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Episode 22 in which we remember the 1984 Bhopal disaster, David takes a natural break and Russell tells "The Toilet Story".
Welcome to Season 2 of the Old News Podcast!Freedom from the Humber to the Tweed! In this episode we have more referendum talk, this time about the North East England regional assembly referendum.David calls for the establishment of the Peopl
First of all I would like to apologise for how late this episode is, it was recorded in March when the Winter Olympics were still on and it was snowing rather heavily here in the UK. It is all my fault not Russell's, I have been struggling to c
And...we're back! In this here episode 19 we discuss the Year 2000 or Y2K problem. What it was, what caused it, similar issues in the past and future, and the effects it has had on today's world.David unleashes the Haylinator on an unsuspecti
We're looking back over all our old episodes and bring them up to date with anything that has happened over the last two years. There's a surprising amount.There's trips down several memory lanes and of course Russell has more car problems! He
This is the episode you've all been waiting for! We've been trailing it for over a month now but this is the joint episode we did with the guys from The Last Tuesday Project.Just to explain what happens: Russell and David acted as the first ev
We're getting out of our comfort zone this time and talking about art, specifically the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.Meanwhile, Russell is having yet more car trouble, uses the word "bunkum" and David reveals how much he rev
Remember the Human Genome Project? Remember how it was going to change all our lives? We look into what happened. Is it going to take another 40 years?Meanwhile, Russell discovers "Some kind of bacterial thing", David gets his third new job in
After Russell's trip to Canada Old News is back with another marathon about BSE, or Mad Cow Disease as you might know it.We find out about how boring David's job sounds, which countries we're big in and we invent the Trudeau Scale of Canadian-
A tired sounding Russell and David discuss the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (known in Britain as the Boxing Day tsunami), the events of the day, the reconstruction, the charity effort, and the unexpected outcomes.David also reveals
and PresidentWe're digginging ourselves into a big hole and doing and episode on the Channel Tunnel. Russell indulges his love of trains, David guesses some French, the Queen and President Mitterand do the business, and somehow we end up in Tu
Just a little announcement to say we're still here, we haven't dissapeared and we'll be back soon.
The year is 1989 and one of the worst oil spils the world had ever seen occurs off the coast of Alaska.In this episode we look at the impact the disaster had on the shipping industry, the environment and the economy.We also mention Schrodinge
We're heading back into space this time to talk about the discovery of the first exoplanet. During the discussion of observation methods, signals and space telescopes we mange to include broken cars, the 57 varieties of hard left politics, anci
We metaphorically cross the pond in this episode to investigate Hurricane Katrina, its effects on New Orleans and the aftermath. This leads us into the sensitive subjects of race, politics and equality.While doing this of course we still manag
The story of how and why Czechoslovakia broke up into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. What has happened since and what the world can learn from it.We also talk about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and two different types of spring.
This time David and Russell look back at the UK's switch to digital TV and radio while drinking some actual real beer. Somehow noodle-like worms, French Canada, monkeys and good old John Logie Baird come into it.
In this episode, somewhere amongst the chat about Godzilla, echidnas, reindeer slippers and wooly mammoths we manage to talk about the 1997 return of Hong Kong to China.We also revisit and update some of our old episodes - hence the mammoth.T
We're back!With another listener suggested episode. This time David and Russell discus the man hunt and subsequent stand-off, for Raoul Moat in the north east of England. We then move on to its ramifications for the media and society. Somehow
For the first time we have a listener suggested subject - the Chernobyl nuclear accident.Once again, Russell reveals he is skipping the country while David has, surprisingly, not had any DIY related problems. Welsh sheep, the pronunciation of
In this episode we talk about the Kosovo war, it's aftermath and the existance (or not) of an independent state of Kosovo. We try to be as even handed as possible but please feel free to deedback in the usual ways, remembering that we aren't hi
We tell the story of Dolly the Sheep, talk about cloning, woolly mammoths, the concept of marsupial frogs (yes, we know...), Jurassic Park, spare parts for your body and for some reason ballet. Barnard Castle and New Zealand also raise their co
We're trying a new half hour, single subject format this time ands its about the UK's AV referendum in 2011. What? Which referendum? Exactly. Note: We had some technical difficulties recording this one so if you notice anything unusual in the
Sub-titled "Right, we're not going to start with the word right are we?" In this episode we introduce ourselves and talk about the Columbia disaster and then move on the North Korean nuclear program.
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