I'm So Not Over It

Esyllt and Gareth's end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024, is available now on BBC Sounds (but will only be there till the end of the month, so do be quick!)

Gareth Gwynn has spent the Christmas break listening to an audiobook all about Diana (Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles, if you're interested) and Esyllt Sears is initially concerned this is going to become his entire personality - before becoming equally engrossed in the book, herself. It's all relevant to this week's episode as January 1997 marked the beginning of Diana's landmine campaign with the Red Cross. It was also the month in which Swampy the eco-warrior (do we still use that term?) called it a day and returned to the surface.

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A second helping of Christmas Leftovers - this time made up from some bits and bobs we were sad to snip out of our interview series for time.

Enjoy BBC Radio 5 Live's Elis James (live in the London Welsh Centre) discussing his family's attitude to technology, his time in a band and having a decent stab at a round of Mario Kart on a screen which, we will admit, was too big.

We've also got the brilliant comedy writer and actor Gemma Arrowsmith giving us the low-down on the Voyager mission (which came up in our July 1979 episode) plus, for reasons I'm now struggling to remember, a discussion about Welsh TV star Arfon Haines Davies and how nice he is.

If you haven't caught them yet, do check-out the full episodes with Elis James and Gemma Arrowsmith.

Don't forget, Esyllt and Gareth's end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024, is available on BBC Sounds (but will only be there till the end of the month, so do be quick!)

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The Elis James interview was edited by Laura Grimshaw.

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Our end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024, is available now on BBC Sounds.

However, if you've alright caught our look back at 2024 and want to know even more about the year we're leaving behind, then this is the episode for you! With a strict one-hour run-time on BBC Radio Wales (actually 55'47) there was loads that Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears wanted to cover but couldn't get round to - which is what appears in today's now traditional Christmas Leftovers episode. We cover the year's animal news, what we think of the Welsh FA's horn and we enter more traditional ISNOI territory with Colin Firth's wet shirt.

This is Christmas Leftovers Part 1 as next week we'll have some bits and bobs we didn't manage to squeeze into our most interview series, so do make sure you're subscribed for that as it'll be great.

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Our end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024, is available now on BBC Sounds.

If you're a Xennial (or thereabouts), December 1993 was probably "peak Christmas" and amidst all the excitement, you may well have found yourself too busy to fully take in the signifcance of Nelson Mandela's Nobel Peace prize win or the absolutely batshit timing of The Queen's letter to Charles and Diana urging them to get on the divorce train. We cover both events in this show which probably isn't Classically Festive, in the truest sense of the word - but it's what happened in 1993 and there's not much we can do about it now.

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Some previous Decembers covered by the podcast include December 1989, in which Pete Waterman postponed his wedding and December 1987 in which Eastenders trialled a live segment in a New Year special. Both are ridiculous in their own way. There's also the last three episodes on the feed.

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Our end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024, is available now on BBC Sounds.

How best to mark 100 episodes of the podcast? By reflecting on the other Significant Numerical Event which many of us lived through and may even remember - the build-up and fall-out of the 1st January 2000. The Millennium.

Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears look through the Radio Times for New Millennium Eve itself before watching BBC One's coverage of the night itself. And you can do the same thing! All 28 hours are on YouTube, but we join the action around 11.30pm (the link should take you to roughly the right spot although we then skip through the night itself, you can do it in real time!)

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Some previous Decembers covered by the podcast include the previous two episodes on this feed, but further back there's also December 1989, in which Pete Waterman postponed his wedding and December 1987 in which Eastenders trialled a live segment in a New Year special. Both are ridiculous in their own way.

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Our end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024, is available now on BBC Sounds.

Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears are gearing-up for the Millennium on the podcast this week - and you'll probably be shocked by just how little Millennium Bug based content there is (if you remember, that was an October 1999 problem).

Turns out that back in December 1999 people were more concerned with drunken firework useage and whether or not Jesus deserves a cut of Cliff Richard's latest single. Plus there's the incredible story of Tori Murden and her trip(s) across the Atlantic.

There's loads of videos to check-out off the back of this episode.

Tori Murden's story (complete with video clips) is told in a few different places but I'd check out this recent version by BBC World Service and also this 1998 report from Inside Edition.

And if you have 9 more seconds to spare, check out Emma Bunton flinging someone's drink away to make... some sort of point about fireworks?

Some previous Decembers covered by the podcast include December 1989, in which Pete Waterman postponed his wedding and December 1987 in which Eastenders trialled a live segment in a New Year special. Both are ridiculous in their own way.

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BlueSky: @imsonotoverit

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Content Warning - Father Christmas existential chat. You don't work for years in commercial radio without flagging THAT up.

Esyllt Sears and Gareth Gwynn welcome you to either episode 98 or episode 100 of the podcast, depending on your policy regarding Best Of episodes. If you spin back to September (into the gap which separates The Xennial Dome with I'm So Not Over It) you'll find two high-quality compilations of some of our favourite moments under the old name - but Esyllt isn't quite as forgiving when other forms of media try and do the same thing (maybe that's because we're not trying to sell you them on DVD like Friends were).

Beyond that, there's discussion surrounding the 1979 Christmas RadioTimes - The YouTube video in which someone leafs through a copy against a relaxing classical music backdrop, is available here while ITV's return to the airwaves post-strike is here.

And, of course, there's our Big Episode 98 Announcement....

We have made an end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales! I Can't Get Over 2024 is an hour-long look back at the year with guests, archive and an ill-advised attempt at a political package recorded in Cardiff Bay. It's on-air in Christmas week, but you can get hold of the whole thing early by heading to BBC Sounds this weekend!

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Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears introduce Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears in an emergency episode which lets us reuse our favourite show image.

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Esyllt Sears travels back to 1980, bringing us news of the first ever BBC Children In Need (although not the network's first charity appeal, leading to an Egg Week themed diversion) and the umpteenth Miss World competition - which didn't go exactly to plan. The BlueSky account mentioned in the addendum is here.

If you're a fan of November, generally, check-out our back catalogue where, last year, we covered 1987 (Mates Condoms and Miss World), 1996 (Baywatch and Bill Clinton) and 2000 (The Millennium Dome Heist and another Miss World!)

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Probably in that order, let's be honest.

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It's the autumn of 2008. The financial crisis is biting. Gareth Gwynn has already lost his job, having recently been made redundant, and the freelance work is starting to dry-up. Meanwhile, the writing is on the wall for Esyllt Sears. After all, how can you work in travel PR if there's no-one out there who wants to travel? On the high street, things are starting to unravel too with the closure of Woolworths. How many blank CDRs did YOU buy? Also, the oldest person in the world died. That's unrelated to Woolworths but is covered in the show.

If you're a fan of November, generally, check-out our back catalogue where we covered 1987 (Mates Condoms and Miss World), 1996 (Baywatch and Bill Clinton) and 2000 (The Millennium Dome Heist).

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