#53 Spies (Part 1)

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🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Cut a couple of holes in your newspaper and have a butchers at this week’s episode which is: Spies. We’ll be checking out how sophisticated spies were in Britain during the 1600s, we’ll be peeping on the secret police in Ancient Rome and we’ll be trying to spy on the spies of the BBC. And we’ve got more listener blunders this week to make Tom feel better. Have you done something as silly as accidentally packing a duffel coat thinking it was a sleeping bag? If yes, 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 and welcome to Oh What a Time the History Podcast that tries to decide
0:15.8	actually when you look back at the past and everyone was backstabbing each other
0:19.7	I'd have really loved it and I really would have come into my own murdering my
0:24.8	brother so that I could be king I actually would have loved to have done it I'm Ellis
0:29.0	James I'm Chris Scull and I'm Tom Crane and each week on this show we'll be looking at a brand new historical subject and today this is a good one actually this is a really exciting one today we're going to be discussing
0:40.0	Spies yes British spies in the 1600s, spies at the BBC and spies in ancient Rome.
0:47.0	Now I was thinking about this subject last night and I thought when I was a kid I would have been on at least one stakeout by now.
0:55.2	Yes. I can't believe I've not been on a stakeout in my life.
0:58.0	So much Bond on tell you when I was a kid.
1:01.0	Made you think that kind of being a spy.
1:03.0	Yeah, there's loads of my butt, isn't it?
1:05.0	I remember I've been my car mender, took my car to a mechanic in Cardiff.
1:10.0	I said how we got talking about this.
1:12.0	He was a lovely bloke and I had a shit car so I was there all the time and I remember him saying
1:16.7	yeah but I'm very good at disappearing like I said yeah even yeah like I read a load of spy novels when I was a kid like so if I needed to
1:24.3	disappear now you will notice me I would just disappear at the shadows like I could have been a
1:28.6	proper piece of spy that I became a mechanic so that's what I do now like but I I know I could be a spy I was like yeah I'll do it like tomorrow you walk past you won't you won't see me in the shop
1:40.4	Yeah, and I was like wow and I'll say is that because you'll be working underneath the car?
1:45.0	And you go, yes, it's because I'm working underneath the car.
1:48.0	You don't seem in the garage, no way.
1:50.4	All just so blended to, I'll just blend into a Honda Civic or something
1:53.4	it'll be amazing take a guess how do you think how do you think he is hiding in that
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