#170 Female Leaders and how Boudica Torched London! (Part 2)
Oh What A Time...
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!
This week we have three stories of incredible female leaders from throughout history: Queen Boudica and how she took on the Romans, trailblazer author Christine de Pizan and lastly, the terrifying story of 1700s pirate Shi Yang!
Plus, Chris’ milkman has become the first milkman to be a freeman of the city of London. Has your milkman done anything as impressive? Please let us know: hello@ohwhatatime.com
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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 amazing female leaders. |
| 0:31.9 | Let's get on with the show. |
| 0:32.7 | Music So, I want you to cast your mind back into time. |
| 0:47.5 | This time, not too far away, the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. |
| 0:51.5 | Did you watch the opening ceremony like I did? |
| 0:54.3 | No. No, I didn't. I did. However, I did work for three weeks at the Paris Paralympics. |
| 1:01.5 | So I was part of that culture and fun and celebration. |
| 1:05.9 | You claim some credit for the success of that Olympic grade. Games, great. Well, I don't know if you saw it. The setting for the opening ceremony was the entire city of Paris. |
| 1:14.7 | They were going up and down the seine with like a magical electric light-up horse. |
| 1:20.4 | Oh, yes, I do remember that now, yeah. |
| 1:23.3 | Right. |
| 1:23.8 | Which did not work. |
| 1:25.9 | Was confusing. |
| 1:27.1 | But there was one... |
| 1:29.0 | Well, the horse didn't light up, or was just too confusing as a concept. |
| 1:32.2 | You're just like, it's just going for ages. |
| 1:34.4 | You're just like, what am I watching as it goes from one area of Paris to the next? |
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