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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is split into two parts. In part one your heroes investigate what is going on at Everton, a club who are seemingly in freefall in spite of their European Cup-winning manager (cough) and their owner's almost infinitely deep pockets.
There's considerable there-but-for-the-grace-of-god-go-I mirth at some of the Toffees' recent business in the transfer market and any attempt to calm the nerves of jittery Evertonians is soon kiboshed by Ian, who has been watching them play all season.
In part two, Edward and Ian report on their trip to Bognor Regis Town's 2-2 draw with Enfield Town. A splendid afternoon's entertainment was had by all, enriched by a radio commentator giving sass to the visiting team's bench, bickering stewards, a comedy red card and weather conditions that rendered proceedings "like a casserole".
Could this finally be the season that the games your correspondents attend are actually going to be good? Not if Omicron has anything to do with it, so get vaccinated would be our advice.
If you'd like to watch highlights of that Bognor v Enfield match you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXc5J2Bvmx8; and you can watch highlights of Everton's narrow escape from relegation in 1994 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3r1uhj_dE. We are, as ever, available for Bovril chat via Twitter (@twoht/@200percentpod) or by email: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com.
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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is a football computer games special, with both of your heroes having been playing titles that promise to offer up something new to the table. Both fail dismally, of course, which causes some consternation as both Edward and Ian like dicking about playing computer games a whole lot.
There are thoughts on the unique joy afforded by modern video games whereby the consumer also gets to be an unpaid product tester and the epochal FIFA versus PES rivalry for market dominance finally reaches its climax (FIFA won). Additionally, there is an idea for a new type of football video game so revolutionary that, it is fair to say, it leaves one of your panel unenthused despite their colleague being keen to get it crowdfunded.
However, your regular correspondents are also aware of the real world, so you will also find some consideration in defence of defenders and the seemingly unglamorous art of defending, as well as the impossibility in the human mind of a team winning the FA Cup 15 years before their foundation.
As always, you can get in touch with any comments, queries or suggestions. On Twitter we can be found @twoht or @200percentpod, or you can email twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com.
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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast focuses on the new arrival at Manchester United, Germany's intellectual powerhouse coach Ralf Rangnick. But what do your heroes - or indeed anyone else in Britain - know about this international man of mystery? Very little, it turns out. Nevertheless, it's a gap in all our knowledge that seemingly eats an hour of your lifetime.
After a weekend in which Roy Keane and Jamie Carragher had a circular argument in which both men were simultaneously right and wrong, Edward and Ian bicker fruitlessly and ultimately discover nothing about Ralf Rangnick or each other. Or Jamie Vardy, as it turns out. Although we are able to explain why a Whitehawk game in 2016 missed out on a nice round attendance figure of 320, which will potentially be a help to someone. And Edward's extreme vexation at the Little England mentality demonstrated by Paul Merson (amongst others) surprises and delights his colleague to such an extent that he takes a deliberately contrarian viewpoint simply to entertain himself.
Whether or not it entertains you is yet to be seen. But by gar, like a Ole Gunnar Solskjaer-lookalike sex dwarf, we tried. If you'd like to get in touch with us you can find us on Twitter (@twoht/@200percentpod) or by emailing twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com.
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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is a right-up-to-the-minute look at a goalkeeper Liverpool signed 40 years ago, as Edward and Ian consider the career and legacy of Bruce Grobbelaar.
Your heroes childhoods were both touched by the acrobatic exploits of this outstanding player to some extent, so they try to get a handle on where he came from, who he managed to beat to the role and whether or not a chimpanzee in a green jersey could have done just as effective a job playing in goal for the brilliant Liverpool team of the 1980s.
There's also our thoughts on some of the darker moments from the Grobbelcareer, of which there has been no shortage in the life of this remarkable man.
Fans of more recent footballing matters will be no doubt heartened that we also give some time and thought to the latest inevitable bed shitting accident at Manchester United and speculate who might be first in line to clean it all up.
If you'd like to get in touch with any questions, quandries or Grobbelthooughts, you can find us on Twitter (@twoht/@200percentpod) or you can email us: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com.
How many times have all of YOUR toenails fallen out? None, presumably. But one of your regularly scheduled heroes on this week's Twohundredpercent Podcast's answer to that question may well surprise (and horrify you). It would certainly interest the subject of this week's conversation, Professor of Podiatry and English football's most experienced manager Neil Warnock.
He's been a controversial figure for much of his career in the dugout, but his recent sacking by Middlesbrough gave both Edward and Ian pause for thought. They've realised that actually, Neil Warnock has consistently been one of the best parts about a game that, as Ian explains, only matters when it does.
And as we all mellow with age, the realisation that we're probably all a little Neil Warnock sometimes is greeted with a Zen-like acceptance by all those who've had the fight battered out of them.
This week, we look at both the career and life of one of British football's most fascinating characters with a fond eye because we're all grown-ups here. After this, we talk about toenails falling out and bald eyebrows, because we are also idiotic children. Such are the vagaries and complexities of life.
Deal with it.
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On this week's emotive FA Cup special Twohundredpercent Podcast, we join your heroes as they recount their trek up to Hertfordshire from their homes on the Sussex coast to watch St Albans City play League 2 leaders Forest Green Rovers in the First Round Proper. It was a red letter day for the Saints, too, as they emerged with a 3-2 victory to secure their first win against League opposition since the English Civil War.
Not much time to dwell on anything else, or so you'd think: in fact, the ever-prolific Ian manages to drag us deep into a wormhole of Association Football in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, before joining his colleague in a ripe assessment of many of the Premier League's flaws and foibles.
But it is St Albans City who keep drawing us back, and this edition is dedicated to the magic of the FA Cup and City's long-suffering supporters, particularly the ever-excitable (and forever present) Wolfman.
We explore the game, the town and the history before dealing with the most singular and poignant question of our times: Do they know it's Christmas?
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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast has lofty ideals, as Edward and Ian tackle the thorny and ever-present subject of loss.
We discover the reason why any loss by a big team is now greeted by pant wetting on a national and international scale, and fire a stinging riposte to any pearl clutching ninnies whose innocence has been so badly abused by Norwich City's failure to win a game so far this season that they believe they ought to be expelled from the league.
Your heroes also finally address the poignant question: were things better in the olden days? (They are not). Are things, therefore, better now? (They are also not). Nevertheless, Ian defends the right of modern football to be like it is, even in the face of grumbling old bastards like the pair of us, who go as far as to share some booing tips designed to keep your mental well-being on an even keel.
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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast (sponsored by Smithy's Kaff) is all about identifying problems and finding solutions.
After a week where the Premier League's top three teams absolutely battered anything put in front of them, your heroes are keen to work out if this kind of competitive gulf is here to stay.
If so, what is the answer? A Brentford-style, statistics-led "Moneyball" approach? A return to long ball tactics? Or the wilful neglect of all the technological trappings of the modern game until every playing surface is a midden? Our conclusions may or may not surprise you, particularly if you happen to be Paul Scholes.
There's also news of Edward's visit to the West Country for a society wedding and Ian - who had been laid up all weekend with a stinking cold - offers some dialectical advice for those forced to deal with anti-vax campaigners.
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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast walks the fine line between moral outrage and slapstick comedy like never before. However, for once it is neither Ian nor Edward's fault, they are merely playing with the hands that footballing fate has dealt them.
There are some serious ponderings on Newcastle United's new Faustian takeover agreement, as well as Manchester United's wanton disregard for both their sporting legacy and their carbon footprint.
Your heroes also delve into Paul Merson's affecting BBC documentary about the secret shame of football's gambling problem, complete with some valuable personal insight from Ian, formerly the manager of a bookmaker's shop in London Colney.
Luckily, there is some light relief from all of this furrowing of the brow, thanks to legendary Northern Irish team Glentoran's goalkeeper punching his own centre half. Ah football. We knew there was a reason we keep coming back.
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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is a Listeners' Questions special, with the entire agenda set by a bumper crop of queries sent in by you. Naturally, these ended up with Edward and Ian learning more about themselves and each other than ever before, but in between the discoveries there is also plenty of football chat.
Ian holds forth on the efficacy of the Pozzo brothers' approach to running Watford FC, as well as the prospect of a populist fan-led uprising changing British football forever and for the better.
Edward, meanwhile, is very keen that no-one notices how good a job Graham Potter is doing at Brighton & Hove Albion, having seen this movie before and knowing what inevitably happens next.
There's also significant consideration of onions, high winds and post-apocalyptic survivalism, all of which time and again brought us back to a similar conclusion about our current favourite Premier League football manager.
If you'd like to submit a question for us to percolate on for the next edition, you can find us on Twitter @twoht or @200percentpod, or email us: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com.
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On this week's Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian - two weary, middle-aged old duffers - met during a torrential rainstorm that at times sounded like being inside a car wash in order to harvest their ripest takes about a sport that has long since stopped caring what they think.
On the slate was the embarrassing Tottenham performance in last weekend's North London Derby which has cast serious doubt over both Nuno Espirito Santo's future at the club and also the number of follicles on the top of his head. Your heroes also cast a critical and heartily unapologetic eye on the latest thing to infest professional soccer, players issuing public apologies for mistakes they have made. On the field of play, at least.
All this, plus! Three new Jamie Vardy facts that leave at least one of our panel distinctly underwhelmed, a disagreement about who Rastamouse supports and some fond reminiscences of terrible, awful football matches that we went to in the bad old days.
If you would like to see the highlights of this week's Match of the Week - which was neither terrible nor awful - you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wVectMaEDY.
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It's a(nother) bumper seaside special edition of the Twohundredpercent Podcast this week, as Edward and Ian return from the international break more fed up with everything than ever.
Casual fans of Manchester United and people who vote Conservative should probably give this one a miss, as two weary old Trots do their best to pick through what's going on at Oldham Athletic, try to establish the numerically sustainable level of British football clubs and bitterly critique the BBC's new Premier League documentary series.
But there's also hope for the future: Edward comes up with an embargo-busting solution that works for everyone and somehow doesn't suck, we celebrate animals getting onto the field of play and come out as strong proponents of football players being high on recreational drugs at all times.
Ian even finds time to commission an epoch-making television series, perhaps not that much of a surprise when you eventually find out that this episode is easily half an hour too long, for which we can only apologise (but don't).
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On this week’s all-thriller Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian are thankfully joined by special guest Sam Whyte, who is artfully able to take both of your regular heroes – who had both been on the pop – by the hand through their weekly discussion of all things football. And what a week it’s been. Edward, Ian and Sam look on with grim faces at Manchester United’s signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, which is both inexpicable and wrong whichever angle one chooses to look at it.
Arsenal’s recent travails are also revisited, with Sam revealing they’ve now made it onto her Critically Endangered list of the eight clubs who cannot possibly avoid relegation this season and Ian still lost in admiration of Nuno Espirito Santo’s beard. We also remember Wigan Athletic’s very own Keith the duck – whose death this week caused shockwaves across the region – as well as Speckles the chicken, a much less-heralded but equally dead bird from north-west England who met with an igniminious fate.
Match of the Week sees more fond reminiscence, as your panel of experts pine for the golden era of the FA Cup: inflatables, haddocks and pitches like ploughed fields aplenty, as Terry Phelan scores a worldy to break Grimsby hearts.
You can find Sam Whyte on Twitter @SamWhyte, while we are as ever @twoht and @200percentpod. If you’d like to watch our Match of the Week, you can find it here.
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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast sees your heroes turn their gimlet eye onto two stories from the Football League.
The first is a horror story, that of Nottingham Forest and their dismal start to the season under Chris Hughton. We explore key issues such as: who is responsible for editing his Wikipedia page? Are monkeys in suits any match for modern football data analysts? And are all these questions moot, when the prophecised Chosen One is consolidating his power right now in Sherwood Forest, waiting to scatter his magic beans and lead Forest back to domestic and European glory?
The second story is far more redemptive, as Edward and Ian celebrate Rochdale AFC's seeming deliverance from yet another murky takeover attempt in the EFL.
There's also news of Sean Dyche, a monstrous road junction in Chesterfield and some more potential solutions to the thorny issue of male pattern baldness; as well as action from the 1989 Full Members Cup, if anyone cared.
If you'd like to get in touch with us, to suggest a future Match of the Week or pose a listener question, you can find us on Twitter @twoht or @200percentpod, or email twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. If you'd like to bask in this episode's Match of the Week, you can find it here.
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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is (probably) the only place that you'll get to both hear Sean Dyche talking backwards and admiration for Ron Atkinson's leather jacket. And that's just for starters, because Edward and Ian had all sorts of shit to unpack, what with it having just been the opening weekend of the Premier League season. Amongst their discoveries is that Pep Guardiola is (still) bald, Japhet Tanganga is now one of our own (if you support Spurs) and it's never not going to be too soon to make any jokes about Matt Busby.
Ian imagines an alternative universe in which Manchester United are only as good as Sheffield Wednesday, Edward reveals which bird Paul Pogba looks like this week and Arsenal's collective buttocks receive a traditional garnish. Meanwhile, as VAR enters its rebellious and nihilistic teenage years, your heroes also answer more listeners' questions, helpfully establishing Harry Kane's exact cash value and helping to doom a number of previously distinguished top flight clubs to the most igniminious relegation of all. If you'd like to ask a question of your own (or suggest a future Match of the Week) you can find us on Twitter: @twoht and @200percentpod, or you can email us at twohundredpercentpodcast@gmail.com.
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Association Football returns as the mainstay of the Twohundredpercent podcast from this week and it is like Edward and Ian have never been away. Except for the fact that FC Barcelona have run out of money and been forced to let Lionel Messi run away and join the circus.
There's also news from Derby County (a club in crisis to a lesser extent, but try telling that to Wayne Rooney), FA Cup Quarter Final action (from 1982), listener questions and praise for the awesome natural power of rhizomes.
It's the podcast that finally dares to lay bare the intricacies of The Banks-Shilton-Wallington Contiuum, a rolling set of transfer moves that kept East Midlands football clubs in goalkeepers for more than 20 years.
If you'd like to join us in watching our Match of the Week, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVst4ZayCm4
On the final free-to-air This Is Our Everest until who knows when, sponsored by Bacon and Mustard, Edward and Ian have been watching a very special edition of Sportsnight from May 1969, when the assembled dignitaries were trying to find a new BBC football commentator.
In addition to a potted history of the evolution of the Beeb's football commentary pool, David Coleman giving a cameraman what for, Ed "Stewpot" Stewart and yet another appearance by Anglia TV's Gerry Harrison; your heroes finally call out Gary Sprake on a 52-year old bit of shithousery, Larry Canning gets the arsehole and Idwal Robling quits his job at the toffee factory.
We also reveal the best way to never miss an edition of Trans World Sport as Ian admits he doesn't know how to work his phone and we try and ascertain for sure whether or not Ian was molested during his time in the Boy Scouts, with only a website and three dozen greyhounds for assistance.
There's news of a new campaign we thought of that is actually quite good and there's news about the future direction of the Twohundredpercent podcast which will no doubt have you heading here to subscribe in your droves.
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Get off your arse, because This Is Our Everest returns once again with your heroes watching So It Goes, the Granada TV music magazine show from August 1976. It's a notable programme too, as this was the national television debut of The Sex Pistols, a group of Dickensian herberts who were about to create a very big (albeit brief) stink.
But what of the rest of the show? Edward and Ian encounter a geography teacher who should be at home with his family burping out some prog rock, Peter Sutcliffe playing upright bass, Peter Cook phoning it in and Charles Shaar Murray being torn a new hole. It's very possibly the birth of Yoof TV, so now you know who to thank for that.
Edward successfully establishes that there was at least one person in the UK not in attendance at The Sex Pistols' epochal gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall on 4th June 1976, Ian uncovers a potential conspiracy involving Glen Matlock and a microphone stand and we look into the possibility of a TV show about the Mayor of Aberystwyth that involves full-frontal nudity. Business as usual, then. If you'd like to watch what all the fuss was about both then and now, you can find it here.
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On this week's Bonus Everest there's a special treat for all of you long-suffering listeners who miss Ian desperately and are yearning to be free. Because this time, Edward has been joined by Chris Oakley from (among many other things) The Football Attic: Rewind podcast, a fellow avowed enthusiast of all things retro, to help take you through five episodes of the venerable Rank Organisation documentary series Look At Life. As Edward and Chris look on and learn about subjects as varied as dangerous jobs, waste disposal or the rise of the supermarket, there's no shortage of issues for discussion. We meet a 55-year old man called Tornado who rides the Wheel of Death on a professional basis, while Chris recounts similarly precarious circumstances from his own CV involving two ladders, a plank and a recklessly negligent Kiwi signwriter.
Britain is rebuilt using her two most abundant natural resources: rocks and household waste, we encounter the hippest and most pallid cats on the coffee bar scene and Tubby Isaac is on hand with lashings of malt vinegar to top the whole thing off to a nicety. How might Sid James have felt about Brexit? Was Jack Brabham a closet Englishman? And what is the best thing to serve as an accompanimet to a tin of bees? We attempt to find out. You can find all the episodes of Look At Life we watched here. You can keep up to date with Chris by looking at his website, www.kitbliss.co.nz.
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On this week's bonus Everest, it's time for you to tune up (or detune) your mind to the exacting and often challenging universe of The Professionals. Patriotism, a sense of duty and an almost psychopathic, whisky-addled, disregard for life or property will get us out of this mess: particularly as the world's fattest, wheeziest and most unhealthy group of middle aged white men are hoping to prevail in an all-out race war.
Your heroes reveal the secret number to dial to get the nuclear bomb squad, unpick the "aaaaah..." element of the surprise twist ending and watch a young man tie Tony Booth to a chair with the cord that was holding his trousers up. All in all, it's been a revelatory experience all round and one it turns out we almost never had at all, thanks to the vagaries of Ian's vast and ever-growing archive of old television programmes. Lucky, lucky us. This episode was originally released as part of our Patreon subscriber This Is Your Everest series. If you'd like to hear more stuff like this, why not consider joining us?
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This week's Everest sees Edward and Ian revisit a time when television was never explicit but nevertheless still fucking terrifying: the world of British Public Information films of the 1970s and 1980s. Their relentless efficacy is demonstrated early as Ian recalls exactly how the word SPLINK might save your life, before Les Gray, Kevin Keegan and Alvin Stardust step in with further handy hints.
The general utility of a 30-foot long metal pole as a children's toy is considered, the dirty and disease-ridden European continent is thoroughly repudiated and your heroes are warned how to avoid gas explosions and IRA car bomb attacks. Then, in a scintillating finale, we decide once and for all whether not it is a good idea to give the time of day to strangers (spoiler alert: it isn't). Why is all this stuff suddenly our fault? And why don't they make a public information film about the real danger facing us all on a daily basis? Let's find out.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian visit some game show action from 1974 with The Golden Shot, ITV's terrifying crossbow-related teatime juggernaut. With Bob Monkhouse no longer on hosting duties, your heroes discover all they need to know about people casting a long shadow. Meanwhile, studio guest Frankie Holmes gives a terrified audience member guaranteed PTSD, something Ian no doubt makes worse by immediately trying to find her on Facebook.
Ken Dodd does five minutes of material about Income Tax reform, demonstrating that he had at least a keen sense of irony if not a commensurate sense of humour. Marxism is dismissed completely out of hand, Ian reveals what he got up to of a Sunday afternoon in 1974 and Edward reveals a deep-seated dislike of The Brotherhood of Man. We ask: why does he hate Britain and democracy so much? If you'd like to see The Golden Shot, you can watch it here.
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This week's This Is Our Everest sees your heroes reach an important (to them) milestone: their 69th episode overall, including the 24 Christmas Everests. To celebrate, if that is the correct word, Edward and Ian watched the bawdy 1974 sex comedy Confessions of a Window Cleaner. We quickly gain an insight into the jaded state of the former's addled mind now, while the latter not only undergoes all seven stages of grief but even finds time to invent an eighth.
It's hard to know where to start with this curdled film's shortcomings: Is it the unrealistic dialogue and situations? The lazy and anachronistic sexual politics? Maybe it's the ease with which the parents of newborn babies are able to find adequate childcare to attend their sexually incontinent brother's shotgun wedding. Whichever way to look at it (including from beneath) it's an unruly mess down there. If you'd like to be both unamused and unaroused, you can watch the film here.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes have been watching an episode of the animated children's series Bertha from 1985. Ian has never encountered Bertha before so he's unaware of the incredible potential of this perhaps sentient machine that can make literally anything.
However, there's still a business to run and as such we find ourselves needing to consider the impact of time and motion studies, the inadvisability of unilateral decision-making within the workplace dynamic and suggesting alternative revenue streams for the future of the compan, Edward grasses up the office's weak link and there's harsh criticism of a blacklegging tea lady.
All of this plus our weekly delve into the racial sensitivity of 36-year old television programmes and Ian's update on The Professionals. If you'd like to see what Bertha has been up to, you can watch it here.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest your heroes have their swimming costumes ready to go for the beauty contest-come-cattle auction that was Miss Anglia 1980, the kind of awful, degrading bullshit that was more or less completely obsolete at least a decade before this programme was broadcast and yet somehow or other still a thing in 1980. It stirs thoughts and feelings in your regular judging panel, who are taken aback both by Vince Hill's age and his undeniable Rainbow pedigree; reveal how often Ian thinks about Dr. Hook and are pleased to see the Peter Fenn Orchestra called from the bar.
Meanwhile, Ian inexplicably turns out to have an encylopaedic knowledge of a musical turn that Edward has never heard of, with predictable consequences. And, at last, he also reveals that he has climbed aboard the ducks eating peas train. It's possibly the only positive thing that could have come out of this avalanche of old tripe. Nevertheless, if you'd like to watch it you can find it here: part 1, part 2, and part 3.
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This week's emotional This Is Our Everest sees your heroes facing up to a 1978 episode of the Granada Television documentary series This England on the subject of Snooker, a game that both Edward and Ian found infinitely fascinating until watching this. Nevertheless, your regular correspondents rally to discuss the impressive common sense of John Virgo's career trajectory, the concept of excellence fatigue in professional sport and an idea for a lucrative new YouTube channel.
Ian defends people's right to choose (specifically the right to choose to play billiards in this case), the word "hagiography" makes an appearance and we reveal the main expenditure for a jobbing professional snooker player on the road. If you'd like to have your love of snooker tamped down, you can watch the programme here.
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This edition of the podcast is dedicated to Katie Coxall, a bold, daring, brilliant artist and friend of ours who lost her battle with cancer earlier this week. She will be much missed and fondly remembered in equal measure.
On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching one of the first Channel 4 programmes, Splash! with David Wilkie from 1982, an intermediate-level instructional television programme about swimming that (seemingly) also dabbles in inadvertent softcore pornography.
Indeed, your intrepid heroes aren't particularly interested by any of the swimming content on display, giving at least equal billing to subjects like male pattern baldness and the evolution of an accidental combover, the danger of using electronic equipment near bodies of open water, the importance of putting children in their place and pre- and post-pandemic boner etiquette.
The panel are dismissive of David's special guest, darkly suggesting that ulterior motives unconnected to swimming were largely responsible to their star status while a far more qualified expert is relegated to a few desultory widths at the end. There's also news of the Top of the Pops motherlode, our ongoing admiration for Bananarama and a largely tangental tale of taking a Swedish woman out to see an elderly soul legend live in concert. If you would like to watch this episode of Splash! you can find it here.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching an episode of BBC1's The Russ Abbot Show from 1986. It allows your heroes to reflect both on Russ Abbot's lengthy some call it legacy as well as renewing our ongoing affair with the work of Les Dennis, now in his third appearance in the podcast. There's plenty of meat on these ravaged old bones, including a trek through some well weathered comedy landscapes, a consideration of the morals and ethics of doing impersonations of recently deceased people and a threat to withhold the licence fee.
The dismal failure of Russ Abbot's two hair transplants is discussed and his internal struggle is laid bare in Freudian terminology. There's a calamitous miscarriage of justice brought about solely by the unconfined male libido, a discussion of the basic level of professional discretion you should expect from a bin man and a fond reminiscence back to the golden age of document shredding. All this plus! Ian offers a strobe lighting warning for viewers a mere 35 years after the fact. If you'd like to watch the programme (bearing in mind the opening titles contain strobe effects), you can find it here.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest, your intrepid heroes are at the beach for the BBC's Seaside Special from August 1975. It affords them ample opportunity to explore their relationship with light entertainment, as all the while Tony Blackburn fights for his life against the cruel tides of the English Channel. Fortunately for everyone involved he was rescued by the Royal Navy just in time, allowing the tragic life and death of Lena Zavaroni to test Ian's faith in God and children telling jokes test Edward's, only for a lousy golf-based comedian to challenge him yet further. Roy Hudd chastises the elderly, there's a slightly incongruous appearance by a music hall legend and once again we ask the poignant question: was there any real need for the creation of Orville the duck? If you'd like to watch the programme, you can find it here.
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This Is Our Everest returns from our Easter/house moving break with one of your heroes' favourite television programmes of all time, Crimewatch UK from May 1986, an edition that Edward picked for reasons it turns out are far more frivolous than the content of the programme, which essays crimes by at least two of Britain's most odious and notorious 1980s crime syndicates. It's an opportunity for Edward to reveal his controversial views on facts flagged as "citation needed" on Wikipedia as well as for Ian to reminisce about his past life as a line-filler in police identity parades as well as reliving the traumatic moment in his own childhood when he realised bad things could happen to ordinary people.
The authorities scrutinise our lockdown internet search histories with some concern, while your regular correspondents brazenly plan doing over an off licence. But which one of them is more likely to be a spree killer than a serial killer when they inevitably snap? Are abbatoir owners trustworthy? And is anyone still listening to Progressive Rock? We look into it, trying not to have nightmares at every twist and turn. If you'd like to watch the programme in question, you can find it here.
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This week, Edward and Ian have been watching Lift Off With Ayshea, a Granada TV-produced ITV pop music programme from October 1974. These were eventful and turbulent times and shows like this one did a lot of the heavy lifting with regard to helping people forget this. After a quick style guide to pronouncing Ayshea's name and a surprise appearance by no fewer than five old friends of the podcast, your heroes get stuck into the big issues. These include the perils of high-waisted trousers, definitive proof that Alvin Stardust is on the side of good and a consideration of the scarcity of information about Paul Hogan in the 1980s.
Ian tries hard not to get involved in any moral crusades but fails on at least two separate occasions, as well as finding time to try high heels. Meanwhile, Edward gets extremely deep into a conspiracy theory entirely of his own construction, one which ultimately ends in the necessity of making a public appeal for information from no lesser person than Les McKeown from the Bay City Rollers. Pretty standard, really. If you'd like to watch the programme, you can find it here, on YouTube.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watched the first episode of the BBC's monolithic dog obedience series Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way from 1980. It was a good opportunity for your heroes to top up on their own abilities to control their dogs (and children) as well as to receive some much needed group therapy, however bad it makes them look in the court of public opinion. Meanwhile, Ian is trialling a new ultra-patriotic theme to see if it will improve listening figures, the most famous dogs in Britain are assessed and Barbara Woodhouse's darts persona is established.
Mainly, however, it's just a reflection on the application and efficacy of choke chains that is up for debate, a subject whose vague sexual undertones sends at least one of our panel mad with pent-up desire. Is Barbara Woodhouse's vulcan mind grip teachable? Are the BBC communists? What are the realities of finding international fame late in life? And what was the root cause of white dog poo in the 1980s? All or none of these and more questions are inadequately answered, as per usual. If you'd like to watch Barbara jerk some dogs around, you can find the episode here.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes watched at episode of Noel Edmonds' Saturday Roadshow from December 1988. As the setting for these hi-jinx was purportedly The Kremlin, Edward and Ian are duly able to discuss the full scope of Perestroika albeit through the lens of multiverse theory, famously the last refuge of fatuous idiots and charlatans.
NESR is a programme that Ian had never seen because he spent Saturday evenings at the time out and as such is only now able to face his demons. The results are predictable, with the ebb and flow of Noel Edmonds' reputation picked over and his role in the wider trend for television treating the general public with the contempt they almost certainly deserve thoroughly assessed.
Meanwhile, Mark Heap takes a dive in Ian's estimation, the contents of Edward's hard drive are revealed and Ian fills in the details of his mysterious school trip to the USSR in 1990, during which he broke a television set and lost both his belief in hardcore State Socialism and his virginity. The Four Stages of Edmonds are revealed and we discover whether or not people are less inclined to pay attention to your opinion if you've just been injured being shot out of a cannon. If you'd like to watch the programme on YouTube, you can find it here.
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On This Is Our Everest this week, your intrepid heroes watched the 1985 ITV quickfire comedy sketch and impressions show Copy Cats, an innocuous enough sounding task which actually pushed both men to the limits of human endurance. It's a show designed by history to explain why "Alternative Comedy" had to happen exactly when it did and nobody emerges unscathed from the whole sorry affair.
There's something for everyone here: discriminatory humour, childish jokes, Bobby Davro and, inevitably, Peggy from Hi-Di-Hi; as well as largely unexpected appearances by E.L. Wisty and C.U. Jimmy, both of whom were fictional characters as far as we knew. It's neither big nor clever, and even Edward - a card-carrying juvenile buffoon - found the programme almost entirely unsatisfactory. Come gather round and bask in the warming glow of our pent-up rage and frustration. If you'd like to watch the programme, you can find it here on YouTube. More fool you, if you do.
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This week on This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watched the first episode of the Bay City Rollers' 1975 ITV series Shang-a-Lang and found themselves grimly fascinated by it all. As one of our panel put it, it was the schadenfruede of a jaded middle-aged man watching young men present a terrible television programme.
Your heroes ponder how much of an educational remit this programme must have had thrust upon it to justify its existence, dismiss the idea of a record of diesel locomotive hydraulics for being stupid and pointless and try to figure out the collective brainfart that were (and still are) Lieutenant Pigeon, Coventry's leading two piano, bass and drums, mother and son pop group.
Ian has a number of strident remarks about Tam Paton which were probably well-deserved, but never fear: before things get too heavy he brings out the idea book, full of suggestions for new podcasts that take your heroes to the very edge of both sanity and social decorum. It's Shang-a-Tastic. If you'd like to watch Shang-a-Lang on YouTube, you can find it here.
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This week on This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watched the early 1990s celebrity panel whodunnit show Cluedo. Still reeling from the news that one of their most fervent regular listeners may have been done in with a snooker ball in a sock, your heroes discuss means, motive and opportunity all framed by one of the most gleefully cast and pantomimed shows from UK television history.
Mollie Sugden, making her fourth appearance on this ridiculous podcast, chews the scenery and not even a technical breakdown which consigned over ten percent of the show's running time to the dustbin of history is able to prevent Ian "Sherlock Holmes" King from collaring the guilty party. A splendid time was, by all accounts, had by everyone involved. Except perhaps you, dear listener. You'll have to be the judge of that. If you'd like to see Cluedo for yourself, you can find it on YouTube here.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes watched Triangle, the BBC's North Sea ferry-based soap opera that was one of Auntie's most high profile disasters. It's a programme so glacially-paced, stupid and confusing that both Edward and Ian watched a second episode independently in the vain hope that they might find out what was going on. Edward has deep misgivings about the food while Ian offers a measured critique of Kate O'Mara's "system" at the roulette table. But if there's something they could both agree on, it's boobs. Everybody likes boobs. If you'd like to see Triangle, you can watch it here.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching the BBC veterinary comedy-drama series All Creatures Great and Small. It's a programme with which Edward was already familiar but that Ian has never seen. Although he has seen Call The Midwife, which is in many ways very similar. Your heroes discuss the myriad design flaws with livestock, are disappointed by the contents of a tortoise and reminisce about a man Ian once knew who had an unfortunate and final encounter with a horse.
But ultimately, all you're still here for is the arm up a cow's backside which is of course is discussed at length. Pretty much arm's length, in fact. If you'd like to watch All Creatures Great and Small, you can find it here.
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On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes get their glad rags on for the 1979 EMI World Disco Dancin' Championships. There's much discussion to be had about whether or not disco sucks (it doesn't) and what the alternative might have been, which brings a sobering conclusion. Racism is, once again, roundly criticised after a particularly unfortunate interview with a blameless Japanese dancing superstar, the dreamscape is explored and Ian rejoices to discover the identity of the competition's overall winner.
However, intrigue and tribulation awaits when Edward reveals his choice for next week's podcast. It's safe to say half of our panel were significantly underwhelmed. You can watch the 1979 Disco Dancin' Championships on YouTube here.
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This week's This Is Our Everest sees your heroes visit the 1980 ITV horror anthology series Hammer House of Horror. Ian has a number of issues with horror, probably caused by his baffling insistence on living relentlessly in the real world. Edward - a gibbering, credulous buffoon - is, on the other hand, predictably quite a fan. They work their way through a number of paranormal and supernatural occurences with a critical eye, touching on the existence (or otherwise) of poltergeists and cryptozoological phenomena on the way. Are they real? Opinion is, predictably, divided.
As if that wasn't already more than enough entertainment, all of a sudden Ian revolutionises proceedings by dropping a new feature in on the fly. What could be better? If you answered, "the re-emergence of a damn-near completely inexplicable 15-year old private joke", then you're most definitely in luck. You can watch a house bleeding to death here. If you enjoy this podcast and would like to support us, you can do so via Patreon.
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This Is Our Everest returns today, albeit as a far more sensible weekly edition, with Edward and Ian getting their RDA of The Price Is Right. Your heroes - one in particular - are both connoisseurs of the American programme, so how are they going to respond to the first edition of the Leslie Crowther-fronted UK series from March 1984? Pretty much as you'd expect, to be honest. In this bumper, seaside special, episode there's a gimlet eye run over the prizes on offer, endless talk of deep conspiracies and a rare mention of Carl Lewis.
The parsimony of the British race is given a kicking and, as always, there's a history lesson with regard to ITV regional franchises. It's what you are all here for, let's face it. If you'd like to see Leslie Crowther run wild for yourselves, you can find the episode here.
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The final door of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar inevitably reveals the terrifying spectacle of Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas. Our heroes both watch this monstrosity every Christmas regardless and it doesn't disappoint. There are thoughts on hygienic food preparation, painting pissy leaves with melted chocolate and the best way to mix a Christmas cake.
But really, you're all here for the same reason that we were: so settle down with a glass of something green, pop some mushrooms under your skin and crack open three dozen eggs as Edward and Ian do their best to convey the mighty mincemeat omlette in audio form. If you'd like to see it for yourselves, you can watch Fanny on YouTube here. (There are five fifteen minute long episodes.)
And that's it! We made it! Twenty-four Christmas shows throughout this version of the lockdown, over twenty-four days. We wanted to take the opportunity to thank everybody who has subscribed to and listen to this podcast for tuning in. We've been surprised at the popularity of these, and are happy to confirm that This is Our Everest will be returning in the new year on a weekly basis.
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The penultimate day of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar goes back 50 years to the black and white world of Please Sir! Ian is fascinated by any programme that depicts London in the early 1970s, even if it is just for the social documentary aspect, and as such is much more kindly disposed to this programme than his colleague.
Your heroes discuss the potential emergence of a hitherto unheard London accent, the potential pitfalls of inviting only your enemies to your wedding reception and critique a preposterous incident in the annals of hospitality management. There's also a new proposal for a traffic light system for the dogging community and Edward trials the central running gag in his forthcoming, terrible, sitcom. If you'd like to watch Please Sir!, you can find it here.
Tomorrow, we reach the end of our festive journey, and it's time for a Christmas cracker. From 1975, it's Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas, and there are five fifteen minute episodes for your delectation, starting right here.
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Day 22 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian join Chas and Dave for their 1982 Christmas Knees-up. It is a programme that acts as a salve on both of your heroes' battle-scarred psyches and also one which allows Ian to expand upon his sitcom-worthy childhood family Christmases in North London (or Tier 4, as it is now better known).
Expect pianos to be wheeled in and beer barrels to be breached by people who didn't really know which end was up. There's also thoughts on the career trajectory of Eric Clapton, the correct way to woo Patti Boyd and speculation as to the official line of succession to get into The Travelling Wilburys. If you'd like to watch Chas & Dave (and you probably should), you can find it here.
For those of you who haven't had enough over-exaggerated Cockneyism, tomorrow's podcast will be on the 1971 Please, Sir! Christmas episode.
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Day 21 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Ian break all known rules for this already stupid and pointless exercise, picking a 2011 festive edition of Yo Gabba Gabba. Edward is keen to find out whether or not having two young children has now addled Ian's brain to the point that this is now the sort of television programme he enjoys and is not disappointed to discover the answer.
That said, there are some excellent late gift ideas for the season courtesy of skateboarding royalty, Ian badly overestimates a 1990s TV heartthrob's age and a careful eye is run over the entire cBeebies schedule in case they're trying to recruit their viewers for far right extremism. Turns out, they are almost certainly not. If you'd like to watch Yo Gabba Gabba, you can find it here.
Tomorrow - and we're on the final stretch of these wretched things now - it's time for The Chas & Dave Christmas Special, from 1982.
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Day 20 of our Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watching the 1977 Fat Albert Christmas Special. It's your heroes' first encounter with this particular US television monolith but the helter skelter melding of the Nativity and A Christmas Carol soon takes a back seat to the inevitable questions. Can we really separate the art from the artist, when the artist in question did a Bill Cosby? How sanitary are junkyard clubhouses for human childbirth? And how exactly did Ian go a single day in his mad childhood without being murdered by strangers in a field, mangled on a dual carriageway or drowning in the fishing pit? We do our best to find out. You can watch Fat Albert right here.
Tomorrow morning, we're coming right up to the modern age, as Ian chucks all the rules about this podcast out of the window in order to make Edward sit through The Very Awesome Yo Gabba Gabba Christmas Show, from 2011.
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Day 19 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar and Edward and Ian are watching the Concentration Christmas special from 24th December 1968. Eschewing the commonly-held notion that the secret to a long life is mild cheese and exciting television, Edward has decided to try it the other way round with a 52-year old US game show and a honking lump of Epoisses. As two drunk Father Christmases do battle to win money for charity, Ian talks 1968, two Kennedys are assassinated and the intellectual rigour of The Price Is Right is called into question.
No such charges can be made against this podcast though, when we deal with important topics like: how many pints is the correct amount of lunchtime pints when you're at work? Find out now. If you're British, the correct answer is probably exactly what you thought it was, just one of the many reasons this country is such a respected global power. If you want to watch Concentration, you can find it here.
Tomorrow we’re going back to the 1960s again, with a Christmas special episode of the American game show Concentration.
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Day 18 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees your heroes have their first encounter with the other-worldly Lawrence Welk, and The Lawrence Welk Christmas Show from 1972. Edward and Ian learn about what Republicans do to celebrate Christmas, most of them by the looks of it against their will. In amongst the songs and the forced child labour, Ian finally realises the awesome power Father Christmas has over children and fondly remembers The Andy Williams Show, which is far better than this.
Meanwhile, you can rely on Edward to make several completely baseless accusations about what happened to a young boy's front teeth and also explain how it took so long for Josef Fritzl to get caught. If you'd like to see the programme (we recommend it), you can find it here.
Tomorrow we're going back to the 1960s again, with a Christmas special episode of the American game show Concentration.
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Day 17 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar inevitably sees Edward and Ian watching The Generation Game Christmas Special from 1973. Both of your heroes are thrilled to bits to see Frankie Howerd again and are effusive in their praise for both him and the show's titular host (he's in charge), Bruce Forsyth. Ian is very busy this episode, explaining the evolution of Christmas crackers, commiserating with the balding younger gentleman and wondering out loud whether your team's manager making a cameo on The Generation Game is what is really needed during a relegation battle. However, leave it to Edward to explain exactly why The Generation Game is called The Generation Game. All bases: covered. If you'd like to see what all the fuss is about, you can watch it here.
Tomorrow, it's time for something that you almost certainly won't have heard of if you're British, but it's the weirdest TV show I've ever seen. It's The Lawrence Welk Show's Christmas Special from 1972.
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In an entirely church-based 16th day of our Advent calendar, your heroes have been watching an episode of ITV's Morning Worship from 1993. It brings back all kinds of repressed childhood memories for Edward which is bound to have done him no good at all. Meanwhile, Ian learns about the Last Supper and offers some ruminations on the potency of language in the religious experience, something which can be easily undermined if someone decides to change the words of the Lord's Prayer.
Freestyling clergy not withstanding, there are also thoughts on crib scenes as investments, high church Anglicanism and the biggest question that religion poses: when do you have time to cook your dinner while all this is going on? If you'd like to go to church for an hour, it's here.
Tomorrow morning, it's time for our first run in with Brucie in this series. The Generation Game, from 1973.
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In the 15th episode of our Advent calendar, it's a star-festooned Christmas extravaganza with the BBC's 1972 Christmas Night With The Stars. The normally risk-averse Ian gets another opportunity to engage with The Goodies for a reason you probably won't expect and also airs an inconvenient truth about Mike Yarwood. Edward is concerned that The Liver Birds may be hellbound for their lifestyle choices and whether or not any of this stuff is considered canon anyway.
Your heroes also worry about the potential long-term effects The Young Generation may now be suffering as a result of their youthful exuberance. There's also the endlessly edifying spectacle of Ian, who has two young children, explaining to the feckless, rotund, childless, alcoholic wastrel Edward precisely why they might have a different relationship with Christmas night to each other. Why could this possibly be? Find out now. You can watch the programme here.
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Day 14 of this stupid Advent calendar sees your heroes watching The Les Dennis Laughter Show from 22nd December 1990. Ian is far from impressed with the programme, which delighted Edward who - uniquely among these festive selections - has chosen the episode. It's pretty thin gruel all round however, in the spirit of good will to all men, Les Dennis receives a full and unconditional pardon, conditional on us not ever having to watch this again.
Why is Gazza unsuitable for Milk Tray adverts? Is two-and-a-half minutes enough time to really nail a yo-yo demonstration on national television? And what the bloody hell is the point of any of this? Almost none of these questions will be answered, though all are addressed. You can watch Les here.
Tomorrow morning things are getting star-studded, with Christmas Night With The Stars, from 1972.
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Day 13 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar looks at the world of home computing in December 1985 with the BBC Micro Live Christmas Special. With the eight-year age gap between Ian and Edward there's plenty of opportunities for some generational blindspots and your heroes gleefully walk right into them. There's the almost inevitable mention of the imminent robot uprising that defined the 1980s, hand-in-hand with its perky apocalyptic chum, the 1984 film Threads.
Firebrand socialist rabble rouser Ian King speaks out passionately in support of the Drummers' Union and admits to being an accessory after the fact in a St Albans computer game grift, all in an episode rightly dominated by the worst text-to-speech program ever written. If you'd like to catch up on all the latest BBC Micro news, you can do so here.
Tomorrow morning, it's the return of a repeat offender. The Les Dennis Laughter Show. We had to watch it. You should too. Just don't expect to laugh very much.
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Day 12 of our Advent calendar sees your heroes watching another programme from the ITV schedule on Christmas Day 1980: Runaround, the energetic children's quiz presented by Mike Reid. It's a programme that provides Edward and Ian some blessed relief from the poundings that have gone and those that are yet to come. Up for discussion is plastics technology, taxidermy, Big Daddy's prospects as a breakout children's TV star and exactly how much animal abuse can really be tolerated in light entertainment. So now you'll know. If you'd like to watch the episode in question, you can find it here.
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Day 11 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian revisit Christmas Day 1980 and an episode of 3-2-1. It's a programme that aggravates Edward in the extreme, not least because Ian remains entirely convinced it is some kind of Runic statement from another plane of human consciousness if he could only decode it.
Whether he is right about this or not (he isn't), we discuss what primetime family entertainment was like 40 years ago with help from special guests Barbara Woodhouse, Quasimodo and a completely reprehensible man whose crimes went unpunished. No, not that one. Another one. There's also updates on Quality Street, nut-related injuries and the correct unit for measuring ugliness. If you want to watch 3-2-1 (honestly, don't bother), you can find it here.
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What would Christmas be if it didn't include at least one uncomfortable discussion about racism? Well, day 10 of our Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watch the 1985 In Sickness and In Health Christmas special in order to facilitate this. It's a programme Ian finds so odious he doesn't even mention the fact it has a theme tune by Chas and Dave. Words such as "screed", "diatribe" and "bulwark" make an appearance. Our heroes speculate as to the exact way this programme got recommissioned and what it cost everyone involved, including society. If you'd like to be reminded of how Brexit happened, you can watch the programme here.
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Day 9 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian visit a curious and extremely topical festive extravaganza from 1984, The Torvill and Dean Christmas Special. The programme wasn't the light entertainment variety hour either of your heroes were expecting, but their initial relief quickly gives way to astonished disgruntlement once they realise there had been a key omission. Along the way, they discuss the Winter Olympics, pop a stalk in every church in two counties and casually invent the world's next great pornography franchise. If you'd like to see what Jayne and Chris did next, you can watch it here.
Tomorrow it's back to 1985 and the sitcom In Sickness & In Health. As ever, enter at your own risk.
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Edward and Ian have both been to their fair share of honking parties, but Day 8 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar took them to Keith Harris' Christmas Party in 1983 and now all bets are off. Our heroes ponder whether or not Keith was a white supremacist, the exact wording of Orville's tenancy agreement and the potential incarceration of Stu Francis in a sweet-smelling sex dungeon. Ian reveals another telling part of this podcast's origin story and Edward rails against the duck. Can anyone stop either him or Cuddles before it's too late? Find out now. You can watch Keith's party here.
Tomorrow morning, ice skating! The 1984 Torvill & Dean Christmas Special.
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Day 7 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian seek to once and for all answer the question: were the olden days better? Their chosen method is analysing an episode of The Appleyards from Christmas 1956. Pantomimes come in for some significant critique by one of our panel, there's an encounter with a racist magician and Ian lays bare the stark reality of eating out in St Albans in the early 1980s.
Was the past idyllic? Is capitalism actually a force for good? Do you want peas with that? Most of these questions will be answered in the next half an hour. If you want to see The Appleyards for yourselves, you've got no other option but to watch it here.
Tomorrow, God help us all, it's time for the 1983 Keith Harris Christmas Party.
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Day 6 (yes, it is really only day 6) of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watching the 1992 Big Break Christmas Special, regardless of where they'd rather be or what they'd rather be doing. Listen as your heroes deal with the conflict of watching one of their favourite people and one of their least favourite people simultaneously for half an hour, as all the while what Edward seemingly believes to be a ranking tournament on the professional snooker tour takes place.
There's also talk of Ian's likely whereabouts when this programme was first broadcast, a considered view of whether or not television hosts really doubled up charitable donations out of their own pocket and a discussion about the impact the Covid-19 pandemic may have had on the British dogging community. Snooker fans can watch the episode for themselves here.
Join us tomorrow morning for the oldest show that we've featured so far, and probably the oldest show that we'll ever feature in this series: The Appleyards, from 1956.
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Day five of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar begins with an unsolicited and completely unrelated television recommendation, then our heroes get back to business and watch the 1989 Telly Addicts Christmas Special. Ian gazes on with horror and fascination at the career trajectory of Noel Edmonds, members of the general public are held up to open mockery and we find out how to go about getting to see 12 seconds of Victor Borge in 1989.
Edward is heartily disappointed by the lack of competitive purity and corinthian sporting values with which the contest is fought, while Ian's joy at a brief gobbet of Are You Being Served? is made abundantly clear. If you're Noel Edmonds and want to watch it all again, you can do so here.
Tomorrow morning there's more of this sort of nonsense, with the Big Break Christmas Special from 1992.
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Day 4 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar takes in Delia's Classic Christmas. Edward and Ian disagree about food on an almost recreational basis but are both keen consumers of it, so expect a variety of hot takes and disagreements about parsnips, Quality Street, microwaves and dried fruit.
Our heroes also find time to assess Delia Smith's cultural impact, recommend robbing Marks & Spencer, discuss how Sisyphus would have cooked his turkey and identify the correct topping for a trifle. But the real winner today is prawns and pigs in blankets. The original surf and turf. You can watch Delia do her thing here.
Tomorrow morning, it's the Telly Addicts Christmas Special.
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Day 4 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar takes in Delia's Classic Christmas. Edward and Ian disagree about food on an almost recreational basis but are both keen consumers of it, so expect a variety of hot takes and disagreements about parsnips, Quality Street, microwaves and dried fruit.
Our heroes also find time to assess Delia Smith's cultural impact, recommend robbing Marks & Spencer, discuss how Sisyphus would have cooked his turkey and identify the correct topping for a trifle. But the real winner today is prawns and pigs in blankets. The original surf and turf. You can watch Delia do her thing here.
Tomorrow, it's time for some festive cookery with Delia Smith. You can watch Delia's Classic Christmas here.
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Day 2 (door 2?) of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watch the 1991 Des O'Connor Christmas Special and just like Des they're packing them in. Edward guarantees his bins will never be collected again, Ian summarily chalks off one of Mariah Carey's UK number 1 singles and Bernard Manning gets a well-deserved kicking.
Meanwhile, Barry Manilow sends corset buttons popping in all directions, Edward gets a tattoo and there's an unseemly argument about chestnuts which suggests that the pressure of this stupid project is starting to get to our heroes already. If you want to watch some prime Des, you can do so here.
Tomorrow morning, it's a He Man & She Ra Christmas Special.
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On the first of 24 daily Advent Calendar editions of This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian ease themselves in slowly by watching an edition of Saint and Greavsie from the 22nd December 1990. With the exception of a ratty tinsel Christmas tree you'd be forgiven for forgetting this was a festive edition at all, in fact, which is pretty much OK by us.
There are philosophical discussions about exactly how much like Jimmy Greaves something needs to be before it essentially becomes Jimmy Greaves, Peter Shilton's testimonial achieves fleeting prominence and we do our level best to check golfers off our list of people to alienate forever. If you'd like to watch the episode, you can do so here.
Things are going to go downhill from here on, though, and tomorrow we're off to 1991 for an episode of the Des O'Connor Christmas Special. You can see that here.
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On today's valedictory episode of This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian give themselves a little treat and watch Crown Court, a programme they both love. They explore the origins of this stupid podcast, whether or not there should be degrees of treason and why they're looking forward to Brexit. The main virtue afforded by Crown Protection is assessed and Ian doesn't believe who is playing the prosecution counsel. If you'd like to watch Crown Court too and see whether or not you believe it, you can find the episodes here: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3.
This is the last episode of this podcast series, but that doesn't mean we're going to leave you alone any time soon. Tomorrow morning we start This is Our Christmas Everest, in which we watch 24 Christmas Specials in 24 days, like an Advent calendar filled with televisual diarrhea. First up, tomorrow, it's Saint & Greavsie. Spoiler alert: it turned out not to be very Christmassy.
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Today's bucolic episode of This Is Our Everest sees Edward and Ian watch an episode of Out Of Town. There's some extremely questionable and troubling content about the annual Appleby Horse Fair and then a sheep orgy, all of which leaves at least one of our heroes feeling particularly sullied.
But while Jack Hargreaves queries the sexual morality of the ewe, Ian is more worried about issues of consent and the general propriety of the whole sheep industrial complex. None of this is a problem for Edward, who lives in a make-believe Richard Scarry world and probably thinks the sheep live in houses and bake gingerbread men.
Meanwhile, Jack meets some members of the travelling community and learns nothing, something he is seemingly keen to pass along. Luckily, Ian is on hand to set the record straight. Was Jack Hargreaves' house double glazed? Why was his shed so echoey? And why have we strapped an oil crayon onto Ian's chest with a leather harness? Some or none of these questions will be answered in the next 40 minutes. You can watch the programme here.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian find their most amusing misprints from local newspapers and watch an episode of That's Life from 1986. It's a programme that provokes a number of thoughts and feelings, particularly a quite unprecedented swell of good will towards the British general public in Ian, who had thought such things were long behind him.
Edward has some alternative names for disenfranchised cobblers, we grass up a consumer who ought to know better for aiding and abetting in a criminal offence and are decidedly lukewarm about a sitting Member of Parliament. Have smartphones and Tumblr memes rendered programmes like this one obsolete? Where does it fall in the parabola of Esther Rantzen's era of social dominance? And exactly what percentage more uncomfortable does wearing a seat belt in a car make you? We find out once and for all. You can watch the episode here.
Tomorrow's episode of This is our Everest sees us go all the way back to the 1870s 1980s with an episode of Out of Town, with Jack Hargreaves. You can watch that here.
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In an ironic twist, today's episode of This Is Our Everest (not sponsored by Just Juice) is both the first to feature any basketball at all and also the episode least likely to appeal to basketball fans. However, Edward has a perfectly reasonable defence and Ian has been watching the 1985 NBA finals instead so couldn't care less either way. There's good news for Canada, bad news for Telford and a chiding for Leicester's lack of ambition.
How believable is Tom Cruise as an American Football player? And why has this question even arisen, in a programme ostensibly about basketball in the developing world? Your intrepid sports correspondents do their best to separate the wheat and chaff from the juice. If you'd like to watch the action, you can do so here.
Tomorrow's episode of this this podcast features an episode of That's Life from 1986. Enter at your own peril.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian revisit everyone's favourite trans-European quiz express, Going For Gold. It's increasingly a relic of a forgotten era in UK-EU relations and our heroes try and pick through the finer points of the Maastricht Treaty to figure out why this might be. There's talk of a giant quiz warehouse, Henry Kelly's voting preferences and a suggested way for Dracula to enter the United Kingdom post 2021.
There's up-to-the-minute news of exactly where Finland is and Ian points out once and for all where it all went wrong for the spirit of European togetherness in the British public consciousness. If you'd like to remember the way things were, you can watch the programme here.
Tomorrow's podcast sees us take in the world of sport with Channel Four's basketball coverage, from 1985.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian provide exactly the service the world needs: two more middle-aged white men talking about racism. Yes, it's The Black and White Minstrel show, a truly despicable relic of a past we'd all hoped was firmly behind us, however reluctant it was to leave. Neither of our heroes particularly like the programme but it did give them a chance to properly examine their prejudices and assess a totemic cultural phenomenon that is often cited but rarely actually seen.
Thankfully, they did also find some time to address other hot button topics such as Keith Harris' skill as a ventriloquist, a surefire way to prevent the robot uprising and an honest review of drum brushes. Now, let's never speak of this again. If you want to watch and see what all the fuss was about, and we advise you spare yourself the bother quite frankly, you can do so here.
Tomorrow we're going for something a little more... progressive, in the form of Going For Gold, the pan-European quiz show which hinted at a future of pan continental harmony that never quite arrived.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watch an episode of the BBC's Tomorrow's World from 1984. Edward is in an especially silly mood for whatever reason but is nevertheless able to provide an update as to the progress of the robot plan to take over the world. Ian, who usually missed most of Tomorrow's World getting ready to watch Top of the Pops, takes one for the team and watches the lot, potentially risking a seizure to do so.
There's also some facts about the historical development of picture resolution for television sets and a perfectly serviceable impression of Jeremy Clarkson. Plus! We find out whether it will be holograms or robots who will conquer us all first. You can find out too by watching along here.
Tomorrow's episode of this podcast sees us trying to come to terms with the last ever episode of The Black & White Minstrel Show. You can watch it through the gaps in your eyes here.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian get into a festive mood to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pebble Mill, by watching Pebble Mill At 10. This is not, as Edward thought, a racy after-hours version of the BBC's venerable lunchtime magazine show but rather a shambling birthday party complete with a car rally, parrots and a really, really old 71-year old woman.
Aided and abetted by two of their favourite Teds - Heath and Bovis - our heroes, now rapidly reaching the point of no return with their stupid project, celebrate the TV and Radio Act 1972 and all its unforeseen consequences, explain the difference between Idi Amin and Donald Trump and bask in the brief but always welcome glow of a pep talk from Clare Rayner. Will the harrier jump jet arrive on time? Whatever happened to the other Everly Brother? And was it a mistake to give the planet Racism access to a teleportation device? Some or all of these questions may be answered. If you'd like to join in the celebrations, you can watch it all unfold here.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian take a jaunty trip back to World War 2, with Wartime Kitchen and Garden. Ian finds it difficult to see the appeal in yet another British thing crowing on about the war and isn't even swayed by a plate of dried apple rings. Indeed, there's even the risk that programmes like this one are going to spoil the war for him entirely.
Nevertheless, some important ground is covered: having already accurately described a pig, Ian learns about pig clubs and busts some common misconceptions about incest. Edward drops some egg science and attempts to find new ways to address toilet paper shortages. All of this, plus biltong, onions and a general reassessment of life in the early 1940s. You can join the experiment here.
Tomorrow's episode of This is our Everest will be on an episode of Tomorrow's World from 1984.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been invited to Southern Television's Houseparty, a cursed daytime TV discussion show that leaves one of our heroes absolutely foaming at the mouth. Meanwhile, Ian provides another potted history about an ITV franchise and we assess the right way to lose with grace and step aside with dignity, somehow without mentioning Donald Trump once.
Richard Stilgoe makes an appearance, rattling the keys but doesn't stick around for the party, most of which is taken up by anchovies, sewing machines and corporal punishment. If you'd also like to put in a fleeting appearance at the Houseparty, you can find it here.
Tomorrow's edition of This is our Everest is an episode of Channel Four's Wartime Kitchen & Garden.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watch a 1977 vintage episode of the BBC's long-running religious programme, Songs Of Praise. Our heroes discover the secret to its success is the relentless and unchanging nature of its format, but they also find out a lot more. There's some unexpected but probably warranted dramatic criticism, an expose of a particularly strong-armed charitable scheme and the groundless impugning of a major cultural institution.
Dinosaurs are - inevitably - discussed, in spite of the ever-present threat of smitings. Meanwhile, Edward owns up to having a special interest, pilgrims are ragged mercilessly and Ian finally reveals what he would do if he were Jesus. If you'd like to see the episode we're going on about, you can join the congregation here.
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On today's community-minded This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian examine two episodes of the BBC's Open Door from 1974. Public access television's many faces are examined closely, particularly those dealing with issues of sexual health and anarcho-communist syndicalism.
Our heroes discuss the stark realities of being a volunteer answering telephones in a sexual health advisory drop-in centre, the future prospects for anarchy in the UK and finally establish once and for all the much- anticipated link between Jean Shrimpton, Al Pacino, Selma Hayek and Bob Hoskins. There's fungus facts and Ian's past life as a concrete salesman is put to some good use. If you want to join us in the Everest Free State, you can watch it all here.
Tomorrow's podcast is an episode of Songs of Praise from 1977, so help us God.
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Today's episode of This Is Our Everest is the fourteenth, which means we're now half way through Lockdown 2 and feelin' fine. We're not, of course, particularly Edward who has done himself a mischief involving extra strong lager. The topic of the episode is the ITV sitcom The Two Of Us from January 1990, a programme simply bound to make you get your Doctor Whos muddled up.
Our heroes marvel as a simple case of lost property quickly deteriorates into a charge sheet of criminal offences as long as either your arm or Nicholas Lyndhurst's head. There's also the first airing of Ian's all-encompassing Gary Sparrow theory which could one day be taught in schools, especially if the world keeps going the way it has been. You can join the two of us in watching The Two Of Us here.
Tomorrow's podcast, for those of you who wish to be ahead of the curve, is a pair of episodes of the BBC's public access show Open Door, one of which reached particular infamy. You can see both of them right here.
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It's episode 13 of This Is Our Everest, which is unlucky for some. Particularly, it turns out, Harry Enfield, who gets an absolute reaming as Edward and Ian watch Channel 4's questionable alternative comedy variety show Friday Night Live from 1988. Our heroes speculate about Green Room practices and Feargal Sharkey's life choices as well as digging into Ian's childhood cultural life and schoolboy crushes.
But it's the Loadsamoney section you're all here for and you won't be disappointed. Unless you're the sort of tory scumbag who shouldn't be listening to this podcast to start with. They can fuck off. If you would like to see what all the chatter is about, you can watch it here.
Tomorrow's episode of this podcast sees us continue on this "comedy" thread, with an episode of The Two of Us from 1987. You can that, should you wish, here.
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In today's alpha male edition of This Is Our Everest, the lads have been watching Top Gear. However, anyone expecting bants, pranks and racially insensitive remarks will be sad to hear that it was an episode from 1989. As such, our heroes are just as likely to be discussing the strange evolution of Top Gear from pokey, dry as a bone motoring magazine programme to international culture juggernaut.
There are also thoughts on Jeremy Clarkson's schooldays, the price of both super unleaded and the human soul, and the value of an anti-corrosion warranty to Lancia drivers. The Brexit referendum is raked over yet again, and Ian explains the two things that are wrong with motor racing. You can watch too! It's right here.
Those of you who are watching along with us will be interested to know that tomorrow's episode of this series features Friday Night Live.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian continue their odyssey through non-current Current Affairs with The Six O'Clock Show from July 1982. It's a programme Ian remembers fondly from his childhood and as such this edition is filled with memories and insight. Up for debate are walkmans, vegetable show grift and the futility of live traffic reports on teatime live broadcast television.
Greg Dyke is given his due, there's some hard-hitting investigative journalism looking into the fried chicken market and Conservative governments - both past and present - are assessed with an even hand. There's even a shout out for the camera the whole thing was filmed on. You can see the results for yourself here.
On tomorrow's episode of this podcast, we'll be covering an episode of Top Gear, but it's not the sort of Top Gear with which you're probably familiar.
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So finally it's time for the final episode of Strength in Depth, our ten part series on the history of non-league football. For this final episode, we're taking you from 2004 to the present day, including Leigh Genesis, My Football Club, Steve Evans and much more. For those of you who have stuck with this series, thank you for listening. I'll go away and have a break now, and will come back with something else in the future. Should you miss the soothing sound of my voice (!), we're still releasing a daily television podcast called This is our Everest, which is available from all good podcastmongers.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian pay a visit to the 31st Century with Franco-Japanese cartoon series Ulysses 31. What they discover is that very little in the 31st Century makes any sense. In amongst their aghast fury at the incomprehensibility of it all, our heroes try to unpick Ulysses' real motivations, bemoan the absolute liberties taken with the concepts of time and space and learn a salutary lesson about revisiting anything from your past. France emerge as a world leader in technology and there are stark warnings for geese. You can watch what we did here.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and a lurgy-riddled Ian tackle the 8th June 1981 edition of the BBC's venerable flagship current affairs magazine programme, Nationwide. There are some particularly strident views about the BBC's archival policies and how well Frank Bough is aging; a terrifyingly up close and personal encounter with a tennis professional and a tour of London with Fred Housego.
Our heroes also run the rule over the political prospects of Roy Jenkins and Ian fondly recalls the good old days of scamming, before it all gets too much and the plight of - variously - fraud victims, marching bands, small business owners, the one-legged and a helpless gambling addict are met with gales of childish laughter. If you'd like to see what all the fuss is about, you can watch it here.
For those of you who like to keep up to speed with such things, tomorrow we'll be covering the 1980s Japanese-French cartoon Ulysses 31.
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Today's This Is Our Everest brings you sporting entertainment courtesy of Junior Kickstart. Watching teenagers fall off motorcycles, however, had limited appeal for Ian, who spent most of his time worrying about safety and wondering how they got the bikes in the first place. There are also thoughts on watching television at school, British Leyland cars, scrap metal yards, the dark art of holiday time TV scheduling and a perhaps slightly overstated claim in an obituary. As ever, you can watch what we're on about here.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, the laughter and joviality of the last few editions is brought to a grinding halt as Edward and Ian watch Oh Happy Band!, a comedy series from 1980 that is so relentlessly boring and unfunny it hasn't seen the light of day since. Until now!
There's much wistful reminiscence about how every other Croft and Lloyd sitcom is far better than this one, an explanation of how twitching an birdwatching are not quite the same thing and some thoughtful consideration of the likelihood that a home-stuffed rare bird with an electric arsehole could deceive a government keen to build a new airport. It's a special This Is Our Everest after dark edition, so if nothing else you can bask in how tired we sound, in addition to how sick and tired of programmes like this we are. You can watch it too, if you like.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watch Bangers and Mash, a 5-minute long children's cartoon. However, this does nothing to stop them having a frankly bizarre discussion about parenting techniques, Chas and Dave and ape taxonomy for nearly eight times that long. Ian is not at all convinced by the punishments meted out to the titular characters and isn't shy about saying so. Meanwhile, Edward encourages you to beat your children, a view not shared by this podcast as a whole. If you want to see what all the fuss is about (and you should), you can do so here.
For those of you who wish to stay ahead of the curve on what we're watching, tomorrow's podcast will be the very first episode of the long-forgotten (and - spoiler alert - extremely forgettable) 1980 sitcom Oh Happy Band, which has not been shown in any form since its initial broadcast. You can find out exactly why here.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watch Emu's Broadcasting Corporation from November 1978. With our heroes already showing distinct signs of battle fatigue, only Emu could possibly bolster their spirits. Or so you'd think. They discuss the utter believability of Emu as a sentient being, tear Michael Parkinson a new one and ponder life as it was in 2007. Ian's long-repressed fear of Billy Dainty is brought screaming back to the surface, while Ed suggests a classification and categorisation system for Milk Tray advert parodies. If you want to watch Emu in full flight, you can do so here:
For those of you who are trying to stay ahead of the game, tomorrow's podcast will be on the 1980s cartoon series Bangers & Mash, and you can see the episode that we'll be dissecting here.
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The fourth episode of This Is Our Everest sees Edward and Ian revisit an episode of television's longest-running sports quiz, A Question of Sport. Both of our heroes choose their ideal line-up of Question of Sport guests and will probably regret it at some point in the future.
There's also ruminations on David Coleman, the advisability (or otherwise) of professional cricketers publicly espousing dog fighting and a realistic assessment of the uncling credentials of both of the team captains. There's also some vigorous critique of rugby and Ian Botham, and an exposé of a clearly fraudulent conversation between David Coleman and Linford Christie. To see all this for yourself, point your internet in this direction.
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We reach the penultimate episode of Strength in Depth this morning, and this is the story of the shonky ownership that so many non-league football clubs have endured as speculators - and occasionally criminals - have circled with no intentions of doing anything but helping themselves. From Chester to Clapton, it's been an uphill battle just to keep some clubs in existence, and supporters have even found that allowing a club to die and rebirthing it has been the best option. Yet from this have come tales of remarkable resilience from supporters who have assumed the responsibility of running clubs.
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On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian revisit Yorkshire in December 1980 and the music magazine programme Calendar Goes Pop. No-one is particularly pleased about this, particularly Tom Robinson. Up for discussion are the relentlessness of Richard Madeley, the value of historical perspectives in popular music shows and the current whereabouts of The Yorkshire Ripper.
There's also live Googling (always a crowd favourite), a test of sphincter control and Ian chooses what gig he'd most like to have gone to, had he been in West Yorkshire 40 years ago. All this, plus live music from Vardis! If you want to watch along, you can find the programme here.
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Episode 2 of This Is Our Everest sees Edward and Ian bravely tackle the potentially poignant but probably not that funny Les & Dustin's Laughter Show from December 1985. Both of our heroes remain particularly mindful of the sad, premature demise of Dustin Gee which took place just days after its original transmission.
However, there's only so far anyone can hold back under such sustained provocation. What's the best way to make cow pats look realistic on television? Is Roy Walker in Combat 18? Are we laughing at the right places? Who the hell is the completely uncredited musical guest? And will Mavis Wilton ever really know? All these questions will be at the very least asked, if not answered. If you fancy helping to solve any of these mysteries, you can watch the programme here.
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A second pandemic lockdown has begun, with the prospect of plenty more days sat forlornly in front of the television ahead. Then again, it could have been worse: it could have happened in the pre-digital age. As it is, the fact it is happening now can't save Edward and Ian from their own stupidity. This Is Our Everest sees our heroes shut inside watching whatever analogue TV had to offer, to see what they can learn. Why? BECAUSE IT'S THERE.
The first episode sees them visit Whittaker's World of Music, an ITV musical variety show from 1971. Ian provides what is bound to be the first in a series of potted histories of ITV franchises and marvels at the (some would say suspicious) verdance of Ray Dorset's sideburns. There's a critical assessment of Rolf Harris' artistic oeuvre which unsuccessfully attempts to sidestep all that other stuff he did and frequent gripes about the paucity of captioning. Perhaps the producers had decided these were all guests who needed no introduction? History has suggested otherwise. To join in with this absurd project, you can watch the programme yourself here.
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With the Football League facing an unprecedented crisis during the mid-1980s, the decision to allow automatic promotion and relegation changed the face of non-league football forever. In this week's edition of Strength in Depth, our history of non-league football, we look at the years immediately following this and the obstacles that clubs continued to face in order to get a place in the League.
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Since the very beginning of the game of football, promotion and relegation have been a big part of how we perceive the status of our football clubs. This, on the whole, has usually been dealt with meritocratically, but at one critical juncture the most important fixture of the season was played out at the Football League's AGM rather than on the pitch. This is the story of re-election into the Football League.
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After a two week diversion into the FA Cup and the FA Amateur Cup, this week's episode of Strength In Depth takes us back to 1946. There was an attendance boom waiting for football following the end of the Second World War, but the amateur game took up most of the non-league game's attention as crowds grew and grew. The professional non-league game was going to change, especially in the north of England. This week's podcast tells the story of the creation of the Northern Premier League, the FA Trophy and, eventually, the Alliance Premier League.
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This morning we reach the halfway point of Strength in Depth, our history of non-league football. The FA Cup is, of course, the oldest football tournament in the world, but whilst no non-league club has won the competition in almost 120 years, it retains a very close link with the non-league game. This week, we have the story of non-league clubs in the FA Cup, from before there were any leagues at all to the present day.
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A little later than usual, it's time for this week's edition of this week's episode of Strength in Depth, our weekly podcast history of non-league football. Last week's podcast took us up to the start of the second world war, but this week we're going right the way back to 1893 for the history of the FA Amateur Cup. At the time, it's arguable that the true dividing line in English football wasn't between 'league' and 'non-league', but was between amateur and professional.
This distinction proved so emotive that cleaved the game of rugby in two, and despite the tensions that did spring up between those that believed in the fundamental right to get paid for what was, effectively, work and those who believed that sport and business should be kept at arm's length, with sport being performed fot the love of the game itself. In view of this, the Football Association offered the amateur game its own competition, which would run for eight decades, but this wasn't enough to prevent its absolute purists from breaking away. The FA Amateur Cup final would become a national event, screened on the television, but the onward march of professionalism would end up rendering it obsolete by the 1970s.
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It's Saturday morning, so it's time for the third episode of our latest podcast series, Strength In Depth: A History of Non-League Football. This week, it's the story of the non-league game between the two world wars, a period during which the Football League swelled to more than twice its previous size, the amateurs running the FA and the PFA contrived to get the Home Nations to expel themselves from the first three World Cups, and the amateur and professional games continued to battle for public attention.
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The formation of the Football League in 1888 proved to be an immediate success, and this success meant that there would be competition throughout its early years. This week on Strength In Depth, we look at the first quarter century of the non-league game. The Southern League was formed as a rival professional league to the Football League, the growth of rugby league threatened the development of the association game across the country, and the amateurs threatened to cleave the game into two. This week, we have the story of the non-league game between 1888 and 1914.
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It's the start of a new season, so it's time for the start of a new podcast series. And this one is, in many respects, the most ambitious project that I've yet taken on. Welcome to Strength In Depth - A History of Non-League Football. This is the third series of these podcasts that I've written - Winning At Dominoes, a series of standalone documentaries from football history, and An Echo of Glory, a history of football in England & Wales, are still available for those who want them - but this was most definitely the most difficult.
There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, the history of non-league football is like a forest in which it's easy to get completely lost. Most stories about football are linear in nature, but this one certainly isn't. Secondly, a lot of you know an awful lot about the non-league game, so there are a lot of people who may be expecting me to trip myself up, here. With that in mind, I'll apologise in advance for if I've missed out anything significant. I don't think I have, but it's always possible. Apologies if I've glossed over your team's run to the 1935 County Amateur Senior Trophy Shield, in other words. It's nothing personal.
This first episode isn't really about non-league football, either, though. Prior to 1888, there was, depending on how you look at it, either no non-league football because there were no leagues, or only non-league football. But it's important to retell the story of the codification of the game of football, because it - and in particular those behind it - are a fundamental part of the story of the non-league game in this country. Many attitudes still held today have their roots in this period, and we can learn a lot about ourselves from these voices from the past.
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In this week's season finale, Edward and Ian play International Super Star Soccer Deluxe, the plucky cousin of the Winning Eleven Series of games that have long since cornered the market along with their FIFA counterparts.
Much resolution is reached, too, with the definitive call on all coin tosses, Global Hypercolour kit designs and (after admittedly some initial shots are fired) signs of a rapprochement in the Sega-Nintendo console wars.
Is Turkey in Africa? Would a robot that just barks out factual statements of the thing that just happened be better than Peter Drury? Will we get all the way through a podcast which isn't about Sensible Soccer without mentioning Sensible Soccer? And is the introduction of VAR to video games a good idea? The answer to several of these questions is no. Find out to which over the next pulsating, gyrating, arcade action-packed hour!
Scorchio! will return with season two, The Seasoning, later this year.
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This week, Edward and Ian forgo the usual rigmarole of playing old video games and instead have been playing brand new ones.
Ian has been gawping in wonderment at all that FIFA 20 has to offer, leading him to curate an increasingly impressive selection of balls, ponder the vissisitudes of inflation and contemplate the idea of FIFA 21 being entirely played behind closed doors due to an outbreak of a disease that none of the computerised participants could even reasonably contract.
Meanwhile, Edward does battle with Football Manager 20 and finds himself riven with indecision, too scared to change anything lest the whole enterprise collapses around him. Maybe he should have chosen to manage Crystal Palace, where such an occurrence would not have bothered him in the slightest. There's airing of dark conspiracy theories, too. As is the case with the majority of such theories, this one is born from failure: shattered hopes, thwarted dreams, unreasonable expectations, an unwarranted sense of entitlement and deep psychological issues.
All of this plus! We reveal the entirely binary approach to video gaming espoused by Ian King, an on-the-hoof idea for a Subbuteo video game that is surprisingly not shit and Edward enters into a verbal contract with the listeners that he may well end up regretting. Or not. Time will tell.
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This week, Edward and Ian have been playing Striker on the Mega Drive, one of a number of Striker games that were available during a period of the early-to-mid-1990s now known to historians as The Striker Era.
It's an all-encompassing arcade-style football game which seems to have pleased them both and brought memories of halcyon days of video gaming flooding back. Gaming histories and peccadillos are laid bare all over the place, and our heroes give due consideration to whether or not being good at video games should be considered a life skill.
There's stories of a communal Sensible Soccer league that by the sounds of it could easily have gotten out of hand; FIFA 95 gets a new hole; shots are fired once again in the (previously dormant) Sega vs Nintendo console wars and - in what is rapidly becoming a semi-regular feature - Edward recounts the details of another absolute shoeing he was on the receiving end of from a 16-bit games console's 30-year old CPU.
It's almost as much as the human psyche can endure, which is also the mission statement for this podcast series.
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So, we've come to the end of the line. The last episode in this series. Thanks for listening to this series, we'll be continuing to put Scorchio out every Friday, and I'll make a decision on what to do next at some point in the future. This week brings us to 2010, and the last decade of football in England & Wales. We've got Wales and Euro 2016, the decline and revival of the England national team, the growth of women's football, Manchester City, Liverpool, and the sudden ending of the football. This is the story of football in England & Wales, from 2010 to the present day.
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This week on Scorchio, Edward and Ian give their thumbs a rest and their brain holes a workout, each coming up with some football video games that they would like to see made. Chiefly because they would like to play them. What happened next was potentially psychologically revealing or potentially the genesis of the next generation of football games. Or both. Time will tell.
There's plenty of meat on these tasty bones, though, with talk of kicking cans, a vengeful Peter Shilton, mailing forms in duplicate to the County FA and a jaunt through the Roy of the Roversverse, amongst other football universes. Any games developers listening should definitely steal these ideas, make these games and then send us the money. And the games. And something nice to eat.
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It's time for the penultimate episode of An Echo of Glory, our series of the history of football in England & Wales. This week's episode takes us into the 21st century, to corporate wrestling at Manchester United and the formation of FC United of Manchester, Roman Abramovich pouring money into Chelsea, Setanta Sports, England's celebrity team and rum goings-on at Chester, Notts County and Portsmouth.
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This week, Edward and Ian continue to be cockteases of the worst possible kind, playing a football game programmed by Sensible Software that isn't Sensible Soccer, while you all sit around on tenterhooks. Vinegar strokes or no, World Championship Soccer II on the Sega Mega Drive is an interesting curiosity, part fun-filled arcade romp and part calamatously shonky and infuriating missed opportunity. A slap in the face for anyone who ever thought that World Cup football might be good and pure.
Can England overcome the odds at Italia 90 this time around, now that United Arab Emirates are off the menu for some completely inexplicable reason? And is a farm without a barn full of ducks even a farm at all? We find out.
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In the aftermath of Euro 96, the Premier League bubble continued to grow as football clubs rushed towards the stock markets. But the new-found wealth within football wasn't being shared equally, and smaller clubs were being left behind as the biggest grew and grew. With supporters becoming more political, though, there were those who started to look towards a different way of running a football club.
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This week on Scorchio! Edward and Ian have been playing Jon Ritman's seminal Match Day series, perhaps the first football simulation game to prove that they don't all have to be just garbage, absolute garbage. As they thrill at its pioneering advances in game physics, rakish multiplayer functionality and a version of the Match of the Day theme tune seemingly played down a tin can telephone by the murderer who is currently upstairs in your house, there's also consideration of any or all of the following:
Was 1984 the most 1980s of all the years of the 1980s? What is the transport of the future? And what was the first thing an 11-year old Ian hit with his homemade ice hockey stick? You'll be surprised by all, or none, of them.
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This week's episode of An Echo of Glory takes us from the period following the Hillsborough disaster to Euro 96. A lot happened in those six years - a World Cup semi-final for England, the collapse of two Football League clubs and one former Football League club, the formation of the Premier League, the fading of Liverpool and the arrival of their successors as the team to beat in English football.
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This week on Scorchio!, Edward and Ian venture behind enemy lines in the console wars to assess the lasting cultural impact of the SNES game Super Soccer. Both of our heroes have a variety of fruity and completely groundless thoughts and feelings about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Perhaps it was karma from these which saw one of our panel receive the kind of hiding from the CPU normally reserved for characters in lazily-written 1990s sitcoms during play testing? There's analysis of Ian's income in 1992, an empty threat to invade a sovereign European nation and wistful reminiscence about characters as varied as Super Mario, Arthur Lowe and Michel Preud'homme. Do not play this game. But do listen to this podcast, as we bunny hop together in unison.
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The FIFA World Cup is such a beloved global carnival of soccer funtimes that there's simply bound to be a series of downright mercenary, dismal and shonky video games devoted to it. Or so you might think. And you'd be right. This week Edward and Ian look at the first three officially licenced World Cup video games and quickly find themselves dissolving into a world of acrimony, crushing disappointment and swivel-eyed frustration. How can you keep the ball when you can't see your player? Is the possession game redundant if you can't pass backwards? And how many players can you get injured and suspended if every button on your joypad was seemingly programmed by Ron "Chopper" Harris? We find out on your behalf.
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This week's episode of An Echo of Glory has been brought forward from Sunday to this morning, to align with a tragic anniversary. On April 15th 1989, 96 football supporters travelled to a match and did not return. What followed made heroes of some, whilst others - bodies charged with ensuring the safety of others and organisations that couldn't be trusted to tell the truth - disgraced themselves, systematically, over the course of years. This is the story of the Hillsborough disaster.
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In May 1985, football in England suffered an existential trauma that some felt it may have been impossible to recover from. This week, we tell the story of how the game reacted to the twin disasters of Bradford and Heysel, as the national team continued to morph into the team that we know and understand today. It's a story of near-bankruptcy, falling attendances, innovation, and the first shoots of the football of the 1990s.
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This week on Scorchio, Edward and Ian have been battering their B buttons as they got back to grips with FIFA Soccer 95. In many ways it is the first modern FIFA game, in that it came out a year after the previous one and a year before the next one and if you didn't get them all your peers would shun you. FIFA revolutionised the genre 25 years ago, so now two bitter old men pass judgement on whether or not it still holds up today. Can Scotland win the World Cup? Are All-Stars teams cheating? And how is it possible to get bored of watching goals sail in from 35 yards? All these questions are answered in full.
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With the benefit of hindsight it had been coming for years, but the events of May 1985 blew through football in this country like a slow motion nightmare. In just eighteen days, 96 people were killed at matches featuring English clubs, the result of years of policy failure and stagnation. This week's podcast is the story of the St Andrews riot, the Bradford fire, and the Heysel Stadium disaster.
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Hello everybody, and welcome to the first episode of Scorchio, our new series revisiting the football video games of the past. Every week, we'll be tearing down a different game and delivering the results to you. Apologies for the slightly rough and ready nature of this first episode, but it'll be improving over the coming weeks.
In this first episode, Edward and Ian relive Ian's childhood with the classic, pioneering football management simulator, Kevin Toms' Football Manager for the ZX Spectrum. How does the granddaddy of them all stack up against the competition, 38 years after it was first released? There's also a blow-by-blow account of a genuine Football Manager malaise as it happened, some heroic feats of memory and some complete failures: the Leeds United player was, it turns out, Peter Barnes. All this plus, the most underwhelming piece of trivia ever committed to record. We hope you enjoy it. You can support more stuff like this via Patreon.
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By the end of the 1970s, the decline had become a slump. Crowds were down, hooliganism was up, and England's first appearance in a major tournament finals in a decade ended in ignominy at the 1980 European Championships. Things were going to continue to get worse. though, before they got any better.
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Football in England underwent quite a few changes during the summer of 1974, but few would have guessed at the time that within just a few years English clubs would come to dominate the European Cup. For all of that, though, hooliganism was continuing to grow and the England national team would spend the rest of the decade in something of a rut. This week, we have the story of football in England & Wales between 1975 and 1981.
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Last week, we told the story of the big personality and big battles that defined football in England and Wales between 1969 and 1975. This, however, is only one of the narratives of this era. The flipside to all of this was that a feeling of decline was descending over English football as the 1960s turned into the 1970s. This is the story of that decline, and of how nobody who could have done anything about it did so.
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