1988 with Alexandra Haddow - Toxic Waste, Nazi President, Plane Roof Falls Off

We welcome our very funny friend Alex Haddow, and the man with the highest IQ in the world Bobby Mair takes her on a tour of the year she was born 1988. A year when the cargo ship Khan Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months. A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President and Secretary General of the U.N. in World War II deportations and Aloha Airlines 243 safely lands after losing its roof in midair, killing a flight attendant and injuring 65 people. Plus we learn a lot about Alex's home town of Corby and it's role in so many significant global events, the time when Bobby stayed in a nuns convent, and Red stumbles a new conspiracy theory that may explain a lot.

Get tickets to Alex's debut Edinburgh Fringe Show "Not My Finest Hour" all of August - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/alexandra-haddow-not-my-finest-hour

Sign up now to our Patreon for early access, bonus weekly episodes not available anywhere else, posters, cameo messages, free tickets to online shows and discounts to live shows and much more - https://www.patreon.com/theyearispod

Please send us your suggestions for years to devote an episode of the podcast to and/or a story of your own for us to feature on our exclusive subscriber Patreon episodes - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yYq_k5DMjVnyDYKjjDJMHRSU3mB9KIcltJBIsAcsY0I/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.