Episode 22 in which we remember the 1984 Bhopal disaster, David takes a natural break and Russell tells "The Toilet Story".

Welcome to Season 2 of the Old News Podcast! Freedom from the Humber to the Tweed! In this episode we have more referendum talk, this time about the North East England regional assembly referendum. David calls for the establishment of the People's Democr.

First of all I would like to apologise for how late this episode is, it was recorded in March when the Winter Olympics were still on and it was snowing rather heavily here in the UK. It is all my fault not Russell's, I have been struggling to concentrate.

And...we're back! In this here episode 19 we discuss the Year 2000 or Y2K problem. What it was, what caused it, similar issues in the past and future, and the effects it has had on today's world.David unleashes the Haylinator on an unsuspecting world and.

We're looking back over all our old episodes and bring them up to date with anything that has happened over the last two years. There's a surprising amount. There's trips down several memory lanes and of course Russell has more car problems! He should pr.

This is the episode you've all been waiting for! We've been trailing it for over a month now but this is the joint episode we did with the guys from The Last Tuesday Project. Just to explain what happens: Russell and David acted as the first ever joint ".

We're getting out of our comfort zone this time and talking about art, specifically the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Meanwhile, Russell is having yet more car trouble, uses the word "bunkum" and David reveals how much he reviles a par.

Remember the Human Genome Project? Remember how it was going to change all our lives? We look into what happened. Is it going to take another 40 years? Meanwhile, Russell discovers "Some kind of bacterial thing", David gets his third new job in a year an.

After Russell's trip to Canada Old News is back with another marathon about BSE, or Mad Cow Disease as you might know it. We find out about how boring David's job sounds, which countries we're big in and we invent the Trudeau Scale of Canadian-ness. We'r.

A tired sounding Russell and David discuss the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (known in Britain as the Boxing Day tsunami), the events of the day, the reconstruction, the charity effort, and the unexpected outcomes. David also reveals his yearn.