Vince Tracy Podcasts

The TV Programme "Rock Til We Drop" which features selection of musicians between the ages of 65 to 85 chosen to form a band to perform at the Isle of Wight Festival. Dodgy children's programmes from the past....e.g.  Captain Puigwash....how did they get away with it? Cookery programmes.....and the ridiculous "presentation" of food.....and the price of a pint is more than my first weekly pay...

Terry is not available this week and it is with great pleasure I introduce Emilio Belagios once again. Emilio is a Spanish former lecturer in English and stepped into the breach with no time to prepare for our discussion. My thanks to Emilio and we will speak with Terry next week.. We discussed the tragic situation in Ukraine and tried to discover how the mood is in the local towns and places that...

@vincetracy and @robdaniels discussed the sad events in #Ukraine and offered our condolences to the victims of war. Rob told us a bout a player who refused to comply with wearing a generic anti-war badge. The player gave genuine reasons for non-compliance. We looked at the sanctions imposed against Russia by #FIFA #UEFA and the English #FA and the woes of #Chelsea beacause they were owned by #Abra...

A huge fire has broken out in a block of flats and offices near London's Algate East underground station - sending 'glass panels crashing hundreds of meters to the ground'. Around 125 firefighters in 20 vehicles are currently at the scene of the inferno on the 17th floor of a high rise building on Whitechapel High Street in Aldgate, east London.  Calls are growing for people to boyc...

@vincetracy and @ericmalpus discussed the sadness of life in Ukraine as the Russian invasion continues. We paid our respects to the victims of this conflict.  There was a #ManchesterUnited flavour to this week's discussion as we looked at the fallout after the brilliance of #ManCity in the #Manchester derby. We discussed the behaviour of the #Chelsea fans who chanted the name of #Abramovich d...

@donwoods and @vincetracy discussed #ShaneWarne #Cricket #JimLaker #Athletics #Education #Wirral #Wallasey #School #SirRogerBannister #SebastianCoe #Music #Bands #Groups #SpandauBallet #TheFloralPavilion #RalphMcTell #Cornwall #SmuelSmiles #MargaretThatcher #Yorkshire

@vincetracy and @robdaniels discussed the sad events of events in #Ukraine and the selling of #Chelsea has been one unforeseen consequence as #RomanAbramovic is asking for 3 bn. Although the current owner has not criticised #Russia it would seem he has to be a little circumspect with his comments. We looked at how players have a responsibility to behave and how repercussions can come back to haunt...

terrywhitehead joined vincetracy to discuss ....................... A key to eliminating the most aggressive form of brain tumours has been found by researchers in Sevilla A recent study involving researchers from Sevilla has managed to take an important step forward with a new scientific finding in Oncology and battling brain tumours. Their work has discovered a new therapy for the treatment of t...

@vincetracy and @ericmalpus discussed the world situation and how the sanctions might work against Russia. We know the #Eurovision song contest is not taken too seriously in England but maybe it's different in Russia. We looked at how the treatment of #Abramovic might have affected #Chelsea who played a great #Carabao final against #Liverpool. We paid tribute to the legace of #Bielsa who has had t...

@donWoods joins @vincetracy discussing #Liverpool #CarabaoCup #Prices #Petrol #BBC #ITV #EuropeanSongContest #Antiques #TheChase #TippingPoint #DavidBowie and #TheLaughingGnome https://www.vincetracy.com/podcastfile/donwoods28february2022.mp3

@vincetracy and @terrywhitehead discussed aspects of life in #Spain where the #Catholic #church is giving many buildings back to the #state. A #nuclear plant in #Valencia is to be decommissioned but not for another 7 years. We looked at the #Route99 in Valencia and the phenomenon known as #the Botellon

@vincetracy and @robdaniels discussed the disappointing news from Russia and Ukraine and wished for a peaceful outcome. We also wished a Happy Birthday to Ramon Gabin who has appeared on this podcast. as a guest presenter. We discussed the #ChampionsLeague and the possible change of venue for the final. There was a good win for #Chelsea and a draw for #ManUnited before Rob gave his #LaLiga lowdown...

Catch up with @#LeapyLee....what a year we have just lived through!  We discussed aspects of Education in #UK with the #Woke brigade and very left-wing teaching in schools. We discussed how it is our duty to protect our children and the courts are not dishing out fair dinkum

Headteachers at schools in Brighton have sparked anger from parents by cancelling the words 'mum' and 'dad' and replacing them with 'grown ups' - to avoid discriminating against 'non-traditional' families. A former Countdown winner has been jailed for 12 years after he told other paedophiles he would like to abduct and abuse little children. Craig Chittenden, 33, from Willington, County Durham, al...

@vincetracy and @ericmalpus discussed the #PhilFoden visit to the boxing match to see #EmirKhan and the video depicting his difficulties at the event. We moved to the young #Swindon fan offering his favourite player 26p. #EFL clubs were next on the list where clubs will be deducted points for not paying their players. #Derby and their progress was discussed and #Lukaku and his loss of form were th...

@DonWoods chats with @VinceTracy about #UK storms #Dudley #Eunice and #Franklin plus #Royal storms with #Andrew and #Charles plus #TomDaley then #WinterOlympics #Curling and the wonderful #Connie Francis

@vincetracy and @robdaniels discussed the return of the #ChampionsLeague and the great performances by #ManCity and #Liverpool. Next we discussed the unprofessional conduct displayed by #ManUnited as they swarmed around referee #PeterBankes to make sure that #Brighton went down to 10 men. We discussed the dangers of international travel as #ManCity were diverted to #Liverpool airport and welcomed...

@TerryWhitehead joined @vincetracy to discuss #Spain #Banks #Internet #Technology #EU #Brexit  #LabourYouth #KeirStarmer #HouseofLords #UK #Woke #PrimarySchools #Meat #Discipline  #OxfordUniversity #CambridgeUniversity A retired Spanish doctor who has been campaigning to maintain face-to-face customer services at banks, presented a petition in Madrid on Tuesday with more than 600,000 sig...

PARENTS have blasted a school's decision to go permanently "meat free".  Students at Barrowford Primary School near Nelson, Lancashire, are only offered vegetarian dinners - and kids are also urged not to bring meat in their packed lunches.  The new rule was brought in last year, but a letter informing parents of the change was only sent out on Thursday. .Primary school staff on the Isle...

15th February 2022 @vincetracy and @ericmalpus discussed the reporting of an incident involving the Everton goalkeeper JordonPickford in Newcastle. The KurtZouma incident with the cat is still bubbling and we discussed the management of stupidity with a price tag around 30million for idiotic behaviour. Rangnick is not really improving ManUnited with the on/field performances and this begs the ques...

@DonWoods joins @vincetracy discussing #KierStarmer #JimmySaville  #Boris #XmasParties #CressidaDick #KurtZouma #WinterOlympics #BBC #RightSaidFred

@terrywhitehead joins @vincetracy discussing #farming #octopus #Supercomputer #Reservoirs #Spain #UK #Scouts #Education #drama

@vincetracy and @robdaniels discussed the ramifications of #KurtZouma whose middle name is Happy. He didn't make his cat happy as he abused it and then a film of the incident on the social media platforms emerged. We discussed #DelliAli and his range of clothing as he was introduced to the #Goodison faithful. #WayneRooney has a new documantary highlighting his problem area in his earlier career. W...

@vincetracy and @neilcolbourne discuss #BP #Oil #Gas #shares #Juststopoil #fish #monarchy #charles #camilla #nurseryeducation #education #flags

@ericmalpus joined @vincetracy discussing the fantastic #AfricaCup final with #Senegal crowned champions. Then the fabulous and surprising Cup and looking ahead to a frantic #PremierLeague week.