#123 Music in Unexpected Places (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re discussing various tunes and music genres which popped up in surprising circumstances. We’ve got North Africa’s blues inspired Tuareg Rock, western music behind the iron curtain and modern attempts to recreate that original Tudor sound!

Tom’s joined the rechargeable nasal hair remover revolution and we’re talking hair removal through history this week; we’re talking Norman Lamont, we’re talking Margaret Thatcher’s press secretary. To contribute on this subject or anything else, please email: [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.
0:04.9	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:09.7	I hear you like a podcast and you like to be entertained.
0:12.9	I bet you also like to know what's going on in the world.
0:15.4	Especially when the news is so bonkers.
0:17.3	So can I suggest newscast?
0:19.2	It's a daily podcast with BBC journalists. That's us
0:22.3	talking about the news. About what's going on
0:24.5	and why it matters. And it may well
0:26.5	help you be better informed, but we don't
0:28.4	mind if you take the credit. Listen to Newscast
0:30.8	every day on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to Oh, what a time, the history podcast, to ask the question, was life much worse prior to things being delivered directly to your door?
0:56.4	Now, the reason I ask this is because my wife just yelled something up the house.
1:00.3	I thought, mate, you guys laugh, which was, Tom, just to say, your nose hair trimmer has just arrived.
1:13.8	I've got a normal amount of nose hair, just to be absolutely clear.
1:16.5	I'm not dealing with something, some unruly mass.
1:19.0	Yeah, a normal amount for a 110-year-old wizard.
1:20.9	Exactly, yeah, completely.
1:22.7	Now, we were in bed last night, Al.
1:27.9	This is like half nine at night, and that's when I mentioned, oh, I might get a nose hair tremor. It'd be easier.
1:32.2	And now, what is it now? Three o'clock the next day and I have one. It's been delivered to my house.
1:35.7	And you've got the nose of a toddler. Absolutely.
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