#162 The Youth (Part 1)
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week we’re looking at those who achieved the extraordinary and at incredibly youthful age! We have the Tudor boy King, Edward VI, to discuss. Britain’s youngest ever Prime Minister (just 24 years old!!), it’s Pitt the Younger. And from France, we’ll hear a bit of the life of Joan of Arc.
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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. |
| 0:23.8 | For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time. |
| 0:44.2 | Hello and welcome to O What a Time, the History Podcasts, the days to ask the question, |
| 0:49.5 | what was life like before you could offer feedback on literally everything? |
| 0:51.9 | And was it better? |
| 0:54.2 | Obviously, there's the obvious things. |
| 0:58.1 | You can offer Google reviews or TripAdvisor reviews on hotels, |
| 1:01.2 | Airbnbs, restaurants, cafes, whatever. |
| 1:06.2 | Also, if you download Map My Run or Map My Ride or Strava or any of those, |
| 1:08.9 | you can offer feedback on other people's exercise. |
| 1:09.8 | Can you? That's incredible. Shipping in on |
| 1:14.4 | Usain Bolt's training regime. But you can't offer feedback on a lack of exercise. Something has to show up. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah. What happened there, mate? This is why Crane is immune. So you couldn't go on Strava, |
| 1:26.4 | choose everyone who's running in Britain, |
| 1:28.6 | and then sort it from slowest to fastest and then just go on the slowest one and start |
| 1:32.4 | giving feedback about it. It's not like that, is it? It has to be someone you know. Is that right? |
| 1:36.5 | Well, actually, you can follow anyone on Strava, if I understand, if you search for their name. |
| 1:40.9 | But what Strava doesn't do is link Britain or the world from least fit to fittest. |
| 1:48.8 | Can you imagine that? |
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