#118 Motoring (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Let’s get behind the podcasting wheel and drive through a history of motoring. We’ll hear about the birth of the service station, the dawn of motorways and breakdown services and - and this really is a huge one - the rise and fall of Little Chef.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad-free.
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0:08.7	How do I tell them? How do I tell them?
0:11.5	How do I pay the bills? How do I pay the bills?
0:15.4	I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer.
0:19.3	The questions, the fears, the need to know.
0:23.4	How do I know?
0:24.9	Because I'm living with cancer too.
0:27.8	That's why I joined the Macmillan online community.
0:30.9	And we can help people like you, whatever you need to ask.
0:35.1	To join us, search McMillan online community.
0:50.0	Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time.
0:53.1	We're a history podcast and, fun fact, I've come up with what I think is an exciting new feature. Do you want to hear it, boys?
1:00.6	Can't wait. Yes. The feature is called, could you be asked, though? And it's all of the things that are easy in modern life that are quite nice, right?
1:13.5	So, for instance, a cup of tea, but post-teaback, that's easy.
1:18.3	Yeah.
1:18.6	When it's loose-leaf tea, if that's the only option, could you be asked, though?
1:23.6	I was thinking about this with toast.
1:26.1	Pre-toaster.
1:29.5	Could you be asked, though?
1:32.5	Creating a fire for a slice of toast. And I like toast.
1:34.6	But pre, I didn't even know when the toaster was invented.
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