#48 Speeches (Part 1)

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Let’s point our ears in the direction of some of the greatest oratory from history, because this week we’re discussing: Speeches. Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech (both in fiction and non-fiction), Elizabeth I at Tilbury and the campaigning of John Petts. We found out this week that Tom Craine’s favourite speech was performed by THAT guy from Come Dine With Me. Can you name a better speech? On this and anything else, you can email us at: [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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0:17.5	Hello and welcome to Oh what a time the history podcast that tries to decide if the past i.e. pre-internet time was too reliant on human initiative because I don't have very much of it. I Google
0:26.7	simple things all the time and looking back having grown up in a pre-internet age I
0:31.5	can't believe I was alive for as long as I was I made it we all
0:35.6	made it you know what L a thing that I Google far more regularly than I should is and this isn't
0:41.6	to lie what year is so I do that a minimum of five times a year
0:48.3	it'll be when I'm filling out a form I'll go oh it's 20 20 is it is? And then I have to type it in. So about five times a year I'm
0:55.2	googling what year is it?
0:56.6	Jay. One of the things that's quite hard about being a sporting host and working for a
1:01.1	football club in the capacity of a presenter is that you often have to name the season that you're in and obviously it's 23 24 right now but it's quite a lot of mental maths in that.
1:12.1	Yeah. And it feels like you're walking a
1:16.2	tight rope the whole time. I think the football fans often think in
1:19.7	seasons rather than calendar years. Oh yeah yeah yeah, what is a year in football?
1:24.0	Nothing.
1:25.0	There's a bit in fever pitch than a cornbee book
1:28.0	where he says,
1:29.0	yeah, sure, football fans drink too much
1:31.0	on New Year's Eve,
1:32.0	and we sing old Langzine and all that kind of stuff but really we reset in May and we start again in August.
1:39.0	Good point.
1:43.0	Should the whole year be shifted to that accord?
1:45.0	Should Christmas be in April for football fans then you have your Turkey mid April.
1:48.0	So go from the Julian to the Gregorian to the Premier League.
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