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 the following series:
Winning at Dominoes
Produced throughout 2019, Winning at Dominoes is a series of standalone podcast documentaries of stories from the history of the game in the UK.
An Echo of Glory
Building on the first series, An Echo of Glory is a history of football in England & Wales spread over twenty episodes.
Scorchio
A ten-part series from the long, hot summer of 2020, Scorchio is a ten-part series in which Ian King and Edward Carter revisit some of the football video games of the past.
Strength in Depth
Strength in Depth was produced in the autumn of 2020. It’s a history of non-league football, told through the constant changes, which kept the amateur and semi-professional games one step ahead of the doom-mongers who have been perpetually prophesising its death.
This is our Everest
Join Ian King and Edward Carter on a television odyssey, as we discover the weirdest, the worst, and the blandest television that we can find from the analogue era in an attempt to drive each other to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
Podcast 302: This is our Everest, Part Forty-Eight – The Professionals (1978)
On this week's bonus Everest, it's time for you to tune up (or detune) your mind to the exacting and often challenging universe of The Professionals. Patriotism, a sense of duty and an almost psychopathic, whisky-addled, disregard for life or property will get us out...
Podcast 301: This is our Everest, Part Forty-Seven – Public Information Films
This week's Everest sees Edward and Ian revisit a time when television was never explicit but nevertheless still fucking terrifying: the world of British Public Information films of the 1970s and 1980s. Their relentless efficacy is demonstrated early as Ian recalls...
Podcast 300: This is our Everest, Part Forty-Six – The Golden Shot, 1974
On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian visit some game show action from 1974 with The Golden Shot, ITV's terrifying crossbow-related teatime juggernaut. With Bob Monkhouse no longer on hosting duties, your heroes discover all they need to know about people...
Podcast 299: This is our Everest, Part Forty-Five – Confessions of a Window Cleaner, 1974
This week's This Is Our Everest sees your heroes reach an important (to them) milestone: their 69th episode overall, including the 24 Christmas Everests. To celebrate, if that is the correct word, Edward and Ian watched the bawdy 1974 sex comedy Confessions of a...
Podcast 298: This is our Everest, Part Forty-Four – Bertha, 1985
On this week's This is our Everest, your heroes have been watching an episode of the animated children's series Bertha from 1985. Ian has never encountered Bertha before so he's unaware of the incredible potential of this perhaps sentient machine that can make...
Podcast 297: This is our Everest, Part Forty-Three – Miss Anglia, 1980
On this week's This Is Our Everest your heroes have their swimming costumes ready to go for the beauty contest-come-cattle auction that was Miss Anglia 1980, the kind of awful, degrading bullshit that was more or less completely obsolete at least a decade before this...
Podcast 296: This is our Everest, Part Forty-Two – This England; Snooker
This week's emotional This Is Our Everest sees your heroes facing up to a 1978 episode of the Granada Television documentary series This England on the subject of Snooker, a game that both Edward and Ian found infinitely fascinating until watching this. Nevertheless,...
Podcast 295: This is our Everest, Part Forty-One – Splash!
This edition of the podcast is dedicated to Katie Coxall, a bold, daring, brilliant artist and friend of ours who lost her battle with cancer earlier this week. She will be much missed and fondly remembered in equal measure. On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward...
Podcast 294: This is our Everest, Part Forty – The Russ Abbot Show, 1986
On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching an episode of BBC1's The Russ Abbot Show from 1986. It allows your heroes to reflect both on Russ Abbot's lengthy some call it legacy as well as renewing our ongoing affair with the work of Les...
Podcast 293: This is our Everest, Part Thirty-Nine – Seaside Special, 1975
On this week's This Is Our Everest, your intrepid heroes are at the beach for the BBC's Seaside Special from August 1975. It affords them ample opportunity to explore their relationship with light entertainment, as all the while Tony Blackburn fights for his life...