It's 1991 and chickens are almost never weapons (Albert Dryden part 1)

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

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.

As an Easter egg, see if you can find the point where Claire gets ill. Amazingly, it’s not when John reveals his pillow talk involves the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands.

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

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