#52 Folk Festivals (Part 1)

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week we’re darting around folk festivals from history to learn their strange traditions; we’ll be heading to Lincolnshire to learn about the Haxey Hood, to Gloucester for the Cheese Rolling and finally off to America to learn of the once enormously popular phenomenon of Horse Diving. And was telly better when it ended around midnight and signed off with the national anthem? The answer is yes, so don’t add to that debate. But if you’ve got anything else you can email: [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
0:15.0	if the past was better because the TV stations would end
0:18.0	with the National Anthem.
0:19.0	Was that just the BBC?
0:20.0	Better more patriotic time.
0:22.0	I'm Chris Scull I'm Tom Kram and I'm Ellis James each
0:25.6	week or this show I've forgotten about that we'll be looking at a new historical
0:30.7	subject and today we're going to be discussing folk festivals.
0:34.0	Do you know very briefly my wife I think is her grandfather or something and I think this probably wasn't that uncommon
0:39.2	when they played the national anthem at the end of the television of the day, the family would stand up and put
0:44.7	their hand on their hearts.
0:45.7	It was kind of like a thing that people did.
0:47.7	No, it is.
0:48.7	It genuinely was.
0:49.7	There was such sort of a reverence, I suppose, for the idea and such patriotic feeling especially post-war
0:55.0	I think they used to do it in the cinema really yeah I think you're right by that I think they
1:00.6	used to sing the anthem at the cinema. But are we old enough to do I remember
1:06.0	that the TV ending with an international anthem? Or am I sure not? That's a phantom memory.
1:10.0	I don't think I remember it. I just think I've talked about it so much I'm now convinced I do remember it
1:16.2	That's the problem in the same way that every now and then I will think that I remember the 1970 will cup
1:25.3	something that happened ten years before I was born. I'd be like that
1:29.9	Brazil team really good I remember running home from school and not watching them because I was
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