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oh what a time hello and welcome to Oh, what a time.

And welcome to the first episode we've ever done, whereby there is a proper historian with us.

Huge.

And what does Tom Crane do on the first time we ever have a proper historian on the show?

He says to her later in this episode, have you heard of Samuel Peep's?

And dear listener, she had.

Yeah.

Which shocked me.

To my mind, the words Samuel Peeps are quite funny to say.

Yeah, I didn't say about that.

It sounded like you're saying, I'll recommend this.

I'll recommend this guy from his street, this historian, and she will love it.

So, yeah.

Well, when we get to that part of the show, the listeners can decide whether I said it simply to raise amusement, or because I didn't actually think a historian heard of Samuel Pooves, you can decide when we get to that point. I can't wait to listen back to this episode and hear that bit again. Our guest this week is Katja Hoyer. She's got a new book called Weimar, Life on the Edge of Catastrophe. You may remember a few weeks ago, or it might have been months ago, we reviewed her book

on East Germany, Beyond the Wall, which Ellis, you absolutely loved.

I thought it was sensational.

It was an episode I did, a book review for our patrons.

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