#39 Survival (Part 1)

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🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we’ll be taking a look at incredible stories of survival through history; from the men of the American Civil War who had their lives saved via a Bible in their pocket, Alexander Selkirk - the man whose story inspired Robinson Crusoe, Violet Jessop - who survived three infamous ships of the White Star Line and the bonus bit for the OWAT: Full Timers this week is ‘the miracle of the Andes’ ie. the story of the Uruguayan rugby team who survived a plane crash in the Andes and were forced into cannibalism to overcome starvation (among many, many other hardships). Elsewhere, this week we’re discussing ‘Custardo’ and whether this is a realistic alternative for Tom given his love of drinking neat custard. We also discuss whether it’s appropriate to bring the embalmed bones of Jeremy Bentham on tour with us. If you’ve got anything to add on anything here, you know what to do: [email protected] If you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER? In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get: - two bonus episodes every month! - ad-free listening - episodes a week ahead of everyone else - And first dibs on any live show tickets Subscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.com You can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepod And Instagram at @ohwhatatimepod Aaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice? Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk). Chris, Elis and Tom x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Oh What a time the history podcast that tries to decide if the past was just a bit of a
0:18.3	nasty a time period what with all those public executions and the like.
0:22.0	I'm Chris Scull. I'm Ellis James and I'm
0:25.8	Tom Crane and each week on this show we'll be looking at a new historical
0:29.2	subject and today we're going to be discussing survival. The story that inspired Robinson Crusoe,
0:36.8	the American Civil War, Violet Jessup who survived three famous ship-based incidents and for the old time full-timers we'll be
0:46.5	discussing the miracle of the Andes. Am I right Elle before we've even
0:50.4	started recording this you discussed the miracle of the Andes with us and said it was far worse than you could ever have imagined.
0:55.2	And I knew it was bad. Okay. That's the plane crash is that right? Yes. Okay.
1:00.5	That is discussed in the Simpsons and in the film Alive, which came up when I was about 13, and obviously I knew that the headlines, but Darryl Lee Worthy, a fantastic historian, does the research press.
1:13.4	When he prepared the research, I read it last night and my jaw dropped.
1:18.1	My jaw dropped, you're like in a cartoon, I to put it back to it should be.
1:23.0	A blood curdling screen was heard from the Velux window
1:26.1	at the top of your house.
1:27.0	Yeah.
1:28.0	If he went through paragraph by paragraph.
1:29.7	How they rebranded it though, the miracle of the Andes?
1:32.0	Because it was for me, it's the miracle of the Andes because it was for me it's the
1:34.1	playing crash where everyone eats each other well they start well to honest Chris
1:37.4	they started with the Andes they moved up to the army
1:39.6	so we're not good stuff it's not good stuff the editor's listening cut it out.
1:43.8	It's not good stuff if the editor's listening cut it out.
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