A more sedate instalment today, but by no means a less worthy addition to the Eagle Is stranded canon. Join me and my fiance Ellie for a cup of tea and a chat.

Today’s podcast episode title speaks for itself. Join me as I sit naked in a bath while my Fiance Ellie gives me a haircut.

Day two, and my housemates have already decided they would rather give our daily family walk a miss. They said they had to do some work, but I suspect it might be due to the fact that I spent the last one commentating on the entire thing for this podcast. So I head out alone, except there are pesky people everywhere, meaning most of my walk consists of me diligently avoiding people whilst of course providing comprehensive commentary. But do I manage to keep more than two metres away from my fellow walkers? Find out in today’s dramatic instalment of The Eagle Is stranded!

A few people have asked for some podcasts from me over this time of lockdown. When I say “a few,”, I really do mean a few, but still, I’m very egocentric and so have decided to attempt to release a podcast for everyday of the lockdown process (so a minimum of three weeks). Given that I’m stuck in the same place for the foreseeable future, rather than gigging across the country, which is what I’d ordinarily be doing, I am calling this series The Eagle Is Stranded! Join me and my fellow housemates Ben and Ellie for episode one, in which we take advantage of our government-approved bout of exercise and go for a walk in remote rural Sheffield.

Self-isolation is affecting us all in different ways. Me? I’ve taken up poetry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olwSXFcEPpU&t=10s

Well, all our gigs have been cancelled for the foreseeable future, so what is there for us to do but take the opportunity to release a Young’uns Podcast. It’s Saint Patrick’s day, but the pubs are closed, so let’s celebrate with our podcast featuring a song all about Saint Patrick as written and performed by Stanley Accrington, who also recounts his most surreal/worst gig experience of his forty years performing.

Download it here
Listen to past episodes here

A couple of months back I received a message from the comedian Phil Nichol. He said he was launching a new comedy video channel and wanted me to be one of the first twenty comedians to help get it off the ground. I was quite surprised by this for two reasons. Firstly, there are some pretty established comedians involved in this project: Arthur Smith,Jen Brister, Jarred Christmas … and I am almost certainly the least well-known comedian on the list by some margin. Secondly, the idea of this project is that we record and edit our own videos, which is not the easiest task for someone who is blind.

I am in fact harbouring the suspicion that my inclusion is a bit of a piss-take, and they are hoping that I will produce the most lacklustre, out-of-focus videos that will prove to be funny for all the wrong reasons; I am being laughed at rather than laughed with. Perhaps this is a ploy part-instigated by the more successful blind comedian Chris McCausland to destroy my career. He has just started doing TV panel shows, and perhaps he was getting worried that, just as he begins to make a name for himself, I come along and start winning these various comedy competitions. I’ve heard that he was particularly vexed when BBC Radio 4’s programme for blind People, In Touch, chose me rather than him to talk about being a blind comedian. Perhaps he is fearing that one day I might steal his TV work, especially given that I have the added cachet of being a folk singer. Is it merely coincidence that Chris McCausland was recently spotted in a folk club?

Well, whatever the reasons for my involvement, I have accepted this challenge and will be releasing videos on a fortnightly basis. The video channel is called The Lost Comics, and my first video for the channel is entitled David Eagle VS Google. And here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBBd8QTJexg&t=19s