I'm So Not Over It

How many times is too many times to see Mama Mia? Can you touch a lamb? And what on earth actually happened in the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII? These are some of the questions posed in this week's podcast as Esyllt Sears reminisces about her earliest days in PR and Gareth Gwynn tries to find a mathematical formula to assess who came off worse following the infamous Wardrobe Malfunction. F...

Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears cover a lot of ground in today's episode - the earliest days of Hyundai, the final days of corporal punishment in schools and the handful of days in which commercial TV thought 3DTV might be a thing. There's some really fun links to check-out on the 3DTV topic... I recommend them all. The Real World 3D TV (Episode 1 - February 1982) The Real World 3D TV (Episode 2 - D...

It's a stressful one this week as we recall the misadventures of Rogue Trader, Nick Leeson. We'll do a leftovers episode at one point, with the reminiscences of our own mistakes at work - but rest assured none of them total 1.4 Billion. We also discuss the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, the findings at KV5 and where to have a poo in a desert. Looking at my notes, it would appear at this point in la...

Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears talk taters, as 2008 marked the International Year Of The Potato. Want to know more? It's all here on The Website or in the PDF . We also discuss the career of Jeremy Beadle and 1980s TV budgets and there's a reminder to catch us in John-Luke Roberts' Sound Heap podcast, one of the episodes of which, is here . What's the most expensive prank you've been involved with?...

Esyllt and Gareth's end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024 , is available now on BBC Sounds (but there's only a week to go, so be quick!) Esyllt Sears looks back at 1978 and the ban on otter hunting - which is probably the reason, 47 years later, you're trying to listen to this over the deafening sound of countless otters. We also discuss Sally Ride, the first American woma...

Esyllt and Gareth's end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024 , is available now on BBC Sounds (but will only be there till the end of the month, so do be quick!) Gareth Gwynn has spent the Christmas break listening to an audiobook all about Diana (Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles , if you're interested) and Esyllt Sears is initially concerned this is going to become his enti...

A second helping of Christmas Leftovers - this time made up from some bits and bobs we were sad to snip out of our interview series for time. Enjoy BBC Radio 5 Live's Elis James (live in the London Welsh Centre) discussing his family's attitude to technology, his time in a band and having a decent stab at a round of Mario Kart on a screen which, we will admit, was too big. We've also got the brill...

Our end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024 , is available now on BBC Sounds . However, if you've alright caught our look back at 2024 and want to know even more about the year we're leaving behind, then this is the episode for you! With a strict one-hour run-time on BBC Radio Wales (actually 55'47) there was loads that Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears wanted to cover but could...

Our end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024 , is available now on BBC Sounds . If you're a Xennial (or thereabouts), December 1993 was probably "peak Christmas" and amidst all the excitement, you may well have found yourself too busy to fully take in the signifcance of Nelson Mandela's Nobel Peace prize win or the absolutely batshit timing of The Queen's letter to Charles an...

Our end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024 , is available now on BBC Sounds . How best to mark 100 episodes of the podcast? By reflecting on the other Significant Numerical Event which many of us lived through and may even remember - the build-up and fall-out of the 1st January 2000. The Millennium. Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears look through the Radio Times for New Millenni...

Our end-of-year special for BBC Radio Wales, I Can't Get Over 2024 , is available now on BBC Sounds . Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears are gearing-up for the Millennium on the podcast this week - and you'll probably be shocked by just how little Millennium Bug based content there is (if you remember, that was an October 1999 problem). Turns out that back in December 1999 people were more concerned wi...

Content Warning - Father Christmas existential chat. You don't work for years in commercial radio without flagging THAT up. Esyllt Sears and Gareth Gwynn welcome you to either episode 98 or episode 100 of the podcast, depending on your policy regarding Best Of episodes. If you spin back to September (into the gap which separates The Xennial Dome with I'm So Not Over It ) you'll find two high-quali...

Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears introduce Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears in an emergency episode which lets us reuse our favourite show image. Get in touch on imsonotoverit@gmail.com or through one of the following social media accounts... BlueSky: @imsonotoverit Instagram: @imsonotoverit TikTok: @imsonotoverit X: @imsonotoverit Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay . I'm So Not Over It is A Mighty Bun...

Esyllt Sears travels back to 1980, bringing us news of the first ever BBC Children In Need (although not the network's first charity appeal, leading to an Egg Week themed diversion) and the umpteenth Miss World competition - which didn't go exactly to plan. The BlueSky account mentioned in the addendum is here . If you're a fan of November, generally, check-out our back catalogue where, last year,...

It's the autumn of 2008. The financial crisis is biting. Gareth Gwynn has already lost his job, having recently been made redundant, and the freelance work is starting to dry-up. Meanwhile, the writing is on the wall for Esyllt Sears. After all, how can you work in travel PR if there's no-one out there who wants to travel? On the high street, things are starting to unravel too with the closure of...

After a short debrief around the Independent Podcast Awards , Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears turn their attention to November 1978. BBC Radio Wales begins while The Times, The Sunday Times and the nation's bakers all take a break. Video footage of the launch of BBC Radio Wales is here complete with talking parrot. An entertaining look back at the early days of the station can be found in I Was Ther...

Comedy writer and actor Gemma Arrowsmith ( The Tracey Ullman Show, The Now Show, Doctor Who ) joins Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears to talk about all things telly from the 80s to the present day. We cover the differences between the TV and live versions of Bottom and why you shouldn't have taken a 10 year old to see the latter. We also cover Ghostwatch, TV telethons, the increasingly baffling finale...

Coming to you, once again, from Aberystwyth Comedy Festival 2024, this is a live recording with a special guest - stand-up and social media star, Eleanor Morton . Eleanor's appearence is being split across two episodes - and this is part two. Don't worry, it's completely stand-alone so feel free to start here as Gareth Gwynn presents Eleanor and Esyllt Sears with his research into October 1996. We...

Engineer, athlete, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur and comedian Anu Vaidyanathan joins Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears for a chat about cultural phenomena from the 1970s to the present day. Growing-up in India, we discuss her earliest memories, her tech-savvy family and her move to the USA - before the conversation, like her life, takes a left-turn into discussing the difference between an Ironman a...

Coming to you from Aberystwyth Comedy Festival 2024, this is a live recording with a special guest - stand-up and social media star, Eleanor Morton . Eleanor's appearence is being split across two episodes, and in the first half Esyllt Sears is presenting Eleanor and Gareth Gwynn with her findings in-and-around October 2007. Keeping Up With The Kardashians had begun and some astronauts in space ne...

Podcaster, YouTuber, gamer and 90s naughty boy Gav Murphy joins Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears in the London Welsh Centre for a chat about cultural phenomena from the 1970s to the present day. Gav talks us through what it was like to be on the cutting-edge of naughty-boy tech in the 1990s. We're prank calling people on payphones, we're hacking mobiles, and we're downloading all-sorts of muck on 56k...

We've had some incongruous pairings of stories on this show before - but this one might take some beating. The sitcom Keeping Up Appearances launched and Esyllt Sears has a pretty comprehensive run-down of the facts behind the fun. This is coupled with a rattle through the post-Cold War reunification of Germany as seen through the eyes of Margaret Thatcher - and, as if to symbolize the coming toge...

Stand-up comedian and social media star Rosie Holt joins Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears in a sound proof booth just days after the general election had been called to discuss the news and cultural phenomena she remembers (or doesn't remember) from the 1970s to the present day. There's revelations, a deep-dive into a single episode of Live and Kicking and long-standing mysteries solved (but all with...

We're on-location in the place which was once the epicentre of the Pony Poster scene - It's the teenage bedroom of Esyllt Sears. Gareth Gwynn has arrived in Aberystwyth with recording equipment to capture the ambience while the pair also discuss Queen's We Are The Champions and Frestonia. Gareth Gwynn Declares Indepndence From Wales , a BBC Radio Wales show about independent towns and what indepen...

Stand-up comedian and Podcast Polymath Elis James joins Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears in the London Welsh Centre for the first episode in a brand new series of interviews covering cultural phenomena from the 1970s to the present day. And who better to kick things off than Elis? A stone-cold enthusiast of The Past, we cover his early appearences on Welsh TV, why Carmarthen became the centre of the...