a suicide pact?
May 23, 2021 07:00 - 59 minutes - 39.5 MBA little after 7am on Sunday September 1st 2016 Peter Maine went for a jog through the centre of Durham. A short while later he was found by the banks of the River Wear with three stab wounds to the heart. To this day we don’t know if it was murder or suicide. No sign of robbery. No defensive wounds. So suicide? In which case, what happened to the knife? We do know that police estimate that 65 people may have wanted to do him harm. I’m not sure I know 65 people overall, and I’ve intervi...
It' 1995 and the world almost ended, nobody cares (and Everyone Dies In Sunderland is hanging out with Ye Olde Crime Podcast)
May 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBIn November 1995 the sitcom Caroline in the City – Lea Thompson played a woman called Caroline who lived in a city – tried to boost its profile with crossover episodes with the (much popular) Friends and Frasier. In a completely unrelated note, this episode sees us team up with Lindsay and Madison from Ye Olde Crime podcast! They tell us all about the death of Joe the Quilter in Northumberland in 1826, the murder of an elderly quilt maker in rural Northumberland which ends up involving Prim...
It' 1995 and the world almost ended, nobody cares (and Everyone Dies In Sunderland is hanging out with Ye Olde Crime Podcast)
May 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBIn November 1995 the sitcom Caroline in the City – Lea Thompson played a woman called Caroline who lived in a city – tried to boost its profile with crossover episodes with the (much popular) Friends and Frasier. In a completely unrelated note, this episode sees us team up with Lindsay and Madison from Ye Olde Crime podcast! They tell us all about the death of Joe the Quilter in Northumberland in 1826, the murder of an elderly quilt maker in rural Northumberland which ends up involving Prim...
The world almost ended, nobody cares (It’s 1995 and Everyone Dies In Sunderland is hanging out with Ye Olde Crime Podcast)
May 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBIn November 1995 the sitcom Caroline in the City – Lea Thompson played a woman called Caroline who lived in a city – tried to boost its profile with crossover episodes with the (much popular) Friends and Frasier. In a completely unrelated note, this episode sees us team up with Lindsay and Madison from Ye Olde Crime podcast! They tell us all about the death of Joe the Quilter in Northumberland in 1826, the murder of an elderly quilt maker in rural Northumberland which ends up involving Prim...
How the podcast got its name - what a Carry On!
May 06, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBEver wondered why we called our show “Everyone Dies In Sunderland”? It’s actually nothing to do with true crime at all. But it is related to the very sad, very public, death of Carry On legend Sid James. The gang then takes a look at the harrowing lives of some of the other cast members of the legendary comedy franchise.Gareth tells us about the life of inadequate drunk Charles Hawtrey. Claire teaches us about the depressed and lonely Joan Sims. John examines the self-destructive life of ...
How the podcast got its name - what a Carry On!
May 06, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBEver wondered why we called our show “Everyone Dies In Sunderland”? It’s actually nothing to do with true crime at all. But it is related to the very sad, very public, death of Carry On legend Sid James. The gang then takes a look at the harrowing lives of some of the other cast members of the legendary comedy franchise.Gareth tells us about the life of inadequate drunk Charles Hawtrey. Claire teaches us about the depressed and lonely Joan Sims. John examines the self-destructive life of ...
It’s 1994 and Sunderland police won't accept there's a serial killer on the loose (Stephen Grieveson aka The Sunderland Strangler)
April 29, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBIn 1994 four teenage boys in Sunderland – all students from the same school – died one after another, with their bodies found for the most part in burning sheds or derelict buildings with ligatures around their neck. The police insisted nothing sinister was going on. A lot of true crime shows will at some point say “this sounds like something out of a horror movie” – but that is a horror movie, right? Tonight we look at the case of Steven Grieveson – aka (but not by us) as ...
It’s 1994 and Sunderland police won't accept there's a serial killer on the loose (Stephen Grieveson aka The Sunderland Strangler)
April 29, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBIn 1994 four teenage boys in Sunderland – all students from the same school – died one after another, with their bodies found for the most part in burning sheds or derelict buildings with ligatures around their neck. The police insisted nothing sinister was going on. A lot of true crime shows will at some point say “this sounds like something out of a horror movie” – but that is a horror movie, right? Tonight we look at the case of Steven Grieveson – aka (but not by us) as ...
It's 1997 and there could be a serial killer back on the streets this December (Allan Grimson)
April 22, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBMeet the possible serial killer who might be back on the streets this December The gang revisits 1997, and investigates North Shields-born Allan Grimson – convicted of killing two men, suspected of killing three and possibly responsible for the deaths of up to twenty undiscovered victims. There’s a good chance he’ll be released this December. The gang also remembers the death of Princess Diana and the 1997 General Election. John apologies to Jessica Ennis Hill. Claire gets tickled by Bri...
The hunt for Wearside Jack, or, it’s 2006 and we’re scared stiff by the Honey Monster
April 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBIn 1978 a hoaxer from Wearside led the police searching for a notorious serial killer on a wild goose chase. Actual wild geese would have done a better job of catching him. Seriously, the guy literally fell out of the sky and landed on the police at one point and it still took them 18 years to catch him. This is the story of the notorious hoaxer Wearside Jack, a story involving séances, beer mat caricatures, a huge pot of stew, a bath falling through the ceiling and an alarming ice cream va...
It’s 2006/1980 and we’re scared stiff by the Honey Monster (The hunt for Wearside Jack)
April 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBIn 1978 a hoaxer from Wearside led the police searching for a notorious serial killer on a wild goose chase. Actual wild geese would have done a better job of catching him. Seriously, the guy literally fell out of the sky and landed on the police at one point and it still took them 18 years to catch him. This is the story of the notorious hoaxer Wearside Jack, a story involving séances, beer mat caricatures, a huge pot of stew, a bath falling through the ceiling and an alarming ice cream va...
It’s 1990. Again. And Speaking of Wacaday* (The murder of Dr David Birkett by Reg Wilson)
April 01, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 39.6 MBThe gang takes a look at the murder of noted dermatologist Dr David Birkett by the notable idiot Reg Wilson, an attempt to commit the perfect murder with the aid of Japanese erotica, stencils and crashing a motorbike into a wall like Jay did on The Inbetweeners that time, but still managing to leave fingerprints at the scene. Reg did manage to build a ladder in a maximum security prison though, so that’s something. John is quite mean to Lewis Capaldi and names a section of his lawn after an...
It’s 1989 and my dog got to ride in an ambulance (The Monkseaton Shootings)
March 25, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBThe gang remembers the Monkseaton Shootings of 1989 – which despite being Britain’s fourth worst mass shooting – no-one else seems to do. Seriously, the BBC’s anniversary story was literally headlined “town struggles to remember shootings”. Britain’s fourth worst mass shooting! John takes steps to avoid an accidental comeback in local radio. Claire is more interested in the fact that the lead actor in Woof! was called Edward Fidoe than Salman Rushdie’s fatwa or the end of the Cold War. Anot...
It's 1990 and Jasper Carrot is parodying the Strangeways Riot (The murder of Ann Heron)
March 12, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 38.8 MBThe gang revisits 1990 to take a closer look at the unsolved murder of Ann Heron in Darlington in 1990, and yes, the poetry inspired by it. John improves ITV dramas before becoming preoccupied with honey. Gareth raps twice. Claire convinces some children that she’s a witch before teaching the listeners how to impregnate a pig. Jasper Carrot parodies the Strangeways prison riot. Digressions in this episode include veganism, grouse-flavoured crisps, ghosts and their refusal to appear on This...
It's 1991 and chickens are almost never weapons (Albert Dryden part 1)
March 12, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes - 33.3 MBThe gang takes a trip back to 1991 to explore the sort-of-televised murder of planning officer Harry Collinson by “harmless lover of ballistics” Albert Dryden, close to John’s native Consett. John discusses the Hartlepool monkey-hanging incident with Doc Brown from Back to the Future. Gareth takes a shine to a catchphrase idea. Claire’s brother blows away. Jim Davison and John Virgo row about Tony Blair during an early evening snooker-based quiz show. Digressions in this episode include ha...
It's 1991 and Nicholas Witchell is maintaining kayfabe (Albert Dryden part 2)
March 12, 2021 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBThe gang’s time travelling Vauxhall Cavalier once again materialises in 1991 to conclude the story of Albert Dryden, his sort-of-televised murder of Harry Collinson, and shootings of BBC reporter Tony Belmont in the arm and police officer Stephen Campbell in the “lower back”. Claire boycotts KFC. John considers buying opium. Gareth channel’s Russ Abbott’s C U Jimmy character before soiling himself in revolutionary era Paris. A deer is decapitated by a rollercoaster. Digressions include: T...
It's 1993 and Mr Blobby cannot be killed with conventional weapons (The murder of Paul Logan)
March 12, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBThe gang returns to 1993 to explore the unsolved murder which took place at the end of John’s road, the killing of takeaway delivery driver Paul Logan. John writes to the Queen. Claire explains where baby foxes come from. Gareth loses 52% of the audience. The IRA fail to stop Mr Blobby. Digressions in this episode include: The Animals of Farthing Wood, the varied career of composer Hans Zimmer, the alarming pre-“All She Wants” career of one of Ace of Bass, floating candles, children gettin...