#126 Journeys and Adventure (Part 2)

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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

**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.

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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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0:08.8	Hello and welcome to Part 2 of Adventures and Journeys.
0:13.5	Over to you, Ellis James.
1:11.1	Hello. Right. How much can you fit into a short life? Now, I would, embarrassingly argue that the three of us are middle aged. Would you agree with that? Well, as discussed at the top of the show, I'm going to live to a minimum of a hundred and seven in my custard diet. So, no, I'm still in my youth. Tom is nowhere near. No way near middle age. Absolutely. I'm around about the point where I've got to decide what I want to do with my life. Yeah. That's where I am. As a sort of non-custod-taking sort of normal human, yeah, I'm firmly middle-aged, 44, right. But this is the question raised by the story, the Swedish explorer, aviator, war correspondent, and rally driver. Wow.
1:13.1	I mean, how's that for a quadruple?
1:14.2	Give me them again, what were they?
1:19.0	She was a Swedish explorer, aviator, war correspondent and rally driver.
1:19.9	Wow. Wow.
1:22.6	I'd be compelled to say, are you lying?
1:25.8	If someone said that to me in a bar, what do you do? You know, Jack of All Trade's Master of None, which is the one you're bad at?
1:29.6	Are you a bad war correspondent?
1:50.7	Yeah. And I dabble in rally, drive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I also do a bit of temp work. How much temp work do you do? Yeah. Now Eva Dixon, although she was born Eva Lindstrom, born in 1905, she battles sexism and chauvinism to become a pioneer, not only of motorsport, but of feats of adventuring as well.
1:58.3	She was born in Stening Castle to the north of Stockholm in 1905, the daughter of a well-to-do stud farmer, horse breeder, an author.
2:01.8	Albert Lindstrom and his wife Maria, who came from high society,
2:07.5	and grew up with her brother. I think it's Aik or Aki in Lung Castle in the 18th century Baroque country house in central Sweden. Because that's the thing with adventuring. It did tend to be the
2:11.6	posh people who did it. Yeah. It was not really working class pursuit being an adventurer.
2:16.0	Yeah. I would say only in theies, was adventuring for all classes.
2:21.1	Apart from, occasionally, you would get like a stowaway.
2:24.1	I'm thinking of that, I think it was Welsh, that 40-year-old boy who'd just stowaway ended up in the Arctic.
2:29.9	Yes.
2:30.9	Or you would be working on the adventurer's boat.
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