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Day 9 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian visit a curious and extremely topical festive extravaganza from 1984, The Torvill and Dean Christmas Special. The programme wasn't the light entertainment variety hour either of your heroes were expecting, but their initial relief quickly gives way to astonished disgruntlement once they realise there had been a key omission. Along the way, they discuss the Winter Olympics, pop a stalk in every church in two counties and casually invent the world's next great pornography franchise. If you'd like to see what Jayne and Chris did next, you can watch it here. 

Tomorrow it's back to 1985 and the sitcom In Sickness & In Health. As ever, enter at your own risk. 

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Edward and Ian have both been to their fair share of honking parties, but Day 8 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar took them to Keith Harris' Christmas Party in 1983 and now all bets are off. Our heroes ponder whether or not Keith was a white supremacist, the exact wording of Orville's tenancy agreement and the potential incarceration of Stu Francis in a sweet-smelling sex dungeon. Ian reveals another telling part of this podcast's origin story and Edward rails against the duck. Can anyone stop either him or Cuddles before it's too late? Find out now. You can watch Keith's party here.

Tomorrow morning, ice skating! The 1984 Torvill & Dean Christmas Special.

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Day 7 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian seek to once and for all answer the question: were the olden days better? Their chosen method is analysing an episode of The Appleyards from Christmas 1956. Pantomimes come in for some significant critique by one of our panel, there's an encounter with a racist magician and Ian lays bare the stark reality of eating out in St Albans in the early 1980s.

Was the past idyllic? Is capitalism actually a force for good? Do you want peas with that? Most of these questions will be answered in the next half an hour. If you want to see The Appleyards for yourselves, you've got no other option but to watch it here.

Tomorrow, God help us all, it's time for the 1983 Keith Harris Christmas Party.

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Day 6 (yes, it is really only day 6) of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watching the 1992 Big Break Christmas Special, regardless of where they'd rather be or what they'd rather be doing. Listen as your heroes deal with the conflict of watching one of their favourite people and one of their least favourite people simultaneously for half an hour, as all the while what Edward seemingly believes to be a ranking tournament on the professional snooker tour takes place.

There's also talk of Ian's likely whereabouts when this programme was first broadcast, a considered view of whether or not television hosts really doubled up charitable donations out of their own pocket and a discussion about the impact the Covid-19 pandemic may have had on the British dogging community. Snooker fans can watch the episode for themselves here.

Join us tomorrow morning for the oldest show that we've featured so far, and probably the oldest show that we'll ever feature in this series: The Appleyards, from 1956. 

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Day five of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar begins with an unsolicited and completely unrelated television recommendation, then our heroes get back to business and watch the 1989 Telly Addicts Christmas Special. Ian gazes on with horror and fascination at the career trajectory of Noel Edmonds, members of the general public are held up to open mockery and we find out how to go about getting to see 12 seconds of Victor Borge in 1989.

Edward is heartily disappointed by the lack of competitive purity and corinthian sporting values with which the contest is fought, while Ian's joy at a brief gobbet of Are You Being Served? is made abundantly clear. If you're Noel Edmonds and want to watch it all again, you can do so here.

Tomorrow morning there's more of this sort of nonsense, with the Big Break Christmas Special from 1992.

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Day 4 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar takes in Delia's Classic Christmas. Edward and Ian disagree about food on an almost recreational basis but are both keen consumers of it, so expect a variety of hot takes and disagreements about parsnips, Quality Street, microwaves and dried fruit.

Our heroes also find time to assess Delia Smith's cultural impact, recommend robbing Marks & Spencer, discuss how Sisyphus would have cooked his turkey and identify the correct topping for a trifle. But the real winner today is prawns and pigs in blankets. The original surf and turf. You can watch Delia do her thing here.

Tomorrow morning, it's the Telly Addicts Christmas Special. 

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Day 4 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar takes in Delia's Classic Christmas. Edward and Ian disagree about food on an almost recreational basis but are both keen consumers of it, so expect a variety of hot takes and disagreements about parsnips, Quality Street, microwaves and dried fruit.

Our heroes also find time to assess Delia Smith's cultural impact, recommend robbing Marks & Spencer, discuss how Sisyphus would have cooked his turkey and identify the correct topping for a trifle. But the real winner today is prawns and pigs in blankets. The original surf and turf. You can watch Delia do her thing here.

Tomorrow, it's time for some festive cookery with Delia Smith. You can watch Delia's Classic Christmas here.

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Behind door 3 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar, Edward and Ian found the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special and did it ever raise a number of important questions. Our heroes discuss the finer points of Skeletor's anatomy, the proper parental response to your children going missing and a potential skill gap in the Eternia employment market. Etheria's chances to become a major tourist destination are downplayed and a discussion about the issue of dynastic succession on either planet takes a dark, if entirely predictable, turn. If you'd like to be as confused as us, you can watch the episode here. 

We're getting our festive food on tomorrow, with Delia's Classic Christmas. 

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Day 2 (door 2?) of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watch the 1991 Des O'Connor Christmas Special and just like Des they're packing them in. Edward guarantees his bins will never be collected again, Ian summarily chalks off one of Mariah Carey's UK number 1 singles and Bernard Manning gets a well-deserved kicking.

Meanwhile, Barry Manilow sends corset buttons popping in all directions, Edward gets a tattoo and there's an unseemly argument about chestnuts which suggests that the pressure of this stupid project is starting to get to our heroes already. If you want to watch some prime Des, you can do so here. 

Tomorrow morning, it's a He Man & She Ra Christmas Special.

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On the first of 24 daily Advent Calendar editions of This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian ease themselves in slowly by watching an edition of Saint and Greavsie from the 22nd December 1990. With the exception of a ratty tinsel Christmas tree you'd be forgiven for forgetting this was a festive edition at all, in fact, which is pretty much OK by us.

There are philosophical discussions about exactly how much like Jimmy Greaves something needs to be before it essentially becomes Jimmy Greaves, Peter Shilton's testimonial achieves fleeting prominence and we do our level best to check golfers off our list of people to alienate forever. If you'd like to watch the episode, you can do so here.

Things are going to go downhill from here on, though, and tomorrow we're off to 1991 for an episode of the Des O'Connor Christmas Special. You can see that here.

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