#167 Utopias (Part 2)
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
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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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| 0:16.9 | 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. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, this is part two of Utopias. |
| 0:31.3 | Let's go on the show. |
| 0:46.0 | Music Okay, in 1869. |
| 0:49.8 | A letter arrived in London addressed to Mr. John Hughes. |
| 0:52.7 | I really hope that there was a proper address because there must have been an awful lot of Mr John Hughes's. |
| 0:56.3 | But he was the engineer and the manager of the Millwall Iron Works Company. |
| 1:01.8 | Oh dear. |
| 1:03.6 | That sounds like a tough place to work. |
| 1:05.8 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 1:06.8 | Now, Hughes, as his name suggests, Mr John Hughes, |
| 1:09.8 | was a Welshman born in Mur Tidville in 1814. |
| 1:13.2 | Wales, Wales. |
| 1:14.6 | His father was the chief engineer, the Cavath Ironworks in Murtha, and John had cited his own career there as a young man. |
| 1:22.0 | Now, he was dealing with orders for the metalwork to be used in the construction of the Kronstadt Naval Basin St. Petersburg. |
| 1:30.3 | So that is the same Kronstadt, if any of our listeners have ever studied the Russian Revolution, |
| 1:35.2 | maybe at school or at university, or just read about it. |
| 1:37.5 | That was the Kronstadt that were featured so heavily in the Russian Revolution half a century later, |
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