Podcasts about Terry Wogan

Mark Simpson, who works at BBC Radio 2, is now also a volunteer with Shine Radio. He brings a lot of broadcasting experience (and he met Terry Wogan) - and looks forward to reporting community stories. He spoke to Mike WaddingtonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest this week is literal Irish comedy royalty. He left these fine shores of ours years ago and went on to dominate the comedy scene in the UK. He's the host of Mock the Week, and all-round absolute king. It's Dara O'Briain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Al McKenna stars as iconic broadcaster Terry Wogan in Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney.

Save Your Love became the UK's unlikely Christmas Number One on 18th December, 1982. A blend of heartfelt crooning, offbeat British humour, and bucketfuls of kitsch, the song gained traction after Terry Wogan played it on his Radio 2 breakfast show, going on to sell around one million copies. Former Italian waiter Renato Pagliari delivered the operatic voice and dramatic presence that carried the track, but the ‘Renée' in the duet was in fact a young British session musician called Hilary Lester. The two had been brought together by songwriter Johnny Edward, after he spotted Pagliari on New Faces, and composed Save Your Love as a satirical jab at the overly saccharine ballads of the 70s.  In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how Renée came to be replaced for the song's iconic video; reveal the extraordinary contribution the song made to the success of independent records in the UK charts; and take a shot at topping Ronato's show-stopping vocals…   Further Reading: • '30 years on from Birmingham duo Renee and Renato at top of the pop charts' (Birmingham Live, 2013): https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music/30-years-on-from-birmingham-duo-renee-401365 • 'Even Renée didn't want to star in 'cheesy' Save Your Love hit' (Daily Express, 2022): https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1711081/renee-renato-save-your-love-christmas-hit • 'Renée and Renato - Save Your Love' (Hollywood Records, 1982): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuaIBGwEUfo Love the show? Support us!  Join 

Shaun Keaveny is one of the UKs most beloved broadcasters, having spent 11 years presenting one of the countries biggest music breakfast radio shows. His journey began upon leaving college, where he knew he wanted to work in a creative industry with a passion for writing skits, listening to the radio and playing music. Shaun soon got his first break at XFM London, presenting overnights to a miniscule audience where he could flex his creative flair before moving with the times and fronting a digital only breakfast show at the newly formed 6 Music.In this episode James sits down to explore Shaun's childhood and the close bond he has with his family, his late diagnosis of ADD, how Terry Wogan took him under his wing and how leaving the BBC had a heavy impact on him.You can listen to Shaun's excellent Community Garden Radio show and become a fully fledged member here

David Cloake is a former professional DJ whom I have had the great pleasure to know since working at Cabin FM. We learn about David's career in radio, beginning with a chat about the pre-digital radio world. We find out how David got into radio, starting at Southern Sound, about the advice he received from other presenters, and how he received elocution lessons. David's first full time radio gig was at Northants Radio where he did the Drivetime show, and we learn that David followed a traditional route. We discuss the changes that came about after the mid-90s and how deregulation is the cornerstone of change as it enabled ownership to be more businesslike. We also learn about what community radio is able to provide. We find out that David wanted to be a radio presenter from a young age, and how the people who have influenced David include Richard Allinson and Terry Wogan (and we hear a wonderful Wogan anecdote). We discuss the differences between live and pre-recorded radio and the importance of the one to one style, and about the evolution of radio and the role of personalities and the importance of brand, where either presenters are the style or the presenters have to fit the style. This leads us to discuss the shelf life of radio presenters and how this impacted David personally, including how brutal his own demise was at Severn Sound. David talks about how this was a life lesson. He now works in emergency and disaster management where his is a senior management professional and consultant who specialises in emergency and crisis management, business continuity management, risk management and broader business planning consultancy. He is the founder of Foresight Solutions. David credits Steve Ralph for encouraging him to join Cabin FM, and we learn that David also volunteers at Herne Bay Football Club. David gives his thoughts on nostalgia and how he prefers reflection to nostalgia. We find whether David still has recordings of his old radio shows from the 80s and 90s, and we discuss mental health and the importance of not trying to seek revenge on what people did to you in the past. Then, at the end of the interview, we find out whether David is a looking back or a looking forward sort of person, and why one can shape a future more than one can shape a past.

No ano de 1991, durante o programa de televisão de Terry Wogan, o convidado David Icke, ex comunicador da tv esportiva, chocou a audiência britânica anunciando que havia sido iluminado com uma importante mensagem: o mundo estaria sendo controlado por uma espécie extraterrestre reptiliana através de uma demoníaca sociedade secreta enraizada nos maiores escalões da sociedade humana. Teria a personalidade inglesa tido um surto psicótico ao vivo ou de fato sido usada por um poder maior com o intuito de alertar o planeta Terra de uma ameaça fantasma? Venha debater com os agentes do paranormal Affonso Solano e Afonso3d sobre este tema misterioso e assustador! ___________ Seja membro no YouTube e ganhe benefícios!

Hello All! We're back with a traditional episode this week. This time diving back into the Interview Archives (as we've done in the past) with Paul (& Linda's) appearance from November 1987 on the UK BBC1 Programme Wogan, hosted by Terry Wogan. We've re-edited in the performances of 'Jet', 'Once Upon A Long Ago' and 'Listen To What The Man Said' as the interview on YouTube had these cut. Paul had made appearances on Wogan in the past, (1986) and made future appearances in 1989 and 1990. The purpose of this visit was to continue to the heavy promotional blitz he was doing at the time to promote All The Best! which was already certified platinum in the UK by this time. You'll see Terry present him with a gift of it. We also discuss the recent additions to the GOT BACK tour and overall shows for the fall. Exciting times for Macca fans! We hope you're all doing well. Summer is here! Did you watch this episode live when it premiered? Let us know! Peace Andy & Tom

A classic from the vaults!This week we be donning our deerstalkers, polishing our magnifying glasses, and giving a full treatment of the sleuthing routine - yes, it's Without a Clue. Joining me to hunt down the dreaded Arty Morty, is comedian Paul Litchfield, and Terry Wogan. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/smershpod. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we take a look at accusations that former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke lobbied former Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Buckland, over her then-husband Charlie's sexual assault case.A spokesman for Ms Elphicke, said the claims were "nonsense". Laura, Paddy and Henry discuss how big a problem it is for the party, and how the story came to light.And Laura's been speaking to the foreign secretary, Lord David Cameron, as Israel expands its military operation in Rafah. Paddy also reveals what it's like to be behind the scenes with Terry Wogan at Eurovision. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O'Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Jonny Baker. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

Sonic fights Robotnik across every reality, Decap's got bats in its basement, and we go on such a flight of whimsy across the Diary Zone that it takes up an unconscionable amount of the show, but you'll like it, because it's funny.

PART 3 of a compilation of all knob-related discussions on the XFM Ricky Gervais Show. Including the acclaimed, KNOB NEWS, the phallic feature in which Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington opine on the day's biggest penile headlines. Also included are TESTICLE TIME, other knobbly bits, and, so as not to be sexist... FANNY FACTS! ENJOY! CHAPTERS: G-A-Y (0:00) Alright, Paulo? (1:26) This fella who's a woman (3:45) There's something about Miriam (8:18) Terry Wogan (8:54) Oh, hello Paulo! (9:27) It's human nature, to have a quick glance (10:15) Czech family says they've got a rabbit with 3 knobs (12:30) Doctor took fella's tackle off by mistake (13:34) Brazilian man with ear ache did, in fact, have an accidental vasectomy (15:50) Pierced penis man off the hook (16:46) Knob-body has been that lucky before (16:54) Kid born without a knob (17:09) Luckily another baby's born with 2 knobs in the same hospital (18:08) EDUCATING RICKY Introduction (20:27) Went to bed and bandaged his nob with vinegar and brown paper (21:35) Karl fell asleep in the bath because there was no light bulb (22:58) Karl's drying his tackle and what have you (23:57) You know how nudists do me head in? (25:06) Nude bike ride in Hyde Park (30:40) What side do you wear your member? (32:46) I'm sat here with my jeans on, I don't know where I am (34:01) Sir, do you mind telling me where your cock is so I can avoid it? (36:20) I don't know where it is now, could be the left, could be the right (36:24) WHERE IS KARL'S KNOB? (36:42) KNOB NEWS Introduction (38:08) Man grows knob on his arm (38:37) Man gets doctors to make him a second knob (38:43) Turkish prisoners made hole in cell wall to produce third inmate (38:48) Doctors accidentally remove man's testicles (38:55) Steve recaps "Man gets doctors to make him second penis" (40:31) Steve recaps "Man grows penis on his arm" (41:26) Have we got any FANNY FACTS? (44:33) Ricky shows Karl his knob, and Karl couldn't help having a sly look (44:54) KNOB NEWS (46:32)

Welcome to Spooning with Mark Wogan. In this episode, Mark is joined by Gaby Roslin to talk about the foods that she thinks she loves and the foods that she thinks she hates with dishes served by Jamie Shears at Mount Street Restaurant in Mayfair.Plus, Gaby opens up about working with her three TV husbands, Neil Buchanan, Chris Evans and Terry Wogan. Also, Gaby opens up about her shyness and the power of smiling.Gaby's new book Spread The Joy is out to buy now.New episodes every Thursday!Producer: Johnny SeifertFilming and Editing: Rory Edwards and Chris JacobsYoutube: Search Spooning With Mark Wogan to watch the full episode with bonus contentTikTok: Clips can be seen at @spooningwithmarkwoganInstagram: Clips can be seen at @spooningwithmarkwoganThis is a News Broadcasting Production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former RTE broadcaster Ryan Tubridy kicked off his new job, presenting Virgin Radio UK's midmorning show, on Tuesday. The London-based commercial radio station is very different from the national broadcaster and this new iteration of The Ryan Tubridy show, where he is more DJ than chat show presenter, is different from his former slot on RTÉ Radio 1; at three hours it's certainly longer. He was let go from RTÉ in June amid the payments controversy that in 2023 engulfed the broadcaster and in which he was centrally involved. On the new show there is more music and less talk, but as Irish Times radio reviewer Mick Heaney notes on today's In the News podcast, Tubridy has brought his familiar-to-Irish ears obsessions with him across the water. But will English listeners find references to the Beatles, walks, books, Connemara and pint of Guinness quite so charming? Can he do a Terry Wogan and become a beloved Irish broadcaster in the UK - or are those days over? Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Declan Conlon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

0:00 - Intro & Summary2:00 - Movie Discussion38:28 - Cast & Crew/Awards43:31 - Pop Culture55:14 -  Rankings & Ratings To see a full list of movies we will be watching and shows notes, please follow our website: https://www.1991movierewind.com/Follow us!https://linktr.ee/1991movierewind Theme: "sunrise-cardio," Jeremy Dinegan (via Storyblocks)Don't forget to rate/review/subscribe/tell your friends to listen to us!

One of the UK's most loved vocalists and broadcasters, Aled Jones, sits down with Joanna and Stephen to discuss the moment he unearthed a trove of unreleased music from his childhood. In this candid conversation, Aled reveals what it was like meeting Richard Branston at Virgin Records as a teenager, recording 16 albums in 4 years before his voice broke and becoming the 'radio son' of the veteran broadcaster Terry Wogan.

A shallow dive into Terry Wogan's talk show, discussing some of the memorable guests and the great man's interview style. Music comes from MAZE with Actions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After being ejected from RTE, Ryan Tubridy has landed on his feet in London with a new radio show at Virgin Radio. But can he match the success of fellow Irish broadcasters - Graham Norton and Terry Wogan? Host: Fionnán Sheahan Guest: Dave Hanratty See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A (relatively) in-depth analysis of The Secret of Life by the Nashville-based, New York raised Queen of Country Noir Gretchen Peters in (just over) fifteen minutes.Recorded (and written) by Peters in 1995-96, the song was then recorded by fellow country artist Faith Hill in 1997-98 as the fifth and final single from her album Faith. Peters included the original version of the song on her 1996 debut album of the same name and later added a new acoustic recording as a bonus track on her 2015 album Blackbirds.Beloved of UK audiences and championed by the likes of BBC Radio 2 presenters Terry Wogan and Bob Harris, Peters announced her intention to retire from touring, playing her final UK shows in May 2023, although she has said that she will continue to write and record.In this episode I am in discussion with Dr. Andrew Webber.I hope you enjoy the podcast and do leave feedback if you like what you you have heard.Mathew Woodall

Jonny and Richard are at Bicester Heritage for RADwood. Topics covered in this episode include buying a cheap Hammond organ, Richard being one of the judges in the Hot Wheels Legends competition, standing behind Terry Wogan, Honda NSXs and Ayrton Senna's Algarve yachting-style slip-ons, a technical latrine, the shocking state of cubicle doors in American bathrooms, Jonny hanging out with Tavarish, the elusive brown Audi A2 of Bath/Bath, a strangely named cottage near Silverstone, being let down by Chris Hemsworth, an update on Volvo saloons and estates in the UK, a new Smith and Sniff planning service, the problem with racing drivers appearing on Top Gear, and Kimi Raikkonen going for a post-sauna jet ski. patreon.com/smithandsniff Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Même la reine d'Angleterre demande : « Qui a tué JR ? ».Histoire d'une manipulation géniale !Vous êtes à Londres, sur le plateau de "Samedi soir", un talk show de la BBC mené par le très populaire animateur Terry Wogan.Vous pensez qu'il va vous interroger sur votre prochain film où vous êtes aux côtés de Julie Andrews. Mary Poppins elle-même.Ou alors, il va sans doute parler avec vous de la sitcom Jinny de mes rêves. Vous en étiez la vedette, 139 épisodes durant 5 saisons, c'est pas rien. Vous étiez le "maître" d'un génie libéré d'une bouteille.Hé ben non. Pas du tout. Mais alors du tout.Terry Wogan est uniquement intéressé – obsédé devrais-je dire – par le rôle que vous tenez actuellement à la télévision. Intéressé... Il ne parle que de ça ! Votre personnage de John Ross, un personnage à l'opposé absolu de ceux des sitcoms. John Ross est tellement machiavélique, tellement sans remords, tellement impitoyable en affaires, qu'il en devient fascinant. Et, avouez-le, délicieux à interpréter.Vous êtes Larry Hagman, l'interprète de JR Ewing dans "Dallas" et vous le savez parfaitement : vous allez faire déraper votre série.Texte & voix : Alain CarrazéEncore plus de Podcast à écouter ici sur PODCAST STORY

While we're on our short summer break, I'm playing some of my favourite episodes from the series so far. This one is from May 2021, its with my friend and colleague Dermot Whelan, who has just announced that he's leaving the Dermot and Dave Show on Today FM to focus on his mindfulness business. When we record this episode, Dermot had just released his bestselling book Mind Full. He told me all about the book, the business and how and why it all started. Dermot is also a very talented impressionist. Diarmuid Gavin, Rory McIlroy, Professor Snape from Harry Potter and even the late great Terry Wogan all make an appearance in this interview. Enjoy the chat and don't forget to follow the series for free, and drop us a rating and review if you're feeling generous! Produced by Patrick Haughey, AudioBrand

James is flying solo on the podcast this week, luckily he's with the great Carlton Kirby. The Eurosport and GCN commentator talks his new book 'Sticky Bottle', the new era of commentary, making mistakes and his predictions for this year's Tour de France.Our chat begins at 4m33s._________Science in Sports' energy supplements, including SiS's GO Isotonic energy gels – the world's first energy gels to mimic the gut's fluid composition to be absorbed more rapidly into the bloodstream. Each energy gel provides 22g of carbohydrates to boost energy on the bike and stave off fatigue, so like all SiS products, Go Isotonic gels are scientifically formulated to help riders maintain their pace for longer. When Grand Tours are raced on the edge and won by seconds, it's crucial to get the right fuel at the right time. Join INEOS Grenadiers and add some science to your fuelling strategy at scienceinsport.com and use the code SiS-TDF23 for 20% off any purchase._________Did you know Cyclist is also stunning monthly magazine? And if you subscribe now you'll receive a FREE set of EKOÏ sunglasses worth £75!Subscribe here: store.cyclist.co.uk/cycpod_________This episode is supported by H.V.M.N, the creators of Ketone-IQ.We hear a lot about ketones in the pro peloton, but what are they?According to the experts H.V.M.N, ketones are a natural source of fuel for your body. When stored carbs are depleted, your body starts to convert fat into ketones. Studies show that ketones are 28% more efficient than glucose, making them a super-efficient fuel source for the brain and the body.These benefits led H.V.M.N to create Ketone-IQ: a drinkable ketone designed to support energy, focus and endurance.Developed alongside the U.S. military, Ketone-IQ is one of the most powerful ketone supplements on the market. It's designed to elevate your ketone levels for up to 4 hours – much longer than other products. Plus, it's vegan, caffeine free, and compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency's guidelines. That's a major win for athletes.Ketone-IQ Shots are the best way to get your ketones on the go. They're portable, convenient, and fit perfectly in your pocket during a ride or a race.You can save 20% on Ketone-IQ using the promo code CYCLIST at https://hvmn.com/CYCLIST?To learn more about achieving your ultimate metabolic potential, subscribe to H.V.M.N's podcast 'Health Via Modern Nutrition with Dr. Latt Mansor' on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube. See hvmn.com for more details Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the last 37 Years, Simon Grundy has presented shows for BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Lincs FM, CFM and currently Breakfast on Sun FM, which he has done for 25 Years.This week Simon sits down to chat to Luke about he developed the bug for Radio, how it was listening to Terry Wogan which got him inspired. What launching a station like Lincs FM was like and how David LLoyd had to find a UHER to listen to his demo. Moving to Carlisle to host Breakfast on CFM and what the last 25 years have been like on Sun FM.Thanks to Aircheck Downloads for use of content. 

As conference speakers and presenters, we always rehearse. Whereas lots of people don't. If they did then any audience would receive something far more impactful. What are the four stages of rehearsal? Understanding, Exploration, and the other two? Listen and find out! The more you rehearse the better the quality. Some people think they don't need to at all. That's a self-certification bias. Many speakers never rehearse. Most presentations are overwritten. What's Harold Pinter's perspective? Ken Loach? Jack Nicholson? Al Pacino? David Lean? Alec Guinness? Luke Radley? Hermann Ebbinghaus? Terry Wogan? Michael Gearin-Tosh? Bob Marley? Bob & Jeremy?  Plus, enjoy our new feature: 3 is the magic number! Don't keep winging it! You'll never under-rehearse again! 

The pair are getting excited for Eurovision this weekend - Liz will be looking out for her friend Rylan but Nic misses Terry Wogan. It's reminded Liz of the time she went to the opening of Mama Mia. The Party! in Stockholm and was told by her editor to make her review ‘more joyful'. Plus, Liz is getting closer to booking her holiday to Italy, but David throws a spanner in the works.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The extraterrestrial comedy podcast where we probe the contentious theories of Mr David Icke. You see David Icke had a higher purpose on this earth which was for the best because the B B C left David unfulfilled… David would be led to meet psychic Betty Shine who would set David on the path he may have always been meant for. A path to enlightenment at a pre-Incan burial ground in Peru, via Quickening. David, empowered by the Quickening, would do what any person led by the holy word would do and entered a thruple. David's turquoise-infused power led David to make his own prophecies. Would these prophecies come to pass? Would the fact that David himself was told a prophecy of what he would achieve, influence David? Regardless, David would ultimately pull together a theory connecting UFO's, new world order, 5g, satanism and secret societies - if you can name a conspiracy theory, it probably connects back to David Icke. All that and more on this week's file.     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/butitwasaliens   Store: https://butitwasaliens.co.uk/shop/     Probe us: Email: butitwasaliens@gmail.com Instagram @ ButItWasAliensPodcast Twitter @ ButItWasAliens Facebook: @ ButItWasAliens - join Extraterrestrial Towers     Music:  Music created via Garageband. Additional music via: https://freepd.com - thank you most kindly good people. Not for the first time, there was a snippet of the Fortune Telling House Theme from the The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - the Super Nintendo masterpiece released during 1991 (Japan) and 1992 (North America and the United Kingdom/Europe). The music was composed by the legendary Kōji Kondō whom also composed the Staff Roll aka credits theme from 1990-1992's Super Mario World on the same console which we regularly close out with. Also by that legendary Hero of Sound for a different console, the N64, was the Legend of Hyrule theme from 1998's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.    YouTube link to David Icke's interview with Terry Wogan: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbI_1ySbCY    Good articles on David:  https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/06/the-rise-of-david-icke   https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/david-icke-what-went-righ_b_2038784/   Will Banyan's 2013 (updated 2015) David Icke-Jimmy Saville article: https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2015/06/01/the-savile-affair-did-david-icke-really-blow-the-whistle-on-jimmy-savile/    Reptilian shapeshifting video evidence on YouTube via penguinz0 channel: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nwQhBbm_z48

This week we have gorse fires shaped like dinosaurs new commercial manager verbally abused for no reason Kevin threaten to assault a teenager if we lose to Cobh and we also discuss Kerry and Cobh games.

In this week's episode of "How do you Say That?!", the very smooth Charles Nove joins Sam and Mark to talk about Voice of God, pushy promos, changing styles and lead-in phrases and emotes that are key to capturing a character style! Our vo question sparks a discussion about whether you should be sitting or standing whilst voicing a script!We'd love you to join in and send us your version of one of the reads in today's show - just pop it onto an mp3 and send it to podcast@britishvoiceover.co.ukScript 1:SUSE Leadership team, welcome to SUSE Can 2023, in beautiful, historic central LondonTodays Keynote Speakers Include: Our Chief Executive Officer, Melissa di Donato, Our Chief Customer Officer, Imran Khan, and Our Chief People Officer, Kathryn Herrington. We also have special Guests, Thomas Koehrer from Bank of America, Matthew Gehl – from JP Morgan Chase & Co and Matthew Syed. Sportsman, Author and JournalistPlus a talented cast and crew backstage who are here to help you Lead to Thrive!Script 2:This major reuse project championed the use of mass timber in the commercial sector to create an adaptive space which is responsive to the needs of the end users. A lightweight CLT and glulam structure has been used to extend the existing concrete frame, increasing the building from two to six storeys and adding 60,000sq. ft. Around 70% of the original structure was retained, and the new timber extensions store over 400 tonnes of biogenic carbon.-------------------About our guest: Charles Nove is a reassuringly familiar-sounding voice artist with a touch of trustworthy native Scot. He joined BBC Scotland in 1978, then Radio 2 from 1981, reading news, presenting late nights and early mornings, plus news and merry banter on Terry Wogan's breakfast show. You'll have heard him on BBC1, Anglia, The History Channel, Magic, Jazz FM, BBC Oxford and many more. He also headed A1 Vox, the London sound studios, plus he's currently presenting the Weekday Breakfast Show on Scala Radio.http://charlesnove.com/https://twitter.com/charlesnove

Al McKenna stars as iconic broadcaster Terry Wogan in Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney

Rylan Clark has done so much since he appeared on X Factor a decade ago, and he goes in depth on everything in his new book 'Ten: The Decade That Changed My Future'. He dropped in to chat to Ian about doing what he needed to do on X Factor, getting his own BBC radio show in Terry Wogan's studio, and whether or not he's ever had a "don't you know who I am" moment.

David Icke was born in Leicester and played for Coventry City, Oxford United, Northampton Town and Hereford United. A highly respected goalkeeper, David suffered from injuries & with the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, his career was cut short. He went on to become a popular TV presenter & in an attempt to cure his athritis, began looking into alternative medicine & new-age philosophy. After his spiritual epiphany, David began to write successful books & through his statement that he was the 'Son of Godhead', he was invited on to the Terry Wogan show. The Wogan show brought about a seismic change to David's life, first negative, then positive, as his message of love & hope, permeated throughout the world. From the banking system & alien agendas, to the apparant war on terror, David has been writing top-selling books & selling out concert halls across the world. Read 'Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland.' Paperback UK: https://amzn.to/2YoeaPx Paperback US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993543944 Support the podcast at: https://www.patreon.com/christhrall (£2 per month plus perks) https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-our-veterans-to-tell-their-story https://paypal.me/TeamThrall Sign up for my NON-SPAM newsletter and FREE books: https://christhrall.com/mailing-list/ Social media Links: https://facebook.com/christhrall https://twitter.com/christhrall https://instagram.com/chris.thrall https://linkedin.com/in/christhrall https://youtube.com/christhrall https://discord.gg/yqvHRUN https://christhrall.com 

In this episode of we discuss the passing of Queen Elizabeth the second and that leads the show down an entire rabbit hole of people claiming the Royal Family is interdimensional reptiles with ties to an elite child sex trafficking ring *Caugh* Epstein *Caugh* to take over the world. We also discuss how now King Charles, claims to be a distant relative to Vlad the Impaler - Otherwise known as Dracula. Yes, you read that all right.  Follow me and see just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Subscribe and leave a 5-star review! ----more---- Our website https://redpillrevolution.co/    Protect your family and support the Red Pill Revolution Podcast with Affordable Life Insurance. 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Uh, so we will be discussing that, but really this led me down quite the rabbit hole.  thanks to vice news, who linked an article within this article, um, which was QAN on, is losing it over the Queen's death, which led me, led me down to another wabbit hole  and that led me into another one, which was the. 15 conspiracies surrounding the Royal family. And so that is what today's episode is going to be discussing. So we will touch on the death of queen Elizabeth. There's really not much information to discuss there yet. There hasn't been anything that's come out, but we will touch on that. And then we will move almost immediately. Into the conspiracy aspect of this, cuz that's a little bit more interesting to talk about. So thank you so much for listening. If you could go ahead and hit that five star review button for me, if you're on apple podcast, Spotify, wherever you are at, unless you're driving a vehicle above a certain speed range that makes it unsafe. And even if you. 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Religion politics, history, conspiracies, Hollywood, medicine, money, food, all of it, everything we know was tactfully written to influence your decisions and your view on reality by those in power. Now I'm on a mission, a mission to retrain and reeducate myself to find the true reality of what is. That curtain and I'm taking your ass with me. Welcome to the revolution. Hello and welcome to red pill revolution, episode number 42. I appreciate you so much. As I've already told you, we are going to dive right into it. Queen Elizabeth. The second has passed away at the age of 90. Now  she is the longest standing queen in history of having a reign of almost 70 years, or I believe just hit 70 years. Um, so it says that she celebrated her platinum Jubilee. I don't exactly know what that is. Kind of sounds like a, I don't know, a nineties. Or maybe even an eighties punk rock band, but she celebrated her platinum Jubilee  and then passed on. It also says that she recently, uh, accepted the resignation of Boris Johnson about a week ago and the outgoing prime minister, uh, and involved invited Liz trust to form a new government. I don't know what that means to form a new government. That seems like quite the extreme. You know, thing to say, just, you know, go ahead and just form yourself a new government real quick for us.  one thing that's come out of this, um, is that a lot of people are finding out that there's like these, uh, realms. I think they call them. I don't know. I don't, I don't know much about this, uh, structure, but apparently, uh, there was been some articles that have been coming out that basically says that anything that they basically, they own. All of Australia, they own like the Commonwealth, I guess the Commonwealth realms. Um, it's an interesting conversation to bring up there. I don't know enough about it to really dive into it, but it seems like they own a, a lot of the countries, including Canada. As being a part of just,  we obviously knew that part of the, Royal governance, but to the extent is kind of weird to see how, how far their,  their hands reach into other other governments. Um, but anyways, that led me immediately down in the rabbit hole because to the right of this article by vice, there was another article. Which I obviously had to click on and it said QAN on, is losing it over the Queen's death. So QAN is losing it over the Queen's death. Interesting. So let's read what they have to say about that. It says despite spending years claiming she already had been executed QAN on Thursday, openly celebrated the news of queen Elizabeth's death, Macy burn in Hal for Eter. One QAN on account on telegram wrote moments after the Queen's death was announced so happy. The evil witch is dead. Another wrote for years, the queen has been a central figure in the QAN conspiracy as part of a cast of elites who followers believe are operating a child's sex trafficking ring that traverses the globe. Ooh, conspiracy where I don't know, maybe a Royal family member like her son. Was found on Epstein's island and holding a underage girl in a picture with him in several occasions. Mm. What a weird QAN on conspiracy that the Royal family would have anything to do with child sex trafficking rings. How, what, how did they even have that in this article here that they're even questioning that that's, without a doubt, factual prince Andrew. Was found to be on the flight logs was found to have pictures with Virginia gaff who was being, uh, interviewed, um, during the GLA Maxwell trials was one of the only people to be interviewed. And there's literally pictures of him with his arm around her. So 100% the Royal family in one shape, way, shape or form, whether it's just prince Andrew or in, it goes deeper than that, um, was absolutely a part of a international child sex trafficking ring. Indisputable. We know that for a fact. And we also. Sorry about the timing on this, but the queen covered for him. The queen basically like told him to hide away as a result of all of this. And, and there was, there's been nothing brought against him as a result. Why? Because he's a part of the Royal family. So the fact that they're even bringing that up here, completely tone deaf to the idea that court documents revealed that prince Andrew was there. Oh, and by the way, the same Virginia guff that he paid off in a, a court settlement and you probably need to look that up. I'm fairly positive. Prince Andrew paid. Off in a settlement. Um, just like several others. I believe I, I may be mistaken on that. So, uh, completely speculative. Don't take my word for gospel, but I believe in that case, uh, prince Andrew did pay off Virginia guff in a court settlement. Um, so anyways, this article continues to go on. And says that in the hours before her death, some referenced, uh, in the hours before her death, some reference wild Q Andon, conspiracies about the queen participating in satanic rituals and drinking the blood of children. They're preparing the black mass and baby buffet, buffet, buffet.  like just a small Warren buffet laying on the table, a baby buffet. As we sit here adding, I think you'll find she's already gone, which I guess there's another conspiracy that she had already. Killed for something executed or something crazy like that. I don't know. Now, obviously they're correct. Absolutely. About the Royal family, even if it's just prince Andrew, having some relation to Epstein and this international child sex trafficking ring, we know that factual 100%. But it goes at another echo, the statement or the sentiment that the queen has been now, obviously they probably found the most ridiculous statements that they could find for clickbait here. So, you know, I'm sure there's some wild accounts saying some wild things. Uh, but anyways, it goes on to say that on the great awakening, a Q and on-message board users have shared similar conspiracies. She died several months ago. Remember she went through a transition or whatever that was the embalming process. CGI body doubles are in. It's funny how the QAN on stuff. They like, everything's so factual. And it's like almost in like a expedited military way of saying things like  it says that others push for the even more fantastical claim that the queen was merely a computer generated image. A conspiracy that QAN on has also pushed about president Joe Biden since he took office last year. Yeah. Kind of a wild one. Um, she has been CGI for a while now. Wonder why it is being announced. Now one telegram user wrote over a Q and on message board. Well, another user wrote that about a picture release last week of the queen shaking hands with the newly elected prime minister, Liz trust. That old lady doesn't even look like the queen. LOL. Now there's been conversations like that about Joe Biden, because there's so many weird pictures. And I don't know if they're doctored, but all can find them. There's all these pictures out there of Joe Biden with different ear lobes. There's one variation of. Joe Biden, who has ear lobes that are connected. And one variation of Joe Biden where his ear lobes are not connected. Now, I don't know what to make of that, but there is some very interesting C videos and documents that you can go read on where they show these like body double suits. Now again that doesn't have to be that Joe Biden's dead and he's the CGI. It could be that maybe there was a high profile situation and there was some type of threats and maybe they do a Bodi get body double with a mask. But I would hope if there was a real Joe Biden body double, and they were bringing somebody on that, that individual would at least be able to complete a sentence. Hmm, maybe just a thought , uh, but uh, you know, you, you think that they could do better with then maybe they could do a, a, a mind double two and just put somebody else in there that can finish a sentence and at least give us a glimpse of hope because we know he's not making any real decisions. Anyways. All right, moving forward. It says a number, another member of the forum said maybe that's the cleaning woman  but that isn't the woman who has been playing the queen. The queen has been a central figure in the Q nine conspiracy for the very beginning on November 5th, 2017 a week after the first Q drop was posted on four Chan, the anonymous author of the Q drops reference to the Mon. Saying who is the queen of England? How long in power with power comes corruption. What happened to Diana now? That's one. Conspiracy is the princess Diana conspiracy. It's like something to do with the roads that she died on. Um, the, the vehicle, like there's all these weird little, uh, weird little, um, References and like the, the road that she died on the, something about the moon. I don't know. We we'll probably see something on it in this episode, cuz I have a few different articles up that are talking about these things. So, um, it says that the. It goes on to say what happened to Diana? They author wrote going on to call her evil, corrupt, and a part of a secret society. The queen next surfaced with the Q Andon world in 2019, then members of the conspiracy movement claimed that the queen was ex executed following a military tribunal because she had princess Diana murdered after Diana learned of a black male scheme involving convicted pedophile, Jeffrey EP. Wow. When did princess Diana die? That's a good question, right? Like that would be pretty wild to like, if there was, I mean, I guess he was doing that for a fairly long time. Um, when did, let's see if we can find this out here. 25 years ago. So 1997. So that would be pretty much in line with how long Jeffrey Epstein has been doing this. Um, so I mean the, the whole blackmail idea with Jeffrey Epstein is not a new idea. It's not this like crazy, crazy off the wall conspiracy. There was all these talks about thousands of videotapes that they took from Epstein island, right. There was all of these talks about all of the. That they took. And why would you be doing that? Why, why in the first place are you peddling, children to elites with lots of money, you know, for money you could say for one thing, obviously, but also because you're just as sick and individual for two things. And for three things, you know, you're not going that long for 25 years, doing such a horrific thing to high profile people without being tracked, or at least utilized by the FBI or some type of agency, I would maybe. I don't know. So it goes on to say that the queen next surfaced with the QAN in 2019. Oh, we just read that bad news from the Zier corners of QAN on queen Elizabeth II is dead. This was written by Travis view on Twitter. Naturally, the queen was executed following a military tribunal because she had Diana killed after Diana learned of Stein's blackmail scheme. And then it has these pictures, uh, showing these like Q Andon account.  it goes on to say that QAN aha. Also pushed aspects of an older conspiracy theory about the ANOC or reptiles Wow. This article's getting in there. The, in the, in, if you don't know, that is like, kind of this idea behind like the, the ums. Well anyway, so let's read it. I'll I'll, we'll walk into it. Um, so it says, the end in NAIA is basically like this like secondary species that came here back in like the times of the pyramids or even before, and were the reason that we were given technology and these types of things. And, um, they're this like reptilian, uh, creature that's sentient and intelligent and has some type of like special powers. So, um, so that's, that's your synopsis of the N NAOC. I'm sure there's much more to it than that. Um, it says these supposed reptiles, including George Bush, Harry Kissinger, former president bill Clinton and former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, Bob hope and queen Elizabeth a claim many within the QAN I community referenced in comments on Thursday, not much longer for queen lizard. So let's move on from this, although it is, I guess we got a couple little, little spots left here, so it says let's go, it's all in the plan. Be ready. That's that's another thing about the QAN on stuff that like, it just, just, it's so hard to, to not mock when they're like, oh, this is the time. This is when it's all gonna happen. You know, I get it. There's been some crazy stuff going on and, and Trump's, uh, wild caricature of himself is like, Pretty pretty interesting. And it seems like there has to be some deeper thing going on, but to keep waiting, like, you know, the Trump and Jesus are working together to unite the world against, you know, it's, it's, it's a very far reaching movement to say the least. Uh, so. Um, it says 10 days of like, I, I'm not even gonna give that the time of day, but it's, it's pretty wild stuff. Now. There is very much legitimacy to several of these theories, including princess Diana, including the, uh, Epstein. Obviously that's a hundred percent factual. Um, and the in AOC is like a very interesting conversation historically and conspiracy world. So maybe that's, that's a deeper dive, a whole episode into what the OCIA is. Um, but let's go ahead and read. Next part, which goes on to talk about the most bizarre Royal family conspiracy theories. All right. Starting with number. One here, which is going to be that Megan Markle is a us sleeper spy. After Paul beany appeared on the tonight show and told Jimmy Fallon his theory that Megan Markle was a us sleeper spy, the internet just hasn't been able to let it go. According to vanity fair. The actor said back in 2018, that I think Meghan Markle might be a sleeper agent for the us government, the dad doing the photos thing. It's like a false flag event. I think the CIA's involved everybody. I think Pierce Morgan's involved.  Pierce two. It can't be says the article  the, the rumor is still going around the internet with fans of the Duchess, taking some things a step further after twitchy editor, Greg Pollitt. Suggested Archie could go on to be the president of the United States. Now that would not be that, uh, very far from some of the truths here, because there's another deeper conspiracy here that there's this Royal bloodline of families. Now that's not too farfetched. When you understand that the queen was married to her cousin. her cousin. Right. And there's this whole idea behind keeping their bloodline pure, which is why there's so many incestuous relationships within the Royal family. Right. So that's the, the whole idea behind that. And then you start to bring in things like, uh, you know, the, um, So, so what basically, what it goes on to say here is that prince Harry's kids will be Americans. So, okay. Let me go back to that last thought. So there's basically 42 of 46 presidents, allegedly have some type of connection to each other in their bloodlines. Like if you go back a few little ways on the, the. Uh, tree, uh, the family tree of Barack Obama. You will find George Bush on there. Allegedly you will also find basically almost every president ever like 42 presidents. Allegedly, according to this family tree document that was created is related in one way, shape or form. Now I have not verified it by going in.  creating my own ancestry tree. Uh, but it's a very interesting theory. So that's where that whole idea comes into play, where, you know, uh, what is it, Archie is the name of their child is going to eventually become the president because it would work into that bloodline relation, uh, in the, the whole Royal bloodline way of doing it, which is, you know, putting people into power who have these, these certain traits who are a part of certain families that has been going on for a very long. Allegedly . Um, now let's move on to the next one, which is that the Royals are extraterrestrial shape shifting Illuminati, reptiles  it says the infamous conspiracy theorist, David Ike has long believed and talked up his Illuminati theory that the world is ruled by a secret society made up of the Royals and political and business leaders. Could not be closer to the truth. Honestly, that's the truth is there is absolutely secret societies. There always has been. You go back and you look at, uh, you know, the, um, the time our, our country was founded, it was founded by free masons. 100% founded by free masons, right. And in the Illuminati was a branch off of the free masons and, and the free masons were a branch off of the Knights of Templar. So there's absolutely powerful groups of people that have existed for hundreds of. You cannot argue against that. That has always been going on. There has always been secret societies since the, at least the Knight of Templar. And even prior to that, I believe there was a, a, the Knight of Templar came. Um, there's a whole kind of splitting branch down in historically. Um, but I believe the Knight of Templar was one of the very, very first ones that started and branched into free masonry even later, which is pretty wild. Um, so there, there is absolutely Royal. Families that are a part of these things like Bohemian Grove and you know, which Alex Jones exposed completely. He did a whole documentary on it, right. He went in and like snuck into Bohemian Grove, which is all these weird multi-billionaire corporate owners and political elites. And, um, like presidents that have, have signatures of them being on this weird little boy scout camp where they light this owl, which is allegedly a effigy, some type of like S. This like, uh, you know, straw owl, not a real owl. Um, but it used to be based on some type of, uh, ritualistic way of, of burning some type of being. Um, so that is absolutely truth and factual that has also been. Uh, bench proven should be true with Bohemian and Grove. So backed up. This is not that crazy. Like it sounds so wild when you condense it to a sentence, but then you break these things down and you look at the groups and the societies that have been around for hundreds of thou, like hundreds and thousands of years. Separate words. Um, it's, it's very factually correct. In this case. Now the part about extraterrestrial shape, shifting Illuminati reptiles, I'm not 100% on , but, but the, uh, you know, um, the social groups that are made up of the most powerful people in the world is absolutely a thing. David. I goes on to say that he has proof to back it up. I haven't travel or I have traveled and been to 50 countries and researched it. He once said in an interview, it took the form of meeting people who tell of experiences of seeing people often in positions of power change from human form to reptilian form and back again in front of their eyes. Now, uh, also there's been whispers of some document, uh, that was, or, uh, uh, I don't remember if it was like an email or, or some letter that was found, uh, from princess Diana surround. That was kind of like played down, I believe. And then to, to go on the backs of the whole weird reptilian alien Illuminati thing. We we'll get on that in a second. Um, there's a CIA document talking about the consistent views of these reptilian beings, um, where they explain that they take over human bodies from CIA documents, from remote viewing, which we've done a whole episode on remote viewing in these CIA documents. um, we'll actually look at that in just a moment. So it goes on to say that I have traveled, uh, we just talked about that the hybrids became Demi gods. Um, so it says that these people are basically taken over by these like shadowy reptilian spirits.  it says that they're often in positions of power change from human form reptilian form, and back again in front of their eyes, the hybrids became demigods part human part, God. They were obviously perceived as gods. The hybrid bloodlines were the ones that became the Royal families of the. In Chinese empires, they claim the right to be emperor because they have descended from serpent gods. It is all founded on the myth of dragon and they all came from the reptilian connection to justify the right to rule. He goes on to explain the obsession of interbreeding among Royals and marrying someone close to the family to hold the genetic structure, which we talked about before. Also thinking about the fact that queen Elizabeth and prince Phillip are second cousins right now, the article asks . Yes. Yes. We are thinking that, um, look at the ancient texts and in the Bible, he said, do you really think that the snake in the garden of Eden was really a snake? According to the guardian around 12 million people in the United States also believe that inter stellar lizards in people suits actually rule the country. That's quite a bit of people . Now let's go ahead and look at this remote viewing document from the CIA, because I find this to be quite. Interesting correlations. So remote viewing, if you need the synopsis of the remote viewing, basically the CIA had a program where they were having people who claim to be psychic, sit in a room alone and find themselves beaming their consciousness to different times. Spaces in, in places within the world, in the multiverse. Okay. Now they successfully completed many missions. They, they found, uh, military weapons with this program in, in, it was basically, uh, created and then shut down and built under a different name and then created and then shut down and then built under a different name. Um, but this is a very real thing that the CIA port. So much money into it that they found results and they ran with it. Okay. Um, now one, this is basically notes from one of the remote viewing sessions and they had it happen so consistently, um, that they decided to actually put this in here. Um, so they say there's a picture of a lizard. Now they're doing these like remote viewing sessions and they have pictures of like kimonos. Uh, this isn't the one that I'm looking. . Hmm. So this was a different remote viewing session where they had that, but, okay. So there's the different document. Let's see if I can find it here. CIA, remote viewing, uh, lizard. There's like this, it sounds so wild, but when it's just a weird correlation, right? If, if, if nothing else Um, so let's see if we can find this, cuz I, I, it's a very interesting, uh, interesting correlation between this and the. Royal family. Um, so gimme a second here, but while I'm doing that, let's go ahead and pull this article up. It's it's it's basically David Ike is the one that they were just talking about. And here is the interview that they were discussing there. It was in 2000 that I first discovered David Ike's book. The biggest secret. In it, he writes about a global conspiracy, a hidden hand, manipulating human's destiny through the shadows, using those who seem to be in power and the goal of these shadow people, nothing less than an Orwellian global super state with total control at the hands of an ancient reptilian shape shifting race. So we took a ferry to the is of white to spend the day with David Ike, Britain's leading conspiracy evangelist, and the one man standing between us and total ENS. Hey. Ah, okay, Mr. Right. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Good trip. Yes. Yes. It was welcome to my bode. There's not much to see, but I like it. What have we got here? Well, this is, um, things that I've collected over the years. This is fantastic. Someone in, yeah. Someone in, um, uh, Hawaii. Actually painted this. This is what the painting is. This is the original of the front cover of my last book. Human rays. Get off your knees. The lion sleeps no more. And, uh, I, I, I asked my great friend, uh, an artist called, um, Neil ha to paint this picture for me with particularly those eyes and that's humanity saying no more enough, no more little me. We are not. Anymore in 1991, David Ike didn't believe in secret shape shifting lizard fascist. He was a television celebrity after arthritis had ended a promising career in football, he'd become a broadcaster, but that all ended in one remarkable appearance on the Terry Wogan show. David Ike in a turquoise tracksuit, he'd announced that he was the son of God and the world would be ending that year. It didn't and Ike seemed destined to disappear beneath the typhoon of public laughter. So you see, it's quite, it's quite funny. You know, 2000 years ago had a guy called Jesus, sat here and said these same things, you would still be laughing. It's really, really funny that we've not really moved on that much. They're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you fine, but Ike wouldn't disappear. He began to write and over a series of increasingly successful books, he began to outline his pH. Humankind was not in charge of its destiny. It was the unwitting prisoner of a race of shape, shifting lizards who occupied the roles in the highest echelons of society from presidents to Royal families, all trusted public figures were secretly part of a reptilian STIs pedophile group who had been on this planet for centuries. People began to take notice of Ike and today he spends most of his year preaching to amphitheater's full of. He's still making startling revelations. And recently he declared the moon to be a hollowed out planetoid space station from which our minds are controlled. The lizard's very own death star. Don't mention the reptiles. Don't mention the rep reptiles. Yeah, because there, there were people when this started to come in, people who were kind of into my stuff, uh, up to that point, which was kind of. So let's break this down a little bit because it sounds quite wild as we talk about it, but let's start here. The idea is that article of the, the, literally the, the pictures that he has drawn here is the pictures almost identical to the CIA remote viewing pictures of the shadow reptile person behind the actual person. Okay. Now let's break this down to three different ways. The first way being. Okay. The CIA talks about that being in the remote viewing sessions. One doesn't mean that it's true, but means that it is interesting. Number two, the O our own government Congress has come out to say that there is absolutely UFO or UAP activity of outside entities that have technology that we do not have today. That's number two. Okay. Number three. There's absolutely a pedophile ring of elites that are out there. And then you get deeper down that hole and start reading about adrenal Chrome, right. Using the, these, uh, you know, acts and things to, to do some type of ritualistic weirdness. Okay. So there's absolutely that. Okay. Three out of three. Okay. One being that there's absolutely EP. In the elite pedophile ring, two, being that there is absolutely Congress approved UFOs and UAPs three, being that there is absolutely absolutely without a doubt. Without a doubt. There is CIA documents still on the freedom of information act today on the CIO's own website, showing these reptilian people. Okay. 3, 4, 3 on some type of realistic corroboration between those three little aspects, which are very interesting.  okay. So absolutely absolutely a conversation to be had and they just try to make this guy look loony, but let's go ahead and continue. by, well, it's a bit strange, cause it was all the way the war was manipulated by a few people, but it was all kind of regular stuff. Um, and then I, I came across with this stuff and it just get it outta the way or don't mention the reptiles. They'll they'll they'll just laugh at you again. I said, I know, but I've seen enough and heard enough to believe that it's real. And so I say it, I don't care about the consequences for me. I, they are you frightened? I'm not, I don't care cuz the consequences for the world and my children and my grandchildren and everyone else's. Oh, and by the way, when they caught that pedophile, the one who ran the entire pedophile ring of the Hollywood elites. Oh yeah. He killed himself allegedly inside of his cell, allegedly where all of the video footage allegedly was gone. If you don't think that Epstein sitting on an island somewhere with his reptilian body suit, drinking pina coladas,  maybe not the second part, but the likelihood that that man is still alive and escaped, right. Or. Escaped, right. He absolutely wasn't suicided by some random steroid without guy who was an ex-cop. No, absolutely not. What happened? No way. Epstein didn't kill himself to this day. So just wanted to mention, in case you forgot that point, the one who was running that whole pedophile trafficking ring of Hollywood and political elites, including the Royal family. Allegedly died with no video evidence in a cell that was being washed by security in a maximum security prison. Oh. And by the way, the video footage is gone of, of humans not intervening in this process. That's going on now ever more quickly.  or that we are condemning our children and grandchildren indeed. Ourselves. It's that close to, to a, uh, a world that George Allwell so massively understated. Can we have a look at the where, where the, where the work gets done? Yeah. Where, where, like everything all happens. This is, um, This is where it, it all hang, it happens. And as you can see, it's really small. It is really small. Um, because you know, I look at my life and, and I, I don't see my life as a life anymore. I haven't for a while. I see it as a job. So this is the new one. Yeah. This is the, this is, this is the German version, isn't it? Because the size of it is yeah, 350,000 words that in one book is the scale of information that has come into my life about these things. See, that is not a theory. That is evidence supporting the effect. What was like the first book that really struck you? Because I know there was a couple for me, but I, are you familiar with Robert, Anton Wilson and yeah, and I just liked it because it was funny and it tied a lot of points of interest together and he sort of pointed me in different directions, even though he wasn't really a. Conspiracy theorist trying to say anything. He just, he tied, he, he, he put things together. I never saw, you know, he he'd connect dots that had never occurred to me, which turned me to like, holy blood, holy grail. And some of these other that, I mean, that's that, that you've just hit the nail right on the head of my work and what you need to do to understand what's going on. Connect the dots. See there, there are dots. Pretty sure. We just connected a few of our own dots here, but let's see what dots they connect.  like banking go. All these different things, nine 11, um, which in and of themselves are interesting. And you can see that something's not right, but when you connect the dots between apparently unconnected people and, and situations and organizations, that's when the tapestry appears and you go, whoa. So that's what's happening. David had told us that his first moment of enlightenment had occurred when a voice entered his head while shopping with his son on the. This is the news agent I told you about where basically it all started. I was walking along here and I walked in this door and turned, all right, that's enough. But if I can get David Ike on this podcast, that would be incredible. If you know him, let me know happy to have a conversation with the guy. It is quite, quite the interesting, uh, discussion there, but three for three on some type of corroboration between those three things, aliens, pedophile elites, O and. You know, Jeffrey Epstein and UFOs. Right? All, all of those things could, you know, are different little strings that we have 100% known for a fact is true. Every single one of them.  anyways, there's one of them.  the next thing that we're gonna do. But before we do that, the first thing I needed to do is go ahead and hit that subscribe button. If you didn't do it already, I'm not even gonna ask why I forgive you. I forgive you. Okay. I won't even ask you again, except for the next time that I ask you. But all you gotta do is hit that subscribe button. And the next time that I ask you, you won't feel bad about not doing it. So hit that subscribe button, leave a five star review, head over to red pill, revolution.co, and you can sign up directly under my license for life insurance. No third party ads here, none of that BS, just you making sure that you don't leave your family with a bunch of. When you inevitably die from reptilian aliens taking over the world and you know, I don't know, implanting you with chips. Okay. So just go ahead, head over there right now, before the reptiles take over the world. And I don't know, you know, harvest us for our, our blood. Um, And get some life insurance, cuz then at least if your family's alive still and aren't being harvested, then they get some, some money. So yeah. Do that go  Redfield revolution dot C O. All right. So let's move on to the next one on this list, which is another very deep dive. That's kind of somewhat intertwined into this and we'll get to that and even, uh, just a second here. So the next one on this list is that. The, um, we just talked about that one. The very next one is that queen Elizabeth, the first was actually a farmboy and named Neville. Eh, not that interested in that one, but there is another one that is that prince Charles Prince Charles, the king. Now who took over the quote, the throne. Prince Charles  the king who took over the throne from queen Elizabeth has himself said that he is a descendant of Vlad, the imp inhaler. Okay. Vlad. The impor was a ruler in the 14. I believe 1470s. I have the article up here. Let's go ahead and read a little bit about VD the Impaler. So prince Charles. King now took over the throne of the most powerful entity in the world. The Royal family. Now the king of everything, basically, including Canada, uh, said that he's related to VLA DKU and VLA Dula was also known as Vlad, the impor, which was a ruler during the 14 hundreds. Okay. So says in this article written by all that is interest. Or all that's interesting, the terrifying, true story of lad, the impair histories, real Dracula. But before we do that, let's go ahead and just verify mine claim. And here is prince Charles himself saying that he is related to him at the very end of this video. My journey will take me through the foothills where ancient villages survive, practically unchanged, despite Romania's stamped towards modernization. Romania being modern day Sylvania, actually, which apparently is a real thing. So here, here he is discussing this with prince Charles and he says that he's related to him in like, almost this like weird little, Ooh, like telling him something like he's, he's cool for it. So here it is. Ancient of Carpe is medieval villages and his Royal Highness prince Charles, who can trace his ancestry back to Romania's dark and distant past. The genealogy shows that I descended from Vladis. So, how do you have a bit of a stake in the country as it were? The genealogy shows that I'm. Somewhat related to VLA the empower, like how creepy does he sound? And like, he's like just shoving it in your face that he's married to this, like literally comparable to like gang con. Right. Which I guess most people are related to gang con like a vast present like's. 20% of people are some way shape or form related to gang is con uh, but not VLA the Impaler in anybody who does, uh, probably doesn't say it that creepy, but VLA, the Impaler, if you didn't know, was basically who was based off of, or the, the novel Dracula was based off of. So it says in this article responsible for killing 80,000 people in impaling 20,000 Vlad, Dracula committed some of the world's Grizzlies as ruler in the 15th century. In 1897 writer, Bram Stoker published the novel Dracula, the classic story of the vampire named counter Dracula, who feeds on human blood, hunting his victims and killing them in the dead of night. The counter Dracula in the book, which contemporary critics described as the most blood curdling novel of the century was Stoker's own creation. But many believe the blood thirsty villain was partly inspired by Vlad the inhaler, the terrifying ruler of Wach. Part of present day Romania in the mid 14 hundreds Vlad, the third earned his fearsome nickname from impaling more than 20,000 people and killing as many as 60,000 others during his bloody reign, he was even said to dine among his impaled enemies and dip his bread in their blood. Now that's not just. Said to be. There's literally like F factual depictions of him doing so in paintings that were done of him, literally feasting at a table with all of these dead people around him and having a, a cup or a Golet full of their blood that he was drinking. And, and the people were like very, uh, disgusted by this, but there's actually like artists who sat and painted these scenes from my understanding of, of. Uh, actually happening. So it says that because of the historical record is so often spotty, when it comes to the story of led the impor, uh, we know only that he has here, he was born between 1920 or fourteen, twenty eight and 1431, a three time, uh, or, or a time of unrest in will. Walachia what the hell? Walachia what kind of name is that? His mother, the queen came from Mulian Royal family and his father was Vlad II Jaco, a surname that translates to dragon. Hmm. Very interesting comparison there between that last article that we read and was given to, uh, to Vlad the, the second after his induction into a Christian crusading order known as the order of the dragon. Interesting young Vlad had two brothers Marcia and redu due to Wachs proximity to the waring factions of Christian ruled Europe in the Muslim ruled Ottoman empire. Draco's territory was the site of constant turmoil in 1442. The Ottomans called for a diplomatic meeting and invited Vlad. Dr. Cool. He saw an opportunity to educate his young sons in the art of diplomacy. So he brought VLA to the third and redo with. But JCU. And his two sons were captured and held hostage by the Ottoman diplomats. Instead, the captures told him that he would be released, but he had to leave his sons JCU believing that it was the safest option for his family. Agreed. Fortunately for VLA II and his brother during their time as hostages, the two princes received lessons in science philosophy and the art of war. It's an interesting way to treat. Enemy. However things were far worse, back home, a coup orchestrated by local war Lords, known as the Bayo over through Jaco in 1447, he was killed in the swamps behind his home while his oldest son was tortured, blinded and beared alive. Wow. That's horrible. V glad the third was freed soon after his family's death. And at the time he began to use the name VLA D. Meaning son of the dragon when he returned to Walachia, he transformed into a violent ruler soon, earning his moniker, VLA the inhaler in disturbing fashion. Uh, now this is going on to show the images of what I was talking about. Um, the actual drawings that were made, and there's like a bunch of people up on stakes and him sitting there at a table with a goblet with, uh, bread and meat, um, and all of these people with their. Arms and extremities being severed from their bodies. So there's that, um, it says here, this is going on about the, how glad the Impaler took power and embraced brutality. It says in 1448, FLA returned to Walachia to take back the throne. The man who had taken his father from the man who had taken his father's place, he succeeded, but after just a few months, the disposed Vladislav returned and took back the. But in 1456, Vlad returned with an enemy or with an army and support for Hungary and was able to take the throne from Vladislav for a second time. Legend has it that Vlad personally beheaded his rival Vladislav on the battlefield. And once he was back on his father's throne, again, his reign of terror truly. Began some historians believe his family's horrific deaths were that what turned of VLA? The third into Vlad techies, the original Romanian for Vlad, the impor some accounts state that VLA was subjected to beatings and torture during his imprisonment during the, under the Ottomans, which may also be where he learned the tradition of impaling enemies. Soon after he took his throne back flat had enemies of his own to deal with some of the Walachia considered Vladislav. The second, a better leader, which caused uprisings in villages across the region. The returning Monarch knew he had to assert his dominance over the people. So he decided to host a banquet and invite his opposition. It didn't take long before the festivities turned bloody Vlad's dissenting guests were stabbed to death and their still twitching bodies were impaled on spike. And from there Vlad's violent reputation only continued to grow as he defended his throne and devastated his enemies time and time again, via the grizzly methods imaginable. Wow. So. Quite quite the guy, this is a fairly long article, but it's definitely worth the read. It goes into more about Vladi and Paylor, it talks about, uh, basically what his reign was was after that. Um, so let's, let's read a little bit more of this then we'll move on to one of the last ones here, but there is an interesting, uh, theme here between snakes and dragons and reptilian people and blood and, uh, you know, Royal families. VLA the impor was an undeniable brutal, undeniably brutal ruler. Nevertheless, much of Christian Europe supported his strong, uh, if Mac Abra defense of Walachia from various incursions, from Muslim Ottoman forces. In fact, even Pope P expressed admiration for the notoriously violent rulers, military feats, a threat to Europe was deemed a threat to Kristen dome and therefore the. Though the real Dula bought some stability and protection to a vulnerable region. VLA. The third was still seemingly, uh, relishing in his own brutality during one of his successful campaigns against the Ottomans in Turks in 1462, Vlad wrote the following to one of his allies. He says I have killed peasants men and women old and young who lived and were the, uh, so there's just these names here. So lived at Olu SITA. So it's O B L U C I T Z a and N O V O S E L O U. Pronounce it. Then tell me I'm doing a bad job and we can talk from there.  cause I don't know who is pronouncing those correctly where the Deba flows. Sea. He, we killed 23,884 Turks without counting those whom we burned in homes or the Turks whose heads were cut by our soldiers. Thus your Highness. You must know that I have broken the peace. The Turks gave him nickname, Kaza, clue bay, meaning impaling prince. So quite, quite the interesting thing to boast about that you're, uh, you know, a ruler of a now the king of the throne, right? The, the king of England is bragging that he's related to a vicious, bloody killer who alleged. Drank the blood of his victims and went through a secret order that discussed dragons all while, you know, David Dyke is crazy for saying anything about the, uh, the, the race here . So it was just, you know, maybe some interesting, uh, strings to pull, not saying I believe any of this, but there's very some, there's some very bizarre correlations when you start to look into the valid validation of the moving parts in all of this, which we already kind of discuss. right. So pretty, pretty bizarre. Um, and on that note, I had to do a quick episode for you guys talking about some of these things, because I find them to be extremely interesting correlations and intertwining of the conspiracy world, the historical world, and in many cases, CIA documents and you know, things that Congress is talking about. Take that information and do with it as you please. But I would like you to know that there's some very interesting things going on here. All right. Now that is all we have for today. But again, I appreciate you so much. Thank you so much for listening. Um, God, or what do you say? Uh, you know, God bless the king. Do we say king now? Or do we say queen? I don't know. God bless the reptilian family of incestuous people who protect pedophiles and could be controlled by interdimensional beings, according to some people. And on that note, have a great night guys. .

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The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references: https://www.pensthorpe.com/about-us-history/https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/business/why-running-pensthorpe-near-fakenham-makes-you-feel-good-by-1395106https://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/content/articles/2008/05/23/springwatch_jordans_interview_20080523_feature.shtml Leading the flock are the enigmatic owners of Pensthorpe; Bill and Jordan. Prior to purchasing Pensthorpe in 2003, the couple lived in Bedfordshire where Deb had a successful career in fashion and photography, and Bill ran Jordans, the hugely successful cereal business he co-founded with his brother.Wanting to raise their two children in Deb's native Northfolk, they jumped at the chance to buy Pensthorpe and combine Bill's knowledge of sustainable farming practices with their longstanding love of nature.They've been part of the landscape ever since. Transcriptions: Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. In today's episode, I speak with Bill and Deb Jordan, owners of Pensthorpe. Bill and Deb share the heartwarming highs and lows of creating this multi-award-winning tourist attraction. Have a listen in to find out what part Bill Oddie played in it all. If you like what you hear, subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue.Kelly Molson: Bill and Deb, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today. It's absolutely lovely to see you both. We're going to start off with a few small icebreaker questions just to get us warmed up. So we're going to talk a little bit about cereal today. It's going to be part of the conversation. I want to know, what has been the worst food that you've both ever eaten?Bill Jordan: Oh, my word. I think school food didn't exactly do much for us.Kelly Molson: School dinners?Deb Jordan: One of my flatmates once complained that I had a tin of meatballs in the fridge that was open. So now I realise that many moons ago, I did used to eat badly in London.Kelly Molson: All right. Tins of cold meatballs in the fridge. To be fair, I quite like cold beans straight out of the tin.Bill Jordan: Oh, really.Kelly Molson: So I'd probably go for the cold meatballs, actually.Bill Jordan: Yeah.Kelly Molson: I might be all right with that. Let's go for your unpopular opinions.Deb Jordan: An unpopular opinion. I get very wound up about spin. I really do go off on one. It could be about anything where people actually say, so they pick up on something like children using mobile phones. Therefore, they will say that their business prevents that, and it's all to do with the fact that X, Y, Z. I just get frustrated when people use something that they've heard of in the press that is good for people. Even if it's like a cereal packet where it's saying this is healthy for you. Probably because I'll know that Bill will tell me exactly how many calories it's got in it. It's all a load of rubbish. But that is an opinion I get very wound up about. I hope I don't then fall into the frame of actually being accused of doing the same thing.Bill Jordan: I think when I heard the question, I got slightly concerned that I'd reached a sort of age where I didn't even recognise whether the views are unpopular or not.Kelly Molson: We're all getting there, Bill. Oh, I love that. Well, that's a good opinion to have. I wouldn't say that's very unpopular, but I think that's a good opinion to have.Bill Jordan: Might be the definition of being out of touch.Kelly Molson: I doubt that very much considering what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about Pensthorpe today. I mean, I think it's one of Norfolk's best-kept secrets. Whenever I talk about Pensthorpe, I have been describing it to people recently and telling them how fabulous it is, and they go, "I've never been there. We go to Norfolk quite a lot." And I'm like, "Right. Well, you have to go there now." So I've convinced at least 10 people recently that Pensthorpe is top of their list of places to go. It's just phenomenal.Kelly Molson: But, I want to know what were your backgrounds prior to Pensthorpe? Because they're very different. They weren't in the attractions industry at all, were they?Deb Jordan: No, not at all. I think Bill needs to lead on that one.Bill Jordan: Okay. Well, mine, for about 30 ... Probably more years than that. I'd founded and was running with my brother a breakfast cereal company. I guess you'd call it such a natural food company in the days when there was a natural food movement. There was quite a reaction against factory food, which of course still goes on today. So my background was much more about food and land use and farming practice and local food and nutrition and all of those things, which I still find very fascinating. Although, thankfully, I'm not that closely involved as I used to be, because it's hard work.Kelly Molson: I can imagine that's hard work. Did you come from a farming background prior to that? Did you grow up in that environment?Bill Jordan: Yeah. We all grew up at on a flour mill, which still exists in Bedfordshire. Our mum still lives there. She's 96.Kelly Molson: Oh, wow.Bill Jordan: She's lived in the same house for over 70 years. Yeah, we were lucky. We got brought up as kids kind of above the shop, really. It was a mill that made white flour. It made brown flour. It made animal feed. It was an interesting place to live. A lot going on.Kelly Molson: Wow. You were kind of in it, right? You lived and worked there?Bill Jordan: Yeah. School holidays, you had to bag up animal feed or pack flour or something. It was kind of went with living there, really.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Deb, what about you? What's your background?Deb Jordan: Well, I was very lucky to be born and live in Ringstead in Norfolk, which is only about 20 minutes, 25 minutes drive away. My dad was a farmer on the Le Strange Estate. The farm ran at the back of old Hunstanton. Yeah, idyllic. In the summer holidays, we were very lucky to just be out, left to just roam. I think actually once I ran away. I found a really nice spot to sit for the day. And by about 7:00 PM, I thought, "Actually, nobody cares. Nobody's noticed." And that did actually really make me laugh. I remember saying to my mum when I got back, "Did you not know? Did you not notice I'd run away? So she'd, "No. I know you went out in a very mad mood. But no, I hadn't noticed yet, darling. The good thing is you were hungry and here you are."Deb Jordan: I just remember thinking, "Gosh, when you look back, how lucky that was." It sort of made you stand on your own two feet. You used to get involved with a bit of wild oat picking and have jumps around the farm, around the house. But sadly ... I say sadly because it didn't really suit me. I was sent away to boarding school quite a long way away and was rather rebellious and unhappy, but a very privileged start. I think that probably stays with you forever about the nature and the fun. There's so much to explore, and you don't really need too much else other than a bicycle and the nature to make a very happy childhood.Kelly Molson: Oh God, that's really lovely. Ringstead is a very beautiful place as well. There's a lovely pub there called The Gin Trap that I've been to a number of times. Yes.Deb Jordan: Spent a lot of my youth in The Gin Trap. Yes. Sipping gin and orange or something ghastly with a boyfriend from cross lake.Kelly Molson: Oh, what a lovely, so that's really nice to hear, actually. I didn't realise how kind of embedded nature had been into both of your childhoods really, which I guess brings us to Pensthorpe. And you purchased it in, it was in 2003, wasn't it? And it was originally a bird reserve. What made you make the jump into buying something like this and you know, how did that happen?Bill Jordan: Well, it was a very unusual day when we first got to see the Pensthorpe, we had the children were, I don't know, kind of able to walk by that time. And we had a day in wandering around Pensthorpe.Deb Jordan: Six and eight.Bill Jordan: Six and eight. There you go. I'm no good at it. So we had a day looking around Pensthorpe which kind of came out of the blue and no, I think we were sort of rather bowled over, knocked out by it all. It was, the kids was surprisingly quiet and reflective. We were having a good time and we'd read somewhere that it was possibly up for sale. So when we were walking out of Pensthorpe, we asked the lady behind the counter, "Is it still for sale? Has it been sold?" And they said, "Well, you better go and speak to that gentleman over there. That's Bill Mackins." And we did. And then we kind of got pulled into the whole site. Yes that's how it happened.Deb Jordan: It was actually, Bill had been looking for some years. He was always interested in properties for sale in Norfolk. I think he may have been thinking that his connection with Jordan's and conservation and great farming and that he, I think he was already feeling he needed to put his money where his mouth was and start something to do with food in the countryside. A bit like the sort of taste of north, but type thing I think was going on in the back of his head. So he was often buzzing around on the bicycle looking and when Pensthorpe came up, I actually saw it and he was looking at my magazine and I said, "No way, no, no, no." So actually then we were visiting Norfolk because we did a lot with our children to see my parents and it sort of came to that.Deb Jordan: Well, why don't we just go and look? And I really wasn't very on board at all, but I have to admit that once here it's an extraordinary site and it sort of pulls you in. It's a place that you sort of, not too sure why, but you feel very connected to it. And I think that it really surprised us that day that it took us in and it took us along and then meeting the owner and him connecting with the children. It must have been about this time of year because then obviously the birds molt and there was a lot of feathers that the children have just spent the whole time looking for feathers and putting them in a bag. And we had to sort of say to the owner, look, we haven't been plucking your birds. This whole collection is then explaining to us the molting, that how at this time of the year, everything, all the ducks and geese use their feathers and can't fly.Deb Jordan: So they're all on the ground. And it's extraordinary at the moment how we've got hundreds of gray legs and geese all sitting, waiting for that time where the feathers have grown through and they can then take off again. But it was just that he then had some peacock feathers and said, "Look here kids take these home." And he knew my dad. So he was saying that he had known my dad before he died. And so there was a sort of an immediate connection there. And then I think he could see that Bill was very interested. And then he suggested before we left, because we'd asked about it being up to sale, he told us that it'd fallen through and he suggested that Bill meet somebody called Tim Neva, that was working in Cambridge and was working locally. And that sort of rather started the ball rolling. Yeah.Bill Jordan: Yes. I think another sort of link had been the fact that with Jordan, so amongst other things, we'd done quite a lot of work on the supply chain for the cereals. So we were working by then with quite a lot of farmers who were quite conservation minded and were putting habitats onto their farm for increasing wildlife and doing all of those sort of things, which of course was being done at Pensthorpe. So it was an aspect of what we'd been used to in the food industry. And it was done being done very well here at Pensthorpe. So yeah, that's kind of how it fitted in as well.Kelly Molson: What a wonderful story. You went to visit and then ended up buying the place. I love that.Bill Jordan: Well, it was bit of a shock. It wasn't kind of on the cards that's for sure.Deb Jordan: No, I think it was funny things to, you could have looked back and at the time I think we could see the beauty of the place, the fact that you thought, oh my goodness, Nancy's bringing up a family here and getting connected to all this and the bird life and everything else. I think what probably happened, which was, in hindsight, wasn't so good was that this connection with somebody that was a very good salesperson on behalf of filmmakers, who was saying I'll bring my family from Brisbane in Australia because they ran the Mariba wetland out there. So I can run this for you. So we actually spent a lot of time working with Tim prior to buying it and hearing how he was going to bring his wife and do the total daily running of the place. And that it would be Deb, you can get involved in the hub and bringing in crafts people and local produce and local gift and Bill can get involved in farm when we see him, because it's going to, you were still at George.Deb Jordan: And it wasn't. So we signed on the dotted line up on December 20th, 2002. And about three weeks, four weeks later, we had a phone call from Tim Neva there about saying, "I'm really sorry, but my wife, my boys are older than I thought. They're very at home in Queensland. And Gwyneth doesn't feel that it's actually something she could do at the minute, but I will be very supportive and I will come and be helpful." So that was a big shock. And so we put the house up for sale and pretty well moved during Jan, Feb, March 2003.Bill Jordan: I think within about 10 weeks, poor Deborah had to move the children from one school to another and make sure he got some housing. You trying to sell the housing you're in Bedfordshire. So it was a bit of a traumatic time.Kelly Molson: Oh my goodness.Bill Jordan: Amusingly, our children, children. They're big. Now they remind us every now and then that what we put them through and shouldn't we be guilty. We have to take it on the chin every time they raise it.Kelly Molson: I bet. I mean, that's incredible. Isn't it? So you, so suddenly you've gone from, oh, okay, well we're going to do this, but we've got someone that will manage it for us to that's it. They're not coming and you are in it. This is your deal. You've got to do it. So Bill, were you still juggling Jordans at the same time? So you had,Bill Jordan: Yeah.Kelly Molson: You had both responsibilities.Bill Jordan: Jordans were still going full ball. Yeah.Kelly Molson: How did you manage that?Bill Jordan: Well the usual thing, I handed it over to the lady on my left here.Kelly Molson: Of course.Bill Jordan: We done most of it since then.Kelly Molson: Wow, Deb. That was, so that was not what you were expecting at all. And then suddenly you've had to completely change your life, move your children, move them to school, move home, and now you are managing a bird reserve.Deb Jordan: Yeah, we were very naive and it was a struggle. Yeah. I think we're both quite resilient and there really wasn't much that could be done other than let's just crack on. And just try and keep really focused and learn from all the people that were already here. And Tim was definitely in the mix, but I hadn't realised that it would mean moving that quickly or looking for somebody to manage it. It was pretty full on to suddenly find yourself as the person. They had an amazing book in the shop, which was all the garden and it was wildlife of the waterfowl of the world. And I remember putting it under my bed and got some binoculars and looked out at the lake every morning to see what was on there to identify what we'd got.Deb Jordan: And then it was such a small team. There was just four ladies in the shop that ran seven days. Two of them did. You know, and we had about two, two wardens or yes on the farm banding Paul and you know, it was, it was just a very small team and they were really helpful and they explained what I was meant to be doing what happened. And then Tim came and went and we sort of, and it grew. We didn't really have much of a plan I don't suppose. Bill kept saying to me all along whenever I said, "Look, we need a five or a 10 year plan." Or we just sort of, it evolved. We worked with the team and we started to sort of move slightly more towards trying to, we realised our kids aren't kids all get nature you don't have to explain it to them.Deb Jordan: It's just ingrained in them. So we realised we haven't got any young members. That everybody was older and more bird related. We'd really upset one or two of them who wrote in, we just, we had a woman that would offer to become a volunteer here. And she was a fabulous lady and she'd actually been GM at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. And she said, "Look Deb it's really important. We need to get more of a younger generation here. And so what we're going to do is we're going to do play. I worked at Fowl and Wetlands trust. And they did Wellie Boot Land and I'll eat my hat if it doesn't work." And Bill said, "I'll eat my hat if it does work." So we had to park Bill, luckily because Bill went home every Monday night, we'd sort of work on it quietly, Veronica, I and Mark, as to how we were going to get round Bill.Deb Jordan: But by actually investing in an outdoor play area that was as though it was in the water as though it was a nature child. We encouraged people to bring their kids so that by getting them further out into the park, they could learn more about nature. But actually sometimes I think it's the parents that you have to encourage to come to a nature reserve, because they sort of think, what am I going to do with the kids and the kids actually get it and love it. So and one or two of the members that sort of said, I'm sorry, but we are now dropping out. We think that you are making a big mistake. I'm pleased to say that I bumped into the grandparents one day who said, look, I'm going to own up we're the people that wrote to you and were very rude, but this is Dudley and he's our grandson and we can't get enough enjoyment and make enough lovely memories with Dudley. So we forgive you.Kelly Molson: Oh, that's so nice.Deb Jordan: Yeah.Bill Jordan: So we found quite a lot of the heavy duty birders might have started a bit nervous when they saw children's play and different things happening. But yeah, just as Deb explains, after a bit, they realised that yeah, they got grandchildren and here was somewhere that worked for them and you know, actually got to a couple more levels of generations within their family. So we were lucky there. And within the year I told Deb that it was all my idea anyway.Deb Jordan: As you do.Bill Jordan: As I like to.Kelly Molson: It's interesting because earlier you used the word reflective about Pensthorpe and that's very much how I felt when I visited there. And what I found really interesting is that the children's play areas because now you have an indoor play area and the outdoor play area, they have been designed so well that they don't detract from that reflective feeling. Does that make sense? Like I could, I came on my own, I didn't bring my daughter, but I could still see how you could bring your children there and just have the most brilliant day of fun. But it is still a very calm and peaceful. It has a very calm and peaceful energy to it, the place that, and that's, I think that really comes through the minute you arrive. That's that's how I felt.Deb Jordan: Yeah. I think when we tried to look at the site, which is really unique, because it's got so many different habitats and we sort of said to ourselves, "So how can we best use this?" And I think what we've tried to do is just like the play, which looks very natural. We've tried to continue the journey and so that you leave the play and then you head towards the wetland area. But there is a diversion where at the top of the Sandhill, there's in the wood, on the top of the Sandhill, overlooking the lake, there's this amazing den building area. And when you go up there you know very well that this is a family affair. There's no way that the kids have done the den building, but you pass through an area where we cut into the wetland and put a big ponder thing.Deb Jordan: And then we sort of take you further along to a wood at the end where if a huge tree has fallen in the middle of it Richard leaves it there. And then the root base is all explained as to what's going on there, wildlife and we mow a path to it. So you can actually know that you're meant to get on the tree and run along the trunk. And, and I think, in fact we had a meeting here two weeks ago, Eco Attractions and they were saying, which was the best thing I'd heard, best acclaim I'd had. They said, "We've been out there Deb. And we sort of get what you're talking about, that you come across all this wild play, this just natural what's there is being used to tell a story, but have fun with. And we think that the best way of explaining you is a bit like the lost gardens of Halligan." Well boy, that was-Bill Jordan: We didn't mind that at all.Deb Jordan: We didn't mind that.Kelly Molson: That is perfect.Deb Jordan: What we are trying to do is keep the natural, but just encourage people to go out and get further and further from the hub with the trails that Natalie does and her team, which is so brilliant.Kelly Molson: Yeah, it definitely comes across. So that is a perfect description of how I felt when I was there. I want to go back a little bit though, because we've kind of jumped forward. Let's go back to 2008 because you get a call from Springwatch. That must have been pretty exciting at the time. What did that do for the venue?Bill Jordan: Well, perhaps even before answering that, you ought to hear how it actually happened.Kelly Molson: Okay. Ooh, share!Bill Jordan: To tell you about a conversation we had with.Deb Jordan: Yeah. We'd been told that Bill Oddie wanted to come to Pensthorpe for his really wild show. And he was here specifically to look at corn crakes, which we were breeding and releasing with the RSPB and [inaudible 00:24:25] isn't it? And so he came and I hadn't really seen much of him because he'd been whisked away and he'd met the agriculturalist and the team and looked at the corn crakes and then he'd had a little wander as Bill does. And then he came back to the hub and I thought, oh, I'm not very good at selling myself, but there is nobody else. You just got to do this. I went out with my camera and I just said, look I'm Deb Jordan, and I hope you don't mind. Could I take your photos for our newsletter because it's so exciting to have you here.Deb Jordan: And he did this amazing sort of thumbs up picture and he said, "I'm going to do this. And then you can write the copy dead because I absolutely love this place. You can say whatever you like and I'll be happy." Yeah. And it was about three weeks after that, when he'd gone that we received a letter to say, Bill Oddie has put you forward as a possible site for the next move at Springwatch. So I think they'd only done three years in the farm in Devon.Bill Jordan: They had. Yeah.Deb Jordan: And so they felt, and then with it, since then they've moved, I think almost every three years. So when I got this letter, I turned to Martin and said, this is special. Put it under my pillow and it stayed there.Bill Jordan: Until they said, "Yes."Deb Jordan: It stayed there until, until we'd heard we've got it.Kelly Molson: Oh, that's amazing. Well done Bill Oddie. Thumbs up to Bill Oddie. So what, but what did that do that must have brought so much attention to the attraction?Deb Jordan: It was amazing for us because although we can hear sky larks on the hill, above the scrape and we can hear our wildlife and we see our wildlife, it was fantastic for us to really get a grip. But when you see those nests that these guys are so clever and professional about finding, and I remember taking the children to school one day and on the way, hearing Terry Wogan talking about the little ring lovers that had been seen the night before at Pensthorpe on the way to scrape. And I just have pulled into a laid iron with banging my head against the wheel think, oh my God, doesn't get any better than Terry Wogan talking about little ring lovers at Pensthorpe. But it was fabulous. It allowed people to see the breadth of everything, wildlife and habitat wise because it is unusual because we've got the river that runs straight right through the middle. We've got farmland and we've a farm that's running. We've got wetland, we've got gardens, we've got-Bill Jordan: It's 50 acres of lake.Deb Jordan: There's just every sort of habitat you could really want. And I think that allowed people to sort of think, well, that honey little place that we hear about might be worth a visit. So it did help put us on the map.Bill Jordan: I think we all learned quite a lot from it having us when I think there was probably up to 50, 60 people on site producing and one of the sort of excitements of the day for us was that we'd all been pulled back to the cafe building here, which they'd taken over and had about 40 different TV screens and monitors there. And we could see exactly all the bits that they filmed during the day and the night and all the bits that were current from being talked about and the interviews that were happening. Just to see the whole program put together a that end of the day, which was fascinating. And just the way they handled it and the way the sort of information they imparted to audiences is just, no, it was very clever, very clever indeed.Kelly Molson: Was it strange to see the place that you live on the telly?Deb Jordan: Very strange. In fact, one day, I can't quite remember what had happened, but because for eight o'clock they go live. I think it was something like a Muntjack in my garden. It was upsetting me. So I ran as I usually do, got my saucepan and banged my saucepan and prop people. Oh no. You know, and somebody said the next day, what was that noise we had to sort of cover up? But yeah, to tuck into the television, knowing, I mean, some nights we'd creep down and hide or be allowed quite close, but to have those people, to have Kate Humble here, Bill Oddie and then Bill Oddie swapped with Chris Packham. So to have Chris here for a couple of years and yeah, it was very, very special and-Bill Jordan: It was quite a good set for them. They used to, where we're sitting right now, just below us was a sort of room that was completely derelict. So the whole, all of these five cottages here were derelict and poor BBC took pity on us and put a few glass windows and things. And so we wouldn't look too impoverished.Kelly Molson: How kind of them.Bill Jordan: Very kind of them. Yeah.Kelly Molson: I want to ask a little bit, and it's something that you talked about right at the beginning where you said where you grew up, you kind of lived and worked and again now is where you live, and you work. How difficult is it for you to make that work in terms of your kind of like work life balance? Because you are kind of immersed in your business from the minute you wake up in the morning.Deb Jordan: Yeah.Bill Jordan: That not the clever bit, is it? It is hard work. It's quite hard work. And it needs to be mentioned just in case anyone else gets vague and puts their name down for a similar thing. It is hard work and you need to get on well with people and yeah, you are seven days a week, which is how an operation like this has to go. You've got people on site quite a lot of the day when they go home at five o'clock we get the park to ourselves and we can wander around.Deb Jordan: Yeah, I think even as far as the work side of thing, when I look out at the window, I'll immediately think, wow. How lucky. This is extraordinary. And then I'll immediately think all the things that I haven't yet achieved or are on my list for this week that's never long enough. And I think that, on its own, would've been enough. I think, to go through some of the hiccups that life throws to the whole COVID thing, the avian flu thing, those make you pause and really think. That was tough. So we've had some brilliant times, some really big successes, but those things sort of leave you slightly wounded. But there again you've got a big team and everybody's been through the same thing. The whole world has had to reorganise and regroup and move on.Deb Jordan: So yeah, I think that looking forward, one needs to be optimistic that we probably had our fair share of things that haven't really gone our way recently. But on the other hand, there's an awful lot to look forward to. And we've just done the new rebranding and we're very lucky with our marketing team that they totally understand this product. And when you've got a team behind you like that are so inspired by the site and are able to get that message across for all generations, whatever bit it is, whatever age you are, whether it's gardens or birds or families. It's a place for people to come and make memories. And thankfully, hopefully we are now, hopefully COVID is now a thing of the past and sadly avian flu won't be because it's still out there. And it's sort of becoming a real problem. You know, it hasn't really gone away this year for the UK even on Springwatch, we were watching the problems they've got in Scotland at the minute and even slightly closer to home again. So it is something that we are aware of and that we have to sort of rethink going forward, how, how you know, that we work with what we've got.Bill Jordan: We do. But I think we've also sort of figured out that actually there is even more sort of requirement, demand, whatever you call it for getting out there. And nature in its best form and walking and space and all of those things seem to be even more important to a lot of the visitors we talk to.Deb Jordan: Yeah. I think it definitely focused us on what is so special about this place? It's the freedom, it's the feeling of wellness out there, feeling of being able to put things that are worrying you that week away when you come to Pensthorpe. You get out there and you get diverted by the beauty of the place. You know, COVID was really problematic for everybody. I had started six months of chemotherapy in January 2020. So it was going into Norridge weekly for my chemo. So then when the country locked down, I would be sort of driving all with sweet leaf on the bad week. Somebody would be kind enough to drive me and whether it was with my daughter or whoever was kind enough to come with me, it seemed odd to be out on the roads.Deb Jordan: Because the first lock down, there was no one anywhere and you'd get to the hospital and the nurses were amazing, but concerned obviously. It was new to us all. So seeing them afraid but resilient and just pushing on whatever. It was a very unusual time and we did do some furlough, so it was very quiet here because we'd have like one warden in and one avian came and the gardener stayed and the maintenance guy stayed, but everybody in the hub was gone. It was a very extraordinary thing to know that our visitors sadly had no access and were really needing it. There were some very ill people that I was coming across in hospital that were really totally needing nature at that time. And they weren't allowed out in it. So that also, it was a time of sort of looking and seeing, and then the wonderful thing was when we were able to open up, just knowing that at last you could open the doors and people could do what they had so badly been wanting to do and get here and get back outside.Deb Jordan: And so we were very lucky that there was no fear from people that they would come and might get COVID here because there's so much space, as soon as we'd managed to alter the way into the park and get them through quickly. Yeah, sure. It was very rewarding to allow people to.Bill Jordan: Some people were very cautious, wouldn't they, for quite a long time for all the obvious reasons and all worked well.Kelly Molson: Gosh, you've really been through some very big highs and some very big lows there. Haven't you thank you for sharing that with us, Deborah and I'm really glad to see that you are recovered and enjoying your beautiful place again today. So let's talk about the future then, because we've talked loads about what's happened and what, what you've been through the venue has just won some really phenomenal awards. And I have to mention, so you were winners of the Large Visitor Attraction of the Year and winners of the Marketing Camp Campaign of the Year at the East of England Tourism Awards. But you also, you just won a bronze at a very large attractions award, very large toys of award didn't you?Deb Jordan: Yes, we did. We were absolutely thrilled. Yes. We couldn't quite believe that because we'd achieved winner of the east. Then I think they put all the winners of the east and maybe others as well, all the other regions. So you get put into a pot and then the whole thing starts again. And somebody from the nationally won then comes out and looks so you don't know when they're going to come or when they've been. But when we heard that we've been put through, that was extremely exciting. Yeah. To go to Birmingham with the team and accept that award. We had some huge competition with Chester Zoo and actually public actually.Kelly Molson: Oh yes.Bill Jordan: Some pretty huge sort of attractions. So we felt we'd done well to get in that sort of elevated company.Kelly Molson: Yeah. It's wonderful. It was so fabulous to see you get that, get that prize. I was really thrilled for you all. So what next? You've just had a beautiful rebrand and may I say also a beautiful website and it's really, you are in a really wonderful position of kind of exciting new things happening. So what's the plans for the venue?Deb Jordan: Well, I think, the site itself is always going to need investment. Whether it be a cafe which has got a kitchen that needs work on, we're looking at how to get visitors further afield of more exciting things. But those would probably be more about a planning application. We've been working on a new sculpture garden, which is absolutely in its infancy at the moment. And the whole idea is actually to try and encourage sculptors to loan work. So that we've been buying sculpture on a yearly basis, which the visitors seem to love. I often come across the stag with people, with their children sitting on it or the wild boar or whatever it is. And we've just got the new fantasy wide ferry and the dandelions, which are a huge, seem to be pleasing everybody.Deb Jordan: But the whole idea about that garden is actually to try and so that we can, when we've progressed it a little bit further, we can take photos and say to people, look it's not that we wanting to become a sculpture park, but we'd like for our members to be able to see other people's sculpture here, that they could have the opportunity to buy. So that's something that we're working on and it's very much in its infancy.Bill Jordan: There's a sort of ongoing program with reintroductions, which is pencil QNS. We've got a very good agricultural team led by Christy. And yeah, we're working with the MOD, ministry of defense, who are collecting eggs from various different air fields around the east of England. We're then incubating the eggs here, looking after the chicks until they're ready to be released in the washes or Ken Hill farm, which features in spring wash at the moment or this spring anyway. So yeah, there's a lot of that work goes on, which again our visitors, like they can't see a huge amount of it because obviously it's all got to be bio secure, but it's something they like to feel that they're supporting. And it's sort of something that suits the area and yeah, it's something fortunate that some members of the team here are very good at. So yeah, that continues a pace. What else?Deb Jordan: I think it's probably now sitting with the team and working on a more five, 10 year plan where we all know exactly where we're going and we are trying to just even become more wild. It's just trying to find that happy balance of people with giving them something to do that actually helping them want to get their kids further out into.Bill Jordan: Yeah. And there is a lot of space here. We keep going on about that. But you know, the reserve itself is probably 200 acres, but you've got in total more like 500 and we take the discovery tours, land Rover tours out onto the farmland where we're, the wardens are working hard on the habitats there, fulfill encouraging more biodiversity and more wildlife out in that part of the reserve as well. So yeah, it's all part of the same thing and I don't know that we're going to run out things to do.Kelly Molson: No, I think Deb's to-do list is getting longer by the minute. Isn't it? Thank you. This has been so lovely to talk to you. I would implore all of our listeners to please go and visit Pensthorpe because it is a really magical place. Bill Oddie was absolutely right about it. We were at the end of the podcast and we always ask our guests to recommend a book that they love. So it can be something that you've found useful for your career. It can be something that you just love from a personal perspective.Deb Jordan: Well mine, the one I'd suggest that everybody should read, is Fingers In the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham. I think it may have won best book in the wildlife somewhere. But it's a very remarkable, raw. It gets absolutely into the vulnerability of people with Asperger's. And so Chris did this extraordinary program on television, which was Asperger's and me. And I was amazed by that and how he put himself into that position of saying what was going on in his life and how difficult it had been for him. And this book is very much his early memoir, probably from about five to about 17.Deb Jordan: And I think that it's just as any parent, anybody that has any sort of difficulties with actually fitting into a peer group. And I'm sure there are many people that either went through that themselves, when you are reading that book, you actually sort of feel the pain and you feel the vulnerability. And actually, I think it just makes us all as adults, especially aware if we've had that in our family, it helps us understand it. If we haven't got it in our family, it helps us understand it somewhere else. But it is a mesmerising read. So it's not like a chore. Everybody will read it and his descriptions and the way he explains his life in nature. It's just an absolute extraordinary book.Kelly Molson: I have not read that. That's going top of my list. That sounds wonderful. Bill, what about you?Bill Jordan: Well, we've just had a week away, which was rather nice. I read Sitopia by Carolyn Steel, which is a fascinating book. And it's talks about the way that we haven't been valuing food. We should be doing more on a local scale. The regenerational farming thing comes into it. And of course, Jake Finds and Holkham are all involved. And that's very much a Norfolk thing as well. So, no, I thought it was just a brilliant book. And again, we shouldn't be just talking about buying the cheapest food, although for some it's certainly necessary, but we should be looking at the importance of food in the civilisation rather than just what we can get away with and then factory farming and intensive farming it's got to change. Yeah. So that's my book.Kelly Molson: Very topical book. Thank you both. As ever listeners, if you would like to win those books, if you head over to our Twitter account and you retweet this episode announcement with the words I want Bill and Deb's books, then you will be in with a chance of winning a copy of them. Thank you both so much today. It's been such a pleasure to talk to you. I know that you've got a really exciting summer coming up. There's loads going on at Pensthorpe, and I'm looking forward to coming back and bringing my daughter over to see the place as well. I'll see you then.Deb Jordan: Fantastic. Thank you very much.Bill Jordan: Thank you very much.Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us and remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the Queue is brought to you by rubber cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

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Described by Kindred Spirit magazine as one “one of the biggest talents in MBS”, Richard is an award-winning, international bestselling author on spirituality, and one of the foremost Disciples of Master of Yoga Dr George King. Richard's books, DVDs and CDs have been sold in many countries – translations have included Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Estonian. He has taken part in hundreds of radio shows around the world including several appearances on Coast to Coast AM, which broadcasts to 475 radio shows throughout the USA. He regularly appeared as a co-host on Mike Allen's weekly show on LBC called The Phenomena Files. His TV appearances include GMTV on topics ranging from UFOs to angels, psychic powers and complementary medicine. He has also appeared on TV with Esther Rantzen, Eammon Holmes, Gloria Hunniford, Terry Wogan, Noel Edmonds and James Whale, and a host of documentaries and magazine programmes on all the terrestrial and many of the satellite channels. In addition to having had a column in The Observer, he has written for the Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Sun, Woman's World, Here's Health, Health and Fitness, the USA's Whole Life Times and Phenome-News, New Zealand's Lifestyle magazine and many other journals. He has appeared in most of Britain's national newspapers, and many magazines and local papers. As well as in the UK, he has lectured in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Nigeria, and for over 30 years, has been a keynote speaker at London's largest and most prestigious Mind Body Spirit Festival. He has spoken internationally at various venues including churches, synagogues, Buddhist temples, schools, universities, business conventions, charitable meetings and numerous conventions and bookstores, as well as to an audience of thousands at an open-air pop concert. Richard is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. He has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997), who founded the Society. https://www.aetherius.org/

Described by Kindred Spirit magazine as one “one of the biggest talents in MBS”, Richard is an award-winning, international bestselling author on spirituality, and one of the foremost Disciples of Master of Yoga Dr George King.Richard's books, DVDs and CDs have been sold in many countries – translations have included Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Estonian.He has taken part in hundreds of radio shows around the world including several appearances on Coast to Coast AM, which broadcasts to 475 radio shows throughout the USA. He regularly appeared as a co-host on Mike Allen's weekly show on LBC called The Phenomena Files.His TV appearances include GMTV on topics ranging from UFOs to angels, psychic powers and complementary medicine. He has also appeared on TV with Esther Rantzen, Eammon Holmes, Gloria Hunniford, Terry Wogan, Noel Edmonds and James Whale, and a host of documentaries and magazine programmes on all the terrestrial and many of the satellite channels.In addition to having had a column in The Observer, he has written for the Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Sun, Woman's World, Here's Health, Health and Fitness, the USA's Whole Life Times and Phenome-News, New Zealand's Lifestyle magazine and many other journals. He has appeared in most of Britain's national newspapers, and many magazines and local papers.As well as in the UK, he has lectured in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Nigeria, and for over 30 years, has been a keynote speaker at London's largest and most prestigious Mind Body Spirit Festival. He has spoken internationally at various venues including churches, synagogues, Buddhist temples, schools, universities, business conventions, charitable meetings and numerous conventions and bookstores, as well as to an audience of thousands at an open-air pop concert.Richard is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. He has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997), who founded the Society.https://www.aetherius.org/

BBC Radio 2 listener favourite and former travel news reporter Lynn Bowles recalls her 18 laughter-filled years working on the radio ratings blockbuster Breakfast Show with the much-missed great man himself Sir Terry Wogan, then with that iconic whirlwind of the wireless Chris Evans. Not forgetting, how could we, her joyous banter with the reigning King of the Airwaves – the magnificent Mr Ken Bruce. Since leaving R2, Lynn continues to host her own Sunday 3pm-5pm music and chat show on BBC Radio Wales, regularly attracting star name guests and record audiences. Lynn tells how she broke into radio, shares her fond memories of Sir Tel's kindness and serene eloquence both on and off air, and what it was like to be part of that legendary Wake Up To Wogan Breakfast Show team. Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Theme music composed by John Orchard and arranged by Ian English Support the podcast by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/BEHINDTHESCENESWITHCOLINEDMONDS Facebook: colin.edmonds.73 Instagram: colinedmondsssm Twitter:@ColinEdmondsSSM Website: https://www.steamsmokeandmirrors.com/ Buy Steam, Smoke and Mirrors Available at Caffeine Nights Available at Amazon Available on Audible Buy The Lazarus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 2 Available at Caffeine Nights Available at Amazon Available on Audible Buy The Nostradamus Curiosity: Steam, Smoke and Mirrors 3 Available at Caffeine Nights Available at Amazon

David Icke is an English writer, public speaker, and former media personality best known for his views on what he calls "who and what is really controlling the world". Describing himself as the most controversial speaker and author in the world, he has written 20 books explaining his position, dubbed "New Age conspiracism", and has attracted a substantial following across the political spectrum. His 533-page The Biggest Secret (1999) has been called the conspiracy theorists Rosetta Stone.Icke was a well-known BBC television sports presenter and spokesman for the Green Party, when he had an encounter in 1990 with a psychic who told him that he was a healer placed on Earth for a purpose. In April 1991 he announced on the BBC's Terry Wogan show that he was the son of God and predicted that the world would soon be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes. The show changed his life, turning him practically overnight from a respected household name into an object of ridicule.He continued nevertheless to develop his ideas, and in four books published over seven years - The Robots' Rebellion (1994), And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Biggest Secret (1999), and Children of the Matrix (2001) - set out a moral and political worldview that combines New-Age spiritualism with a passionate denunciation of what he sees as totalitarian trends in the modern world. At the heart of his theories lies the idea that a secret group of reptilian humanoids called the Babylonian Brotherhood controls humanity, and that many prominent figures are reptilian, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, Kris Kristofferson, and Boxcar Willie.Icke has been criticized for arguing that the reptilians were the original authors of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - a 1903 Russian forgery purporting to be a plan by the Jewish people to achieve world domination - a claim that has attracted the attention of the far right and the suspicion of Jewish groups. Icke strongly denies there is anything antisemitic about this. He was allowed to enter Canada in 1999 only after persuading immigration officials that when he said lizards, he meant lizards, but his books were still removed from the shelves of Indigo Books, a Canadian chain, after protests from the Canadian Jewish Congress.David Icke has been writing for nearly 30 years of a coming global Orwellian state in which a tiny few would have control of the rest of humanity through the tools of finance, government, media, and a military-police. He has said that “physical” reality is an illusion, and what we think is the “world” is a holographic simulation or “Matrix” created to entrap human perception in ongoing servitude.Icke's view of New Age Conspiracism dawns at the fact that the universe is made up on vibrational energy and that the reptiles have controlled the Earth and human beings from times immemorial. He claims that they even manipulate global events to keep humans in a constant state of fear. Icke believes that the only way this influence can be defeated is by humanity waking up to ‘the truth', and filling their hearts with love.You can find more information on David Icke at: https://davidicke.com/

Remember Christmas TV before the BBC gave up?You know they have. Even people who actually like Call the Midwife and Mrs Brown's Boys are like, “what, again?”Anyway, back when Everyone Dies In Sunderland is set, Terry Wogan would come on at Christmas and present a show called “Auntie's Christmas Bloomers”, which was like a gag reel for the entire BBC that year. Yes, an entire hour of one of the cast of the Lion and the Unicorn fluffing their lines and saying bugger. There was a funny once when Neil Pearson is doing a tough police interrogation scene in Between the Lines, but you can hear a tiny electronic version of Greensleeves in the background and he says “would you like an ice cream?” while staying in character. That was funny.What I'm trying to say is, what we are presenting to you here is mechanically reclaimed off cuts from series 1 and 2, including!·         “My ceramic Romana 2 always due east Toni Basil!”·         Claire's paranormal fears!·         “Fucking Gulf War!”·         Nostalgia for the Suez Crisis! ·         “I'm the ruffian with the tank and the gun and the chicken chucker”·         Claire saying “chickens” for no reason at all!·         An extraordinarily highbrow joke about Ronald Harewood's 1980 play “The Dresser” ·         “I haven't wanked off a pig since 2006”·         More poetry from Gareth!In the words of Andrew Falkous from McLusky “there is a reason why this material was previously unreleased”   

It's the BBC's 99th birthday! Well it was on the day this episode landed. So for episode 37, here's the podcast's story so far...   Between season 2 (covering the BBC in 1922) and season 3 (the BBC in 1923), we're on a run of specials. So here we summarise EVERYTHING we've learned so far. 36 episodes condensed into one.   Condensed, yet also extended - because we recorded a shorter version of this episode for The History of England Podcast. So to lure in folks who've heard that already, I've added a ton of new stuff, including some brand new bits. By which I mean, very old bits. As well as hearing the voices of: First teenager to listen to the radio in his bedroom GuglielmoMarconi First major broadcast engineer Captain HJ Round First voice of the BBC Arthur Burrows First regular broadcaster Peter Eckersley First slightly terrifying boss John Reith …You'll now also hear from: First broadcast singer Winifred Sayer First BBC pianist Maurice Cole (the most wonderful accent, “off" = "orff") First BBC singer Leonard Hawke (although WE know from episode 28 that the Birmingham and Manchester stations broadcast music the day before - but the BBC didn't know that) That's a lot of firsts. Plus more recent voices - hear from these marvellous experts: Professor Gabriele Balbi of USI Switzerland Marconi historian Tim Wander (buy his book From Marconi to Melba) Radio historian Gordon Bathgate (buy his book Radio Broadcasting: A History of the Airwaves)   SHOWNOTES: This podcast is NOTHING to do with the present-day BBC - it's entirely run, researched, presented and dogsbodied by Paul Kerensa You can email me to add something to the show. eg. Send your ‘Firsthand Memories' - in text form, a time you've seen radio or TV being broadcast before your eyes: a studio, an outside broadcast - what were your behind-the-scenes insights? Or record your ‘Airwave Memories' (AM) - a voice memo of 1-2mins of your earliest memories hearing/seeing radio/TV. Be on the podcast! My new one-man play The First Broadcast is now booking for dates in 2022. Got a venue? Book me for your place. Here's one - The Museum of Comedy. Join me, in April or in November on the very date of the BBC's 100th birthday! Thanks for joining us on Patreon if you do - or if you might! It supports the show, keeps it running, keeps me in books, which I then devour and add it all to the mixing-pot of research for this podcast. In return, I give you video, audio, advance writings, an occasional reading from C.A. Lewis' 1924 book Broadcasting From Within etc. Thanks if you've ever bought me a coffee at ko-fi.com/paulkerensa. Again, it all helps keep us afloat. Like our British Broadcasting Facebook page, or better still, join our British Broadcasting Century Facebook group where you can share your favourite old broadcasting things. Follow us on Twitter  if you're on the ol' Twits. I have another podcast of interviews, A Paul Kerensa Podcast, inc Miranda Hart, Tim Vine, Rev Richard Coles and many more. Give us a listen! Please rate and review this podcast where you found it... and keep liking/sharing/commenting on what we do online. It all helps others find us.  My mailing list is here - sign up for updates on all I do, writing, teaching writing, stand-up, radio etc. My books are available here or orderable from bookshops, inc Hark! The Biography of Christmas. Coming in 2022: a novel on all this radio malarkey. Archive clips are either public domain or used with kind permission from the BBC, copyright content reproduced courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved. Oh yes they are. Next time: What Marconi Thought of Broadcasting - plus 1920s adverts, voiced by listeners...       APPROX TRANSCRIPT:   Marconi himself appeared on the BBC in 1936, playing himself in a reconstruction of when he first sent Morse code across the Atlantic in 1901...   Those are Marconi's last recorded words before he died, there with his assistants Pagett and Kemp, though Kemp was played by an actor. They're recreating the moment when they sent Morse Code from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, 2000+ miles away. Prior to that 255 miles was the wireless record.   Marconi was always outdoing himself. As a teenager he'd sent radiowaves across his bedroom – a transmitter and receiver ringing a bell. Then outside, asking his assistant across a field to fire a gunshot if the wireless signal reached him. Then over water. Then... in 1896 the 21yr old Marconi came to England. The Italian army weren't interested in his new invention, so he thought he'd try the influential engineers of London. I think it's that decision that set London and the BBC as the beating heart of broadcasting a couple of decades later.   There was a magical moment where Marconi strode into Toynbee Hall in East London, with two boxes. They communicated, wirelessly, and he simply said: “My name is Gooly-elmo Marconi, and I have just invented wireless.” That's a drop mic moment. If they had a mic to drop.   Others played with this technology. In December 1906, Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden managed to make a very faint speech broadcast for ships near Brant Rock Massachusetts – making the first entertainment show for radio. He played a record, Handel's Largo, played O Holy Night on violin, and read from Luke's gospel, chapter 2. Well it was Christmas Eve.   This was actually my way in to this whole radio story. I wrote a book on the history of Christmas, called Hark! The b of C. So I researched Fesseden's Christmas entertainment first... and also the first BBC Christmas of 1922. When I read that the Beeb had 35,000 listeners at that point, but 4 employees, I had to know who these 4 employees were! I started digging. When I discovered that 2 of those people had an on-air feud, one of them was John Reith, an arguably immoral moralist, and the 4th was soon sacked by him... I thought, there's a book in this. So as I research and write that, I'm podcasting as I go on the BBCentury. I love that this medium of podcasting owes so much to those early pioneers... and I'm no engineer. For me, it's all about the characters. We'll get to the BBC pioneers soon enough, but Marconi, he was one of those characters.   Through the 1910s, business was booming for Marconi, but he still saw radio as a two-way thing – we ‘radio' for help. Marconi took the credit for radio's use in catching criminals – Dr Crippen, who'd escaped on a ship across the ocean. And saving lives, onboard Titanic. Soon every major vessel carried radios and a Marconi operator – for a fee of course. He made his money in sending messages, the world over, between two people. The broadcast aspect was an accident – a pitfall of radio being too ‘leaky'. So the first listeners were actually called ‘listeners-in' – the messages weren't intended for them.   So it was at a more amateur level – the radio hams – who'd be experimenting with ‘broadcasting'. Britain's first DJ, technically, was a woman called Gertrude Donisthorpe in WWI. Her husband Horace was the eager experimenter, an army wireless trainer by day, and at night the couple would cycle to a field near Worcester, he'd set up one side, her on the other, and she'd play records and recite rhymes just for her audience of 1 – her husband, to see if it worked. She'd cycle across the field to see if it had, often finding he'd cycled off to tell her via a different route. As they progressed, they started transmitting limited wireless concerts for some local troops. And they were popular. Radio amateurs enjoyed what they heard, when they could hear it. There was demand for wireless entertainment... just not much supply.   But the engineers like those at the Marconi Company, were continually strengthening and improving the technology. Marconi's right-hand man Captain Round for example...   No fan of red tape... this Churchill lookalike, round face, cigars and no-nonsense... joined 1902, genius... designed radios... especially for aircraft... Jutland direction-finding... But Captain Round is a name to watch.   After the war, 1919, just months from the birth of broadcasting, The Marconi Company still had no real interest in radio as an artform or entertainment or anything other than point to point messaging. Apart from one person, their Head of Publicity, Arthur Burrows...   In 1918 Burrows wrote: “There appears to be no serious reason why, before we are many years older, politicians speaking, say, in Parliament, should not be heard simultaneously by wireless in the reporting room of every newspaper office in the United Kingdom. . . . The field of wireless telephone, however, is by no means restricted to newspaper work. The same idea might be extended to make possible the correct reproduction in all private residences of Albert Hall or Queen's Hall concerts or the important recitals at the lesser rendezvous of the musical world. . . . There would be no technical difficulty in the way of an enterprising advertisement agency arranging for the interval in the musical programme to be filled with audible advertisements, pathetic or forcible appeals—in appropriate tones—on behalf of somebody's soap or tomato ketchup.” We'll come back to Arthur Burrows.   Around the same time in America, future radio mogul David Sarnoff sent a memo referring to a “radio music box”, that could “listeners-in” could have in their homes, playing the music broadcast by wireless stations, that were cropping up, especially in America, and a steadily increasing rate.   In Britain, Captain Round of the Marconi Company continued to experiment. Rightly medalled after the war, he switched his attention from using radio to find enemy ships, to using radio to transmit the human voice further and stronger than ever before. This meant tests.   Now the nature of radio, the quirk of it, is that it's not private. You can't experiment without anyone with a set listening in – and since the war there were more and more ex wireless operators and amateur radio “hams”. So as Round experimented, in Chelmsford at the end of 1919, with his assistant William Ditcham, across Britain and even into Europe, people heard him. Ditcham had to read out something into his microphone – just the candlestick part of an old telephone. Ditcham would begin by addressing those listening – the ‘leaky' nature of these radio experiments meant the engineers actually used those cheekly listening in to find their range and signal strength. So Ditcham would begin: “MZX calling, MZX calling! This is the Marconi valve transmitter in Chelmsford, England, testing on a wavelength of 2750metres. How are our signals coming in today? Can you hear us clearly? I will now recite to you my usual collection of British railway stations for test purposes... ...The Great Northern Railway starts Kings cross, London, and the North Western Railway starts from Euston. The Midland railway starts from St Pancras. The Great Western Railway starts from...”   Railway timetables! And they were a hit. Mr Ditcham became an expert is this new art of broadcasting, before the word was even invented. He noted: “Distinct enunciation is essential and it's desirable to speak in as loud a tone as possible!”   Word spread. Letters to newspapers said how much radio amateurs were enjoying Ditcham and Round's wireless experiments... but the content could do with being a bit more exciting. How about a newspaper?   So in January 1920, William Ditcham became our first broadcast newsreader, literally reading the news, from a paper he'd bought that morning. Well, he'd sit on it a day, and read yesterday's paper... The press might have a problem with their copyrighted news being given away for free. And thus begins the rocky relp between broadcasters and the press. It's worth keeping them on side...   In Jan 1920, there are 2 weeks of ‘Ditcham's News Service' – that's Britain's first programme title. That gains over 200 reports from listeners-in, as far as Spain, Portgula, Norway... up to 1500 mi away. So the transmitter is replaced, from 6kw to 15kw. Ditcham ups his game too. Throws in a gramophone record or two. 15mins of news, 15mins of music. A half hour in total – that seems a good length for a programme – really it was what the licence allowed, but it's clearly stuck – at least till Netflix and the like mean programme length has becoame a little more variable, a century later.   Then in Feb, there's live music – just a few fellow staff at the Marconi Works in Chelmsford, including Mr White on piano, Mr Beeton on oboe and Mr Higby on woodwind.   At Marconi HQ, Arthur Burrows, that publicity director who wrote of possible wireless concerts and ketchup sponsors, he gets behind this in a big way. He heads to Chelmsford, supports Ditcham and Round, and even joins the band. And you know who else joins the band...   ...from the neighbouring works building – Hoffman's Ball Bearings - a singer, Miss Winifred Sayer. Now as she's not a Marconi employee, she needs to be paid... so she's radio's first professional   Previous broadcasts had been a little luck of the draw, but this one, well it would be nice to tell people it's going to happen. So Captain Round sends out the first listings – the pre Radio Times, radio... times... you can hear Winifred Sayer and the band: 11am and 8pm, Feb 23rd till March 6th That memo goes out to all the Marconi land stations and ships at sea. The first song Winifred sang was called Absent – she later called it a “punch and judy show”, and enjoyed her ten shillings a show. As she left, the MD of Marconi's said to her: “You've just made history.”   So, we have radio, right? Not so fast! The fun is just beginning...   The press, you see, were worth keeping on side. The Daily Mail got wind of this. Arthur Burrows, that publicity chap and radio prophet, he became friends in the war with Tom Clarke, now editor of the Daily Mail. And the Mail loved a novelty. They'd sponsor air races and car dashes and design-a-top-hat competitions. Radio was right up their fleet street.   But they'd need a bigger singer than Winifred Sayer from Hoffman's Ball Bearings. They wanted to see how big an audience there'd be for broadcasting – a word just coming into use, a farming term, about how you spread seed, far and wide, scattershot, never quite knowing how far it reaches, and whether it will be well received and grow into something. So the Daily Mail fund one of the world's biggest singers: Dame Nellie Melba – of Peach Melba fame. She was over in England at the Albert Hall doing some shows, so for a thousand pounds – enough to buy a house – she came to Chelmsford. Outside broadcasts didn't exist at the time, given the size of the kit. Ditcham and Round prepared the Chelmsford Works building, although that involved a small fire, a carpet Melba rolled away as soon as she saw it, and a microphone made from an old cigar box and a hat rack. Arthur Burrows gave Madame Melba a tour when they weren't quite ready... She took one look at the 450ft radio mast and said “Young man if you think I'm going to climb up there, you are greatly mistaken.”   She broadcasts on June 15th 1920, and it's a huge hit, despite a shutdown just before finishing her last song. Captain Round makes her do it again, without telling her of the shutdown, by simply asking for an encore.   Arthur Burrows gives the opening and closing announcements, instead of William Ditcham, because this has been Burrows' dream. Broadcast radio concerts. So what next? It spanned Britain, reached Madrid, parts of the Middle East...   But it's too successful. The Air Ministry finds planes couldn't land during the concert. It dominated the airwaves. So despite a few extra professional concerts from Chelmsford that summer – opera stars like Lauritz Melchior, and Dame Clara Butt – the govt step in and shut all radio experiments down.   Arthur Burrows finds himself at sea, literally, that summer, demonstrating radio to the press on the way to an interionational press event... but without govt backing, journalists now see radio as maybe a means to communicate newsroom to newsroom. Ditcham's news and Melba's music seem to be all that broadcasting amounted to.   For 18 months, nothing. Radio amateurs, and indeed Arthur Burrows at Marconi, petition the PostmasterGeneral to reconsider. And finally... it worked.   Because while the ether had fallen silent in Britain, it continued in Holland, a bit in France, and in America radio is booming. Not wanting to be left behind, the British govt say ok, you can have one radio station. The Marconi Company is granted a permit. But much to Burrows dismay... the job lands on the desk of another person I want to introduce you to... Peter Eckersley   Eckersley was with the Designs Dept of the Aircraft Section of Marconi's. His team had helped create air traffic control; Eckersley had been there in the war for the first ground to air wireless communication, and now in their spare team, his team in a muddy field in the village of Writtle in Essex, not far from Chelmsford, would have to fit this broadcasting malarkey in in their spare time, for an extra pound a show, not much.   It was odd. Radio amateurs wanted it. Burrows the Marconi publicity guy wanted it. Eckersley and his team couldn't give two hoots about it – in fact they celebrated when the govt banned radio 18 months earlier, as finally the airwaves were clear for them and their serious work, instead of constant blinking opera from Chelmsford.   But it's Eckersley's job, to start Britain's first regular radio station: 2MT Writtle. And from Feb 14th 1920, for the first few weeks it sounds pretty normal. They play gramophone records, chosen by Arthur Burrows at head office. Burrows has arranged a sponsorship deal – not with ketchup with a gramophone company, who provide a player so long as it's mentioned on air. Peter Eckersley's team of boffins break the gramophone player. There was a live singer – the first song on the first regular broadcast radio show was the Floral Dance, though the Times called it only “faintly audible”. It is not a hit. For 5 weeks this continues, bland introductions to records, a live singer or two. And Peter Eckersley, the man in charge, goes home each night to hear the show his crew put out on the wireless. Until week 6, when he stays, for a pre-show gin and fish and chips and more gin at the pub. Then he... runs down the lane to the hut and reaches the microphone first! And he starts talking......   Eckersley talks and talks and mimics and carouses... He plays the fool, plays the gramophone records, off-centre, or covered in jam...   ...the strict licence meant closing down for 3mins in every 10, to listen for govt messages, in case they have to stop broadcasting. Eckersley doesn't shut down for 3mins. The licence limited them to half an hour. Not Eckersley. Over an hour later, he stops. And sleeps it off. Next day, his team gather round and tell him what he said.   Our man Arthur Burrows gets in touch. A stern admonishment! Burrows' dream of broadcasting, had been dashed on the rocks by Eckersley, a man drinking, on the rocks. But accompanying Burrows' angry missive came a postbag of listener fanmail. “We loved it” they said. “Do it again.” Burrows was a lone voice against Eckersley's antics, so the following Tuesday, and every Tuesday in 1922, Peter Eckersley seized the mic again and again.   Demand for radio sets boomed. Ports stopped receiving ships when Peter Eckersley was on. Parliament even closed their sessions early to hear him. He was our first radio star. And he helped spawn an industry.   Burrows is still fuming, but there is no greater demand for radio. So he applies for a 2nd licence, for a London station – let's do this radio thing properly. 2LO in London is granted that licence, and Burrows isn't taking any chances – HE will be the primary broadcaster.   Poetry readings, sports commentary, opening night boxing match. Later in the summer, garden party concerts. And as Burrows is a publicity and demonstration man, many of these broadcast concerts are for private institutions, charity events, a chance to show what broadcasting can do.   Other wireless manufacturers other than Marconi's express an interest, they ask the PMG for a licence to broadcast too. MetroVick in Manchester, they want in, so the PMG says fine. Kenneth Wright is the engineer at MetroVick who gets the job of launching in Manchester.   Wright continues in Manchester... Eck continues in Writtle in Essex... Burrows continues in London...   But Eckersley mocks Burrows. In fact people write to Arthur Burrows saying how much they enjoy his broadcasts on 2LO London, but could he stop broadcasting every Tuesday evening for the half hour Eckersley's on, cos listeners want to hear Eckersley lampoon Burrows. For instance, Burrows played the Westminster chimes in the studio – this is 18mths before Big Ben's chimes would be heard on the BBC. So Eckersley outdoes Burrows by finding all the pots, pans, bottles and scrap metal he can, and bashing it all with sticks. Messy chaos! He loved it.   He's another, retold by Eckersley and Burrows themselves, some 20 years apart... You see, both would close their broadcasts with a poem.   All through the spring and summer of 1922, each broadcast is still experimental. Official broadcasting hasn't quite yet begun – because no one knows if there's a future in this. In fact the Marconi Company largely thought all this was one big advert to show consumers how easy wireless communication is, and how they should all pay Marconi's to help them send point-to-point messages.   But the bug grows. The press want in. The Daily Mail apply for a licence for to set up a radio station. They're turned down – it would be too powerful for a a newspaper to have a radio station. It only took Times Radio 100 years...   In Westminster, the PostGen is inundated by applications for pop-up radio stations. He can't just keep licensing all of them. What is this, America?! Arthur Burrows...   In May 1922, the PostGen says to the wireless manufacturers, look. I can't have all of you setting up rival radio stations. But I will licence one or maybe two of you. Get together, chat it through, work out how you can work together.   For a while, it looks like there will be two british Broadcasting companies – a north and a south. Kenneth Wright...   ...but after weeks, even months of meetings, primareily with the big 6 wireless firms, an agreement is struck.   ...You may wonder where Reith is in all this. Wasn't he meant to be the fella who started the thing!? He arrives when the BBC is one month old. For now, he's leaving a factory management job in Scotland, settling down with his new wife, having moved on from a possibly gay affair with his best friend Charlie... and he's about to try a career in politics. He's never heard of broadcasting at this stage. But for those who have, in the summer of 1922, Parliament announces there will be one broadcasting company, funded by a licence fee.....   One British Broadcasting Company. Marconi, MetroVick, Western Electric, General Electric and so on... each will have one representative on the board of this BBC, and then broadcasting can continue, they'll all sell wireless radio sets, and to fund the operation, there'll be a licence fee.   The name ‘BBCo' is coined by one of the wireless manufacturer bosses in one of those meetings, Frank Gill, who notes in a memo before the name ‘broadcasting company', the word ‘British'. A few lines down, he's the first to write the word ‘pirates' regarding those broadcasting without a licence.   But there's one more hurdle to conquer – news. That takes some time to iron out with the press, and finally it's agreed that us broadcasters will lease the news from them, for a fee, and no daytime news, to ensure readers still bought papers.   The press and the broadcasters still have an uneasy relationship, so whenever you see the newspapers having a pop at the BBC, know that the Daily Mail sponsored the first ever broadcast with Dame Melba, they were turned down for a radio station when they applied, and for years they were annoyed this radio upstart was trying to steal their readers.   With the starting pistol sounded, Arthur Burrows gets his dream: he's convinced his employer, the Marconi Company that radio isn't just about sending messages to individuals, it's about reaching many listeners... or better still, it's still about reaching individuals, just lots of them. Flash forward to Terry Wogan's sad goodbye from his Radio 2 Breakfast Show. “Thank you for being my friend.” Singular. Radio – even podcasts like this – still speak to one listener at a time. I make a connection with you. Arthur Burrows and Peter Eckersley, were among the first to realise that.   But which of them would launch or join the BBC? The wild unpredictable Eckersley, who created demand for radio, and was still mocking Burrows in his field hut in an Essex village? Or the straight-laced Arthur Burrows, who's prophesied broadcasting for years?   I think we know the answer to that. Playing it safe, The Marconi Company kept 2LO as part of this new British Broadcasting Company, as well as 2ZY Manchester under MetroVick, and a new station in Birmingham, 5IT, run by Western Electric. Marconi's would also build new stations, in Newcastle, Cardiff, Glasgow, and more, growing in reach and ambition.   But it starts in London, on November 14th 1922, with a souped-up transmitter, rebuilt by good old Captain Round, the Marconi whizz who helped start it all. Arthur Burrows is before the mic, achieving his dream, to see broadcasting come to fruition. There are no recordings of that first broadcast, but we recreated it...   The next day, the Birmingham station 5IT launches – they quickly bring in the first regular children's presenters, Uncle Edgar and Uncle Tom. An hour after they launch, Manchester 2ZY starts under the BBC banner, with more children's programming there, plus an early home for an in-house BBC orchestra.   When the jobs go out for the this new BBC, bizarrely after it's actually launched, there are just 4 employees hired before the end of the year, and Burrows is first, a shoo-in for Director of Programmes. John Reith applies for General Managership, having tried a bit of politics, but been pointed towards the BBC advert by his MP boss. On arriving, one of the first things he says is: ‘So what is broadcasting?'   As for Peter Eckersley, he continues at 2MT Writtle, every Tuesday evening into January 1923. The only non-BBC station to share the airwaves till commercial, pirate or... well there's Radio Luxembourg but that's for a future episode. But Eckersley too is ultimately convinced to join the good ship BBC. And all it takes is an opera, broadcast live from the Royal Opera House in January 1923 – one of the first outside broadcasts.   A penny drops for Eckersley, and he realises the power and potential of this broadcasting lark. Reith convinces him to stop his frivolous Tuesday show in Essex, and offers him a job as the BBC's first Chief Engineer. And here Eckersley prospers, giving us new technology, nationwide broadcasting, the world's first high-power long-wave transmitter at Daventry, he brings choice to the airwaves, with a regional and national scheme. Without Burrows, without Eckersley, without Reith, British broadcasting would look very different.   There's one other name, among many, I'm particularly enthusiastic about: Hilda Matheson. An ex-spy who becomes the first Director of Talks, who reinvents talk radio and gives us the basis for Radio 4 and speech radio and indeed podcasting, you could argue, as we know it. She's a fascinating character – part of a gay love triangle with the poet Vita Sackville West and Virginia Woolf. She's the only BBC employee allowed to bring a dog to work.   And so much more, we'll unpack on the British Broadcasting Century podcast, plus the Pips, the Proms, the Radio Times, and everything else you know and love, tolerate or loathe about British broadcasting today.  

So, where were you in 2004?The pop charts were as fast moving as Dame Kelly Holmes in Athens and every week brought another selection of shiny pop hits. 29 tracks topped the charts across the twelve months as pop buyers rushed to purchase the newest CD singles from their latest favourites. And unless you were the sparring, fall-out potty mouthed pair Eamon or Frankee , it was generally a one week reign at No.1! Phew!The airwaves and TV reigned supreme in making and breaking the big hits of the year. Reality was biting all over the place; Chris Moyles and Terry Wogan were having breakfast with us daily whilst championing their own brands of hit makers such as Jungle champion Peter Andre (again!) and Katie Melua on the Beeb, whilst ITV was delivering a second slice of star making with Pop Idol. Michelle? Sam and Mark? And let's not forget Fame Academy's Alex and Alistair (you may already have)! The Svengali spotlight was shining brightly - if briefly - on plenty of 15 minute pop stars in 2004.Britney was back with Toxic (and lots of left over wedding cake), Pharrell was producing just about everyone. Cover versions (and the instruction manual Cha Cha Slide!) were filling the dancefloor, Love Actually was delivering hits for Girls Aloud and Sugababes and both Keane and Snow Patrol opened their accounts with some mobile phone waving anthems that we'd hear again in different forms over the years!Frank Ferdinand and Scissor Sisters too! Huge hits and even huger (is that even a word?) albums indicated that 2004 was a year of contrasts, contradictions, pace and change. Music was bristling but it was never boring! Oh, and don't forget your NOW ringtones people!Join Radio 2 producer David Manero and I as we head back to the noughties to explore NOW57; the hits, the misses and everything else in between.And find out why Kelly, Ozzy and DJ Casper probably won't be returning our (Nokia 3310) phone calls. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I laughed hard all the way through this conversation with Dermot Whelan. Not only can he tell a great story and reveal the funny side of pretty serious topics, he's also a very talented impressionist. Diarmuid Gavin, Rory McIlroy, Professor Snape from Harry Potter and even the late great Terry Wogan all make an appearance in this interview. Now Dermot can also add ‘best-selling author' to his CV, as his new book Mind Full tops the charts for yet another week. Here's a link to the details https://www.dermotwhelan.com.And as ever we've got some brand new and exclusive comedy for you this episode – the DUP is holding interviews for the party's new leader and the role is attracting interest from some obvious, and not so obvious, candidates. Drop in and have a listen and if you like what you hear, please subscribe, follow, review, and drop me a line to say hello!MarioTwitter: @GiftGrubMarioFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/mariorosenstockofficial/Insta: Working on it!!!Produced by: Patrick Haughey, AudioBrand | www.audiobrand.ie See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey You Guys! It's time to hop on your bikes once again and go in the search of some rich stuff, as we discuss Richard Donner's beloved adventure movie, ‘The Goonies'. Andy and Josh are joined by friend and fellow Warwick Film Grad, Seb Jones, as they recount their own Goonie-esque childhood escapades, unearth an old spiteful Terry Wogan clip and unpack the problematic character of Sloth. And Cyndi Lauper's ethos will be put to the test as they find out once and for all if ‘The Goonies' really ‘r' good enough. As mentioned in the episode, here are your links to both Jeff Cohen's Terry Wogan Interview, and Cyndi Lauper's two-part music video for your viewing bewilderment: Wogan, Cyndi Part 1, Cyndi Part 2. Follow the podcast on Twitter (@RamblinAmblin) and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode! Get in touch with us either via Twitter or email rambinaboutamblin@gmail.com. Created and Produced by Andrew Gaudion and Joshua Glenn. Artwork by Emily Tatham. Theme Music by Robert J. Hunter and Greg Sheffield.

The title of Peter Dickson's recently released book describes him well: 'Voice Over Man'. For decades he has worked across an endless array of shows on british tv mainly. In a long career which is still going strong he has worked alongside some of the great household names in tv and radio. Two late legends in Terry Wogan and Bruce Forsyth to name but a few. Peter is best known for his work on the very popular singing talent series, the X Factor.  Introducing contestants and guest stars onto the stage since the show's beginning in his own unique and enthusiastic style. Other shows he's worked on include The Price Is Right and Britains Got Talent.  I was so glad Peter agreed to an interview with me. His story is interesting and inspiring. He told me some funny stories too which I think you may enjoy!Support the show

Elis, Mike and Steff return to the bar replete with clips of old sport from YouTube, a sports documentary and 3 sports books.This week, Donald Trump & the USFL, rugby kickers in the 1980s and boxing in a maximum security prison.If you want to get involved then drop the boys a line on Twitter @distantpod If you want free beer then head to www.beer52.com/distant to claim your 8 free beers. Leave us a five star review and a guess at who The Secret Guitarist is on here.Here's the links to the clips from the episode.Round 1 of ClipsElis - Paul Thorburn's kick for Wales v Scotland in 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6tdn5IGJbsMike- TV presenter Terry Wogan holes the world's longest televised putthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcKwHhEtgEw&feature=youtu.beSteff - James Scott who boxed live on TV while serving 30-40 years in prison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55lbiwAnpkk&t=83sThis week's DocumentaryMike chose Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL https://www.espnplayer.com/video/small-potatoes-who-killed-the-usfl Round 2 of ClipsEis - Steve Robinson wins the WBO featherweight Title.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4LN5O7gbAc Steff - Wales & England v Scotland & Ireland 1980https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gumEjYvP3Ac&t=3sMike - Daley Thompson wins Gold at the 1984 Olympics. https://youtu.be/vPhhuQLHGWABooksElis - The Football Man: People & Passions in Soccer by Arthur Hopcraft https://amzn.to/2Tw8tO1Mike - Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger https://amzn.to/2TsdWW2Steff - Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan https://amzn.to/3eamMQ8