#127 Revolting Peasants (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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

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.
0:04.9	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.7	Hello, this is part two.
0:10.2	We are discussing revolting peasants.
0:12.4	And up next is Mr Christopher Scull. Okay, we mentioned him at the start of the show.
0:28.7	He's coming up again, a name you definitely wouldn't have heard of, if you're Tom Crane.
0:33.8	It's Dr Smith Azabrorton, born in 1810 in Stephentown, New York.
0:39.1	Broughton trained as a doctor in Vermont and set up a practice back home.
0:43.5	But he wasn't the type to just sit quietly, treating a few coughs and a few fevers.
0:48.4	He had a taste for trouble.
0:50.7	Fast forward to the mid-1830s.
0:53.5	He's crossed into Canada. Anything from history that is even
0:57.0	slightly like the Revenant, which makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. My one-day time
1:02.4	machine would never be used to travel to North America before, say, 1900, especially not the
1:09.3	northern outposts that are frozen.
1:11.5	I do not fancy sleeping inside a dead horse.
1:13.9	It feels a bit on top, doesn't it?
1:16.0	It feels heavy America before about 19-19-n.
1:18.9	In fact, I would say America after 1940, or certainly after 1950 sounds absolutely brilliant.
1:24.7	Yeah, fine.
1:25.5	But, yeah, they needed to sort it out first, and then I was happy to go. Let's be honest, Chris. You're taking a one-day time machine to Ibiza to the year just before you had kids. That's what you're doing. No, I'm not. I'm taking it back to June 2023 for the UEFA Conference League final West End versus Vurantina. What about West Hamming, was it, the 1965 Cup?
1:47.0	Wembley, that is. Yeah, it could be good. Do you know what I'd do?
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