Michael Straughan was 23 stone and nearly two metres tall, so he was certainly conspicuous.
But on the 18th of June 1992 he was seen waiting for a friend outside a pub in Newcastle City Centre... and he hasn’t been seen since.
In June 2005, Janet Brown spent the day working as an extra on a TV show being filmed in Northumberland called “Distant Shores”.
She too would never be seen again.
Although it did take the police five years to notice she was missing.
We are also joined by Caprice from The Unseen for a discussion about the disappearance of Manic Street Preachers lyricist and guitarist Richie Edwards in February 1995.
We also reminisce about terrifying school days. Claire gets an encyclopaedia thrown at her face. John witnesses an assembly being sabotaged by disaffected teachers. Gareth shoehorns in a callback to a nineties Jasper Carrot and Robert Powell sitcom . We also learn the best thing “marquee related” Gareth has ever seen.
Make sure to check out The Unseen in all the usual places, which Caprice has helpfully consolidated here
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Our theme music is usually the song “Steady Away” by Pete Dilley and can be found on his album Half-truths and Hearsay which you can/should buy/stream here:
ttps://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay
But for a second show in a row it isn’t.
“If you dare to be different, good faith considerate, you’re the idiot”