I'm So Not Over It

What will £8 get you these days? Well, a ticket to The Xennial Dome's Little Dome live at Machynlleth Comedy Festival this weekend (tickets available here ) but back in 1993 you could get into Buckingham Palace for the same amount. I can't decide if that reflects well on us, them or the UK economy in the 31 intervening years, but it felt like something I should point out, at the very least. You ca...

For many years, as part of his morning commute, Gareth Gwynn would pass Cafe Diana - an establishment dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. From the top of the 94 bus he dreamed that one day, in the future, he would visit. On that day, he would see for himself what Cafe Diana was all about. He would finally find out how it memorialized her and discover for himself what was on the me...

It's a very special birthday episode featuring a former guest - Stand-up comedian, producer and director Stuart Laws. Stuart entered the world in April 1984 with a Twirl and a Splash. Literally. Having appearence once before to place mp3 CDs into the dome, he has now returned just in time for his 40th birthday, and for Esyllt Sears and Gareth Gwynn to talk him through some of the key moments from...

Tickets for The Xennial Dome's Little Dome - Live at Machynlleth Comedy Festival on 5th May 2024 are available here . Sunday trading doesn't quite happen and IBM enter the laptop game a little late in this April 1986 edition of The Xennial Dome. Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears have opposing ideas when it comes to whether or not shops should be open on a Sunday and maybe it's this kind of conflict wh...

Tickets for The Xennial Dome's Little Dome - Live at Machynlleth Comedy Festival on 5th May 2024 are available here . I like doing a Leftovers episode because I get to change the image. It's another look back at some of the bits and bobs which Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears failed to find time for in previous episodes. There's a whole section from January 2000 about the BBC's analogue answer to Big...

Tickets for The Xennial Dome's Little Dome - Live at Machynlleth Comedy Festival on 5th May 2024 are available here . In this final March episode, Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears familiarize, or refamiliarize themsleves with Exxon Valdez mobile spill, the Pope's reaction to Like A Prayer and we find out the initial reaction to Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web. If you've ever invente...

Tickets for The Xennial Dome's Little Dome - Live at Machynlleth Comedy Festival on 5th May 2024 are available here . In this episode, reaction to The Neighbours Game continues - mainly revolving around the fact that Harold was in his 40s during the show's pomp. Nevertheless, Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears don't let any of that get in the way of a look at March 1994 which encompasses the jewel in A...

How do you explain an album to a child? Where do you find an accomplice to commit a grave robbery? What is going on in late-1970s party political broadcasts? These are some of the questions raised, but not entirely answered, by Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears in this edition of The Xennial Dome. If any answers are forthcoming, do let us know on thexennialdome@hotmail.com or contact us on one of the...

Esyllt's birthday month sees Homebase and the London Marathon come under different levels of scrutiny and the episode culminates in a birthday quiz. Apt. If you want to get in touch you can email Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears on thexennialldome@hotmail.com or contact us on one of the following methods: TikTok: @ the.xennial.dome Instagram: @ XennialDome X/Twitter: @ TheXennialDome Facebook: @ TheX...

Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears play the Neighbours board game. That's it. That's the podcast. I mean, if you've only just found us, I wouldn't necessarily start here. We also cover the BBC/WHSmiths Press Pack club so if you were a member, and still live by The Code, get in touch on thexennialdome@hotmail.com or one of the following: TikTok: @ the.xennial.dome Instagram: @ XennialDome X/Twitter: @ T...

What could be more Xennial than uploading a podcast late due to a washing machine related crisis? Anyway, it's here now and I bet you can't wait to relive the opening bars of Brexit, David Cameron's unusual way of negotiating with the EU and we also cover the issuing of Lord Lucan's death certificate. Plus Esyllt Sears tells Gareth Gwynn about her mid '00s trip to Atlanta. If you are the man in At...

Comedy writer Gareth Gwynn tries to dig-out the story behind YouTube and uncovers three of them - all of which he presents to stand-up comedian Esyllt Sears in this edition of the show which looks back at February 2005. If you know the Question Time couple discussed, do let us know how they're getting on via thexennialdome@hotmail.com or one of the following: TikTok: @ the.xennial.dome Instagram:...

It's February 1989 in the Xennial Dome's Little Dome this week so you can expect Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears to be using each others microphones, introducing the wrong segments and completely forgetting whole sections of the show, all in honour of the 1989 BRIT Awards. We also discuss the launch of the Sky Television Network, the colour scheme of Home And Away and pointedly refuse to cover EastE...

January 1977 marks the first month of the Xennial era (as we have defined it for the purposes of these podcasts, at least) and so this is the furthest back we'll go in these Little Dome mini-episodes. Each week we take a look at this month in Xennial history - and as the very oldest Xennials will have been born in 1977, this is where the whole Xennial experience begins. The 1970s themed episodes a...

What was January 1990 all about for you? Peter Lindbergh's iconic Vogue cover, which kicked off the supermodel phenomenon by featuring Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford... Or the first episode of Mr. Bean? Luckily for you, you don't have to choose because we're across them both. Esyllt Sears has the facts and Gareth Gwynn knows more about one...

Are you the sort of person who doesn't normally look at the show notes of podcasts? Yes, I thought you might be. We've been expecting you. Don't worry, I know exactly why you're here. It's because you've listened to us talk about the Blue Peter Time Capsule, haven't you? And you want to see the video for yourself? Well, here it is . Time Capsules aside Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears also cover Cher...

It's all about long journeys this week with January 2014 bringing us an interstellar meteor in Papua New Guinea and a journey across Antarctica for an intrepid 16 year old. We also cover who owns laybys and what was on your Biology GCSE exam. More information on the meteor is available here . If you walked to the South Pole, get in touch on thexennialdome@hotmail.com or by one of the methods below...

More an excuse to use the image than anything else, here's some bits and bobs which Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears have, for various reasons, struggled to find a home for elsewhere on the podcast - but are just as satisfying, nonetheless. Two chunks from December 1993 covering Ghostbusters, careers advice and the navy, plus a passage from an unreleased November 1991 episode. The 1991 edition of Top...

What did you ask Santa for Christmas back in 1993? If you were a charity the answer was probably "a new patron" as Princess Diana stepped-back from public life. Meanwhile, Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears recall the time university campuses were brought to a halt by Doom. Get in touch on thexennialdome@hotmail.com or by one of the methods below... TikTok: @ the.xennial.dome Instagram: @ XennialDome X...

"Shut up it's that time again, kick out the old welcome the new - make your new year reolutions now - GO!" Join Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Spears as they discover that those words, first spoken by Dirty Den Watts back in 1987, are as true today as they always were. You can find that sentence in its original context (not that it'll help much) as part of the 1987 EastEnders New Year's Eve special here...

Londoners stopped going round in circles and the spell of The X Factor was finally broken in December 2009, as we finally saw a Christmas number one that had nothing to do with a TV talent show. Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears cover this and a whole lot more in 20 minutes of festive fun. If you're listening on the tube and have enough signal to drop us a message, you can do so on thexennialdome@hotm...

What was the most popular Christmas toy? What were we watching on television? How many dirty jokes were there in ALF? And who got an invitation to Pete Waterman's wedding? These are the big questions we try to answer in this week's edition on The Xennial Dome as Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears look back at the last analogue Christmas - 1989. If you played on Band Aid II or were invited to Pete Water...

What was the Millennium Dome's "Euan Test"? What was the difference between WHSmiths and John Menzies? How old do you think we sound? These are some of the questions which weren't exactly asked, but ended up being answered as we went through the emails, tweets and DMs which have come into the show over the last couple of months. Thanks to Kevin and Thierry for pointing us towards the internet arch...

The Xennial Dome tackles The Millennium Dome - Specifically, one of the most exciting and unexpected moments in the dome's inaugural year. Sit back as Esyllt talks Gareth through the failed raid which saw criminals try to make off with the contents of the dome's De Bears diamond exhibition. Why was there a diamond exhibition in a tent? We struggle to answer that and an awful lot of other questions...

November 1996 was all about America - be it their TV programmes, politicians or their influence on our own home-grown soaps. Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears discover why Baywatch was dropped from the TV schedules, how Bob Dole tried to capture the youth vote and try to understand the line dancing craze of the mid-1990s. Bob Dole's campaign website can be found here . Bill Clinton's campaign website...