The podcast of David Eagle: the adventures of a non-dancing blind comedian and folk singer.
Part four of our investigation to track down the people involved in a 1960s/70s reel-to-reel tape recording. Yesterday, we uncovered a major clue, in the form of some names. One of the names was Steven Mainprize. A Google search led to a couple of possible matches, one of which was Stephen Mainprize, owner of Mainprize Upholstery. So today, I gave that Steven Mainprize a call, and this is what happened.
Our investigation continues, as we try and track down the people involved in an old reel-to-reel tape recording which has accidentally ended up in my possession.
Ready to do some detective work? As we take a trip back in time and attempt to solve a mystery, by listening for clues held on an old reel-to-reel tape.
In 2008, my friend Ben went to a car boot sale in Scarborough, where, For some strange reason he decided on a whim to buy an old reel-to-reel tape recorder. When he got the recorder home, he noticed that there was a tape inside the box. The contents of that reel-to-reel tape launched us on an unexpected journey of discovery, as we investigate the recording, making some rather exciting and dramatic findings. You too can join us on this adventure, as we travel through time and piece together the m...
As 2016 draws to an end, so does David’s Daily Digital Dollop. In this, the final Dollop, we spend eighty minutes revisiting some Dollop highlights, before finally saying goodbye to this ridiculous and stupidly crazy project.
Featuring my final Dollop in the bath; another childhood composition; a very touching and respectful tribute to Nana from the Royal Family; I kill off Aled Jones; there's an improvised drama about Father Christmas having to fill out a risk assessment form; My namesake is back and he's stealing my women; my niece Lucy returns to say goodbye and create a few more Dollop jingles; and the final dollop anecdote concerns a rather awkward disabled children's Christmas party.
This week: Christmas sketches, self-composed Christmas songs and some observations about how to improve Christmas carols. I am interviewed by a child Dollop fan. And as this project draws to an end it's time to say goodbye to a couple of classic Dollop characters, my housemate Ben and his girlfriend Elsa. We do our last Dollop from the kitchen and my last walk through rural Sheffield. It's getting emotional.
This week I find some old recordings which include a drama I created at uni about a rather odd father Christmas, and some weird clips of late night radio talk shows in the 90s. We also go on a walk through rural Sheffield and meet a farmer with some very dubious jokes and even more dubious opinions.
This is the week where I introduce you to my new girlfriend, plus there are plenty of shower antics to tell you about. Are those two things linked? You'll have to listen to find out. Plus join me on a train and a couple of toilets for tales of childhood trauma and wedding weirdness.
This week we have some workmen in the house and they are making me feel rather intimidated by their confident manliness, however I have a clever plan to appear much more manly in their eyes; and no, it doesn't involve getting naked, Chloe. There's another self-composed song: a pun-laden missive from a heartbroken maths student. Plus more lip biting news, more ideas for David's Daily Digital Dollop the Musical, and I nearly get killed by a hairdresser.
This week I have more odd dealings with call centre staff and there are more anecdotes from our week working in primary schools; I come up with some innovative ideas for Vegan based Christmas presents, And I accidentally involve myself in a paradigm shifting metaphysical experiment that will shake the science world to its very core. Plus I get naked quite a lot and divulge some rather intimate personal secrets.
This week I sing a song about satanic canine sacrifice, I ramble about reincarnation, I rant about my dad's new phone, create a little sketch involving William Wordsworth, chat about cannibalism adultery and murder, and entertain a few children along the way.
This episode is a rather spooky one as we enter the week of Halloween. There are mysterious voices captured on some of my audio recordings, but who do they belong to and what are they saying? Could they be communications from the afterlife? We take an unexpectedly spooky walk through rural Sheffield, and I have a near-death experience. Plus more exciting interactive games, one in the pub, the other in Sainsbury's.
Lots of soul searching and personal revelations on this week's episode as I confess to a crime that I've up until this point never revealed to anyone, plus tales of drunken debauchery involving a married taxi driver. We play a rather raucous parlour game, conduct some highly scientific research and there's another song from my teenage self.
This week The Young'uns are back in school writing songs with children and we have plenty of anecdotes to impart. And after a hard day's teaching we like to relax by going to the pub to record ourselves making jokes about dead celebrities and drunkenly singing Catholic Hymns at the top of our voices in the street.
This week we travel from a Lancashire curry house to an old mill in Preston via a travelodge corridor, rural Sheffield, a Scarborough pub, a Manchester flat and an Adriatic fishing village, confusing neighbours and angering animals as we go. Plus there's yet another new exciting interactive kitchen based game to play: What's In My Cupboard?! And you'll be pleased to hear that we once again revisit the subject of WIFI enabled kettles, because we haven't talked about that enough yet.
An exciting roller-coaster of an episode as we flit from Portugal to Hartlepool, spending time in the company of garrulous taxi drivers, drunken hens and flirty golfers, discussing all manner of topics such as who decided how we assimilate animal and vehicular sounds in speech, with a bit of locker room banter and some experimental arty ambient music.
My new binaural microphones arrive and to celebrate we go on some walks through rural Sheffield, confusing and intimidating the locals as we go. The Dollop gets a new exciting and completely original theme tune; plus more ideas are coming in for David's daily Digital Dollop The Musical as I begin work on a song all about my dollop regarding killer domestic robots. I also unearth a song from my thirteen-year-old self about a very unsettling relationship.
This week: more train anecdotes; I con a con artist; I sing some spontaneous songs as we prepare for David's daily Digital Dollop The Musical; and there are more interactive games for you to enjoy.
This week there's plenty of phone based drama, including stories of cold callers, teenage prank calls, and call centre confusion. Plus join me in the kitchen for some exciting games including Where's My Sponge and what Am I Washing.
This week you are invited to play a game of Design Consultants courtesy of a fellow David eagle; More cutting edge topical humour as I analyse the children's song about the old lady who swallowed a fly; I have an awkward chat about socks with a man on the train, and there's some Indian food based puns to look forward to.
This week includes an argument with a very swearey angry Northern Irish vegan, we attend a cringey Christian concert, as well as an epic IT based battle.
This week I play a recording of my seven-year-old self, we discover the comedic power of plumbs, we get an unusual request at a folk festival, and the Dollop series is touted to be big in Japan as we are set to sign a lucrative deal with Japanese Television.
This week you get to join me in bed and in the bath. Plus we listen to some of my childhood musical compositions including a song entitled Daniel Wet Himself Today.
We meet yet more interesting characters whilst walking in rural Sheffield, including a married couple with a grudge against their neighbour and an apparent cure for blindness. Yes it might be august but that doesn't stop me doing a monologue all about Father Christmas. And who will win in the battle between the mugger and the Dadaist poet? Find out in the 33rd omnibus edition of David's Daily Digital Dollop.
This was the week in which I did not pull an OAP Morris dancer, but I do fraternise with a senior French woman; I investigate the weird and wonderful world of football chants, and get stopped on one of my walks by a very garrulous character with an unusual proposition.
Before we say goodbye to Canada there's just time for a quick horse ride. Then we're back in England for live dish washing drama and more supermarket anecdotes.
More Canadian capers as we meet some very idiosyncratic characters in youth hostels, take an unusual bus trip with a load of pensioners, and intimidate families picnicking in a park. Plus we enter the mind of a bear, and who wants to kiss a dog?
This week you join me in Canada, on tour with The Young'uns. It's a highly dramatic instalment that sees us engaging in water warfare; we are awoken by gun shots, screams and cries of "gangsters! Gangsters!" And we get caught in a life threatening storm with some dubious Spanish hitch hikers. But it's not all high drama, as we do manage to find the time to have a bit of a relax in the hot tub.
This week I get fictionally mugged, genuinely burgled, and potentially conned. Plus there's a love story involving a couple of computer fonts.
