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We Are History

2020 (Thank God it's history)

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9802 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

For our last podcast of the year we attempt our own first draft of history; looking back at the year that has just been, when Covid-19 meant a complete change of behaviour for us all (except the people telling us to completely change our behaviour). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Angela and John. We are about to play you. We are history pod this week.

0:06.7

And Angela has a confession to make. Yes, I'm speaking in the third person because I feel so stupid about it.

0:11.8

But I forgot to press record on garage band, which is what we record this on. And so we've only got the Zoom recording of the bits what I said, so it might sound a bit shit.

0:23.3

Sorry about that.

0:24.7

And I'm also really sorry.

0:26.7

I'm really sorry about the sound recording quality.

0:30.3

All I can say is I'm in my 40s and I'm a bit crap.

0:34.7

It's to do with the coronavirus.

0:36.0

Blame that, manchler.

0:36.6

Go ahead with the show.

0:38.5

Enjoy the podcast anyway.

0:40.5

And, yeah, soz.

0:45.4

Welcome to We Are History.

0:48.5

Oh, John, it's the last one of the year.

0:51.6

It's the last one of 2020.

0:53.3

Goodbye 2020. Good bloody ridden. We're not sad to see the back of you.

0:58.3

And we thought that in the future, there will be lots of people doing histories of this year.

1:04.3

That's right, John. So why don't we get in here first? And why don't we look at it with Angela, a little 2020 vision.

1:12.1

Oh, beautiful. Thank you. That's my time. That's my time. You've been great.

1:18.6

Well, basically, see, John, what we did, we launched a history podcast in January 2020, completely

1:25.1

unaware that it would end up being a year worthy of appearing on a history

1:30.1

podcast. And not just because of Brexit, we've still got that to look forward to. But obviously

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