#176 Sporting Revolutionaries And Tom Gets Stuck On A Rollercoaster (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show we’re talking about the sporting prowess of history’s most well-known revolutionaries; we have baseball-loving Fidel Castro, Chairman Mao’s love of ping pong and we’ve got Vladimir Lenin and his love of the bicycle.

Elsewhere, Tom Craine got stuck up a rollercoaster. Has this ever happened to you? Why does this sort of thing keep happening to Tom? If you know, please do inform us: 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
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 hello and welcome to O Watertime.
0:42.1	Welcome to this episode, which is on Sporting Revolutionaries.
0:46.2	Now this is a history podcast where we dwell on the past,
0:49.1	and Tom, we have to dwell on something that happened in your past.
1:12.4	Anyone who's seen the O Watertime Instagram will know what happened to you. I'm going to give you the floor and just kick us off. You're having a lovely day at Alton Towers. Yeah. I'd have given anything to the floor, to be honest, girl. What happens next? I'm desperate to get back to the floor. I go to Orton Towers and my kids.
1:13.3	Lovely day.
1:14.6	We've been there an hour.
1:16.7	We've already spent £700 on.
1:21.7	On chips and fluffy animals and whatever it happens to me.
1:28.7	Anyway, we go on a ride called, is it called the spinning devil or the whirly spinner?
1:29.9	There's some kind of ride.
1:31.1	Sounds bad.
1:34.4	Yeah. There's a lot of screams as we approach it.
1:36.7	I get on the ride.
1:39.0	We go round successfully.
1:41.6	It's the scariest two minutes of my life.
1:45.4	We're pulling back into the station to get off and then we stop.
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