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 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

    06/11/2023

    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 called Anth from Spennymoor? Are she and Claire prepared to overlook that time he took a load of speed and invaded Egypt and his slightly iffy relationship with his bosses’ niece? Let’s find out!  Like a totally normal history podcast, we also have cocktail advice, a discussion of which order you’d lick the Jonas Brothers in and repeated use of the phrase “boaty boaty ship ship”.

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

    02/11/2023

    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 with one of her friends dating.  In this pilot show we meet two Prime Ministers, one looked a bit like Johnnie Lee Miller, ran away from the circus to become an accountant, inspired David Bowie and survived an actual assassination attempt. And another whose middle name really was “boner”

    1h 12m

  3. 12/25/2022

    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. Anecdotes about John's appearance on Pointless are going to be our version of Joe Cornish's story about Steven Spielberg, aren't they?  Second Easter Egg as you're probably  aware of Taylor Swift. "I'm on a date with God and he's drunk"

    22 min

  4. 11/06/2022

    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 widespread national condemnation work? Spoiler alert: It didn’t work. But this is a time when the government literally wanted the justice system to, and this is a quote from the Prime Minister “understand less and condemn more”   And it’s the story of a region too, and by that I mean, this is what they thought of us back then.  DID SOMEONE SAY LISTENER OFFER! LISTEN TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN GET 20% OF A SPIRIT SEEKERS GHOST HUNT NEAR YOU!* It’s 1996! Jarvis Cocker wiggles his bum and then gets beaten up by a man dressed as Buddha! Chas Chandler dies – but not before he’d helped Jimi Hendrix busk near Byker (but not near Byker Grove)! Babylon Zoo spend more time at number one than Liz Truss did at number 10 (or did they?) John creatively fills that fiscal black hole we’ve heard so much about. Gareth introduces Claire to Mr Pinkwhistle. Roy of the Rovers gets seriously weird. Who are your bewildering local heroes? People like Lord Latif or the guy from Durham who looks like Mario? Is he a lecturer at the university or did John dream that? You can reach us on email everyonediesinsunderland@gmail.com, on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram.  Our theme music is performed and written by The Way Out, was it not? Usually though, it’s “Steady Away” by Pete Dilley and can be found on his album Half-truths and Hearsay which you can/should buy/stream here because he’s got a kid on the way and kids need shoes.  https://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay   It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.  *As long as you live in Sunderland.

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

    07/17/2022

    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 identical circumstances.  Nearly fifty years on, this crash remains the worst road accident in British history. It took another 20 years for seatbelts to become mandatory on coaches.  Along the way: David Bowie ingratiates himself with the people of Sunderland! John Pertwee takes a very unorthodox approach to convincing electrical retailers to sell their customers extended washing machine warranties! Ben Wishaw smells lovely! Jimmy Nail thinks she’s lying (she’s lying)!  The gang behind THE OFFICIAL PODCAST OF STACEY SOLOMON SCENTED AIR FRESHNERS also recall the first time they were censored. Young Gareth accidentally doodles boobs. Young Claire defaces her Snatch. Young John articulates a trees-eye view of nuclear war between Britain and America Wogglebox Island You can reach us on email everyonediesinsunderland@gmail.com, on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram.  Our theme music is “Steady Away” by Pete Dilley and can be found on his album Half-truths and Hearsay which you can/should buy/stream here:  https://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay    “Well I'm love forty down And I can well recall the age my father reached the ancient age That I'm now staring down Through the barrel of my fourth decade and honestly I am afraid

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

    05/08/2022

    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, soon to die in mysterious circumstances, Dave Allen, Bob Monkhouse, and the most extraordinary – if horrible - murder weapon this or any other podcast will ever feature. Does it have any connection to the 1990s or the North East though?  Probably.  We also remember the absolute state of eating out in the eighties and nineties. The Wimpy Bender! The Little Chef having a logo which was literally a man sticking his fingers down this throat! BHS AS A RESTAURANT!  Along the way: Bread the Board Game, Gazza the Board Game and Cluedo the TV show. What do you think the worst board game of the eighties and nineties? And what was the worst tourist attraction your parents dragged you to when it wasn’t raining? You can reach us on email everyonediesinsunderland@gmail.com, on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram.  Our theme music is “Steady Away” by Pete Dilley and can be found on his album Half-truths and Hearsay which you can/should buy/stream here:  https://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay   “Freddie Mills is Dead, Freddie Mills is Dead, Dead Fred, Dead Fred, Dead Fred/ FRED’S DEAD! BROWN BREAD! FREDDIE MILLS IS DEAD!”

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

    03/24/2022

    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 was murder, does that mean the Queen’s Granddad got murdered too? 40 years earlier another doctor – John Bodkin Adams – had found himself in a similar position. Was Adams a pioneering doctor who changed the face of palliative care? Or was he lethally useless and more of a danger to his patients than their medical conditions? Or he was he, in fact, literally Britain’s most prolific serial killer? Along the way, there’s an establishment cover-up, clandestine sexual relationships, clay pigeon shooting fatalities and a welcome(ish) return of Gareth reading poetry.  We also revisit 1999. Rod Hull dies. Whizzer and Chips is nowhere to be found. Kiwi-flavoured 20/20 is consumed. Everyone talking about epigenomics apparently. Nothing like Prince described it.  Trigger warning: This show discusses  issues surrounding end of life care and assisted suicide throughout. You can reach us on email everyonediesinsunderland@gmail.com, on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram.  Our theme music is usually the song “Steady Away” by Pete Dilley and can be found on his album Half-truths and Hearsay which you can/should buy/stream here:  ttps://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay   But for a third show in a row it isn’t. Pete’s getting married though. Congratulations Pete!  “SO DAMN EASY TO CAVE IN, MAN KILLS EVERYTHING”

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

    03/09/2022

    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 joined by Caprice from The Unseen for a discussion about the disappearance of Manic Street Preachers lyricist and guitarist Richie Edwards in February 1995. We also reminisce about terrifying school days. Claire gets an encyclopaedia thrown at her face. John witnesses an assembly being sabotaged by disaffected teachers. Gareth shoehorns in a callback to a nineties Jasper Carrot and Robert Powell sitcom .  We also learn the best thing “marquee related” Gareth has ever seen.  Make sure to check out The Unseen in all the usual places, which Caprice has helpfully consolidated here You can reach us on email everyonediesinsunderland@gmail.com, on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram.  Our theme music is usually the song “Steady Away” by Pete Dilley and can be found on his album Half-truths and Hearsay which you can/should buy/stream here:  ttps://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay   But for a second show in a row it isn’t.  “If you dare to be different, good faith considerate, you’re the idiot”

    1h 6m
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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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