Hello, this is PMs in your DMs - it’s like Tinder, except with Prime Ministers  This panel show from the makers of Everyone Dies In Sunderland takes two of the 54 men and 3 women to have been the British Prime Minister and imagine they’ve matched with one of our panel on a dating app – are they swiping left or are they swiping right?  In show one, Hannah said she would immediately rule out any man called Anth from Sunderland – so what will she make of Anthony Eden, a Prime Minister called Anth from Spennymoor? Are she and Claire prepared to overlook that time he took a load of speed ..read more

Hello, this is PMs in your DMs  It’s like Tinder, except with Prime Ministers  In this panel show from the makers of Everyone Dies In Sunderland we take two of the 54 men and 3 women to have been the British Prime Minister and imagine they’ve matched with one of our panel on a dating app – are they swiping left or are they swiping right?  And by the end, we hope to know for certain which UK Prime Minster Consett’s Premier Ellie Kemper Impersonator would feel the most comfortable with one of her friends dating.  In this pilot show we meet two Prime Ministers, one looked a bi ..read more

You know when Noel Edmonds would turn up in a helicopter on Christmas morning to deliver Christmas presents to deserving members of the public? Even through there was no indication they wanted him to? We don’t have a helicopter, but we do have 22 minutes of bloopers from the last 12 months – SOME OF IT ORIGINALLY CUT FOR PROFANITY AND ALL OF IT WE HOPE YOU KNOW WE’RE JOKING – including some extra chat with our friends Scarred for Life.  Carnations you mistook for roses, that’s us. Anecdotes about John's appearance on Pointless are going to be our version of Joe Cornish's story about Ste ..read more

In the mid 1990s Britain carried out an interesting social experiment to see if taking a children from a chaotic and poverty-ridden childhood in some of most deprived parts of the North, giving them a dehumanising nickname, making them some kind of weird celebrity, and repeatedly publicly condemning in the hope that would stop their offending behaviour. Rat boy. Spider boy. Worm boy. Boomerang boy. Balaclava boy. The singing defective.  Who were they? And what became of them? Did widespread national condemnation work? Spoiler alert: It didn’t work. But this is a time when the government l ..read more

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 – J ..read more

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 g ..read more

Remember Christmas TV before the BBC gave up? You know they have. Even people who actually like Call the Midwife and Mrs Brown’s Boys are like, “what, again?” Anyway, back when Everyone Dies In Sunderland is set, Terry Wogan would come on at Christmas and present a show called “Auntie’s Christmas Bloomers”, which was like a gag reel for the entire BBC that year. Yes, an entire hour of one of the cast of the Lion and the Unicorn fluffing their lines and saying bugger. There was a funny once when Neil Pearson is doing a tough police interrogation scene in Between the Lines, but you can hear a ti ..read more

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 ..read more

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 Jane ..read more

The gang’s time travelling Vauxhall Cavalier once again materialises in 1991 to conclude the story of Albert Dryden, his sort-of-televised murder of Harry Collinson, and shootings of BBC reporter Tony Belmont in the arm and police officer Stephen Campbell in the “lower back”.  Claire boycotts KFC. John considers buying opium. Gareth channel’s Russ Abbott’s C U Jimmy character before soiling himself in revolutionary era Paris. A deer is decapitated by a rollercoaster.  Digressions include: The unfortunate deaths of Redd Foxx and King Kong Kirk and Nicholas Witchell’s dubious after-din ..read more