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, all of which are available for your persual.
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 281: This is our Everest, Part Twenty-Seven – The Price is Right (1984)
This Is Our Everest returns today, albeit as a far more sensible weekly edition, with Edward and Ian getting their RDA of The Price Is Right. Your heroes - one in particular - are both connoisseurs of the American programme, so how are they going to respond to the...
Podcast 280: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Twenty-Four – Fanny Cooks For Christmas (1975)
The final door of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar inevitably reveals the terrifying spectacle of Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas. Our heroes both watch this monstrosity every Christmas regardless and it doesn't disappoint. There are thoughts on hygienic food...
Podcast 279: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Twenty-Three – Please, Sir! (1971)
The penultimate day of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar goes back 50 years to the black and white world of Please Sir! Ian is fascinated by any programme that depicts London in the early 1970s, even if it is just for the social documentary aspect, and as such...
Podcast 278: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Twenty-Two – Chas & Dave’s Christmas Knees-Up (1982)
Day 22 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian join Chas and Dave for their 1982 Christmas Knees-up. It is a programme that acts as a salve on both of your heroes' battle-scarred psyches and also one which allows Ian to expand upon his...
Podcast 277: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Twenty-One: Yo Gabba Gabba
Day 21 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Ian break all known rules for this already stupid and pointless exercise, picking a 2011 festive edition of Yo Gabba Gabba. Edward is keen to find out whether or not having two young children has now addled Ian's...
Podcast 276: This is our Christmas Everest, Party Twenty – Fat Albert, 1977
Day 20 of our Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watching the 1977 Fat Albert Christmas Special. It's your heroes' first encounter with this particular US television monolith but the helter-skelter melding of the Nativity and A Christmas Carol soon takes a back seat...
Podcast 275: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Nineteen – Concentration (1968)
It's day 19 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar and Edward and Ian are watching the Concentration Christmas special from 24th December 1968. Eschewing the commonly-held notion that the secret to a long life is mild cheese and exciting television, Edward has...
Podcast 274: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Eighteen – The Lawrence Welk Show, 1972
Day 18 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees your heroes have their first encounter with the other-worldly Lawrence Welk, and The Lawrence Welk Christmas Show from 1972. Edward and Ian learn about what Republicans do to celebrate Christmas, most of them by...
Podcast 273: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Seventeen – Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game, 1973
Day 17 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar inevitably sees Edward and Ian watching The Generation Game Christmas Special from 1973. Both of your heroes are thrilled to bits to see Frankie Howerd again and are effusive in their praise for both him and the show's...
Podcast 272: This is our Christmas Everest, Part Sixteen – Morning Worship, 1993
In an entirely church-based 16th day of our Advent calendar, your heroes have been watching an episode of ITV's Morning Worship from 1993. It brings back all kinds of repressed childhood memories for Edward which is bound to have done him no good at all. Meanwhile,...