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Featuring loud Christians, a mute delivery driver, and a perverted research student. Folk musician and former medical doctor James Fagan is back to chat about bollocks and bullocks, and I get excited and have a bit of an accident. 

Folk singer and former medical doctor James Fagan joins us to talk bollocks. Cassette Roulette takes us on a strange journey from the poetry of Arthur Seymour John Tessimond to Pat and Peggy of EastEnders. Our niece inspires a dance hit with her posh pain au chocolat panic, we check out British Gas’s sexually suggestive TV advert, and there are more mystery musical challenges, this time with an incendiary twist.

I’m talking taps in Technological Regression Masquerading As Technological Progression. Join me in the kitchen for another exciting dish-washing special, providing listener Steve with one heck of a high-scoring round of Exclamation Cricket. The return of Cassette Roulette leads us down a rabbit hole involving Ross Noble and an alligator. There’s more vestibule-based chat, more mechanical music challenges, and Ellie turns roving reporter, conducting an exclusive interview for Le Creuset News.

It’s been a while, but this week I recount a harrowing journey that involves coming under attack on a deserted street in Sheffield. I also have an awkward incident in a bakery. To unwind, I take a bath—and fear not, I bring you in with me. There’s an update on my recent dalliance with the Daily Mail, plus more recordings of listeners’ washing machines and more mechanical musical challenges.

This week, Ellie gets a Google Alert for my name, linking to a Daily Mail article in which I am mentioned and quoted. We read you the article, then embark on some investigative journalism of our own to uncover the truth behind the story. And that’s not the only article we read on this week’s podcast: we also have the write-up of the very strange interview I did for a Yorkshire newspaper last week. Plus listeners’ Yorkshire jokes, more mechanical musical challenges and, I suppose at this point it probably goes without saying, more Le Creuset news.

It’s a very literature-heavy podcast this week, as we bring you spontaneous limericks, a poem from my ten-year-old self, and I recount the rather unusual newspaper interview that I did a few days back. Plus, finally, after months of waiting, I’m back in the kitchen for a dishwashing special. More mechanical musical challenges, more Le Creuset news, and the return of our catchily titled feature Technological Regression Masquerading As Technological Progression.

Join me at Folk East Festival along with the other two from The Young’uns and friend of the podcast Mathew Crampton, for a chat with folk singers Emily Portman and Sam Carter, plus Canadian shanty band Pressgang Mutiny. Emily is the victim of an impersonation, Sam takes the law into his own hands, and Pressgang Mutiny inspire a Canadian-based guessing game. Meanwhile, back at home, I am contacted by the dead, there’s a mystery music challenge, and we’re fleetingly joined by Alan Carr.

It’s the final chapter of my fantasy Novella, The Story Of The Brain King. Will the Time Doctor and the Lord Of Darkness agree to stop the destruction of an entire planet? Cassette Roulette showcases one of my invented childhood games. There’s a brief appearance from Dara Ó Briain and Terry Wogan, and we have another strange experience in the Turkish baths.

This week we have an unexpected encounter with celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott, who involves himself in our feature Potato News. The Time Doctor and The Lord Of Darkness go head-to-head in an epic battle of words, with part 11 of my childhood fantasy novella, The Story Of The brain King. There’s news and sport courtesy of Cassette Roulette. We’re contacted by members of the North East’s 90s Happy Hardcore community,. And there's more Le Creuset news.

We're back with another dose of dragons and confusing characters courtesy of my childhood novella, The Story Of the Brain King. Cassette Roulette takes us into a surreal world of late night 90s North East raves. And you send us your examples of one word song triggers.

This week I goaded Mike Read and was slapped in the face by a posh old lady on the train. Plus more unusual audio clips curtesy of Cassette Roulette, and it’s part 9 of my childhood fantasy novella The Story Of The Brain King.

I have yet another weird massage experience. I remix Morrissey. It’s the return of Cassette Roulette and a surprise reappearance for Potato News. There’s tea-based controversy, bible studies and a Le Creuset exclusive. Plus part 8 of my childhood fantasy novella, The Story Of The Brain King, where we find out what happens when a dragon-riding Knight is confronted by a computer.

We unearth my primary school reports. We finally take a little step forward with our rescue mission in part 7 of my childhood fantasy novella The Story Of The brain King. There’s listener tea reviews, advice for dealing with ferrel nursery kids, and I have a run-in with a sign language interpreter who castigates my lack of originality whilst fervently promoting a proponent of moist genitalia.

Lots of drama this week. Pip is on a perilous precipice of a mountain; Olivia faces fire; Steve is on a mission to infiltrate his local church; I get attacked by nursery children, and it’s time to find out whether we’re able to escape the Lord Of Darkness and his creatures of death.

More crazy characters, confusion and chaotic capers in the sixth instalment of my childhood fantasy novella The Story Of The brain King. Ellie has acquired a new hobby, and she’s made yet another secret recording of me. There’s another cold brew tea tasting, a porcelain boob update from Steve, and Spammer Time helps us learn about the habits of the David Eagle Podcast listenership. Plus some behind the scenes chat from my BBC Radio appearances last weekend.

Ellie has been secretly recording me. Find out whether we escape the dragon in part 4 of my childhood fantasy novella, The Story Of The brain King. We try to break into prison. And fear not, there is of course more Le Creuset news.

What’s the link between listeners of the David Eagle Podcast and disgraced Former CEO of the Scottish National Party Peter Murrell? There’s more exciting BBC Radio 4 news. It’s part 3 of my childhood fantasy novella, The Story Of the Brain King, where we travel far back in time and meet two very ancient and surprisingly petulant characters. We have a couple of encounters with anti-social teenagers. Steve and his Porcelain boobs are back from holiday, and Olivia returns with revelations a plenty and well and truly rises to my musical challenge.

 This week I become embroiled in a school drama; part 2 of my childhood fantasy novella; I’m headhunted by Radio 4; there’s exciting Le Creuset news, and the reveal of Olivia’s Guess the animal competition.

 This week, part one of my fantasy novella that I wrote aged nine. An embarrassing tale from my teenage years that took place in a church. What happens when two podcast listeners meet in real life? My gig at Derby Comedy festival falls foul of a technological regression masquerading as technological progression. And Olivia treats us to a silly saucy sausage saga.

This week: the history of the typewriter, Czech classical music, and we read an extract from a travel diary written in the 18th century. But if all that sounds a bit too highbrow for you, rest assured that there’s more belching and sexual innuendo, and of course more Le Creuset chat. There’s the tale of the rather weird experience I had, performing at a birthday party. And we make crucial progress in our ongoing quest to broker a collaboration between a Suffolk sea shanty band and Beyoncé.

This week I am heckled in the park by some teenage lads. I unearth a weird fantasy story that I wrote as a child. And Ellie finds an abandoned leg in a bus station.

This week, we help make a listener’s dream come true. We re-open communication with our American best selling crime and thrillers author friend. And Herbal Tea Of The Week is back, which takes a dramatic turn.

This week, we dissect another traditional folk song, as we meet an aristocrat with terrible navigational skills and an adulterous wife. I tell the story of how, at primary school, I was the leader of a criminal girl gang. We journey back in time 4000 years to experience the world’s first stand up comedy show. A gig in a grammar school takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn. And there’s a desultory ditty about dim sum.

This week, more innovative games and challenges for you to get involved in. We discuss imperial measurements, I wonder around a park talking about my genitals, there’s a lengthy dissection of the traditional folk song Matty Groves, and I inadvertently sabotage another comedian’s gig with some unintended slapstick. I'll get around to writing a desff

In November we (The Young’uns) hosted an event in Middlesbrough to celebrate our fortieth birthdays and twenty years gigging together. This week’s podcast features a little interview we did with one of our famous fans, Felicity Finch, who plays Ruth in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers. There’s also an appearance from North East folk band The Unthanks, who treat us to a very surprising performance, giving us an exclusive sneak preview of their exciting new album.

This week we meet The Jesus Geezers, a cockney gospel band. Ellie has a weird dream about me and Billy Bragg. I unearth my childhood diaries. And I recount my unusual experience with an A-list celebrity in a cupboard.

Ellie and I return with semi-regular feature spammer time. There’s the clockwork-regular contribution from star pupil Olivia. Tales of door-based debacles and rude awakenings involving guns, explosions, sirens, and a duck. Plus paranormal experiences involving kids and a cat. I narrowly avoid being punched, and I inadvertently cause chaos in a swimming pool and get myself into hot water with some peeved parents. And of course it’s the reveal of our boundary-pushing mystery sound contest.

This week, I have an odd experience at a urinal. I blind a computer programmer. Ellie has a medical mishap. There’s a poem from the perspective of a piece of chewing gum. We take a walk in the park where we chat about my meeting with Jason Donovan, plus there’s more goose news, and we meet an arse-scratching squirrel; you’ll have to listen to discover if the squirrel is scratching its own arse, or the backside of me or Ellie. We’ve been looking after our ten-year-old nephew this weekend and it’s certainly been eventful. We have our first listener complaint and I enlist the services of Frank Skinner to defend my honour. Our street becomes embroiled in a bin-based drama. Plus, in yet another example of paradigm shifting podcasting, there’s a mystery sound competition. And more chat about Vegetables, Biscuits, Birds And Le Creuset.

Chapters:

(00:00:00) Coming Up, Plus Some Toilet Humour

(00:01:58) The Bastard Thing’s Crashed!

(00:20:48) William The Conqueror And The NHS Phone Service

(00:30:51) From Booing To Chewing

(00:34:57) Featuring Jason Donovan, Some Goose News, And An Arse-scratching Squirrel

(00:50:07) Listener Complaint

(01:04:52) Weird Woman At Gig

(01:09:01) Mystery Sound Competition And Some Street Drama

(01:23:18) More Chat About Vegetables, Biscuits, Birds And Le Creuset

Ellie’s fame is on the rise, and she receives a potential new career opportunity. I am surprised to find myself doing a stand up gig in a sex club, which was a very weird experience indeed. This week’s games involve guessing vegetables, identifying birds, and more biscuit-based fun. Ellie has an encounter with another blind man. A trip to the barbers gets unexpectedly political and also sexual. I’ve got some gossip involving Jasper Carrott and Iron Maiden, and there’s another surprise song in the park.

(00:00:00) - The Intro Bit

(00:02:37) - Ellie’s Fifteen Seconds Of Fame

(00:09:43) - I Find Myself Performing In A Sex Club

(00:26:22) - Guess The Vegetable

(00:31:06) - Ellie’s Tram Drama

(00:33:33) - Brazen Barber Banter

(00:54:40) - Jasper Carrott, Iron Maiden, Le Creuset And Sonic The Hedgehog

(01:12:42) - Professional Window Doodler

Ellie sees an odd and intriguing tattoo. I experience a footwear farce. I get accidentally insulted by an enthusiastic audience member. Ellie has more shelf news. I attempt to create a dance hit by sampling the radio. My recent stand up gig takes a very unexpected turn. We hear once again from the Nottingham swingers, and one of our regulars, Olivia, is back, and she’s got thoughts and a challenge.

Warning: Contains Pelvic Thrusting.

Chapters:

(00:00:00) – The Bit where I Tell You what’s Coming Up

(00:01:42) - Footwear Farce, Tattoo Talk and More Shelf News

(00:16:15) - A Silly Song, a Wee Chat and a Walk

(00:22:50) - Weaponised Blind Kids

(00:26:58) - Home Taping Is Making Music

(00:30:47) - I Am Alan! Custodian of the Light!

(00:42:38) - Swingers Revisited and Olivia’s Challenge

(01:01:01) - Amazing Feet

 A comedy gig is derailed by a soap opera style scandal. My park walk this week takes an unexpected turn, as I come into contact with some errant drama students. I sing a song about a sexually frisky dog, and take you on a dramatic London adventure, involving a flirtatious train traveller and an incident at the National Portrait Gallery. Ellie celebrates International Women’s Day with some feminist-themed book recommendations. There’s another example of a technological regression masquerading as technological progression. I inadvertently insult a divorcee and confuse an audience with a non sequitur about apple crumble. Find out what Ellie’s been doing to cause her thighs to ache, and how I’ve been keeping Ellie’s mother up at night. Plus we revisit our feature Ellie skinner’s ON The Shelf, and play a variety of surprise games.

If you'd like to see the video of me being humped by a dog, you can find it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnJWxV4gFxQ&t=17s

I get rather lost in a park, where I commentate on a tennis match and have a Whitney Houston-based encounter. We have stand-up clips from Bradford and Doncaster. We’re in London, listening in to conversations between sweary students and argumentative pensioners. There’s a new feature, Ellie Skinner’s On the Shelf, and the return of the catchily named Technological Regression Masquerading As Technological Progression. And yet another guide dog story.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - Innuendo, Electrodes, and George Ezra

(00:04:48) - In the Park, Talking to My Nipples

(00:26:28) - In Bradford With an Antisocial Woman

(00:35:22) - In London With Sweary Students and Argumentative Pensioners

(00:40:39) - In Doncaster With an Arrogant and Incompetent Comedian

(00:58:10) - Ellie Skinner’s On the Shelf

(01:03:25) - Technological Regression Masquerading as Technological Progression: I Wanna Take You to the Game Bar

(01:09:04) - The Guide Dog and the Plumber

We scientifically validate whether Ellie was happier on her wedding day or on her trip to Ramsay Street in our feature Neighbours or Nuptials. It’s the return of Cassette Roulette, where I make a rather shocking and harrowing find. Ellie teaches me a new activity in the bedroom and tells us about the time she was a stripper. I head to Bath, where I follow Nigel Farage. We go on another crime-solving walk and experience a near miss at the hands of some Hillsborough hoodlums. There’s another guide-dog story, and I get an unexpected house call.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - It’s Tosh Time!

(00:03:12) - Neighbours or Nuptials

(00:14:19) - Bizarre Bottle-Based Behaviour in Bath

(00:24:33) - Another Guide-Dog Story While Washing the Dishes

(00:30:50) - Ellie Was a Stripper and a Song About a Chicken

(00:37:00) - Please Forgive Me Daddy, I’ve Been a Bad Boy (00:54:42) - Cassette Roulette and Tangents About UK Garage, Dentists, and Bread Makers

(01:16:20) - Spicy Spells and Religious Rounds

We are approached by the daughter of a dictator in Spammer Time. Join me in the bath for an explosive experience, and I conduct an experiment involving cold water and Vera Lynn. I’ve been back on the dark web to unearth some lost musical treasures, and this time it’s an unheard gem from Guns N. Roses. We go for a walk to try and thwart a murder. There’s a couple of stories about guide dogs, and we read a few of your comments and listen to some rather weird phone messages.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - It Started With a Blow

(00:04:52) - Spammer Time: The Dictator’s Daughter

(00:10:15) - In the Bath With Guns N. Roses and Vera Lynn

(00:26:47) - Guide Dog Stories

(00:31:08) - Guns N. Roses: Welcome to the Bathtub

(00:36:33) - Shakespeare in the Kitchen

(00:47:34) - The Walking Detective

(01:01:06) - Tonsils, Teeth, and Tossing

My gig in Somerset takes an unexpected turn when a heckling pensioner becomes rather flirtatious. Ellie has a run-in with a call centre scammer and is assaulted by a roast dinner on the streets of Sheffield. New exciting features include the catchily named Technological Regression Masquerading As Technological Progression, and What’s That Biscuit. Plus, more 100% accurate celebrity impressions from Ellie.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - Food Farce, Flatulence, and Flirting

(00:16:38) - The Reek of Geek

(00:35:38) - Scammer Time

(00:39:10) - Technological Regression Masquerading as Technological Progression

(00:44:40) - Happy Hardcore Dishwashing

(00:49:52) - David Eagle: The Cartoon

(00:52:50) - Mogrosides and Matrimonial Musings

From the podcast that brought you the exclusive first plays from Gina G and Lou Bega, this week we hear an unreleased song from Little Richard as he pays homage to his hero, Spike Milligan.

We feature clips from The Young'uns live at Middlesbrough Town Hall and Winchester Cathedral. Join me for some meditation with a twist, play along with Ellie's Fame Game, and, to prove that we do listen to your feedback, we finally bring you into our bed.

(00:00:00) Jan 29 - Join Us In Bed

(00:11:58) Jan 30 - Meditation With A Humorous Twist

(00:15:09) Jan 31 - Enter The Mind Of Tutti Frutti Sue

(00:19:41) Feb 1 - Out Of The Bath And Into The Cathedral

(00:33:01) Feb 2 - Little Richard And Spike Milligan On The Dark Web

(00:35:55) Feb 3 - Strange Post-Gig Encounters

(00:40:47) Feb 4 - Ellie's Fame Game

 This week’s podcast features confusing conversations with computers. Henry II and Simon Cowell have a difference of opinion regarding the musical merits of farting. My idiosyncratic performance of Flight Of the Bumblebee gets a cold reception. And Ellie goes to Laos, where she meets with Dominic Monaghan who’s recovering from an altercation with a lizard, and becomes embroiled in a gambling scam.

Chapters

(00:00:00) Jan 22 - Two-take Wonder

(00:06:36) Jan 23 - King Henry II, Simon Cowell, And Farting

(00:19:46) Jan 24 - Exorcist Runner

(00:34:30) Jan 25 - Gaslit By A Computer

(00:52:40) Jan 26 - Bottle Banter

(00:59:04) Jan 27 - Kitchen Sink Drama

(01:07:52) Jan 28 - Ellie Becomes Embroiled In A Gambling Scam In Laos

 This week we share anecdotes about Louis van Gaal, Miles Jupp, Elis James, John Robins, Fern Brady and George Ezra. We join Bob Dylan in a youth hostel, and we receive an email from Lou Bega, with his brand new song. Plus Ellie tries to contact Joe Cocker, but to no avail, because he’s been dead for twelve years.

Chapters

(00:00:00) Jan 15 - ON A Plane With Louis van Gaal

(00:13:17) Jan 16 - Fern Brady Didn’t Look At My Crotch

(00:21:52) Jan 17 - IN A Youth Hostel With Bob Dylan

(00:28:40) Jan 18 - An Email From Lou Bega

(00:33:52) Jan 19 - I’ve Got a Hole IN My Hooter

(00:41:28) Jan 20 - What’s The Time Mr Eagle?

(00:48:14) Jan 21 - Ellie Tries To Contact Joe Cocker

 You rejoin us in the middle of our holiday in Marrakesh, where we become dramatically stranded in a ford, meet a funky imam, and pit three Moroccan teas against each other in our first non-European Herbal Tea Of The Week.

Plus, I perform for a group of swingers, get attacked by two birds, and have another interesting backside-related experience—those three things aren’t related. We also enter the world of Angela, from the song Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega.

Chapters:

(00:00:00) Jan 8 - Ford Farce

(00:16:38) Jan 9 - Funky Imam

(00:28:00) Jan 10 - Herbal Tea Of The Week From Marrakesh

(00:41:40) Jan 11 - Enter The Mind Of Angela

(00:48:18) Jan 12 - Paradise Studios

(00:52:47) Jan 13 - In Which I Perform For A Group Of Swingers

(01:00:16) Jan 13 - Shit The Bed

We’re back. The plan is to record something every day and then release weekly.

This week: Join me in the bath with a pair of geese, a call to my bank takes a sordid and confusing turn, and Ellie and I have some weird massage experiences. Plus, we go abroad, but I don’t know where we’re going.

Find out where we land and what we do in the first in a new weekly series of The David Eagle Podcast. It’s better than a bald head.

Chapters:

(00:00:00) Jan 1 - Better Than a Bald Head

(00:06:50) Jan 2 - In The Bath With Two Geese

(00:17:27) Jan 3 - The Backside Massage

(00:26:41) Jan 4 - Wash It, Dry It, Smash It

(00:33:29) Jan 5 - The Eagle Has Landed. But where?

(00:43:21) Jan 6 - Human Baklava

(00:54:22) Jan 7 - Henna Hassle

 The David Eagle Podcast returns with a bumper bunker-based Herbal Tea Of The Week, as we visit a tea house in Slovakia, situated in a bomb shelter. Six teas from six different countries go to war, but which one will be triumphant. Plus we talk about various recent stand up comedy gigs, including playing to a room of screaming, crying babies, performing for the military, and a surprisingly harrowing experience in Coleshill, Birmingham. And we conclude matters with a lovely little Slovakian soundscape. Enjoy, and we promise to be back a lot sooner than twenty-seven months.

Last weekend The Young'uns did a very mini Christmas tour and here is a compilation of clips from those gigs, in a podcast hilariously titled Merry Gigsmas.

We weren't planning on playing clips from our wedding on the podcast, primarily because we thought it would be boring for you: "I do" "I Will" "to have and to hold" etc etc. But then the wedding turned out to be a bit more exciting than anticipated. Listen to find out why.

We head back thirty years to my eighth birthday in Cassette Roulette; we learn about a mad Victorian scientist's experiments with monkey testicles in Ellie Skinner's Weekly Animal Penis fact; and we visit Biscuit And brew Tea House in Nottingham for Herbal Tea Of The week. Plus I reveal the Fine Young Cannibals' dirty little secret, we hear of a highly unusual fetish and I collaborate with two twelve-year-old girls to create a death metal song.

We're joined by our good friend, the velvet voiced author and
raconteur Matthew Crampton. He hosts our first animal penis fact quiz,
live from Folk East Festival in Suffolk. He also accompanies us on our
London tea based adventure for a multifaceted Herbal Tea Of The Week.
Plus there's a very weird Spammer time courtesy of eliza carthy and yet another
harrowing journey story.

This week's The David Eagle Podcast is all over the place, in both senses of the phrase. I return from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival having met some interesting characters including a chatty undertaker and a teenager in the woods with a rather confusing proposition. I have a near-death experience in Loughborough, cause chaos in a swimming pool in Sheffield, and Herbal Tea Of The week comes live from Tea Sutra Teahouse in Newcastle. IN Cassette Roulette we meet Mr Pie, and Ellie learns some harsh home truths in our feature spammer time.

This week we celebrate the life of one of my musical comedy heroes, Grant Baynham, who passed away on July 29th. Here you can spend forty minutes in his company as he regales us with songs, stories and silliness, plus he even takes part in everyone's favourite feature, Herbal Tea Of The week.

We're back in the studio with the return of regular features. Spammer time, where we meet a rather flirtatious IT teacher; Cassette Roulette provides us with some very weird and intriguing 90s radio clips, and Ellie Skinner's Weekly Animal Penis Fact turns its attention on the fox. Plus, another harrowing journey story, I become a role model for kids and we discover my unusual stage walk-on ritual.

Come with me on a comedy road trip as I travel From Hull down to Brighton, performing comedy to pensioners, students and even a room full of babies. Step this way for jokes, anecdotes, an array of highly unusual heckles, plus a collection of colourful characters including a very keen doorman, an unscrupulous cemetery officer, a B&B owner with a penchant for pranks, and of course Jimmy the pornographic audiobook recording fetish club blues singer of birmingham.

Happy new year. Here's part 2 of our podcast that features some highlights from 2021. Two animal themed quizzes starring folk musician Alex Cumming and comedian Paul Silky White; my dance hit inspired by an angry Australian bloke shouting about his penis; the story of my first foray into stand up comedy at the age of five; and a very weird radio show from my fourteen-year-old self.

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