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On the final free-to-air This Is Our Everest until who knows when, sponsored by Bacon and Mustard, Edward and Ian have been watching a very special edition of Sportsnight from May 1969, when the assembled dignitaries were trying to find a new BBC football commentator. 

In addition to a potted history of the evolution of the Beeb's football commentary pool, David Coleman giving a cameraman what for, Ed "Stewpot" Stewart and yet another appearance by Anglia TV's Gerry Harrison; your heroes finally call out Gary Sprake on a 52-year old bit of shithousery, Larry Canning gets the arsehole and Idwal Robling quits his job at the toffee factory. 

We also reveal the best way to never miss an edition of Trans World Sport as Ian admits he doesn't know how to work his phone and we try and ascertain for sure whether or not Ian was molested during his time in the Boy Scouts, with only a website and three dozen greyhounds for assistance.

There's news of a new campaign we thought of that is actually quite good and there's news about the future direction of the Twohundredpercent podcast which will no doubt have you heading here to subscribe in your droves. 

There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here.

If you'd like to watch Sportsnight With Coleman, you can find it here.

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Get off your arse, because This Is Our Everest returns once again with your heroes watching So It Goes, the Granada TV music magazine show from August 1976. It's a notable programme too, as this was the national television debut of The Sex Pistols, a group of Dickensian herberts who were about to create a very big (albeit brief) stink.

But what of the rest of the show? Edward and Ian encounter a geography teacher who should be at home with his family burping out some prog rock, Peter Sutcliffe playing upright bass, Peter Cook phoning it in and Charles Shaar Murray being torn a new hole. It's very possibly the birth of Yoof TV, so now you know who to thank for *that*.

Edward successfully establishes that there was at least one person in the UK not in attendance at The Sex Pistols' epochal gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall on 4th June 1976, Ian uncovers a potential conspiracy involving Glen Matlock and a microphone stand and we look into the possibility of a TV show about the Mayor of Aberystwyth that involves full-frontal nudity. Business as usual, then. If you'd like to watch what all the fuss was about both then and now, you can find it here.

There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here.

And you can subscribe through Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks (I’m not sure how many weeks) before they’re released to the public.

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On this week's Bonus Everest there's a special treat for all of you long-suffering listeners who miss Ian desperately and are yearning to be free. Because this time, Edward has been joined by Chris Oakley from (among many other things) The Football Attic: Rewind podcast, a fellow avowed enthusiast of all things retro, to help take you through five episodes of the venerable Rank Organisation documentary series Look At Life. As Edward and Chris look on and learn about subjects as varied as dangerous jobs, waste disposal or the rise of the supermarket, there's no shortage of issues for discussion. We meet a 55-year old man called Tornado who rides the Wheel of Death on a professional basis, while Chris recounts similarly precarious circumstances from his own CV involving two ladders, a plank and a recklessly negligent Kiwi signwriter.

Britain is rebuilt using her two most abundant natural resources: rocks and household waste, we encounter the hippest and most pallid cats on the coffee bar scene and Tubby Isaac is on hand with lashings of malt vinegar to top the whole thing off to a nicety. How might Sid James have felt about Brexit? Was Jack Brabham a closet Englishman? And what is the best thing to serve as an accompanimet to a tin of bees? We attempt to find out. You can find all the episodes of Look At Life we watched here. You can keep up to date with Chris by looking at his website, www.kitbliss.co.nz.

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On this week's bonus Everest, it's time for you to tune up (or detune) your mind to the exacting and often challenging universe of The Professionals. Patriotism, a sense of duty and an almost psychopathic, whisky-addled, disregard for life or property will get us out of this mess: particularly as the world's fattest, wheeziest and most unhealthy group of middle aged white men are hoping to prevail in an all-out race war.

Your heroes reveal the secret number to dial to get the nuclear bomb squad, unpick the "aaaaah..." element of the surprise twist ending and watch a young man tie Tony Booth to a chair with the cord that was holding his trousers up. All in all, it's been a revelatory experience all round and one it turns out we almost never had at all, thanks to the vagaries of Ian's vast and ever-growing archive of old television programmes. Lucky, lucky us. This episode was originally released as part of our Patreon subscriber This Is Your Everest series. If you'd like to hear more stuff like this, why not consider joining us?

There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, while the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. We’re now also available through Acast, right here.

And you can subscribe through Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks (I’m not sure how many weeks) before they’re released to the public.

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This week's Everest sees Edward and Ian revisit a time when television was never explicit but nevertheless still fucking terrifying: the world of British Public Information films of the 1970s and 1980s. Their relentless efficacy is demonstrated early as Ian recalls exactly how the word SPLINK might save your life, before Les Gray, Kevin Keegan and Alvin Stardust step in with further handy hints.

The general utility of a 30-foot long metal pole as a children's toy is considered, the dirty and disease-ridden European continent is thoroughly repudiated and your heroes are warned how to avoid gas explosions and IRA car bomb attacks. Then, in a scintillating finale, we decide once and for all whether not it is a good idea to give the time of day to strangers (spoiler alert: it isn't). Why is all this stuff suddenly our fault? And why don't they make a public information film about the real danger facing us all on a daily basis? Let's find out.

There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here.

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On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian visit some game show action from 1974 with The Golden Shot, ITV's terrifying crossbow-related teatime juggernaut. With Bob Monkhouse no longer on hosting duties, your heroes discover all they need to know about people casting a long shadow. Meanwhile, studio guest Frankie Holmes gives a terrified audience member guaranteed PTSD, something Ian no doubt makes worse by immediately trying to find her on Facebook. 

Ken Dodd does five minutes of material about Income Tax reform, demonstrating that he had at least a keen sense of irony if not a commensurate sense of humour. Marxism is dismissed completely out of hand, Ian reveals what he got up to of a Sunday afternoon in 1974 and Edward reveals a deep-seated dislike of The Brotherhood of Man. We ask: why does he hate Britain and democracy so much? If you'd like to see The Golden Shot, you can watch it here.

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This week's This Is Our Everest sees your heroes reach an important (to them) milestone: their 69th episode overall, including the 24 Christmas Everests. To celebrate, if that is the correct word, Edward and Ian watched the bawdy 1974 sex comedy Confessions of a Window Cleaner. We quickly gain an insight into the jaded state of the former's addled mind now, while the latter not only undergoes all seven stages of grief but even finds time to invent an eighth.

It's hard to know where to start with this curdled film's shortcomings: Is it the unrealistic dialogue and situations? The lazy and anachronistic sexual politics? Maybe it's the ease with which the parents of newborn babies are able to find adequate childcare to attend their sexually incontinent brother's shotgun wedding. Whichever way to look at it (including from beneath) it's an unruly mess down there. If you'd like to be both unamused and unaroused, you can watch the film here.

There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here.

We’d also like to remind you that you can subscribe through Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks (I’m not sure how many weeks) before they’re released to the public.

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On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes have been watching an episode of the animated children's series Bertha from 1985. Ian has never encountered Bertha before so he's unaware of the incredible potential of this perhaps sentient machine that can make literally anything.

However, there's still a business to run and as such we find ourselves needing to consider the impact of time and motion studies, the inadvisability of unilateral decision-making within the workplace dynamic and suggesting alternative revenue streams for the future of the compan, Edward grasses up the office's weak link and there's harsh criticism of a blacklegging tea lady.

All of this plus our weekly delve into the racial sensitivity of 36-year old television programmes and Ian's update on The Professionals. If you'd like to see what Bertha has been up to, you can watch it here.

There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here.

We'd also like to remind you that you can subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks and weeks (I'm not sure how many weeks) before they're released to the public.

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On this week's This Is Our Everest your heroes have their swimming costumes ready to go for the beauty contest-come-cattle auction that was Miss Anglia 1980, the kind of awful, degrading bullshit that was more or less completely obsolete at least a decade before this programme was broadcast and yet somehow or other still a thing in 1980. It stirs thoughts and feelings in your regular judging panel, who are taken aback both by Vince Hill's age and his undeniable Rainbow pedigree; reveal how often Ian thinks about Dr. Hook and are pleased to see the Peter Fenn Orchestra called from the bar.

Meanwhile, Ian inexplicably turns out to have an encylopaedic knowledge of a musical turn that Edward has never heard of, with predictable consequences. And, at last, he also reveals that he has climbed aboard the ducks eating peas train. It's possibly the only positive thing that could have come out of this avalanche of old tripe. Nevertheless, if you'd like to watch it you can find it here: part 1, part 2, and part 3.

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And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to.

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This week's emotional This Is Our Everest sees your heroes facing up to a 1978 episode of the Granada Television documentary series This England on the subject of Snooker, a game that both Edward and Ian found infinitely fascinating until watching this. Nevertheless, your regular correspondents rally to discuss the impressive common sense of John Virgo's career trajectory, the concept of excellence fatigue in professional sport and an idea for a lucrative new YouTube channel.

Ian defends people's right to choose (specifically the right to choose to play billiards in this case), the word "hagiography" makes an appearance and we reveal the main expenditure for a jobbing professional snooker player on the road. If you'd like to have your love of snooker tamped down, you can watch the programme here.

There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here.

And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to.

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