#154 Christmas Special (Part 1)
Oh What A Time...
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week we have a Christmas special for you in which we’ll take a good look at a whole array of festive traditions. This history of the Christmas annual, the history of the Christmas film and how about the history of our favourite Christmas stories.
This week we’re still obsessed with keys, scams and grand pianos. If you’d like to get involved with the conversation you can reach us here: hello@ohwhatatime.com
ALSO! The comedy history podcast that has spent as much time talking about the invention of custard as it has the industrial revolution is here with its first ever live show! Thursday 15th January at the Underbelly Boulevard in London’s Soho.
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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. |
| 0:41.8 | Hello and welcome to Oh oh what a time. |
| 0:44.1 | Welcome to a special Christmas episode. |
| 0:48.6 | And on this podcast, we discuss all things history related and sometimes subjects of jobs comes up. |
| 0:51.7 | And tomorrow, I'll be picking up the phone and calling a locksmith. |
| 0:55.5 | Why? Because about two hours ago, the lock just fell off my front door. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm not saying it's Fort Knox around here, but it just fell off. |
| 1:04.5 | What happened? Did you step us through how that happened? Wasn't like a strong gust of wind. |
| 1:08.4 | Okay. What happened? |
| 1:09.8 | I closed the door. |
| 1:11.1 | I had a clunking noise. |
| 1:13.5 | And I looked and I saw where the chamber, where the key should go, there was just nothing there. |
| 1:19.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.7 | Okay. |
| 1:21.4 | The whole lock had just fallen out. |
| 1:23.9 | Onto your mat or onto the path outside. |
| 1:26.9 | Inside the house. |
| 1:29.7 | Security-wise, because you live on the rough-tuff streets of East London, |
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