#167 Utopias (Part 1)

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week we’re discussing the various attempts through history to create a Utopia right here on earth. We have for you The Diggers of the 1600s, Brook Farm in 1850s America and the story of John Hughes; the man who attempted to make utopia in Yuzovka, Ukraine.

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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,
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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
0:21.7	history you might have popped up for all your options you can go to patreon.com forward slash
0:27.1	oh what a time
0:27.9	hello thank you very much for downloading.
0:41.4	Oh, what a time, the history podcast that dares to ask the question,
0:44.8	how unearthed people survive in the era before to-do lists?
0:48.6	I have just written on the big shopping list we've got on our fridge
0:53.5	by the peanut butter that my son likes because he loves peanut butter.
0:57.1	And today this morning was a serious scrape.
1:00.2	It was a couple of teaspoons and a knife.
1:04.4	And it was it was sparing at best, I would say.
1:07.6	It was quite a miserly serving of peanut butter on his toast, which he has every morning.
1:13.5	So I've just written it on the to-do list.
1:15.4	If I hadn't written that on the to-do list, there's absolutely no way that I would remember to do it.
1:20.2	And it would be two years before he ate peanut butter next.
1:24.0	The big thing in my life in remembering stuff to do, whether I actionate or not is a different, is a different cat of fish.
1:31.8	But the iPhone note to-do list, fantastic.
1:35.7	Yeah.
1:35.9	And you can't lose it because of the, because of the ICloud and all that kind of stuff.
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