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.
Episodes
34 episodes
PMs in the DMs: Anthony Eden
Hello, this is PMs in your DMs - it’s like Tinder, except with Prime Ministers This panel show from the makers of Everyone Dies In Sunderland takes two of the 54 men and 3 women to have been the British Prime Minister and imagine th...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:03:46
Everyone Dies In Sunderland presents... PMs in the DMs!
Hello, this is PMs in your DMs It’s like Tinder, except with Prime Ministers In this panel show from the makers of Everyone Dies In Sunderland we take two of the 54 men and 3 women to have been the British Prime Minister...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:11:46
Everyone Dies In Sunderland’s Christmas Presents
You know when Noel Edmonds would turn up in a helicopter on Christmas morning to deliver Christmas presents to deserving members of the public? Even through there was no indication they wanted him to?We don’t have a helicopter, but we do...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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22:03
Tiny Supervillans (It's 1996 and Claire is introduced to Mr Pinkwhistle)
In the mid 1990s Britain carried out an interesting social experiment to see if taking a children from a chaotic and poverty-ridden childhood in some of most deprived parts of the North, giving them a dehumanising nickname, making them some kin...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:04:11
The Devil’s Bridge - the site of Britain’s worst road accident. Twice.
Something particularly alarming about growing up in the eighties and nineties was how ambivalent everyone was about basic road safety – even though horrific accidents happened with terrifying regularity. In June 1925, the brakes fai...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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42:48
Jack the Stripper (Or, Little Chef – Don’t Die of Ignorance)
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:07:49
The man who admitted to killing 300 people in the local press
In today’s show we revisit the time in 1999 when a Northumberland doctor casually admitted to killing 300 people in a local TV interview.I’m genuinely surprised you don’t remember.Doctor David Moor was a much loved GP who would of...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:07:51
The man who went out for a pint and was never seen again (Featuring The Unseen)
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. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:05:49
Talking terrifying telly with Scarred for Life
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 list...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:04:47
Who really killed Jack Royal? (It’s 1990 and it’s Robbo vs the Really Wild Show)
Close to midnight on March the 19th 1990 the doorbell rang at the home of Gateshead science teacher Jack Royal. As he looked though the porch window to see who it was, he was shot in the face at point blank range. Jack had enemies –...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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55:14
Everyone Dies In Sunderland's Christmas Bloomers
Remember Christmas TV before the BBC gave up?You know they have. Even people who actually like Call the Midwife and Mrs Brown’s Boys are like, “what, again?”Anyway, back when Everyone Dies In Sunderland is set, Terry Wogan would c...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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27:30
Murder in Room 101: It’s 1980 and aliens are invading Suffolk
On November 26th 1980 John Welch checked into room 101 of the Swallow Hotel in Newcastle – but he would never check out.Welch was found murdered in his room the same evening. Nothing had been taken, no weapon ever found. Half a cup of te...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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57:19
The unsolved murder of Julie Perigo: It’s 1986 and Berwick is at war with Russia
On May 23rd 1986 Julie Perigo told a friend that she was meeting a man named “Old Geoff”. A week later she was found murdered in her home. Police have never traced “Old Geoff” and 35 years on, her killing remains Sunderland’s longest unso...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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59:08
The Ferryhill Axe Murders: Demonic possession in Country Durham
It’s spooky season, so the gang takes a trip back to 1683, when the devil arrived in Country Durham and commanded a farm hand named Andrew Mills to murder three children with an axe in a crime described as “the most horrid and barbarous murder ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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57:04
It’s 1988 and Britain has gone bezerk: The Funeral Murders
In March 1988 Britain experienced an odd couple of weeks of public executions, lynchings and even a gun attack at a funeral. You’d think you’d remember it. In the concluding episode of our three episode series the bodies of th...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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56:56
It’s 1988 and Britain has gone bezerk: Part 2 – Ignorance and chips
In the spring of 1988, Britain lost its mind. Public executions. Lynching. A gunfight at a funeral. Four million chickens dying in the aftermath of an interview on regional TV. We’re genuinely surprised you don’t remember.In the second o...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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51:43
It’s 1988 and Britain has gone bezerk: Part 1 – Death on The Rock
In the spring of 1988, Britain lost its mind. Public executions. Lynching. A gunfight at a funeral. Unforeseen consequences for the makers of Count Duckula and Danger Mouse. We’re genuinely surprised you don’t remember.In the first of a ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:00:45
The unsolved murder of Stephen Sweeney: Sexy literary parody, yoghurt and robot dogs.
On July 8th 1998, Stephen Sweeney didn’t come home from work. Maybe this wasn’t unusual – his furniture business had been struggling lately, so it’s to be expected that he was working every hour he could to keep the factory open. Bu...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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58:51
Peak bleak: The dead of Everest and the lonely death of David Sharp
Something you might not appreciate about climbing Everest is... it’s a bit fiddly. Lethally fiddly. And lethally chilly. And lethally tiring. In fact that 4% of people die while doing it. And in most cases, it’s impossible to recove...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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55:27
Decoy Flamingo! (It’s 2010 and we could not care less about Raoul Moat)
On July 1st 2010 Raoul Moat was released from Durham prison. 5 days later - after the largest manhunt in Northumbria Police history – he would be dead, having shot three people, declared war on the police, seen 35,000 people join a supportive F...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:07:09
The Nude in the Nettles – aka Sutton Bank Jane Doe (It’s 1981 and we almost killed Bucks Fizz)
At 8am on Friday August 1981 the phone rang at Ripon police station. A voice announced police would find “a decomposed body among the willow herbs” at a particular grid reference close to Sutton Bank top. The caller refused to give ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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59:42
Arthur Hutchinson, Slapstick Bundy: It's 1986 and Everyone Dies in Sunderland meets It’s Murder Up North
In this very special episode, Everyone Dies in Sunderland teams up with the wonderful Jenny from Its Murder Up North to take a look at the crimes of Hartlepool-born multiple murderer Arthur “The Fox” Hutchinson, one only 23 prisoners to be serv...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:05:05
The unexplained death of Peter Maine: It's 2016 and do Richard and Judy have a suicide pact?
A little after 7am on Sunday September 1st 2016 Peter Maine went for a jog through the centre of Durham. A short while later he was found by the banks of the River Wear with three stab wounds to the heart. To this day we don’t know if it was mu...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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59:13
It' 1995 and the world almost ended, nobody cares (and Everyone Dies In Sunderland is hanging out with Ye Olde Crime Podcast)
In November 1995 the sitcom Caroline in the City – Lea Thompson played a woman called Caroline who lived in a city – tried to boost its profile with crossover episodes with the (much popular) Friends and Frasier.In a completely unrelated...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:44:34
How the podcast got its name - what a Carry On!
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:19:23