How the podcast got its name - what a Carry On! Artwork

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.

All Episodes

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

How the podcast got its name - what a Carry On!

May 06, 2021 • Everyone Dies In Sunderland • Season 1 • Episode 9

Ever wondered why we called our show “Everyone Dies In Sunderland”? It’s actually nothing to do with true crime at all.

But it is related to the very sad, very public, death of Carry On legend Sid James.

The gang then takes a look at the harrowing lives of some of the other cast members of the legendary comedy franchise.Gareth tells us about the life of inadequate drunk Charles Hawtrey. Claire teaches us about the depressed and lonely Joan Sims. John examines the self-destructive life of Hattie Jacques.

As Gareth puts it: “The amount of murders we’ve covered and I’m genuinely more depressed after this episode than any other”.

Alcoholism! Depression! Backstreet abortions! Racism! Drugs! Uncomfortable episodes of This Is Your Life! Eating disorders! Having to work with Eric Sykes! Almost burning to death enjoying a post-coital cigarette! Joan Sims’ annoyance at her IMDB entry! This episode has the lot!

Digressions in this episode include: Owen Hargreaves! California Dreams! Max Headroom! Some very problematic episodes of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air! Richard Littlejohn’s literary career! Uncle Jack! T-bag! Mike and Angelo! Parachute related soap fatalities! The sexual psychosis induced by the Cadbury’s Caramel Rabbit!

What’s the worst job you’ve had? Is it worse then John’s? Let us know!

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

Our theme music is 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: https://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay

Shout outs in this show to @tdfdpod and @murderupnorth

Fenella Fielding’s Blue Monday really is very good https://youtu.be/4j7h9_-Vt8w

If you are affected by anything in this show, these organisations are here to help:

· www.mind.org.uk

· www.samaritans.org

· https://www.turning-point.co.uk/services/drug-and-alcohol-support.html