#138 Alexander the Great (Part 9)
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🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We explore how Alexander’s story echoes through time. In history, his empire shapes Rome, Egypt, and the borders of knowledge itself.
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| 0:08.9 | Travis fell in love with the perfect woman. |
| 0:11.8 | Beautiful, understanding. |
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| 0:15.8 | There was just one catch. |
| 0:18.5 | She wasn't human. |
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| 0:36.9 | Hello and welcome to Oh, what a time. |
| 0:39.9 | The history podcast asked, would parenting with young children have been impossible in a time before swings and slides? |
| 0:47.4 | Because I've just spent two hours with my kids at the swings and slides. |
| 0:50.7 | What did people do before they existed with like a three-year-old and a four-year-old. I will tell you what they did. What? Because I am only a year or so older than you. So I don't know. You should have the same memories as me. There were swings and roundabouts and all that kind of stuff in the 1980s. It's just they were exceptionally dangerous. |
| 1:11.1 | Yes, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:12.4 | So we had a, in Haverford West in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, where I grew up. |
| 1:16.5 | There was a playground very near my primary school, |
| 1:21.3 | and there was a kind of ride slash thing called the Witch's Hat, |
| 1:27.4 | a.k.a. the fractured skull zone. |
| 1:31.4 | So they describe this thing to me. |
| 1:33.2 | What am I looking at with the witch's hat? |
| 1:34.6 | It was shaped like a witch's hat, sort of conical. |
| 1:37.7 | It was a kind of conical climbing frame that spun. |
| 1:41.7 | Okay. |
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