#118 Motoring (Part 2)

Oh What A Time...

CBW Productions | Wondery

Comedy, History, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

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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0:58.2	This is part two of motoring.
1:00.4	Let's get on with the show.
1:01.1	So, lovely, lovely boys, I today am going to tell you all about, this is quite a sweet little top day, isn't it?
1:22.3	The history of the little chef. Yes, please. Now, I've written at the top of my notes here,
1:28.3	did you go to a Little Chef growing up, and did you like it?
1:30.8	Now, we had a bit of a spoiler at the beginning of the show
1:33.0	in the L seems to be the Little Chef's biggest fan in the world.
1:37.4	There was one in St Clair's, which is about, I don't know,
	...

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