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

Everyone Dies In Sunderland is a podcast about growing up terrified in the eighties and nineties. Ah, the good old days. People left their front doors unlocked. Children played out in the street. Everyone got burgled. Children got murdered, like, most days. Then there was Mad-Cow Disease and the Animals of Farthing Wood. It was a truly terrifying time to be a child. And those children are adults now. Adults with children and mortgages and Senseo Machines and jobs with actual responsibilities.And three of them have started a podcast where they laugh nihilistically at their own childhood trauma. Each week John, Gareth and Claire travel back to a year of their childhoods in North East England - like a True Crime Geordie Quantum Leap - and talk about what scared and scarred them that year, taking a closer look at one of the notorious crimes which were happening within walking distance of their childhood homes while they were watching Going Live.

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

Talking terrifying telly with Scarred for Life

February 06, 2022 • Everyone Dies In Sunderland • Season 3 • Episode 1

We interrupt this podcast for a very special episode where the gang talks harrowing children’s television of the eighties and nineties with Dave and Steve from the deservedly popular Scarred for Life books and stage shows.

As regular listeners know, for the true crime happening literally down our roads, the most upsetting moments of our childhood were televised. Moments like Captain Planet meeting Hitler, Nutsy doing the Green Mile in Lady and The Tramp, Barney Rubble’s suicide attempt, teatime lynching in Scarf Jack, Noseybonk, and the unexpectedly downbeat conclusions to Blake’s 7, Dinosaurs and Denver the Last Dinosaur.

And Ghostwatch. Bloody hell, Ghostwatch.

We also talk about the triggering effect of News Reports, which were frequently so apocalyptic I found myself hyperventilating about Princess Anne getting married.

We also learn what Gareth likes to watch on the internet when his wife is in bed.

Didn't believe
those stories about
Mother Seddons, did you?

Fee fie foe fum...

You can learn more about Scarred for Life here, buy volume one here and buy volume two here.

They also have some live shows coming up:

· Wigan, February 17th

· Harrogate, February 25th

· York, May 21st

You can reach us on email everyonediesinsunderland@gmail.com, on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram.

Our theme music is usually the song “Steady Away” by Pete Dilley and can be found on his album Half-truths and Hearsay which you can/should buy/stream here:

ttps://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay

But this week it isn’t.

“Public sex versus social skills versus gunboats, giants and bands that kill”