It's 1944. It's wartime Devon, and a shed load of American troops have just turned up in a tiny British village to take part in Operation Tiger. 

In what displaced Devon locals are already calling the 21st episode of the CB Wallop Podcast my luvver, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss the Slapton Sands Tragedy - the gigantic dress rehearsal for D-Day that went drastically, horrifically wrong - twice. 

Should they have used live ammunition? .. no.. no probably not.  

Trigger Warning - this one's WAR so everything you'd probably expect to be involved with WAR is here. It's very tragic and sad and unnecessary, but nothing that you wouldn't really expect. WAR is HELL. 

Title music by Steve Adam

WWII Slapton Sands disaster remembered (UK)

Seeburg Basic Library 12/26/1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AFq0nX5JB8&t=1234s

Sources:

https://www.visitsouthdevon.co.uk/things-to-do/slapton-sands-and-torcross-beach-p183983

https://www.devonlive.com/news/slapton-beach-exercise-tiger-ww2-1880601

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapton,_Devon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Tiger

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-27185893

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/slapton-sands-the-cover-up-that-never-was.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/16/military.usa

http://www.prisonersofeternity.co.uk/the-slapton-sands-tragedy/

https://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2009/05/massacre-at-slapton-sands-the-great-portland-cover-up/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIbuELErqac&ab_channel=PaulBarnett

http://aweewalk.com/?p=1771

https://www.npr.org/2012/04/28/151590212/operation-tiger-d-days-disastrous-rehearsal

http://information-britain.co.uk/famdates.php?id=1531

It's 1984, it's Madhya Pradesh in India, and underneath Bhopal's Union Carbide pesticide plant tank E-610 is about ready to blow its hinges.  

In what panicking chemical factory employees are already calling the 20th episode of the CB Wallop Podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Bhopal Gas Disaster - the huge toxic cloud that enveloped the city of Bhopal leaving a thirty year legacy of pain, misery, disease and death.

Is this one of the nastiest ones we're ever done? … yes.. yes it probably is. 

Trigger Warning - okay, so along with everything you're probably expecting anyway - gassing, choking, dead bodies on the streets, carcasses being eaten by vultures, this one also involves spontaneous abortion, long term birth defects, blindness, infertility and cancer. Not for the faint-hearted this one.  

Title music by Steve Adam

Union Carbide Disaster In Bhopal India | Flashback | NBC Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHJs3TwgsUQ

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/12/bhopal-the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-30-years-later/100864/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bhopal-disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Carbide

http://www.unioncarbide.com/Products

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionCarbideIndia_Limited

https://www.yatrablog.com/interesting-facts-of-bhopal

https://beebom.com/10-shocking-facts-you-didnt-know-about-bhopal-disaster/

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https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-bhopal-gas-tragedy-facts-effects.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyBy2s9I5c&vl=en&ab_channel=Merc

It's 1958. It's the US of A, and The Ford Motor Company have just released a car so incredibly fugly not even Frank Sinatra can shift any units.  

In what original cast members of Grease are already calling the wela-wela-wela-19th! episode of the CB Wallop podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Ford Edsel - the fifties muscle car that was supposed to be greased lightning, but ended up being a gigantic chrome fireplace no one wanted to buy. 

Was it because it had a front grille that looked like a lady's part? Yes.. yes maybe it was.  

Trigger Warning - Nothing to worry about in this one - it's just chatting about cars - although, full disclosure, we do manage to say the word 'vagina' an impressive twenty-four times. So be ready for that. 

Title music by Steve Adam

The Edsel Story (1957)

Paul Anka - Diana The original recording 1957 Der Zwerg, Op. 22, No. 1 Emma Martellini, Marino Nicolini Sulle ali del canto (Lieder di vari autori tedeschi) Writers - Paul Anka

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The Edsel Show

CBS-TV (October 13, 1957)

Sources

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/why-the-ford-edsel-failed.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-edsel-a-legacy-of-failure-726013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_(marque)

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofUKSinglesChartnumberonesofthe_1950s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b6Wg9AwwA&abchannel=RegularCars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1OxpZvd46E&ab_channel=KrisTrexler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobertMcNamara#FordMotor_Company

It's 1982. It's war-torn Afghanistan, and that's just about as much as the Soviets will let us tell you. 

In what Russian censors are already redacting as the XXXX episode of the CB Wallop Podcast, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Salang Tunnel Fire - the massive fire in a terrifying tunnel under a terrifying mountain in a terrifying country during a terrifying war that's been so completely hushed up this episode is a good ten minutes shorter than usual.  

Do we know anything about Afghanistan? No.. no we don't. 

Trigger Warning - this one's people being incinerated again - but luckily we know so little about it that the details are sketchy at best. We do have a short conversation about arranging ham into the shape of genitals though. 

Title music by Steve Adam

The World's Worst Tunnel, Afghanistan

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SalangTunnelfire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salang_Tunnel

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/12/07/131879364/high-up-in-afghanistan-a-ghostly-ride-through-the-salang-tunnel

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truck-explosion-kills-3000-in-afghanistan

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/11/14/kabul-silent-on-tunnel-disaster/33b42ab5-a04b-4ecb-8c65-4648671d457d/?utm_term=.dcfc15df3dac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Kush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofmountainsoftheBritishIslesbyheight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8507815.stm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgr4yhvp3Og&t=232s&ab_channel=NadirTurkmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJpg53DOY3Y&abchannel=TVRExploringhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jfBSnvkpTY&abchannel=JeromeStarkey

It's 1987. It's the Port of Zeebrugge, and a whole load of Sun readers are on their way home from a lovely trip to Belgium. 

In what worried podcasters are already calling the 17th episode of the CB Wallop Podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss the The Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster - the 8000 tonne ship that let in water, rolled on its side and created a set of conditions so nightmarish it's almost impossible to make a lighthearted comedy podcast about them. 

Do we press on with it though? Yes… yes we do. 

*Trigger Warning - yup, this one's a bad one. It's also well within living memory, and it doesn't get any less horrific over time. It involves drowning, hypothermia and the loss of children, parents and loved ones. 

Title music by Steve Adam

Production by Mike Sandeman - www.northbrightonrecording.co.uk

Zeebrugge Newsflash

Ferry Aid Charity Single ©The Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeD0YwEQ_iU