#154 Christmas Special (Part 2)
Oh What A Time...
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!
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.
🎟 Tickets are on sale now: https://underbellyboulevard.com/tickets/oh-what-a-time/
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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. |
| 0:28.6 | Hello, this is part two of Christmas. |
| 0:32.5 | Let's get on on the show. |
| 0:44.3 | Hello. I've got to say January. |
| 0:48.8 | I've got to say January, obviously, the most depressing more than months. |
| 0:53.1 | But not on January the 15th when we're doing a gig up in Debelly Boulevard. |
| 0:56.0 | And why is it not going to be depressing? Well, because Tom now as such a seasoned joke writer, he can't turn it off. |
| 1:00.0 | The guy is just joke after joke after joke after joke here. |
| 1:04.3 | The man has an illness. |
| 1:06.1 | Yeah. But obviously terrible for his family and his home life, |
| 1:09.7 | but great for an audience. It means he can't sustain friendships for any length of time. Oh, God. No, no, and his wife hates him. No one will ever love him. But if you want to be warmed up by laughter for an hour and a half, easy guy. I'm really looking forward to it. I generally am. I think it's so much fun. |
| 1:28.6 | Yeah, absolutely. If you do want to get a ticket, as we say, 15th of January in Hip Cool Soho in London, we'd love to see you there. You can click on the description of this episode. There's a link in there or you can go to ohwatertime.com or you can go onto the Underbelly Boulevard website. So on this episode we are discussing Christmas in the first part you heard Ellis talk about |
| 1:49.1 | the history of Christmas annuals. And now Tom, what are you going to tell us? |
| 1:53.3 | I'm going to be telling you all about the history of Christmas stories. Let's kick things off |
| 1:58.6 | by asking this question. What is your favourite Christmas story? All the stories. What's your favourite? My favourite Christmas story is my favourite |
| 2:05.7 | Christmas Carol. It is just classic. Correct. I'm reading it at the moment. I read the Christmas |
| 2:12.8 | Carol. Dickens a Christmas carol every December because it gets me in the mood. Do you? |
| 2:17.9 | Oh, that's so nice. |
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