248: Arts in Crisis news 📖
The Last Post
Chris Skinner
4.8 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Time doctor and hands-on historian Matt Kirshen joins host Alice Fraser on today's episode to remind us that William Shakespeare wrote King Lear during the plague - or did he?
For Matt completists looking to collect the full set, jump back to episodes 40 (Sex Advice), 45 (Pict crisis - Essex calls), and 56 (US Election update) for his first three appearances of this year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's producer Chris from the Bugle here. Did you know that I have a new series of my podcast, |
| 0:04.9 | Richie Firth Travel Hacker, out now. It's the show where Richie Firth and I talk about how to make |
| 0:10.4 | travel better in our very special way. In this series, we discuss lime bikes, Tesla's, the London |
| 0:18.1 | Overground and a whole bunch of other random stuff that possibly involves wheels or tracks or engines of some variety. |
| 0:25.6 | God, what a hot sell this is. I mean, you must be so excited. Listen now. |
| 0:34.6 | When passions run high And secrets run deep |
| 0:37.9 | When plots twist and turn and turn and twist |
| 0:41.3 | When you love and loathe characters in equal measure |
| 0:44.8 | Oh I think she's a wrongan |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, it's the shifty eyes |
| 0:48.0 | Nothing brings us together like great TV |
| 0:51.5 | And a TV licence covers you to watch all TV channels plus BBC Eye Player |
| 0:56.9 | so you can bond over your favourite soaps and dramas. |
| 1:00.9 | Search TV licence together. |
| 1:05.5 | The Bugle presents the last post with Alice Fraser. |
| 1:36.2 | Hello, posters and welcome to the last post, the final word in this, the most final of worlds. |
| 1:42.9 | Today's episode is episode 248 of this year, marking the 4th of September of the year 2020, |
| 1:45.8 | and on this day in history, in 1833, |
| 1:53.0 | the first ever newsboy was hired. Barney Flaherty, a 10-year-old man in New York. He was hired by the New York Sun, a beautiful moment in cheeky, charming child labour. And 1884, on this day, |
| 1:59.2 | Britain ended its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia, |
| 2:04.0 | depriving us the Australian people of many a romantic criminal to whip to death building the bones of Sydney City, |
| 2:09.9 | head on down to the wharves and walk down the blood mile, a gorgeous sandstone cut that was hewn by hand |
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