332 The Great Contract
The History of England
David Crowther
4.8 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing? Can't you see that you're tussed to |
| 0:06.2 | what? |
| 0:07.2 | Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, maybe I should buy some old stuff. Callers welcome back to |
| 0:12.0 | the age of chive. Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, where have you been hiding out lately, |
| 0:17.8 | honey? You can't dress trash, you're daily spend a lot of money. Everyone's talking |
| 0:23.3 | about the news, sound fun, but it still rock and roll to me. That, my friends, was the |
| 0:30.7 | only Billy Joel song I know. You may not recognise the version. It took me a while to realise |
| 0:35.8 | all those years ago why people looked at me strangely in church during hymns. Anyway, |
| 0:40.9 | why am I using the language of love with you today? Well, I've come across another history |
| 0:45.3 | podcast which I think you might well enjoy. It's called We Didn't Start The Fire. Katie |
| 0:50.9 | and Tom used the delightfully nutty idea of using the lyrics of Billy Joel's We Didn't |
| 0:56.2 | Start The Fire to try and explain why the world is the way it is today. They cover North |
| 1:01.8 | Korea, Stalin, Einstein, Nixon, Marilyn Monroe, Disneyland and loads more. They cover politics, |
| 1:08.9 | sports, space, television, rock and indeed roll, using eyewitness accounts and historians. |
| 1:15.3 | So we didn't start the fire on a podcast near Jung Give It A Go. |
| 1:22.3 | Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England Episode 332, The Great Contract. Now |
| 1:46.7 | everyone, I need to start with an apology which is never the right thing to do, but hey, |
| 1:53.1 | last time we heard about the first appearance of the words digger and leveller and I have |
| 1:58.2 | received quite a lot of social media online abuse for the section. As is the way of course |
| 2:05.0 | of the troubled world of social media and I was in fear of being cancelled. Well by |
| 2:10.8 | a lot I mean two people mentioned it in a mild kind of way, but it tapped a nerve for |
| 2:16.3 | I was already ashamed of myself, I must say. Because I had failed to mention in the discussion |
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