25 Soldiers on a Battle Bus

The Rabbit Hole Detectives

Folding Pocket

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of The Rabbit Hole Detectives, Cat, Richard, and Charles are back in search of more killer facts and ephemera. This week, it’s all aboard the World War One Battle Buses with Richard, Charles is hoping to catch a win as he discusses Tuna Fishing, and Cat is following in the footsteps of Ibn Fadlan. Don’t forget, if you’d like to suggest a rabbit hole for us to fall down then you can email us at: [email protected] As mentioned at the end of the episode, we are going to be taking a short summer break but we'll be back in a couple of weeks so keep an eye on the rabbit holer's social media accounts for news of our return. Until then, wishing all our listeners an excellent few weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	folding pocket. Welcome to another episode of the Rabbit Hall detectives, a podcast where I, Dr Cat Jarmut,
0:25.2	Richard Coles and Charles Spencer chase the provenance of historical objects both real and metaphorical.
0:32.0	Each episode we set one another the task of finding out as much as we can about a particular subject to present a comprehensive understanding of the origin stories of stuff.
0:43.0	After all, everything has a history.
0:45.4	It just depends on how far down the rabbit hole you're prepared to go.
0:49.5	And at the end of it all, our disembodied voice pronounced us a winner. So hello again rabbit
0:54.4	holies. Hello cat. Hi cat. So Richard you're looking rather flat again.
1:00.3	Yes. Well I am. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I'm at home not joining you live in the studio, but I'm in East Sussex or rather speaking to you down a camera from East Sussex. But I'm in East Sussex or rather I'm speaking to you down a camera from East Sussex.
1:14.0	But I'm also feel flat because I was so inspired by your thing on ambassadors last time,
1:20.3	Kat, that I've been looking up up kit that ambassadors can wear.
1:25.0	And for somebody like me who would perhaps be considered at the dressier end of the church spectrum.
1:31.0	I think I missed a trick there. My mother's uncle, great uncle was an
1:36.8	ambassador and I found a photograph of him and he had this in amazing hat. He looked
1:41.8	like I don't know a potentated like the Sultan and then he had
1:46.7	this extraordinary kind of scrambled egg-covered front jacket, sword spurs you name
1:52.3	it and I thought it was a very fine look and I sort of wish I'd done it myself.
1:57.7	I was also thinking about ambassadors because I've always had a dread of my funeral being a place where people are trying not to
2:04.8	giggle because of my cause of death.
2:07.6	And I had a girlfriend who had an uncle who was ambassador to one of I can't remember which of the Scandinavian
2:15.4	courts and his wife was sitting next to the king of I can't remember it's Norway or
2:20.3	Sweden or one of them. And they were served oysters.
2:24.9	And she could see that her last oyster was off,
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