Everyone Dies In Sunderland: A podcast about growing up terrified in the eighties and nineties

Everyone Dies In Sunderland
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Everyone Dies In Sunderland: A podcast about growing up terrified in the eighties and nineties

Everyone 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.

  1. PMs in the DMs: Anthony Eden

    11/06/2023

    PMs in the DMs: Anthony Eden

    Hello, 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 ca...

    1h 4m
  2. Everyone Dies In Sunderland presents... PMs in the DMs!

    11/02/2023

    Everyone Dies In Sunderland presents... PMs in the DMs!

    Hello, 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 w...

    1h 12m

  3. 25/12/2022

    Everyone Dies In Sunderland’s Christmas Presents

    You 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. Anecdot...

    22 min

  4. 06/11/2022

    Tiny Supervillans (It's 1996 and Claire is introduced to Mr Pinkwhistle)

    In 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 widespre...

    1h 4m
  5. The Devil’s Bridge - the site of Britain’s worst road accident. Twice.

    17/07/2022

    The Devil’s Bridge - the site of Britain’s worst road accident. Twice.

    Something 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 id...

    43 min
  6. Jack the Stripper (Or, Little Chef – Don’t Die of Ignorance)

    08/05/2022

    Jack the Stripper (Or, Little Chef – Don’t Die of Ignorance)

    Between 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...

    1h 8m
  7. The man who admitted to killing 300 people in the local press

    24/03/2022

    The man who admitted to killing 300 people in the local press

    In 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 this ...

    1h 8m
  8. The man who went out for a pint and was never seen again (Featuring The Unseen)

    09/03/2022

    The man who went out for a pint and was never seen again (Featuring The Unseen)

    Michael 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 joine...

    1h 6m
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4.8
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Everyone 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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