#120 Scandals (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week we are trawling the archives for scandals! (And let’s attempt this episode description in true tabloid fashion). Hear all about Lord Byron’s saucy behaviour! The blackmail of Alexander Hamilton! And (one of the all-time great scandals) you simply won’t believe the Profumo affair!

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad-free.
0:04.9	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:19.9	Hello and welcome to Oh, what a time.
0:22.7	The history podcast that asks,
0:24.8	how on earth did you do any foreign travel prior to the internet,
0:28.2	in particular the language barrier?
0:30.5	Because I've just come back from Belgium.
0:35.3	I was in Brussels, where they largely speak French. Let's face it,
0:39.9	everyone in Brussels, certainly in my experience, has got fantastic English, there's not really an issue.
0:45.9	I tried the small amount of French I have. I speak a little French. Not very much.
0:54.0	You dip the voice a little bit when you're saying it as well?
0:56.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:57.5	Because I'm trying to imply that I'm sophisticated.
1:01.0	I'm a bit of French.
1:03.2	It's like when a singer doesn't want to hit the high notes,
1:05.0	it just pulls their mouth away from the microphone.
1:07.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:08.3	No, do I do it?
1:09.2	Like a cigarette at a gig, I hand the microphone to the crowd.
1:13.5	I'm like, you do the talking.
1:15.8	I hand the microphone to the wait and I say, please, you do the ordering for me.
1:22.4	Taken away.
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