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Oh What A Time...

#182 The Grand Tour and are The Killers better than The Beatles? (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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Comedy, History, Education

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

For the eighteenth-century gentleman few things marked a rite of passage more than the grand tour - so this week we’re seeing what exploring Europe, the UK and North America was like in the 18th and 19th Centuries.


Elsewhere, Elis has been dreaming about Chris’ fictional children being good at football. If you’ve got any dreams to share, you know what to do: hello@ohwhatatime.com


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Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).


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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.

0:23.5

For all your options, you can go to patreon.com Time, which is a proper history podcast, all of the facts and the stories are done for us by a real historian called Dr. Dahl Lleworthy, very talented man.

0:51.4

However, not the stories from our lives. No, no, no, no, no. However, occasionally we will delve into the fantastical. And I'm going to say that I had a dream about Chris Skull and his lovely wife. Oh, here we go. The dream was, it's it. I dream that you had a, you had a third kid, a daughter called Ruth.

1:11.5

Ruth?

1:12.6

And it was yours.

1:13.0

Sorry.

1:13.1

No.

1:17.2

And I raised her as my own.

1:21.8

And she was basically the most talented footballer on earth.

1:25.1

But she was like three or four, maybe even younger.

1:27.9

And we were all on holiday like when we go to Cornwall.

1:32.2

And me and Tom were just talking about Ruth's skills.

1:37.9

And Sophie, Chris's wife, would go, yeah, she's quite good.

1:42.7

And Chris would sort of quite humbly and modestly say, yeah, it's definitely something we're looking to encourage.

1:43.7

And then Tom and I, like in a sitcom, would look to her left and she'd be doing like

1:47.1

croifting adults and doing like bonoeness and stepovers and bamboozling others.

1:55.1

But adults would be falling over and dropping their drinks.

1:58.8

It was like a proper with sitcom timing.

2:03.0

I'd walk into the kitchen in the place we'd go to in Cornwall.

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