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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

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

May 08, 2022 • Everyone Dies In Sunderland • Season 3 • Episode 4

Between 1964 and 1965 a still unidentified serial killer took the lives of six sex workers in London, earning the nickname “Jack the Stripper” as their bodies were left naked or undressed in public. Was the killer someone famous enough to have had their own This is Your Life and had Bruce Forsyth as a pallbearer at their funeral?

This is a story with everything. The Krays. The Masons. James Bond, The Profumo Scandal, a beloved sport-star turned TV personality, his boyfriend, the popstar, soon to die in mysterious circumstances, Dave Allen, Bob Monkhouse, and the most extraordinary – if horrible - murder weapon this or any other podcast will ever feature.

Does it have any connection to the 1990s or the North East though?

Probably.

We also remember the absolute state of eating out in the eighties and nineties. The Wimpy Bender! The Little Chef having a logo which was literally a man sticking his fingers down this throat! BHS AS A RESTAURANT!

Along the way: Bread the Board Game, Gazza the Board Game and Cluedo the TV show.

What do you think the worst board game of the eighties and nineties? And what was the worst tourist attraction your parents dragged you to when it wasn’t raining?

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

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

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

“Freddie Mills is Dead, Freddie Mills is Dead, Dead Fred, Dead Fred, Dead Fred/ FRED’S DEAD! BROWN BREAD! FREDDIE MILLS IS DEAD!”