#103 Your Letters - March 2025 (BONUS EPISODE)

Oh What A Time...

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Comedy, History, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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While we're off on our Christmas holidays, please enjoy ANOTHER bonus episode!

AND DON'T FORGET! The comedy history podcast that has spent as much time talking about the invention of custard as it has the industrial revolution is here with its first ever live show! Thursday 15th January at the Underbelly Boulevard in London’s Soho.

🎟 Tickets are on sale now: https://underbellyboulevard.com/tickets/oh-what-a-time/

And in huge news, Oh What A Time is now on Patreon! From content you’ve never heard before to the incredible Oh What A Time chat group, there’s so much more OWAT to be enjoyed!

On our Patreon you’ll now find:

•The full archive of bonus episodes

•Brand new bonus episodes each month

•OWAT subscriber group chats

•Loads of extra perks for supporters of the show

•PLUS ad-free episodes earlier than everyone else

Join us at 👉 patreon.com/ohwhatatime

And as a special thank you for joining, use the code CUSTARD for 25% off your first month.

Onto this episode first broadcast to subscribers in March of this year:

It’s time to delve into the postbag and once more go through your amazing correspondence. We’ve got the age-old debate: does gravy improve literally any meal? We’ve got incredible revelations about Chernobyl. There’s obviously a Corrections Corner. And what’s the oldest thing you’ve eaten and how ill did you get?

If you’d like to add to our mailbag, you can do so right here: hello@ohwhatatime.com

And thank you so much for being a Full Timer, we couldn’t make the show without you.

You can also follow us on:

X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepod

And Instagram at @ohwhatatimepod

Aaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?

Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).

Chris, Elis and Tom x

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0:00.0	Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free,
0:06.4	plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access
0:11.9	to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water
0:16.9	Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in history you might have popped up.
0:23.7	For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time.
0:28.5	Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time. We are on our holidays right now. It's that Christmas New Year period where podcasting just stops.
0:36.8	But don't worry because we've got some very old archive subscriber episodes for you to enjoy until we come back in the new year. But if you have someone in your life that you love and you want to get them a gift, then what about the gift of comedy history? Because on the 15th of January, 2026, oh Oh Water Time are doing our first ever live show at
0:57.4	the Underbelly Boulevard in Soho. Tickets start from just 25 pounds and you could be there to get your
1:03.5	tickets right now for the 15th of Jan. Just go to ohwattatime.com and if you enjoy this episode, remember
1:09.8	there are lots of bonus episodes to be enjoyed over on the Oh Watertime.com and if you enjoy this episode remember there are lots of bonus episodes to be
1:12.5	enjoyed over on the oh water time full-timer package to sign up to our patron to get two
1:18.9	bonus episodes every month plus early release episodes add free listing and all that good stuff you
1:24.2	can head to oh watertime.com anyway this is a fantastic subscriber episode from many moons ago. Enjoy.
1:42.4	Hello and welcome to Owasat Time. Welcome to a correspondent special. It's your letters, March 2025, and only yesterday. Alice and I were corresponding, talking about the fact that we often feel shame when we walk into an East London pie and mash and ordered gravy and not liquor.
2:06.3	And I say, I'll say to you, listener, why I said to Ellis, there's a reason gravy has caught on to a far greater extent than parsley sauce.
2:12.0	I feel it really erodes my East London geyser Cockney credentials.
2:15.8	What is your argument then, Chris?
2:18.0	I need to go through those messages.
2:19.7	What was the argument?
2:20.2	I don't mind parsley sauce.
2:21.9	I don't mind.
2:22.2	And it's fine.
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