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

The gang revisits 1990 to take a closer look at the unsolved murder of Ann Heron in Darlington in 1990, and yes, the poetry inspired by it. John improves ITV dramas before becoming preoccupied with honey. Gareth raps twice. Claire convinces some children that she’s a witch before teaching the listeners how to impregnate a pig. Jasper Carrot parodies the Strangeways prison riot. 

Digressions in this episode include veganism, grouse-flavoured crisps, ghosts and their refusal to appear on This Morning, New Order’s performance at the 1993 Reading Festival, T-U-R-T-L-E POWER!, how novelty songs make people want to kill and the Mandela effect. 

Does it mention the Mandela effect or do I just think it does?

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.  

This episode does, however, critique one family member’s poetry. This poetry is obviously very heartfelt and we don’t mean to be mean. 

Ann’s family deserve closure and she deserves justice, and for all our snark and irreverence we do hope we can help bring this case to a wider audience. If you know anything at all, please please please call Durham police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Here is a recent police appeal about the case: https://www.durham.police.uk/news-and-events/Pages/News%20Articles/Ann-Heron-murder-Son-appeals-for-information-thirty-years-on.aspx 

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 

Here's New Order performing True Faith at the 1993 Reading Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjvOmQoWg0 

You can reach us on email [email protected], on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram. 

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-dinner speech material. 

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.  

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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  

You can reach us on email [email protected], on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram. 

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  

You can reach us on email [email protected], on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram. 

The gang returns to 1993 to explore the unsolved murder which took place at the end of John’s road, the killing of takeaway delivery driver Paul Logan. John writes to the Queen. Claire explains where baby foxes come from. Gareth loses 52% of the audience. The IRA fail to stop Mr Blobby. 

Digressions in this episode include: The Animals of Farthing Wood, the varied career of composer Hans Zimmer, the alarming pre-“All She Wants” career of one of Ace of Bass, floating candles, children getting lost while potholing and seduction tips from both Shane Richie and a “love guru and Chris de Burgh lookalike”. 

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.  

For all our snark and irreverence we do really hope that bringing this case to a wider audience helps get Paul justice and his family closure. 

If you have any information about the Paul Logan case, please please  please Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or use their anonymous online form at Crimestoppers-uk.org  

Here is a recent Northumbria Police appeal on the case: https://beta.northumbria.police.uk/latest-news/2018/december/daughter-of-man-killed-25-years-ago-issues-heartfelt-appeal-on-25th-anniversary/ 

Here is a similar appeal from Durham Police: https://www.durham.police.uk/news-and-events/Pages/Reward-offered-to-solve-.aspx 

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  

You can reach us on email [email protected], on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram. 

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John didn’t make that song up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq2r6MwD0o4