Help! We’ve been infiltrated by another podcast!

This month at The Last Tuesday Project we have the pleasure of being joined by our friends over at the Old News podcast. Russell and David not only act as our joint Dimblebies this month, but also our first Guest Tuesday Dimblebies.

Alex, Hayley and Shaun decided to veto a question on the Genome Project and instead ended up with their trickiest research subject yet – a question related to the Orlando shooting in 2016.

Our next TWOsday episode, Episode 17a, will be released on 12th December.

This month’s icon uses an an image of Richard March Hoe‘s one cylinder printing press, taken from Wikimedia Commons.

Do you like what we do and want to show your support? Well, you can now give us a helping hand via Patreon! Just go to https://www.patreon.com/LastTuesdayProject. If every listener gave us a dollar a month, we will be able to furnish Tuesday Tower with all sorts of hipster paraphernalia, as well as get Shaun a Hipstermatic 3000 beard trimmer for his birthday. Please donate – he’s in dire need of a trim.

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With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.

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BOO!

Scary, right? Well, prepared to be even more terrified… it’s this month’s TWOsday episode!

This episode contains the irreverent chit-chat you usually find from us, with added Tammy. Enjoy!

• Count Duckula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Duckula
• Danger Mouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse_(1981_TV_series)
• Trap Door https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_Door
• The Little Green Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Green_Man
• You’ve Never Heard The Monster Mash. You’ve Only Heard A Song About The Monster Mash. https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/75alk5/youve_never_heard_the_monster_mash_youve_only/ (Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemonstermath/)

This month’s icon uses an an image from page 233 of “Varney The Vampyre; Or, The Feast Of Blood. A Romance.” by James M. Rymer, taken from The British Library’s Flickr archive.

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With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.

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Prepare yourself for a podcast filled with fright, for ’tis the Hallowe’en special of The Last Tuesday Project!

As this episode is out on Hallowe’en, we felt it appropriate to do something a little different, and a little spooky. Hayley is our Dimbleboo!, while Shaun and Alex cower in a corner, and Guest Tuesday Tammy stands with her wooden stake, ready to do whatever she has to. Yes, folks, we’re talking vampires!

Our next TWOsday episode, Episode 16a, will be released on 14th November.

Do you like what we do and want to show your support? Well, you can now give us a helping hand via Patreon! Just go to https://www.patreon.com/LastTuesdayProject. If every listener gave us a dollar a month, we will be able to furnish Tuesday Tower with all sorts of hipster paraphernalia, as well as get Shaun a Hipstermatic 3000 beard trimmer for his birthday. Please donate – he’s in dire need of a trim.

This month’s icon uses an an image from page 233 of “Varney The Vampyre; Or, The Feast Of Blood. A Romance.” by James M. Rymer, taken from The British Library’s Flickr archive.

Scary intro music and Hayley’s spooky backing music are excerpts from The Halloween Present (2017 remix) by Frederik Magle. Shaun’s music is Vision Of Beauty In The Land Of The Dead, also by Frederik Magle.

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With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.

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Welcome to another TWOsday episode of The Last Tuesday Project! This time we go back to what we’re good at – very off-topic descents into the jammiest of rabbit holes.

We welcome back Kirioth as a Guest Tuesday, and have a sneak preview of an appearance by Russell and David from the Old News podcast! They’ll be along in Episode 17.

Do you like what we do and want to show your support? Well, you can now give us a helping hand via Patreon! Just go to https://www.patreon.com/LastTuesdayProject. If every listener gave us a dollar a month, we will be able to furnish Tuesday Tower with all sorts of hipster paraphernalia, as well as get Shaun a Hipstermatic 3000 beard trimmer for his birthday. Please donate – he’s in dire need of a trim.

This month’s icon uses an an image from the book Favourite English Poems And Poets, taken from The British Library’s Flickr archive.

Want to get in touch? We’re on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, you can email us at podcast@lasttuesdayproject.com. 

With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.

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Welcome to a (slightly belated) episode of The Last Tuesday Project! Sorry about the delay, folks. Alex had a bit of a mare with his audio editing software telling him he’d saved stuff when it clearly hadn’t. Not that he’s bitter or anything…

This month is a guest question episode, courtesy of Patreon donor Stephen Douglas. We decided not to talk about whether climate change had any good elements (although we all agreed that it was an interesting topic), which meant that we had the opportunity to talk about Twitter!

Also, this month we welcome back Kirioth as a Guest Tuesday! He’s far funnier than we are, and we’re sure you’re going to enjoy listening.

Our next TWOsday episode, Episode 15a, will be released on 10th October.

Do you like what we do and want to show your support? Well, you can now give us a helping hand via Patreon! Just go to https://www.patreon.com/LastTuesdayProject. If every listener gave us a dollar a month, we will be able to furnish Tuesday Tower with all sorts of hipster paraphernalia, as well as get Shaun a Hipstermatic 3000 beard trimmer for his birthday. Please donate – he’s in dire need of a trim.

This month’s icon uses an an image from the book Favourite English Poems And Poets, taken from The British Library’s Flickr archive.

Hayley’s dramatic music is Soli by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive.

Want to get in touch? We’re on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, you can email us at podcast@lasttuesdayproject.com.

With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
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Welcome to another TWOsday episode of The Last Tuesday Project! This time, because we’re all currently busy dealing with something called Life, we’ve put together a selection of outtakes from the last few months. All irreverent, and mostly completely irrelevant to the episodes during which they were recorded. Enjoy!

With thanks, as always, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
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Let me take you on a journey through time, many Tuesdays ago…

This month on The Last Tuesday Project we take a closer look at the so-called Dark Ages (more accurately known as the Early Middle Ages). Alex asks Hayley and Shaun to look into something which, on the surface, seems a little ludicrous – did a comet have anything to do with those “Dark” times? In true clickbait style, what we find out may surprise you…

We also investigate the origin of the term “Dark Ages”, and what exactly constitutes a Dirty Snowball?

• Arthur myth gives clue to disaster of sixth century (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/09/uknews
• Astronomers Unravel A Mystery Of The Dark Ages: Undergraduates’ Work Blames Comet For 6th-century ‘Nuclear Winter’ (Science Daily) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040204000254.htm
• Why Halley’s Comet May Be Linked to Famine 1,500 Years Ago (Space.com) https://www.space.com/24005-halleys-comet-linked-to-ancient-famine.html
• Halley’s Comet and the 6th century AD (Society for Interdisciplinary Studies) http://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/halleys-comet-and-6th-century-ad.htm
• 5 Ridiculous Myths You Probably Believe About the Dark Ages (Cracked.com) http://www.cracked.com/article_20615_5-ridiculous-myths-you-probably-believe-about-dark-ages.html
• Jim Al Khalili – Science And Islam (BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gksx4
• Comets (Astronomy For Kids) http://www.kidsastronomy.com/comets.htm

Our next TWOsday episode, Episode 14a, will be released on 12th September.

Do you like what we do and want to show your support? Well, you can now give us a helping hand via Patreon! Just go to https://www.patreon.com/LastTuesdayProject. If every listener gave us a dollar a month, we will be able to furnish Tuesday Tower with all sorts of hipster paraphernalia, as well as get Shaun a Hipstermatic 3000 beard trimmer for his birthday. Please donate – he’s in dire need of a trim.

This month’s icon uses an an image from the book Die Erde. Eine allgemeine Erd- und La?nderkunde, etc by Franz Heiderich, taken from The British Library’s Flickr archive.

Hayley’s Comet Theme is Aspiranto by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive.

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With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
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Welcome to this month’s TWOsday!

This extra episode includes some bits cut from the main episode 13, plus a section recorded on Sunday night about our favourite real conspiracies!

Do you like what we do and want to show your support? Well, you can now give us a helping hand via Patreon! Just go to https://www.patreon.com/LastTuesdayProject. If every listener gave us a dollar a month, we will be able to furnish Tuesday Tower with all sorts of hipster paraphernalia, as well as get Shaun a Hipstermatic 3000 beard trimmer for his birthday. Please donate – he’s in dire need of a trim.

This month’s icon uses an an image from the book The Conquest of the Moon: a story of the Bayouda, taken from The British Library’s Flickr archive.

Want to get in touch? We’re on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, you can email us at podcast@lasttuesdayproject.com.

With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
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Welcome to our birthday party – this month, The Last Tuesday Project is a year old! And we’ve decided to give ourselves a birthday present by talking about a subject we’re all a little obsessed with… the phenomenon that are numbers stations.

Shaun acts as Dimbleby, while Alex and Hayley dig deep into this fascinating and somewhat conspiratorial subject. Alex goes off on one about the nerdy parts of this subject, and Hayley shows her ghoulish side.

And, for once, here are the show notes! (Yes, I know, I’m as shocked as you.)

• Tracking The Lincolnshire Poacher (BBC Radio 4 documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvr6o7fBcTY
• Radio 4’s Long Wave Goodbye (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/09/bbc-radio4-long-wave-goodbye
• Priyom http://priyom.org/
• HF Underground https://www.hfunderground.com/
• Japanese Holdouts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout
• Twente WebSDR (short wave radio tuner) http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
• The Vocoder: Speech Scrambling To Robot Rock (NPR) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126781688
• Spy Radio: Numbers Stations (Skeptoid #107) https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4107
• Numbers Stations (99% Invisible #97) http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/numbers-stations/

Did you miss Shaun and Alex embarrassing themselves by taking a maths test for a ten year old? In that case you should go back and listen to Episode 12a.

Our next TWOsday episode, Episode 13a, will be released on 8th August.

Do you like what we do and want to show your support? Well, you can now give us a helping hand via Patreon! Just go to https://www.patreon.com/LastTuesdayProject. If every listener gave us a dollar a month, we will be able to furnish Tuesday Tower with all sorts of hipster paraphernalia, as well as get Shaun a Hipstermatic 3000 beard trimmer for his birthday. Please donate – he’s in dire need of a trim.

This month’s icon uses an an image from the book The Conquest of the Moon: a story of the Bayouda, taken from The British Library’s Flickr archive.

Want to get in touch? We’re on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, you can email us at podcast@lasttuesdayproject.com.

With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
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Sit up straight, pay attention, and no talking in the back of the class while Miss is speaking! It’s time for this month’s TWOsday Project!

This time, Hayley plays the part of teacher, effortlessly segueing from strict disciplinarian to 1950s-drunk-on-gin-teacher trope, while Shaun and Alex embarrass ourselves by answering maths questions from an example 11+ exam.

We also reprise Episode 12 by talking about Cyril Burt and his influence on the 11+.

Do you like what we do and want to show your support? Well, you can now give us a helping hand via Patreon! Just go to https://www.patreon.com/LastTuesdayProject. If every listener gave us a dollar a month, we will be able to furnish Tuesday Tower with all sorts of hipster paraphernalia, as well as get Shaun a Hipstermatic 3000 beard trimmer for his birthday. Please donate – he’s in dire need of a trim.

This month’s icon uses a drawing of Bristol Grammar School from Wikimedia Commons. (OK, it’s an independent public school rather than a state-run grammar, but we liked the photo.)

Want to get in touch? We’re on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, you can email us at podcast@lasttuesdayproject.com.

With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
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