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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 23: This is Our Christmas Everest - Please, Sir!
It's a Christmas special from 1972 in this second from last Everest, and we're going back to school with this morning's episode.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Single Parenthood and I: Sofa, so good
It was a decision that I couldn't really put off and when I did, well... How did you buy a sofa, Ian? First slowly, then quickly.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 22: This is Our Christmas Everest - Chas & Dave's Christmas Knees-Up, 1982
Chas & Dave offer a "cockney" knees-up in the latest edition of the advent calendar
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December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The Weekend Match: Hampton & Richmond 0-0 Maidstone United - A Persuasive Argument for a Mid-Winter Break
On the Saturday before Christmas, these two National League South clubs presented a persuasive argument that perhaps we should all be taking a bit of a break rather than turning up the intensity.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 21: This is Our Christmas Everest - Yo Gabba Gabba, 2011
It's time for some 21st century kids' TV, with the extraordinary American kids show, Yo Gabba Gabba
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December 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 20: This is Our Christmas Everest - The Fat Albert Christmas Special, 1977
Listen now | Bill Cosby and a fat kid? There's no way this can possibly go wrong, is there? Time to go back to what were definitely "different times."
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December 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Words & Pictures to Follow: Hampton & Richmond vs Maidstone United - How Deep Is Your Rut?
The Christmas shopping is done. The presents are half-wrapped. The decorations are up and we're all away over the actual holiday itself. The kids are on holiday. Time to go south-west.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 19: This is Our Christmas Everest - Concentration, 1968
It's time to go all the way back to 1968, and a game show from the other side of the pond.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 18: This is Our Christmas Everest - The Lawrence Welk Christmas Show, 1972
It's time for some Americana, with a trip back to the early 1970s and what middle America was watching.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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The Football Kickback: Cadbury tastes different
A surprisingly football-heavy Football Kickback starts with a whole other conversation, but it's important that we get chocolate discourse out of of our systems.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The passing of Gary Rowell, and the passing of time
Another one of the players who existed in the periphery of my mind when I was firtst absorbing football as a child has died, a reminder of how old we're all getting.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 17: This is Our Christmas Everest - The Generation Game Christmas Special, 1973
Bruce Forsyth is in charge, and my God does he want you to know it. It's time for the BBC's primest primetime show of that year.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 16: This is Our Christmas Everest - Morning Worship, Christmas Day 1993
It's time for some of the true meaning of Christmas, and for these two absolute pagans to get a proper churchin'.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Single Parenthood & I: On becoming a teenager again, whether I like it or not
A blast from the past has sent me spiralling all the way back to being 16 years old again, and it leaves me with a stark binary choice. Do I reveal a secret that I've carried with me for 40 years?
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December 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 15: This is Our Christmas Everest - The 1972 Christmas Night With The Stars
On day 15 of our advent calendar, we're going for the BBC's 1972 jamboree of light entertainment.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 14: This is Our Christmas Everest - The Les Dennis Laughter Show, 1990
What happens next when the straight man is the one who doesn't die in a comedy duo? It's time to catch up, with the Les Dennis "Laughter" Show.
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December 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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The Weekend Match: Hendon 2-1 Ascot United - The Latest Show on Earth
There are few things in football more satisfying than coming from behind to win, but one of them is coming from behind to win with a 97th-minute winner.
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December 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 13: This is Our Christmas Everest - Micro-Live Christmas Special, 1985
Unlucky for some? Unlucky for us, as we go elbow-deep into home computing in 1985.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Words & Pictures to Follow: Hendon vs Ascot United - I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
At the end of a solitary year, I'm treating this Saturday as the UD Christmas party, and that means that this particular weekend involves more than just a football match.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 12: This is Our Christmas Everest - Runaround Christmas Special, 1980
From the same day as yesterday's episiode, here's Britain's angriest ever kids TV host, Mike Reid, with Runnahrhaaand.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The Football Kickback: Nottingham Forest are older than Germany
Yes, yes, yes, we're a couple of days late. And yes, it was entirely my fault this week. But never mind, here's your weekly Football Kickback.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 11: This is Our Christmas Everest - 3-2-1, 1980
This morning's Everest takes us all the way back to 1980, and a Christmas Day special for all the family (to not understand).
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December 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 10: This is Our Christmas Everest - In Sickness & Health Christmas Special, 1985
What would Christmas be if it didn’t include at least one uncomfortable discussion about racism?
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December 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 9: This is Our Christmas Everest - The Torvill & Dean Christmas Special
1984 was a big year ice skating, and T&D's reward was a Christmas Special on ITV.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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The Unexpected Delirium Advent Calendar, Day 8: This is Our Christmas Everest - The 1983 Keith Harris Christmas Special
He wished he could fly, right up to the sky, and then he did because he died. Well, his mate did, so I guess he did too. It's time for Keith Harris, from the end of the year of Peak Orville.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM