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Eastbourne

Eastbourne
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About Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort in the East Sussex county of South East England, 19 miles (31 km) east of Brighton and 54 miles (87 km) south of London. It is also a local government district with borough status. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the larger Eastbourne Downland Estate.

On the show11 mentions total

In 1936 there was a letter to the Eastbourne Chronicles saying, 'I can't believe you've taken the fat roof off the phone boxes. What are standards coming to in Eastbourne?' In that letter, they said that the original one looked like a cross between a Chinese pagoda and a mushroom.

from 372: No Such Thing As A Dinosaur For Goldilocks, 2021-05-07 at 00:02:14 · read transcript

Other times Eastbourne came up

  1. That's all there is for those five years. What does it say? Dear mum, really sunny here. Hope you're well. Having a lovely debut sex fest in Eastbourne. OK. It is time for fact number two, and that is James. OK. My fact this week is that in 2001, an artist got lost in Los Angeles and decided to make his own sign to stop other people from getting lost in future.

    355: No Such Thing As The Big Bad Virginia Woolf, 2021-01-08 · listen

  2. They tried to sleep in the same room on their honeymoon, as is traditional. It sounds awkward, as is the theme. They went on honeymoon in Eastbourne, and she was on her period and had an embarrassing accident when they were trying to have their honeymoon moment. They were both so incredibly embarrassed that he went and slept out on a deck chair outside the hotel for the rest of the week.

    355: No Such Thing As The Big Bad Virginia Woolf, 2021-01-08 · listen

  3. It sounds awkward, as is the theme. They went on honeymoon and Eastbourne, and she was on her period and had an embarrassing accident when, you know, they were trying to have their honeymoon moment. They were both so incredibly embarrassed that he went and slept out on a deck chair outside the hotel for the rest of the week. and she trashed the hotel room because she was in such a frenzy of embarrassment.

    No Such Thing As The Big Bad Virginia Woolf, 2021-01-08 · listen

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Coordinates: 50.7700, 0.2800

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