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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

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

March 09, 2022 • Everyone Dies In Sunderland • Season 3 • Episode 2

Michael Straughan was 23 stone and nearly two metres tall, so he was certainly conspicuous.

But on the 18th of June 1992 he was seen waiting for a friend outside a pub in Newcastle City Centre... and he hasn’t been seen since.

In June 2005, Janet Brown spent the day working as an extra on a TV show being filmed in Northumberland called “Distant Shores”.

She too would never be seen again.

Although it did take the police five years to notice she was missing.

We are also joined by Caprice from The Unseen for a discussion about the disappearance of Manic Street Preachers lyricist and guitarist Richie Edwards in February 1995.

We also reminisce about terrifying school days. Claire gets an encyclopaedia thrown at her face. John witnesses an assembly being sabotaged by disaffected teachers. Gareth shoehorns in a callback to a nineties Jasper Carrot and Robert Powell sitcom . We also learn the best thing “marquee related” Gareth has ever seen.

Make sure to check out The Unseen in all the usual places, which Caprice has helpfully consolidated here

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

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

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

But for a second show in a row it isn’t.

“If you dare to be different, good faith considerate, you’re the idiot”