The David Eagle Podcast

This week, Ellie gets a Google Alert for my name, linking to a Daily Mail article in which I am mentioned and quoted. We read you the article, then embark on some investigative journalism of our own to uncover the truth behind the story. And that’s not the only article we read on this week’s podcast: we also have the write-up of the very strange interview I did for a Yorkshire newspaper last week. Plus listeners’ Yorkshire jokes, more mechanical musical challenges and, I suppose at this point it probably goes without saying, more Le Creuset news.

It’s a very literature-heavy podcast this week, as we bring you spontaneous limericks, a poem from my ten-year-old self, and I recount the rather unusual newspaper interview that I did a few days back. Plus, finally, after months of waiting, I’m back in the kitchen for a dishwashing special. More mechanical musical challenges, more Le Creuset news, and the return of our catchily titled feature Technological Regression Masquerading As Technological Progression.

Join me at Folk East Festival along with the other two from The Young’uns and friend of the podcast Mathew Crampton, for a chat with folk singers Emily Portman and Sam Carter, plus Canadian shanty band Pressgang Mutiny. Emily is the victim of an impersonation, Sam takes the law into his own hands, and Pressgang Mutiny inspire a Canadian-based guessing game. Meanwhile, back at home, I am contacted by the dead, there’s a mystery music challenge, and we’re fleetingly joined by Alan Carr.

It’s the final chapter of my fantasy Novella, The Story Of The Brain King. Will the Time Doctor and the Lord Of Darkness agree to stop the destruction of an entire planet? Cassette Roulette showcases one of my invented childhood games. There’s a brief appearance from Dara Ó Briain and Terry Wogan, and we have another strange experience in the Turkish baths.

This week we have an unexpected encounter with celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott, who involves himself in our feature Potato News. The Time Doctor and The Lord Of Darkness go head-to-head in an epic battle of words, with part 11 of my childhood fantasy novella, The Story Of The brain King. There’s news and sport courtesy of Cassette Roulette. We’re contacted by members of the North East’s 90s Happy Hardcore community,. And there's more Le Creuset news.