Podcast
Welcome to the podcast page on Twohundredpercent. This podcast has now been running for more than six years, with more than 200 episodes recorded on a range of different subjects. The current incarnation of the 200% podcast is called This is Our Everest, in which Ian King and Edward Carter attempt to drive each other up the wall through the medium of old television programmes. But we’ve also got a vast archive of podcasts for your perusal, including a series about football video games, a history of non-league football, and a complete history of football in England and Wales. Feel free to take a look below and see if there’s anything that grabs your attention.
Podcast 261: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Five – The Telly Addicts Christmas Special, 1989
Day five of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar begins with an unsolicited and completely unrelated television recommendation, then our heroes get back to business and watch the 1989 Telly Addicts Christmas Special. Ian gazes on with horror and fascination at the...
Podcast 260: This is Our Christmas Everest, Part Four – Delia’s Classic Christmas
Day 4 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar takes in Delia's Classic Christmas. Edward and Ian disagree about food on an almost recreational basis but are both keen consumers of it, so expect a variety of hot takes and disagreements about parsnips, Quality...
Podcast 259: This is our Everest, Part Three – The He Man & She Ra Christmas Special
Behind door 3 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar, Edward and Ian found the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special and did it ever raise a number of important questions. Our heroes discuss the finer points of Skeletor's anatomy, the proper parental response to...
Podcast 258: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Two – Des O’Connor Tonight
Day 2 (door 2?) of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watch the 1991 Des O'Connor Christmas Special and just like Des they're packing them in. Edward guarantees his bins will never be collected again, Ian summarily chalks off one of Mariah...
Podcast 257: This is our Christmas Everest, Part One – Saint & Greavsie
On the first of 24 daily Advent Calendar editions of This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian ease themselves in slowly by watching an edition of Saint and Greavsie from the 22nd December 1990. With the exception of a ratty tinsel Christmas tree you'd be forgiven for...
Podcast 256: This is our Everest, Part Twenty-Six – Crown Court
On today's valedictory episode of This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian give themselves a little treat and watch Crown Court, a programme they both love. They explore the origins of this stupid podcast, whether or not there should be degrees of treason and why they're...
Podcast 255: This is our Everest, Part Twenty-Five – Out of Town
Today's bucolic episode of This Is Our Everest sees Edward and Ian watch an episode of Out Of Town. There's some extremely questionable and troubling content about the annual Appleby Horse Fair and then a sheep orgy, all of which leaves at least one of our heroes...
Podcast 254: This is our Everest, Part Twenty-Four – That’s Life!
On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian find their most amusing misprints from local newspapers and watch an episode of That's Life from 1986. It's a programme that provokes a number of thoughts and feelings, particularly a quite unprecedented swell of good...
Podcast 253: This is our Everest, Part Twenty-Three – Channel Four Presents Basketball
In an ironic twist, today's episode of This Is Our Everest (not sponsored by Just Juice) is both the first to feature any basketball at all and also the episode least likely to appeal to basketball fans. However, Edward has a perfectly reasonable defence and Ian has...
Podcast 252: This is our Everest, Part Twenty-Two – Going for Gold
On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian revisit everyone's favourite trans-European quiz express, Going For Gold. It's increasingly a relic of a forgotten era in UK-EU relations and our heroes try and pick through the finer points of the Maastricht Treaty to...