This week we're worried about the sex lives of koalas, struggling to pronounce Hyundai, celebrating a posthumous release from Kurt Cobain and watching a bit of Dr Phil while we chuck a sickie.

In the news we discuss a rockslide in Russia that wiped out an entire film production, we find out why Toby Keith will never smoke weed with Willie again and look at the premiere of Firefly on network telly.

All that plus the usual chart stoppers, album droppers and box office toppers from this week 20 years ago.

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A manhunt in the NT dominates the news in Australia, it's a sombre week in the USA with the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks and TransOrbital get permission to put man and a time capsule on the moon.

New albums from Atomic Kitten, Megadeth, RUN DMC and in music news Marie from Roxette receives a terrible diagnosis.

Aussie director John Polson goes to the top of the US box office with Swimfan, John Madden makes his colour commentary debut, we say happy birthday to Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger things and Gwen from No Doubt marries Gavin from Bush.

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Using a prison prayer room for Satanic worship, people having relations with frozen chooks and freeze dried pets. It's a weird old week this one.

We've also got the rise of the Roomba, the Williams sisters face off again and Argentina deliver one of the biggest upsets in basketball history.

Atomic Kitten ruin a Blondie track, Aaron Carter is a pathological liar, The Music debut with their music and Cowboy Troy invents hick-hop!

Kelly Clarkson wins Idol, Napster loses their court case, Beyonce has a birthday and Freddie Prinze Jr and Sarah Michell Gellar get hitched.

Those stories and more this week 20 years ago on T minus 20.

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Pearl Harbour mystery solved, the Earth holds a summit and the time they tried to kill Christmas in Camden.

Blazin' Squad hits the charts, we've got new albums from Eve, Queens of the Stone Age, 30 Seconds to Mars and we find out what happened to Popstars 2 runner up Selwyn.

Michael Jackson crowns himself artist of the millennium lil Tecca is born and we have cake with Jeff Hardy and Yasmin Bleeth.

It's the week that was 25 -31 August 2002.

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Typhoons, plane crashes and embassies under seige! It's just another week in the early 2000s.

Rich Beam won the PGA Championship at Hazeltine after he was drugged by his wife, the Doggiez breached the salary cap and were in big trouble and nobody told Steve Jobs how to properly pronounce Jaguar.

We take you on a world tour of music with a new UK number one from the Sugababes, albums from Black Sabbath, Sweden's Dark Tranquility, Spain's Las KEtchup and we take a look at the number one single in Germany, just for the hell of it...

PLUS we reveal the first public display of hatred for Nickleback!

AND we wish a happy birthday to Dimebag Darrell!

All that and more for the week commencing 18 August 2002.

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Airlines going bankrupt, floods in Europe and a product recall on human tissue. You'd be forgiven for thinking the end times were upon us! But no! It's just another week back in 2002.

In. music we've got the history of Murder Inc, new albums from Nerf Herder & Def Leppard and we ponder who on earth would call themselves Keith Sweat.

You'll get some pretty confronting search results if you Google the name of this weeks box US office number 1. Good news for the purple rinse set as Burgos Catchphrase rises like a phoenix from the ashes and White Collar Blue debuts on the teeny bopper network. 

Plus we get to talk about He-Man and The Masters of The Universe and heaps more!

It's the week commencing 11 August 2002. 

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An abduction at in the UK that shook the world, in Australia Pacific Brands led the way for a national paid maternity leave scheme and in sport Australia wins the Bledisloe Cup.

In music Nelly is number one in the US, Darius is colourblind in the UK and DJ Sammy takes us to Heaven. New albums from Swedish extreme metal masters Meshuggah and Bowling for Soup are Drunk Enough to Dance.

At the movies M.Night Shyamalan goes to the top of the box office in the US with Signs, Hugh Grant takes About a Boy to number one in Australia and the Anna Nicole Show makes its global debut on the telly.

We wish a happy birthday to rising star Olivia Deeble and the great Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. Nicolas Cage Marries Lisa Marie Presley.

It's the week commencing 4 August 2002. 

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A harrowing rescue this week as nine coal miners are trapped in the Quecreek Mine in Pennsylvania, terror in Jerusalem with the Hebrew University bombing and a Legionnaire's disease outbreak in the UK that could have easily been avoided.

We've got three wheeled scooters and nobody won the Tour De France that year, however Aussie Robbie McEwen did win the green jersey and no one could take that away from him!

Nelly and Kelly hit the charts and Beyonce is ticked off, The Boss gets together with the E Street Band to lift the spirits of the free world and Moby headlines his own festival because he can.

Plus we've got the 35th Comic-Con, everyone hates Tom Brady and we discuss Cameron Diaz's latest rom com.

It's the week commencing 28 July 2002! T-minus 20 starts as soon as you press play!

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A financial scandal bigger than Enron, cloning returns to the headlines when a well known fertility expert takes his operation underground and a massive disaster over the skies of the Ukraine at the Sknyliv air show.

Schumacher wins his 5th F1 championship in France, the Commonwealth Games open in Manchester and Warwick Capper enter the Big Brother House!

Road to Perdition dominates the box office this week, Nelly remains top of the pops and My Chemical Romance release their debut album.

Prince Felix of Denmark is born and he shares a birthday with Saul Hudson a.k.a. Slash, from Guns n' Roses. We find out who he was hanging out with 20 years ago at an event that was the catalyst for the formation of Velvet Revolver.

It's the week commencing 21 July 2002.  

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The French president avoids an ill-conceived assassination attempt on Bastille Day, there's a massive beef recall in the States when they find poo in the meat and a nightclub in Peru turns into a deathtrap when it is consumed by fire.

The second gen iPod is released with Windows support, Gareth Gates goes to number one in the UK and Aussie band The Vines release their critically acclaimed debut album 'Highly Evolved'.

Splendour in the Grass is the place to be seen for festival scene-hoppers and the annual Sexpo kicks off at Fox Studios in Sydney where's it's dubbed 'The Easter Show of Adult Entertainment'. Don't ask what the bunny does with eggs at this event though!

All that and heaps more this week on T Minus 20! It's the week of 14 July 2002!

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