Encarta & Chill | A 90s Podcast

E57 | Photographs

Tom and Tom are on the hunt for the most 90s photo EVER! They've selected 10 of their favourites for 'Encarta Chill's Portrait of the 90s' and you - the listeners - will decide the winner. Before you decide, board the context train that is this week's episode, stopping at... • Anthea Turner sat atop a National Lottery cake • Shaquille O'Neal cradling Bill Gates • Jean Claude Van Damme bored on holiday • Sonic the Hedgehog presenting Michael Jackson with some flowers • Ant and Dec in their prime • Chris Evans, Danny Baker and Paul Gascoigne on the lash • The Spice Girls launching Channel 5 • Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn squaring up in a football match • Boyzone, Robbie Williams and Peter Andre knocking about together • Patsy Palmer launching the EastEnders website ...Head over to @encartaandchill on Instagram to vote!

E56 | TV Ads [ insert disc 3 ]

What is the best way to enjoy jazz? Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? Is it acceptable to answer the door in your pants? ...they're just some of the intriguing questions posed in this week's episode of Encarta and Chill despite them having nothing to do with the actual subject matter. Headaches, orgasms and the future are the focus as Tom and Tomek take a third look at the world of advertising in the 90s. Try and keep SOME of your clothes on as you get treated to some unnecessarily racy commercials, before abandoning them entirely whilst being serenaded by Bob Hoskins.

E55 | Snacks

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our pod... That was almost the title of this very podcast and this week Tom and Tomek discover their decision not to use it may have been the best branding decision since Mr. Kipling. Neil Buchanan is back by order of the "King of the 90s", lunchbox politics are put under the microscope, and human beings struggle to grasp the concept of chewing. It's a snack-sized instalment of Encarta and Chill all about snacks!

E54 | Board Games

Does playing Guess Who in real time work as podcastable content? Judge for yourself as Tom and Tom journey back to a time when tabletop entertainment was king. This week, they ponder which board game would be even worse to get trapped in than Jumanji, confess their most disastrous Rube Goldberg machine attempts, and scrutinise some truly questionable Monopoly boards. The pirates are popping, the hippos are hungry, and they don’t care how many families they destroy along the way.

E53 | Crime

If you ever dreamt of being a pirate in the ’90s, you didn’t need a parrot or a chest full of booty - just a computer and the patience to wait 12 hours for 'Tubthumping' to download. This week, Encarta and Chill explores the murky depths of the criminal underworld: from beloved actress Winona Ryder forgetting to pay for $5,000 worth of clothes, to abhorrent scumbag Tomek Glowacki bringing small businesses to their knees with his chocolate heists. Long-time listeners will know this isn’t the podcast for case studies on the decade’s most horrific crimes. But you WILL hear about a fictional character who was done so dirty, the Prime Minister was demanding justice!