#127 Revolting Peasants (Part 1)

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week we’re discussing some of history’s most revolting peasants! Now no episode like this would be complete without rumoured West Ham fan Wat Tyler, plus we’ll have the New York story of Dr Smith Azer Broughton, and we’ll hear from the Kulaks that riled against Stalin’s rule in the 20th century.

And this week we’re talking about historical marketing offers that went wrong. Sunny Delight turning you orange! McDonalds and the olympics in the 80s! What else have we missed? [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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0:20.1	Hello and welcome to Oh, what a time.
0:22.5	It's a history podcast.
0:23.5	This week we are talking about revolting peasants.
0:26.4	And it was only yesterday that I was on social media.
0:29.5	And a clip came up of Ellis James talking to the Welsh ladies squad about the euros
0:35.0	and also testing some Marks and Spencer's products.
0:37.6	Oh yeah.
0:38.0	And do you know what I did straight after that?
0:39.4	I went to Marks and Spencer.
0:41.0	So this is me saying advertising works.
0:44.2	Yeah.
0:44.6	Not enough people are open about it actually, saying that it works.
0:48.0	But it really does.
0:50.1	My immediate reaction, Scull, was I wonder what he's getting for that.
0:55.2	At least, at least a prawn sandwich.
0:58.9	Yeah, I'd hope so.
1:00.3	Oh, I've got so many ginger and turmeric shots in my house now.
1:04.2	Were you given freebies by Mark's dispensers?
1:06.8	No, you weren't.
1:07.7	We did get to eat stuff on the day.
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