#116 The Nation’s Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield (BONUS EPISODE)

Oh What A Time...

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History, Comedy, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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While we're off on our Christmas holidays, please enjoy this 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:

For our beloved OWAT: Full Timers, this month we are delighted to present a book review detailing Matthew Bannister’s infamous overhaul of Radio 1 in the 90s. Say goodbye to DLT and Bruno Brookes and hello to Danny Baker and Chris Evans!

And don’t forget if you’ve anything to contribute to the show you can wing us an email to here: hello@ohwhatatime.com

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.
1:30.6	Enjoy.
1:42.4	Hello and welcome to Oh, What a Time, the history podcast, asked the question,
1:47.4	would archaeology have been much harder pre-metal metal detectors?
1:52.1	Now, the reason I've asked that is because my son bought a metal detector this weekend.
1:58.0	It's half term.
1:59.2	And the last two days, I've really got into metal detecting.
2:03.6	In a big way. I love it. It's so calming. And it's constantly that sort of scratch card moment of, as you're pushing the dirt away, could this be the game changer?
2:16.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:18.0	Do you know what I mean?
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