We are going back to 2016 and who better than to accompany us than the brilliantly funny comedian and Twitter sensation Rosie Holt, as we see Joaquin Guzman, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker escape and be continually recaptured from maximum security prisons in Mexico, TV reality star Donald Trump wins the U.S. Presidency, the last video VHS tape recorder is made by Japanese makers Funai, a little known trade policy known as Brexit is voted by the British public, Pokemon Go is released on iPhones by Nintendo, Seaworld announces an end to its orca breeding program, and almost every celebrity in the world mysteriously dies.

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See Rosie Holt's show at Edinburgh Fringe "Woman's House", 6pm, Pleasance Courtyard - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/rosie-holt-the-woman-s-hour

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