Hello our little party poppers, and welcome to episode 100 of BGC! Yes, can you believe it's been 100 years since we first started? ...Ahem, that doesn't seem correct... Anyway, let's carry on. To help us celebrate this historic show we are joined by our own Scottish kilt: Blind Gordon, the Bambi Thug of the podcasting world: Kevin Sherwin, and our own personal Accessibility Discovery Centre: Brian Dalton, not to mention the wonderful Clodagh O'Donovan, about whom we can’t think of anything to say that won’t get us in trouble! It's a show of reminiscing, with a little sprinkling of Euro football and Dutch politics on top.

Clodagh kicks it all off with her favourite topic; Christmas! And believe it or not, she actually got to meet Santa recently and they had a robust conversation regarding the non-delivery of long-promised snow over the past few Christmases. Poor Santa 😢

We also remember our interviews with the wonderful Lady Veronika Hyks; that time Stuart climbed Mount Kilimanjaro; our wonderful conversations with Prof John Sweeney, Prof Luke O'Neill, Irish government Minister Roderic O'Gorman, Jenny Axler, the Pope, Albert Einstein, The Minions, and so very many more.

Some of our favourites are listed below with links for your re-listening pleasure. Let us know about your favourite show - email us at [email protected].

The Christmas ones:

008: Santa, Spinrockers and "doing the business"! (link)

034: A Christmas Special (link)

059: Christmas special (link)

087: The BGC Christmas Quiz 2023 Extravaganza Special! (link)

The Veronika Hyks ones:

023: A Royal Surprise! (link)

056 Queens, Prime Ministers, & Dames (link)

067: A Royal invitation (link)

068: Surprise Surprise! (link)

086: The Dame returns (link)

And in #087 above, Veronika was a contestant in the Christmas Quiz!

The Adam Curry one: The Adam Curry one: #025: Fancy a Curry? (link)

The Kilimanjaro ones:

076: Kilimanjaro is for wusses (while Stuart was away, climbing Kilimanjaro, allegedly) (link)

077: The Longest Climb (We thought this was the one, but actually the climber was still on holidays for this one!) (link)

078: Please don’t distract me, I’m a working dog! (This is the one in which Stuart talks about climbing Kili, in spite of the non-mountain-ish title) (link)

079: Snuggle buddies (The one where Sherpa Radi talks about looking after Stuart on Kili during his climb) (link)

One of the Professor Luke O’Neill ones:

031: Metabolics, Mayhem & Melting Ice Caps (link)

One of the Hector in HR ones:

024: Hassle in the castle (link)

Other favourites:

048: Jan is so kissable (link)

080: Time for a bath (link)

093: A pain in me hoop! (link)

027: Woman's Hour (link)

Bonus one not mentioned in the show:

018: Irlande Douze Points - Óran (yes – all those voices!) sings the BGC Eurovision entry for 2021! – and a bonus promo at the very end by BGC for Che Martin’s podcast “The Dark Squares” (link)

So why not pull a sicky and spend some time revisiting our extensive back catalogue of Blind Guys Chat - Before we sell it to Sony for €2.50!

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