#119 Daft Deaths (Part 1)

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week we’re turning to history to find people unfortunate enough to have had a really daft death. We’ve got sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, Alexander Pushkin’s totally avoidable end and we’ll hear all about the sad but, in some respects, happy demise of Greek philosopher Chrysippus.

Plus we’re chatting Stonehenge this week. Got a crackpot theory on what it is? Got a good fact? Ever been there for a rave? Well, we’re desperate to hear more: [email protected]

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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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0:09.0	In the 90s, my friend and fellow journalist Dom Phillips was at the centre of the UK's dance music explosion.
0:17.2	By 2022, he had mysteriously disappeared in one of the remotest parts of the Amazon jungle,
0:23.9	with his friend Bruno Pereira.
0:26.3	In 2025, so many questions remain.
0:31.0	I'm Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent.
0:34.9	Listen to Missing in the Amazon, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:50.3	Hello and welcome to, oh what a time. It's a history podcast and it contemplates the big questions such as this one. Look, Glastonbury Festival is on the horizon. Myself and Tom are going. And every time I drive to Glastonbury, I pause, I slow down the traffic, I look at my window and I see Stonehenge. And I just contemplateate what is it? Why?
1:12.2	And also the rumours about it is that
1:14.3	people would flock there
1:16.2	much like Lastonbury from all over the country
1:18.7	for some sort of festival
1:21.3	possibly pagan origins.
1:23.9	It's a strange part of the country, isn't it?
1:26.2	I adore Stonehenge.
1:30.1	I find it absolutely fascinating.
1:34.2	It's 5,000 years old.
1:37.3	So by the time Christ was born, it had been there for 3,000 years.
1:42.8	That is absolutely mind-bockering to me.
1:46.2	You cannot fault the builders on that one, can you?
1:49.1	To be honest.
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