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<strong><em>I'm So Not Over It</em></strong> is a comedy history podcast about things you'll remember from the first time round.&nbsp;</p><br>Each week comedy writers Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears explore a different month in history – but with a brief stretching from the mid-70s to the present day. Basically, if you could see it, it would be in colour.</p><br>It’s politics and pop culture for the eighties, nineties, noughties and beyond, delivered in 20 minute hits because we know what your attention span is like.&nbsp;</p>&nbsp;</p>So if you remember Westlife but struggle with the Westland affair and if your favourite Aitken was a Tory MP or the one who co-wrote I Should Be So Lucky, we’ve got you covered in this ridiculous historical guide to the information age (even if that information came from a poorly recalled browse of Encarta ‘95).</p>&nbsp;</p>These weekly episodes are interspersed with interviews with the people who lived through this period to understand whether it has had any bearing on the lives they lead today.</p><br>The perfect listen, whether you’re Generation X, Gen X, Xennial, Millennial, Generation Z, Gen Z or whatever Pepsi wants to call you.</p><br><strong><em>I'm So Not Over It</em></strong> is brought to you by the team behind the award nominated Xennial Dome Podcast - Previous guests on that show include Nish Kumar, Jess Philips MP, Trevor &amp; Simon, Isy Suttie and many more and those episodes can be found on the same podcast feed.</p><br><strong><em>I'm So Not Over It</em></strong> is a Mighty Bunny Production.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
There are spoilers galore in this episode for the legendary third series of The Traitors (and, indeed, the very first series of Big Brother if you're really behind) as we are joined by the absolutely fantastic CHARLOTTE BERMAN to talk Bop-it, being banished and an awful lot more besides.
Unusually, she's the only one NOT doing a Welsh accent, but you can expect plenty of Traitors gossip (she kept a diary!) plus Charlotte's memories of The Dome, royal deaths (not the one you're expecting) and musicals - as well as her choice for our own museum dedicated to recent history, The Xennial Dome.
Also, thanks very much to The Celtic Media Festival for finding us a room to record in. We asked if there was an empty room somewhere and were provided with a 100+ seat cinema and, honestly, that's where I want to record all our interview episodes from now on.
You can follow Charlotte on Instagram at @charlotteberman91 and you can send us a message on imsonotoverit@gmail.com or contact us on one of the following...
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Theme music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.
If you're in London, Gareth Gwynn is appearing with his show Cyril at the Camden Fringe from 28-30 July. Tickets are available now.
Esyllt Sears is on BBC One Wales' Live From Merthyr Tydfil which is available on BBC iPlayer now.
I'm So Not Over It is A Mighty Bunny Production.
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If you're in London, Gareth Gwynn is appearing with his show Cyril at the Camden Fringe from 28-30 July. Tickets are available now.
Esyllt Sears is on BBC One Wales' Live From Merthyr Tydfil which is available on BBC iPlayer now.
Esyllt Sears grew up in Aberyswyth, but what does she remember of one of the most audacious crimes committed in the town during the summer of 2000? That's when £70,000 worth of pages from antique atlases were stolen from the National Library of Wales - but how did they do it? And how long does it take for anyone to notice a 17th Century map has gone missing? We also discuss the naming of the Ford Escort and, bringing it to the present day, the latest goings on in Cafe Diana. The article is here, should you be interested in the details.
In some ways, his is a little bit of an unofficial "Part 1" since, next week, we'll be joined by Charlotte Berman from The Traitors where we'll touch upon July 2000 all over again with the launch of the first Big Brother UK - And who better to lift the lid on reality TV than someone who spent several weeks in The Traitors Castle?! (Surely an upgrade from the Big Brother House).
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I'm So Not Over It is A Mighty Bunny Production.
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Esyllt Sears is on BBC One Wales' Live From Merthyr Tydfil which is available on BBC iPlayer now.
If you're in London, Gareth Gwynn is appearing with his show Cyril at the Camden Fringe from 28-30 July. Tickets are available now.
Spicemania and Girl Power kicked-off in July 1996 so Esyllt Sears has turned the brightness on her laptop up as far as it will go in the hope of being able to see their first rather poorly-lit video. Did you buy Wannabe first time around? If so, let us know - but as July 1996 was when you could get your first Hotmail email address, so why not do so by logging-in to your old account, fighting past a generation's worth of spam and sending us a message on imsonotoverit@gmail.com or contact us on one of the following...
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By the time you're reading this, you will have missed your opportunity for free ice cream courtesy of I'm So Not Over It but, to be honest, once you find out what you'd have to go through to get it, I'm confident you'd opt to give it a miss.
With that out of the way, we then tackle June 1978, which is entirely transport based, but I won't spoil it now by telling you which ones in particular. If you have a piece of the Berlin Wall do get in touch! Drop us a line to imsonotoverit@gmail.com about your own experiences - or get in touch via one of the following social media accounts...
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While we've got you, if you are a fan of Gareth and/or Esyllt a couple of things to keep an eye out for...
Esyllt Sears is on BBC One Wales' Live From Merthyr Tydfil which is available on BBC iPlayer now.
And if you're in London, Gareth Gwynn is appearing with his show Cyril at the Camden Fringe from 28-30 July. Tickets are available now.
Theme music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.
I'm So Not Over It is A Mighty Bunny Production.
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The Berlin Wall doesn't come down in June 1987, but Ronald Reagan's speech Gareh Gwynn a reason to search eBay for chunks of the wall while Esyllt Sears remains convinced she can spot a jockey on-sight. A more useful skill than you'd expect. There's also more holiday chat so, if you haven't already, do drop us a line to imsonotoverit@gmail.com about your own experiences - or get in touch via one of the following social media accounts...
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You join us in Newquay, Cornwall, where we find ourselves at the Celtic Media Festival/Awards. As such, there's a little bit of June 1995 chat, but this is manily about what made a classic '90s UK holiday. Thanks to those of you who got in touch with your own memories of rain, donkeys and nudity. If you haven't already, do drop us a line to imsonotoverit@gmail.com about your holiday experiences - or get in touch via one of the following social media accounts...
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What was your go-to family holiday? And what was your most memorable break? Let us know on imsonotoverit@gmail.com.
With summer underway and our own I'm So Not Over It roadtrip approaching, we'd love to hear your memories for a potential holiday themed episode - so do drop us a line. You can let us know your holiday memories through Instagram too - the advantage to social media being you get to see the post about this and hear the theme tune from The Holiday Programme too.
Anyway, back to June 1993, and one group of people who had a holiday to remember would be those who planned a stay Holbeck Hall Hoel in Scarborough, only to find it had fallen into the sea. In addition to coastal erosion we discuss the storms of the 90s and the first train to travel through the channel tunnel.
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A more sensible title for this episode would have been "Spam", but I'm not going to risk it getting algorithmically marked, blocked and binned - so I've gone for something else. May 1978 saw the first ever unwanted mass-email and the first ever early May Bank Holiday in the UK which was, surprisingly, similarly poorly received - and all this happened to a backdrop of Boney M.
There's loads of additional viewing/listening for this one, so once you've finished, feel free to get stuck-in to the following...
* The full story of Charlie Chaplin's grave was covered in our March 1978 episode.
* For more on Boney M check out our interview with writer and star of the Mary's Boy Child video - the very funny Anna Jordan.
* And if you want to see people moaning about being given a day off, check out this BBC video of the first May Day Bank Holiday. The Union Jack pinny/PVC Mac combo will shortly be available in the I'm So Not Over It shop.
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Esyllt Sears tackles May 1981, and a good deal more, with the fantastic stand-up comedian and comedy writer MADELEINE BRETTINGHAM (Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Late Night Lycett and loads more), live at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival. The month in question brings us Vogue and Cats but we also learn about Madeleine's work on Harry Hill's TV Burp well as how she found out about the death of Diana on the way to Amsterdam and welcomed in the New Millennium on Copacobana Beach.
Follow Madeleine on Instagram, BlueSky or sign-up for her very funny Substack.
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May 1998 was all about Birmingham - with the G8 and Eurovision both happening in the city in the same month - leading to resources (and, presumably, glitter) being shared. Gareth Gwynn runs through the details of both events plus the botched minting of the first euro coins, while Esyllt Sears lays down some ground rules about when you can and can't approach her on a train to talk about losing your virginity.
Check out Eyllt's appearence on Crushed with Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
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