#55 Your Letters - June 2024 (Bonus Episode!)
Oh What A Time...
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
OWAT returns properly on Monday 29th September 2025, so to fill the gap over the next couple of weeks we're dropping a few old subscriber episodes onto the feed.
Today we've got a Your Letters episode back from June 2024.
There will be hilarious emails, there will be things we never knew and YES there will be a healthy dose of corrections. Don’t forget if you’ve got anything to send in, you can send it in via: hello@ohwhatatime.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Oh, what a time. Now we are on a little bit of a summer break. So what we have for |
| 0:06.6 | you over this week ahead of us returning on Monday the 29th September is a couple of specials. So today |
| 0:13.3 | you're going to get number 55, your letters, and this one was originally broadcast on the 27th of June |
| 0:19.4 | 2024. Enjoy this. Don't forget, if you want |
| 0:23.0 | even more O-W-Watt Time, ad-free listening, loads of good stuff, you can become an |
| 0:28.1 | O-Watertime full-timer. To sign up, go to O-Watertime.com. But enjoy this episode. Number 55, |
| 0:33.3 | your letters from June 2024. |
| 0:54.8 | Hello and welcome to Oh, What a Time, the history podcast that tries to decide if the past was a fitter time for Ellis, given that he's just cycled to Brighton. Yes, cycled with his legs to Brighton in the past. And it was effortless. |
| 1:03.4 | What time did he set off? How long did it take? And how did it feel? I left the house at 20 past 6. |
| 1:08.8 | We started at 7. I was in the 7 a.m. |
| 1:11.0 | Wave. |
| 1:11.6 | But we was very leisurely. |
| 1:13.1 | So we stopped a couple of times. |
| 1:14.5 | I did it with my friend Dave. |
| 1:16.0 | We talked on the course. |
| 1:17.6 | It was very nice. |
| 1:18.6 | Are you just talking? |
| 1:19.2 | So you're not like so exerted that you can't hold a conversation? |
| 1:23.0 | I mean, I wanted to push it. |
| 1:25.3 | I wanted to. |
| 1:26.1 | It was a race for you. They did it across four weeks, Scarlett. It was very leisurely to stop the cafes, a lot of hotel breaks. It's really quite easy. Genuinely, before you could tell you, how long does it take to cycle from your house to What is the amount of time you're cycling for then? How long does that take? I think we got there, having stopped, like the the best bit was we stopped at, we stopped at one |
| 1:46.6 | at a checkpoint at 22 miles. And I had a Baccarol and David a Baccarol and a burger, and it was 8.50 a |
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