#152 Maps 1 (Part 2)
Oh What A Time...
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!
This week we’re here with the first of two episodes on the history of maps! We’ve got 27,000 year old maps carved onto tusks, maps in ancient Egypt and, the big one, the Mappa Mundi.
Elsewhere this week, we’re discussing that great underrated invention: the coat. Get ready for a potted history of the humble coat. If you’ve got anything on coats that we’ve missed, you know what to do: hello@ohwhatatime.com
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free, |
| 0:06.4 | plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access |
| 0:11.9 | to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water |
| 0:16.9 | Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in history you might have popped up. |
| 0:23.7 | For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello and welcome to Part 2 of Maps. Let's get on with the show. |
| 0:31.8 | Music First bit of business, before we crack on with part two, however, |
| 0:47.0 | I have to mention the fact that one of the bonuses of being a know-what time. |
| 0:51.0 | All-timer is that you get to have your name postulated upon as to where it may have been |
| 0:57.3 | in history by all of us. |
| 0:59.7 | And congratulations to Lloyd Hughes, because you're up first this week. |
| 1:04.7 | Lloyd Hughes, where in history? |
| 1:07.4 | I think the L has to take that because that very much to me feels like a Welshman from the past. Non-conformist, non-conformist chapel preach in sort of the late Victorian era |
| 1:19.3 | and my God he was charismatic. People would come from miles around to watch him preach and |
| 1:26.6 | hear an incredible voice. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.5 | And an absolute mastery of his audience. |
| 1:32.8 | And what were these sermons have been about? |
| 1:34.5 | What's the vibe? |
| 1:35.3 | Oh, well, he would take a passage from the Bible, pontificate about it, but just the voice and the oratory. |
| 1:43.7 | Is it a rich Oki baritone by the chance? |
| 1:46.0 | An oaky baritone in a really, really pious, plain chapel. |
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