Episode 22: The Bhopal Disaster
Episode 22 in which we remember the 1984 Bhopal disaster, David takes a natural break and Russell tells "The Toilet Story".
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Episode 21: The North East Regional Assembly
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 a...
Episode 20: Ben Johnson
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...
Episode 19: The Millennium Bug
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 a...
Episode 18: Old News Back In The News
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 su...
Last Tuesday's News
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 g...
Episode 17: The BALTIC
We're getting out of our comfort zone this time and talking about art, specifically the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Mea...
Episode 16: The Human Genome Project
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 anothe...
Episode 15: BSE Mad Cow Disease
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...
Episode 14: The Boxing Day Tsunami
A tired sounding Russell and David discuss the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (known in Britain as the Boxing Day tsunami), the ev...
Episode 13: The Channel Tunnel
and President We're digginging ourselves into a big hole and doing and episode on the Channel Tunnel. Russell indulges his love of trains, D...
We're Still Here!
Just a little announcement to say we're still here, we haven't dissapeared and we'll be back soon.
Episode 12: Exxon Valdez
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 impac...
Episode 11: Exoplanets, Kepler and Aliens
We're heading back into space this time to talk about the discovery of the first exoplanet. During the discussion of observation methods, si...
Episode 10: New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina
We metaphorically cross the pond in this episode to investigate Hurricane Katrina, its effects on New Orleans and the aftermath. This leads...
Episode 9: Breakup of Czechoslovakia
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...
Episode 8: Digital Switchover
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 w...
Episode 7: The Return of Hong Kong
In this episode, somewhere amongst the chat about Godzilla, echidnas, reindeer slippers and wooly mammoths we manage to talk about the 1997...
Episode 6: The Raoul Moat Manhunt
We're back! With another listener suggested episode. This time David and Russell discus the man hunt and subsequent stand-off, for Raoul Moa...
Episode 5: Chernobyl
For the first time we have a listener suggested subject - the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Once again, Russell reveals he is skipping the cou...
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