Everyone Dies In Sunderland

20/10/2022

We’ve just started recording again so new episodes will be coming very very soon!

Would you guys like a new Halloween episode?

You can check out all our previous episodes and get caught up (if you’re new around here) and hopefully be up to speed on the ‘in jokes’ by the time our next episode drops ✌🏼

17/07/2022

New new new

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 failed on a coach as it made its way down a steep hill at Dibbles Bridge, in North Yorkshire. Seven people would die in what was at the time the worst road accident in British history. 
Fifty years later, thirty three people would die at Dibble’s Bridge in identical circumstances. 

Nearly fifty years on, this crash remains the worst road accident in British history.
It took another 20 years for seatbelts to become mandatory on coaches. 

Along the way: David Bowie ingratiates himself with the people of Sunderland! John Pertwee takes a very unorthodox approach to convincing electrical retailers to sell their customers extended washing machine warranties! Ben Wishaw smells lovely! Jimmy Nail thinks she’s lying (she’s lying)! 

The gang behind THE OFFICIAL PODCAST OF STACEY SOLOMON SCENTED AIR FRESHNERS also recall the first time they were censored.

Young Gareth accidentally doodles b***s. Young Claire defaces her Sn**ch. Young John articulates a trees-eye view of nuclear war between Britain and America Wogglebox Island

08/05/2022

Last episode for a wee while… and it’s a good one

Between 1964 and 1965 a still unidentified serial killer took the lives of six s*x 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 [email protected], on Twitter at , on Facebook and Instagram. 

Our theme music is “Steady Away” by 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

22/04/2022

If you’re new here and haven’t yet been exposed to our earlier episodes, we’d reccomend you do if for no other reason than to get in on the ‘in jokes’ of the gang!

Disclaimer; No dogs were harmed in the making of this post

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/everyone-dies-in-sunderland-a-podcast-about-growing/id1558128198

‎True Crime · 2022

24/03/2022

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 often appear in the regional media as a local medical expert. But one such appearance would lead to him facing a murder charge for helping an apparently terminally ill patient to die. But was Britain’s approach to end-of-life care what was really on trial? And if this was murder, does that mean the Queen’s Granddad got murdered too?

40 years earlier another doctor – John Bodkin Adams – had found himself in a similar position. Was Adams a pioneering doctor who changed the face of palliative care? Or was he lethally useless and more of a danger to his patients than their medical conditions? Or he was he, in fact, literally Britain’s most prolific serial killer?

Along the way, there’s an establishment cover-up, clandestine s*xual relationships, clay pigeon shooting fatalities and a welcome(ish) return of Gareth reading poetry. 

We also revisit 1999. Rod Hull dies. Whizzer and Chips is nowhere to be found. Kiwi-flavoured 20/20 is consumed. Everyone talking about epigenomics apparently. Nothing like Prince described it. 

Trigger warning: This show discusses  issues surrounding end of life care and assisted su***de throughout.

11/03/2022

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 in all the usual places

06/02/2022

WE ARE BACK

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 Hi**er, Nutsy doing the Green Mile in Lady and The Tramp, Barney Rubble’s su***de 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 at their socials and They also have some live shows coming up:
· Wigan, February 17th
· Harrogate, February 25th
· York, May 21st

01/01/2022

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 – he’d twice stood trial for murder – but over 30 years later, we still don’t know who killed him. But we do know it wasn’t Andrew Adams, which is a bit of a shame for Andrew Adams, who spent 14 years in prison for the crime
This is the story of how in a blink of the eye “a good looking lad who could pull the girls” can wake up in bed – having indeed pulled a girl the previous night - to find his house surrounded by the police, endure armed police storming his mother’s death bed, and end up in prison for stealing a pair of trousers having been denied compensation for a decade and a half in jail for a crime he didn’t commit thanks to an “incompetent defence” from his legal team (that’s an actual quote from the Criminal Court Review Commission). 

We also revisit 1992, a time of putting cockerel-shaped reflectors from breakfast cereal packets in the spokes of your Raleigh Street Wolf, Astrofarm, the Freddie Mercury tribute concert and the robbing of Benny Hill’s grave! 

Claire calls Colin the Caterpillar “a twat”. Gareth gives John man flu. You don’t want to know what Claire thinks her majesty the Queen has. 

We also have time for a game of Nick Hancock-era Room 101, which we’ll just call “Robbo vs The Really Wild Show”.

30/12/2021

Did you listen to our Super Awesome Blooper episode yet?

If you want to know what really happens during each recording session go give it a listen, you’ll likely not be surprised it features a lot of swearing 🤣

Available on all the usual podcast apps just hit the link 👇🏼 and pick your favourite, and if you’re feeling super awesome you can even drop us a review*, like, share etc

*Gareth most definitely reads them all!!

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25/12/2021

Happy Festivus to everyone out there!

On brand gifts have been received by the gang already!

See you all in 2022 for more random ramblings, dog deaths and murders that may or may not have happened in Sunderland in the 80’s and 90’s

05/12/2021

Have you listened to our recent episode?

Did you want to join the great UFO in spennymoor debate?

John thinks it’s a cloud
Robbo thinks it’s a wizards hat
Either way it’s currently an Unidentified Flying Object!!

Zoom and enhance, then drop your responses in the comments 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

03/12/2021

If you could place 3 things/people/places/anything into Room 101 what would they be and why?

You could get a name drop in our next episode…. 👀 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

03/12/2021

03/12/2021

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 tea and a half-eaten sandwich next to his body. 

After 40 years, the murder is still unsolved . 

We also take a look at the Rendlesham Forest Incident, where aliens briefly invaded Suffolk, and the Southern Television Broadcast Interruption when Vrillon from Galactic Command commandeered children’s cartoons to warn viewers of a coming apocalypse. We’re genuinely surprised you don’t remember. 

Along the way, we remember punk rock provocateur GG Allin and his unlikely role in “He’s All That”, Clarks Hardware and inflatable armchairs and Gareth is attacked with a melon.

You remember the 1993 sitcom The Lion and the Unicorn, right? You must do. 

15/11/2021

Not caught Season 2; Episode 5 yet…. You’re missing out!

14/11/2021

New Episode! You know the drill 🎧

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 unsolved murder – despite a list of 6000 suspects. 

But could Margaret from the chip shop hold the key to solving this case?

1986 was also the year the bloody and brutal 300 year war between Britain and the Netherlands finally came to an end – we’re surprised you don’t remember it.
Along the way, a baby is stolen – but don’t worry, it’s just one of Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s odder children’s books. 
Gareth explains were all the humans have gone in Pixar’s Cars. Claire’s Christmas present is decided. John is bewildered by aspects of his wife’s romantic past. Berwick declares war on Russia.

Everyone Dies in Sunderland explores some of the darkest moments of North East history, and includes jokes. These jokes will never be at the expense of victims or their families and will always be at the expense of people who deserve to be mocked, robbed of their power and shown up for the idiots they really are. If you’re easily offended or personally connected to the events we’re discussing though,you probably shouldn’t listen.  

For all our snark, there could be someone still out there with a murderous hatred of women who has never been brought to justice. If anyone does have information that could help this or any other historic investigation then they can call police on 101 or report it anonymously through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

30/10/2021

4,000 downloads!

And if you want something to listen to for spooky season, why not check out out most recent episode; the Halloween Special!

You can find us on almost all your usual podcast apps!

Happy Halloween 🎃

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 Ani...

28/10/2021

Do you believe in the devil?

Do you think the devil looks more like Bowie, Rylan Clark-Neal or Tom Ellis?

Answers welcome to all the most pressing of questions drop them in the comments 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

27/10/2021

NEW EPISODE - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!

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 that was ever heard in the North”

And if you so wish, you can try and summon the killer at midnight on Halloween - although you will have to go to the fancy hotel built on the site of the murder these days

Look, we never said we were growing up terrified in the nineteen eighties!!

We also take a look at the poisoned baby food scare of 1988, when – without the excuse of demonic possession – Rodney Whitchelo put five babies in hospital by spiking their food with acid and razor blades in an attempt to blackmail Heinz. 

John is “desperately trying to be Victoria Coren Mitchell”. Jane is “perfectly memorable”. Gareth makes the devil sound like Rylan standing in your kitchen trying to bully you into getting a vasectomy. Harry’s Razors get some free advertising they could probably do without

Along the way: The strange direction taken by the Air Bud franchise! Judith Kerr’s odder children’s books! Murderous Come Dine With Me!

And if you want to recreate the urban myth of the Ferryhill Demon even though the buildings aren’t there anymore the what three words is “sprinter.saloons.sulk”

24/10/2021

Tonight we record our Halloween special, where John let’s Claire take the reigns and lead on the storytelling…. This picture could be the foreshadowing of what’s to come…

Not pictured, Gareth, on his island, probably getting more birthday cakes made for his dog!

21/10/2021

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 the so-called Gibraltar Three – IRA members shot in the street by the SAS – are returned home for burial, but a mourner at their funeral has murder in mind. This in turn will lead to another funeral in which two more people will lose their lives in events described as “the most dramatic and harrowing of the entire Troubles”

The episode is literally called “The Funeral Murders”. Listener caution really is advised.

Claire also remembers the cinema of 1988, including nudity in Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, Alan Rickman “doing a German accent and being all s*xy and that” in Die Hard and more child s*xual exploitation in Big than we remembered.

Gareth also whets your Halloween whistle with some horror film recommendations – don’t say we don’t do nothing for you!

Along the way: Po*******hy at disused military bases! Po*******hy in children’s cartoons! The Lewis Hamilton of Pigeons! (He’s dating one of the Pussycat Dolls)  Benny Hill r**e jokes! “Iron Man, but if Tony Stark had a drill for a pen*s”!

Gareth calls William the Conqueror “a prick”, Claire clearly lies about having seen Rain Main, John mistakes budgie purchasing for an extra-marital affair! Ted Bundy somehow gets involved in all this!

09/10/2021

If you didn’t know, we are back with season 2, the first two episodes of our three part opener are out now and available on all your usual podcast apps!

And if you’re new to listening, we wish you well on the rollercoaster of a journey that is season 1….

‘Hope you get ya dick wet!’

06/10/2021

This is part two of a three part series. Every episode is golden, but you are probably going to want to listen to part one if you haven't.

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 of a three part series we examine the aftermath of the SAS’ very public killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar, as an establishment ties itself in knots trying to explain how three terrorists so determined to avoid casualties that they will go to extraordinary lengths to ensure their bomb only goes off at a specific time on a Tuesday afternoon are such a threat they have to be shot in the street on the preceding Sunday.

We also take a look at Edwina Curries egg-ceptional efforts to make eggs terrifying! YES! EVEN OMLETTES WERE SCARY IN THE EIGHTIES.

Along the way, N**i saplings! Pork scratching fatalities! Claire improves her sn**ch. Gareth doesn’t like egg puns. John has a business proposition for former England goalkeeper David Seaman. Edwina Currie is surprisingly vindicated.

23/09/2021

NEW NEW NEW

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 three part series, we return to March 1988, when the SAS used lethal force to prevent an IRA bomb attack in Gibraltar, when in retrospect they didn’t have to. Or, if you’re less charitable, the British government straight up murdered three people, in public, all unarmed and two actively trying to surrender.

Along the way, Teletext! Now 10 SAILAWAYSAILAWAYSAILAWAY! Lethal sofas! Prince Charles almost dies skiing off-piste with Tara Palmer Tompkinson’s mum (not a euphemism)! John wonders why Dale Winton never got a “fake death” myth. Gareth almost gets a cameo in “Almost Sunny”. Claire is reminiscent of a s*xy fish or an allegory for the N**is. John Stonehouse dies again.

What is your favourite ever Teletext page by the way? Do let us know! Seriously. We would love to know! You can reach us on email [email protected]

23/09/2021

SEASON 2 IS LIVE

Episode 1 is on all your usual podcast apps now! Go to our linktree to find your fave and give it a listen…. Plus we know you all want to know how Robbo’s dating adventure went yeah?

Does a dog die in this episode? Does John manage a whole episode without a cricket/football drop? Is Gareth still the peak stalker of Neil Gaiman? And importantly does Hans Zimmer feature?

Find out all this and more (but probably not much more) in our new episode!!

https://linktr.ee/EveryoneDiesPod

13/09/2021

Have you smashed through our first season and are waiting for more 80's and 90's reflections, and of course niche and specifically local murders?

We may have some news coming soon for you on our next season

Watch this space....

02/09/2021

We may be on a break but we’ve broke the 3k mark on downloads!!

We’ll be back with new content once we all recover from the summer of… well not being stuck in the house is a bonus at this point yeah?

In the meantime get yourselves to your favourite podcast app, if you don’t have one then we reccomend Apple podcasts or Spotify, and go give us a listen, drop us a like and subscribe, and if you’re feeling super fancy reviews are always nice *hint hint*

20/08/2021

Another oldie but a goodie, and possibly the beginning of the deaths of many dogs featuring is the one when…..

The gang took a look at the murder of noted dermatologist Dr David Birkett by the notable idiot Reg Wilson, an attempt to commit the perfect murder with the aid of Japanese erotica, stencils and crashing a motorbike into a wall like Jay did on The Inbetweeners that time, but still managing to leave fingerprints at the scene. Reg did manage to build a ladder in a maximum security prison though, so that’s something.

John is quite mean to Lewis Capaldi and names a section of his lawn after an unnamed actor. Gareth wants to know how to kill a Rottweiler. Claire knows how to kill a Rottweiler. Gareth sings “The Circle of Life” from the Lion King. This is unconnected to the Rottweiler stuff. Timmy Mallett invites a friend of the show to stay for Christmas.

Consett’s Premier Ellie Kemper Impersonator also makes her first IRL appearance.

Digressions in this episode include: Legendary Newcastle floating nitespot the Tuxedo Princess, Wrestlemania VI and mortality, getting a lift with Samuel Beckett, unlikely Daniel Bedingfield merchandise, The Wizard, the SNES, Rilo Kiley, Mel Smith’s dad being from Tow Law, The Piglet Files, Crime Traveller, fuzzy felt, Sooty (well, Sweep) and rebel cricket tours of apartheid South Africa.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CM60nu5gYKy/?utm_medium=share_sheet

16/08/2021

Another throw back is to our second show, which became a two parter (because one of the gang got ill so we had to cut the recording short!)…

Part 1; see if you can spot exactly when Claire developed a migraine and needed to go Vomit 🤮 - find it here on all your fave podcast apps using our linktree https://linktr.ee/EveryoneDiesPod

The gang takes a trip back to 1991 to explore the sort-of-televised murder of planning officer Harry Collinson by “harmless lover of ballistics” Albert Dryden, close to John’s native Consett. John discusses the Hartlepool monkey-hanging incident with Doc Brown from Back to the Future. Gareth takes a shine to a catchphrase idea. Claire’s brother blows away. Jim Davison and John Virgo row about Tony Blair during an early evening snooker-based quiz show.

Digressions in this episode include hard to impress Americans on the Hogwarts Express, Teletext, Russell T Davies’ Dark Season, Klaus Kinski, sharing a house with Bergerac. That’s Klaus Kinski and sharing a house with Bergerac, not Klaus Kinski sharing a house with Bergerac. But we would watch the hell out of that.

Everyone Dies in Sunderland explores some of the darkest moments of North East history, and includes jokes. These jokes will never be at the expense of victims or their families and will always be at the expense of people who deserve to be mocked, robbed of their power and shown up for the idiots they really are. If you’re easily offended or personally connected to the events we’re discussing though, you probably shouldn’t listen.

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

You can reach us on email [email protected], on Twitter at , on Facebook and Instagram.

18 track album

13/08/2021

Because we are on a break we thought we’d help some of you discover our back catalogue of episodes starting with the first (and possibly the best)…. And you can find it here - https://linktr.ee/EveryoneDiesPod

The gang returns to 1993 to explore the unsolved murder which took place at the end of John’s road, the killing of takeaway delivery driver Paul Logan. John writes to the Queen. Claire explains where baby foxes come from. Gareth loses 52% of the audience. The IRA fail to stop Mr Blobby.

Digressions in this episode include: The Animals of Farthing Wood, the varied career of composer Hans Zimmer, the alarming pre-“All She Wants” career of one of Ace of Bass, floating candles, children getting lost while potholing and seduction tips from both Shane Richie and a “love guru and Chris de Burgh lookalike”.

Everyone Dies in Sunderland explores some of the darkest moments of North East history, and includes jokes. These jokes will never be at the expense of victims or their families and will always be at the expense of people who deserve to be mocked, robbed of their power and shown up for the idiots they really are. If you’re easily offended or personally connected to the events we’re discussing though,you probably shouldn’t listen.

For all our snark and irreverence we do really hope that bringing this case to a wider audience helps get Paul justice and his family closure.

If you have any information about the Paul Logan case, please please please Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or use their anonymous online form at Crimestoppers-uk.org

Here is a recent Northumbria Police appeal on the case: https://beta.northumbria.police.uk/latest-news/2018/december/daughter-of-man-killed-25-years-ago-issues-heartfelt-appeal-on-25th-anniversary/

Here is a similar appeal from Durham Police: https://www.durham.police.uk/news-and-events/Pages/Reward-offered-to-solve-.aspx

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

You can reach us on email [email protected], on Twitter at , on Facebook and Instagram.

Of all of Clive Worth’s books, this one has the best cover - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Internet-Dating-Kings-Diaries-Life/dp/1902578406/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1615504438&refinements=p_27%3AClive+Worth&s=books&sr=1-2

John didn’t make that song up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq2r6MwD0o4

04/08/2021

Our first season was a fun time for us to record, bet you didn’t even realise that Gareth and Claire have NEVER met in real life!

If we ever do a pub quiz remember that one 😉

We’re really proud of our first 16(?) episodes and if you wanna check them out head to our linktree or we’ve conveniently linked the Spotify link below 👇🏼

https://open.spotify.com/show/0lSNxL0OK4fANWRBTzG2aA?si=0M9RNlGJRSOr05t99bQRrg&dl_branch=1

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