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Oh What A Time...

#126 Journeys and Adventure (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

CBW Productions | Wondery

Comedy, History, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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**PLEASE NOTE: This episode was recorded just before Leslie Lemon - the custard-loving WW2 hero that so many listeners emailed us about - died at the age of 106 years old, last week. In tribute to the great man, we’ve left in our celebration of his custard-guzzling ways.**


This week we’re hitting the road and exploring the incredible travels of the likes of Eva Dickson, we’ll be getting in a canoe across Belgium with Robert Louis Stevenson and we’ll head to the Pacific Ocean with Meriweather Lewis.


Elsewhere, what on earth did writers do before google docs? Meet up in person? Imagine! If you’ve got anything on this or custard or anything else, you can email us: [email protected]


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0:25.7

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0:32.5

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1:07.1

Hello and welcome to all at a time, the history podcast that asks,

1:10.5

how on earth did any scripts that were written collaboratively get done prior to the invention of Google Docs?

1:19.7

How on earth did it happen?

1:22.6

And also, prior to word.

1:25.2

Can you imagine, Tom?

1:26.5

I mean, this is your job. I've done quite a lot of it. But writing on a typewriter, a script? Yeah. Every time you make a mistake, I've got to get the tip-becks out. I mean, absolutely horrible. And writing with another person. Like, have you both got typewriters?

1:44.3

Yeah.

1:46.0

Who is what, how does it work? And if you haven't got a typewriter, you can't see what's going on unless you're sitting directly next to the person or behind them.

1:52.5

So how, I just don't understand, like all the classic double act writers, writing in partnerships like Galton Simpson, for instance.

2:00.2

Imagine what they'd have produced if they'd had Google Docs.

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