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Download the audio version http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop108.mp3 The audio part of this challenge has failed, thanks to the Edinburgh Pleasance Theatre’s woeful Internet speed. I left my laptop running for the entirety of yesterday’s gig, but when I came back to it after the gig, the audio still hadn’t uploaded. I did manage to get the written…

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Download audio version http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop107.mp3 It’s finally happened. Someone who saw us for the first time at our short free afternoon gig at the Robert Gillow pub in Lancaster has contacted us to say that they have set up a Young’uns Wikipedia page. She enjoyed the gig so much that she immediately went on the Internet…

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Download the audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop106.mp3 Support for this tour comes from Irish Mythen, who Young’uns Podcast listeners may remember from the interview and session we did with her in Kansas last year. She was due to fly in to Manchester from Canada on Monday, a couple of days before the start of the tour,…

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Download the audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop105.mp3 The tyranny of Thatcher seems to still loom large over her home town of Grantham, or at least at the Guildhall Arts Centre anyway. There were signs up all over the place listing various venue rules. There were a number of notices on display in our dressing room. One…

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Download audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop104.mp3 While waiting in the barbers a couple of days ago I received a phone call from a number I didn’t recognise. “Hello David Eagle, before you say anything, please do not swear, you are on loud speaker and there is a class of college students listening.” I was rather taken…

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Download audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop103.mp3 I called the bank yesterday in order to transfer some money to someone. When the man on the phone had done my transfer, he asked me why I’d chosen to use telephone banking today, instead of doing it online, which, he pointed out, can often be more…

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Download audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop102.mp3 I’ve just checked Google, and it turns out I was wrong when I said yesterday that Hartlepool was the teenage pregnancy capital of Britain. I believe that this used to be the case, but we seem to have now been beaten by Burnly. Damn! We are no longer the champions.…

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Download audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop101.mp3 I’ve come back home to Hartlepool for a couple of days to see the family. Yesterday’s Dollop was released at 1135pm, with only 25 minutes to spare. The reason for this was because I spent most of the day playing with children. I am aware of the many comic avenues…

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Download audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop100.mp3 Yesterday, I saw the following news headline: “Corbyn Loses It With Female LBC Journalist.” LBC is a radio station in London, and according to this headline, Jeremy Corbyn lost it with one of their journalists. If you were merely taking a cursory look at the news, perhaps just skim reading…

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Today’s Dollop is an audio Dollop, because I found it difficult to communicate this topic successfully in writing. I have therefore just decided to speak from the hart. The last 98 Dollops have been quite light and hopefully funny, but today I feel compelled to talk about something serious that’s really playing on my mind.…

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