The Unexplainers

After hearing rumours that a ripple in space-time is swallowing residents of a UK city, Mike Bubbins and John Rutledge investigate whether time travel is possible.

Original Broadcast 

Monday 28th October 2019

BBC Radio Wales

John turns technophobe after he discovers an arcade game in America is trying to destroy humanity. After smashing up Mike's tech John's new quest is to uncover the truth about our electronic overlords. A final attempt to escape the impending Armageddon sees the boys contemplate a life in without wires in a west Wales Eco Village, but will The Unexplainers really be able to live up to the good life?

Original Broadcast

Monday 21st October 2019

BBC Radio Wales

John mistakes Mike for a zombie during a late night snack binge and decides its time to educate his reluctant friend in all matters undead.

What starts as a lesson in Welsh Zombie history slowly crumbles into anarchy, especially when a scientist exposes Mr Creamy the local tabby as a potential catalyst for the new dawn in global terror.

Can a trip to an underground training facility fully prepare The Unexplainers team for the end of days? Probably not.

Original Broadcast:

Monday 14th October 2019

BBC Radio Wales

Mike comes home to find John has Poltergeist proofed the house against Noisy spirits, demonstrating they aren't just the domain of Hollywood chillers.

To prove his point John sources a golf club in Mountain Ash with an underwhelming supernatural secret. When Mike gives John a lesson in extrasensory engineering the duo wind up spending an afternoon in an opera singer's mansion. With arguments and insults traded with every step, will the difference between the Nolans and the Kardashians help generate the ultimate Poltergeist showdown?

Original Broadcast:

Date Monday 7th October 2019

BBC Radio Wales

Mike and John are back with an all new show! Check out the trailer.

Darkness has fallen, evil powers around the world grow ever more influential. Luckily, Mike Bubbins and John Rutledge have returned, delivering weekly updates to help navigate these terrible times. After being forced into retirement for a crime they didn't commit. The duo are back. Broadcasting from their respective bunkers, sharing hard truth and solid evidence.
The Demon Seed has taken root, but the resistance starts here.

Search 'The Demon Seed' on your podcast app of choice.

We've actually gone and done it. We've made a TV show for the BBC! Treats all round if you live in the UK and you're a fully paid up BBC TV license fee payer upper because you can now feast your eyes on our unexplainable comedy TV festival!

For a limited time only our episodes are freely available on the BBC iPlayer - just go to the BBC iPlayer, sign in or sign up if you haven't already done so and search for The Unexplainers.

Dare to believe!

The Unexplainers visit the small Welsh village of Pentyrch near Cardiff. John's hunting down a UFO, but Mike's wants to find a favourite sweet shop from his childhood memory.

When the village notice board starts talking to John in code, his paranoia grows. Are they being watched by something worse than the Men in Black?

A trip to a reported UFO landing site with some UFO hunters could solve everything. But a field full of sheep and a football field sized pizza slice only adds to the mystery.

A taste of Mike's blood sets John on a mission to prove Vampires are real.

After folklore expert Dr Juliette Wood tells of undead revenants, the Unexplainers visit the welsh village of Marford. Strange vampire fighting architecture in the village is nothing compared to an even stranger tale of a window tapping vampire bride.

To discover more, Mike and John spend a night in an ancient local pub and not only provoke resident vampire entities but somehow end up getting accidentally married.

When Mike's gammy knee brings some deep research to an abrupt end, John realises he needs to do something.  When you're investigating the paranormal, there's nothing worse than having a skeptic with a sports injury on the team.

To help Mike's body return to its former skeptical glory, John drags his fellow unexplainer on a quest to rid him of ailments.

John thinks modern medicine is a bit boring and instead opts to hunt down the healing power of the Holy Grail. But when the cup of Christ is tracked down to a welsh manor house, it doesn’t quite seem to yield fast enough results. The duo begin an epic quest for alternative therapies, and conclude with a final experiment that not only blows John’s mind, but perhaps changes Mike's belief system for ever.

John hopes to become the first dry human to prove that wet Mermaids exist. Mike's worried, because whilst the UK braces itself for a winter onslaught of hurricane force winds, John's latest water-based quest for the truth looks like it'll end up with both of them in Davy Jones' Locker. A trip to see a local storyteller leaves John believing he's found some 'solid mermaidy fact' but as storm winds build, a visit to the national library of Wales provides the opposite of evidence and leaves John stormy with anger. John's not going to give up on his Mermaid obsession. Mike's attempts to wash away the theory with help from a marine biologist backfires spectacularly and The Unexplainers find themselves heading out on the high seas using the mystical and magical floating powers of something called "a boat".