#162 The Youth (Part 1)

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

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.
0:23.7	For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time.
0:28.6	Hello and welcome to part two of the youth. Let's get on with the show.
0:32.5	Music Okay, really looking forward to this, because this is someone, I think most people have heard of him, but I don't know how many people know his career sort of intimately or in any great depth. On the 19th of December,
0:56.0	1783, Britain gained a new Prime Minister. The American War of Independence had finished a matter of
1:01.4	months before on the 3rd of September, 1783, and Britain still reeled from his defeat in that
1:06.4	conflict. In fact, the man who now entered number 10 was the fifth prime minister in less than two years.
1:12.2	It was like sort of the Tories during COVID.
1:15.9	Just get a new one in.
1:18.1	So that's the fifth Prime Minister of Britain in less than two years.
1:22.1	So William Pitt, known by the moniker the younger, to distinguish him from his father, William Pitt, the elder,
1:27.2	who being Prime Minister in the 1760s, was indeed a young man.
1:31.9	Very briefly, Al, I'll tell you, that really captures how impressive it is that Lestrus managed the least amount of time.
1:40.8	Now, if there was a period back then, there were six in two years, and she's managed to beat that period.
1:47.7	It's incredible. Was it 44 days or 47 days?
1:50.7	Yeah, it was lettuce length, wasn't it?
1:52.9	That's how everyone remembers it.
1:55.6	Does anyone know how old Pitt the younger was when he became PM?
1:59.8	I have a feeling it was, was he 14?
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