#48 Speeches (Part 2)

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🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday! 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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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to part two. This is part two of speeches and let's get on with it. So today I am going to talk to you lovely, lovely, wind is laugh and with us from.
0:17.0	So today I am going to talk to you lovely,
0:22.0	lovely boys about the speech-making powers of Elizabeth
0:25.9	the first. Okay? Now, Chris earlier talked about Henry the fifth and ten years
0:32.3	before Shakespeare sat down to about Henry the 5th. And 10 years before Shakespeare sat down
0:34.1	to write Henry the 5th, Elizabeth the 1st was on the throne.
0:38.5	So that's where we are, sort of time-wise.
0:40.1	And she was about to give her most famous speech.
0:43.6	Now, do you know what speech that is for a point?
0:45.6	No, no idea.
0:47.0	I didn't know idea about Elizabeth her first speech.
0:49.8	The one where she says all my possessions for a moment in time. It is to troops gathered
0:56.4	at Tilbury in Essex ahead of the Spanish armada arriving. So I don't know how, first of all how that makes you feel, Chris, that this
1:06.1	important speech happened in Essex. Are you as someone who's proud? I've been to Tilbury and my
1:11.0	abiding memory of it is it's a lorry park.
1:14.0	Right.
1:15.0	Well, it wasn't then.
1:17.0	I think lorry stopped there on the way to France maybe.
1:20.0	It's just weird to me that clash of time to think that amongst all those lorries
1:25.9	Elizabeth the first once stood and gave a great speech.
1:30.3	She does actually she does reference Eddie Stobart three times in the year.
1:34.0	I think this speech begin the traffic on the A13 this morning has been a nightmare.
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