#53 Spies (Part 2)

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday! 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	This is part two of Spies and we should get on with it. Okay, so today I'm going to be talking about spies in ancient Rome.
0:17.0	Okay, so today I'm going to be talking about spies in ancient Rome.
0:23.6	I think ancient Rome is my favorite period of history.
0:26.3	It definitely definitely I think it is I love I love talking about anything to do with
0:29.6	ancient Rome.
0:30.6	What are your guys feeling what do you feel about it? It's it's's kind of a particularly fascinating time, isn't it?
0:35.0	Yeah, it is. I love ancient room. And also I was saying you've become like the ancient Rome expert.
0:39.2	I feel that you take us back to ancient Rome better than anyone.
0:41.6	Thank you very much.
0:42.6	That's all I wanted.
0:44.0	That's all I ever.
0:44.6	I knew almost nothing about it until this podcast, because my degree was in modern history.
0:51.0	And now I wish I'd ditch the politics and done straight history and done a lot in the ancient
0:56.3	Rome because I find it absolutely fascinating.
0:58.5	What I think is quite interesting about this?
0:59.7	I think it's probably fair to say that despite the sort of paranoia that you associate with
1:04.8	ancient Rome with emperors being murdered lovers being poisoned or the backstabbing
1:08.8	all the gossip all this sort of stuff you don't really think about ancient Rome having a secret police. You think about the army, I think that's fair, but the secret police isn't really something you would associate with ancient Rome. Something you associate with Soviet Russia, Imperial Japan.
1:22.5	That sort of thing.
1:24.5	Yeah, exactly, exactly.
1:25.8	But it's not something that ever comes up, this idea of spies.
1:30.0	But the ancient Romans very much had their own secret police. Now, it was all set up to,
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