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Old news stories brought back to life
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 a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We're getting out of our comfort zone this time and talking about art, specifically the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Mea...
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...
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...
A tired sounding Russell and David discuss the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (known in Britain as the Boxing Day tsunami), the ev...
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...
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 impac...
We're heading back into space this time to talk about the discovery of the first exoplanet. During the discussion of observation methods, si...
We metaphorically cross the pond in this episode to investigate Hurricane Katrina, its effects on New Orleans and the aftermath. This leads...
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...
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...
In this episode, somewhere amongst the chat about Godzilla, echidnas, reindeer slippers and wooly mammoths we manage to talk about the 1997...
We're back! With another listener suggested episode. This time David and Russell discus the man hunt and subsequent stand-off, for Raoul Moa...
For the first time we have a listener suggested subject - the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Once again, Russell reveals he is skipping the cou...
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 e...
We tell the story of Dolly the Sheep, talk about cloning, woolly mammoths, the concept of marsupial frogs (yes, we know...), Jurassic Park,...
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...
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...