Esyllt Sears tackles May 1981, and a good deal more, with the fantastic stand-up comedian and comedy writer MADELEINE BRETTINGHAM (Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Late Night Lycett and loads more), live at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival. The month in question brings us Vogue and Cats but we also learn about Madeleine's work on Harry Hill's TV Burp well as how she found out about the death of Diana on the way to Amsterdam and welcomed in the New Millennium on Copacobana Beach.

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May 1998 was all about Birmingham - with the G8 and Eurovision both happening in the city in the same month - leading to resources (and, presumably, glitter) being shared. Gareth Gwynn runs through the details of both events plus the botched minting of the first euro coins, while Esyllt Sears lays down some ground rules about when you can and can't approach her on a train to talk about losing your virginity.

Check out Eyllt's appearence on Crushed with Margaret Cabourn-Smith.

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Welcome to the final of our three Easter Leftover episodes. We've got in the habit of doing leftover episodes around Bank Holidays and since 2025 saw two very close together, we decided to go all-in, call it three, and release a mini-series of leftover specials - so welcome to Part 3 of 3.

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December 1999

Esyllt In Paris (March 1980)

April 1991

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Welcome to the second of our three Easter Leftover episodes. We've got in the habit of doing leftover episodes around Bank Holidays and since 2025 sees two very close together, we have deemed this weekend an honorary bank holiday - hence this mini-series of leftover specials - so welcome to Part 2 of 3.

Should you wish to track down the episodes these moments were jettisoned from, you can find them...

December 1999

April 1985

March 2015

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Welcome to the first of our three Easter Leftover episodes. We've got in the habit of doing leftover episodes around Bank Holidays and these next two are so close together we thought we'd do a mini-series of action packed, and very silly, leftover specials - so welcome to Part 1 of 3.

Should you wish to track down the episodes these moments were jettisoned from, you can find them...

February 1995

The Millennium

April 1991

Check out Eyllt's appearence on Crushed with Margaret Cabourn-Smith.

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Since changing the podcast name (RIP The Xennial Dome, 2021-24) we don't bother ourselves too much with generational differences on the show too much - But what happened to children's fiction about runaways? They were everywhere, right? Was it deemed dangerous to fill kid's heads with these stories? Did they go the way of smoking, catapaults and the nicknames of some of the Bash Street Kids? It's one of the things we consider as Esyllt Sears boils April 1991 down the essentials - The Greyhound Bus and Big Break.

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He's more of a Diet Coke man but, nevertheless, Gareth Gwynn is always happy to chat about New Coke - one of the biggest marketing and corporate blunders of the 1980s. Or was it? Was the decision to change the Coca-Cola formula and then change it back in under 80 days all part of some enormous, 4D Chess style strategy? Probably not. Plus, Esyllt Sears expresses her concerns about Fairy Liquid and Quality Street - on the off chance someone who listens can do something about it.

There's an episode of Trouble At The Top all about the 1980s New Coke disaster, which you can watch here.

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Think about it - when was the last time you heard people talk about Spontaneous Human Combustion? It's been a while hasn't it? It's just not the sort of thing you talk about in polite company once you stop being a teenager or leave the 1990s or, worst of all, both.

As such, this episode might not be for everyone as Esyllt Sears revisits the glory days of SHC, recommends a 1980s BBC documentary on the subject and doesn't recommend an Independent article on the same topic (you can search for that yourself). And talking of unexpected, explosive events, we also cover the time someone swore at Five Star on Going Live! Yeah, we're clicking the "explicit" button on this one.

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