Episodes

  • 23 March 1985
    Mar 23 2021

    60 weeks in and we're still managing to screw up the recording of the podcast in new and inventive ways. This week's episode sounds very strange due to, ahem, "technical issues", but please stick with it because there's an absolute bombshell about Phil Collins at the end.

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    51 mins
  • 16 March 1980
    Mar 16 2021

    This week we're going all the way back to 1980 to look at the state of the UK music charts, while attempting not to get sidetracked by songs about Billy Connolly, underground violence and the ever present threat of nuclear annihilation. Fun and frolics ensue!

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    49 mins
  • 9 March 1984
    Mar 9 2021

    This week's podcast investigates the UK charts of 9 March 1984, and then gets distracted by the most unconvincing anti-drugs song ever, the most Irish cows in Wales, and Radio 1's static caravan in Bury St Edmunds.

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    47 mins
  • 2 March 1989
    Mar 2 2021

    We're back in 1989 this week, examining the UK charts from this day 31 years ago and getting sidertracked as usual by a punk concept album, Fine Young Cannibals' dodgy restaurant and Holly Johnson's Love Replacement Bus Service.

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    50 mins
  • 23 February 1983
    Feb 23 2021

    This week we're looking back at 1983, examining the UK charts and getting sidetracked into discussion of unlikely guest artistes, SAND, and John Lennon's collection of whiskey manufacturers' water jugs.

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    51 mins
  • 16 February 1987
    Feb 16 2021

    In this week's Off The Chart podcast, sponsored by Woman's Own magazine, we look at the UK charts from this day in 1987 and end up with a Coronation Street spin-off, a mystery bum and a visit to the Broadcasting Under Manager.

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    47 mins
  • 9 February 1981
    Feb 9 2021

    The #32 comedy podcast in Kenya, apparently. This week's podcast looks at the UK charts of 9 February 1981, incorporating Julian's Yoko Ono impression and a plan to "swamp Barnsley with sex emporia".

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    45 mins
  • 2 February 1986
    Feb 2 2021

    A look at the UK charts of 2 February 1986, a simpler time when all we had to worry about was Shakin' Stevens' recreational habits, the cloning of Whitney Houston and gargantuan quantities of mustard.

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    49 mins