#59 Dinner Parties (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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Comedy, History, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week on the show, it’s a veritable feast as we discuss some of the most infamous dinner parties from history. We’ve got the super-sweet suppers that the teenage Emperor Elagabulus loved to throw, the horrendous story of the Black Dinner at Edinburgh Castle in 1440 and finally, we’ll hear what spectators saw when they gathered round to watch Louis XIV eat his massive daily dinner.Lots of chat this week about stocks, pillories and the nature of Rod Stewart’s massive train set. If you’ve got anything to add on that or anything else, please do get in touch with the show: hello@ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd 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).And also, thank you so much for subscribing; we couldn’t make the show without you!Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.8	less than a pound, really was a time or a life worth living, because let's look about...
0:52.0	Let's look at stag's in the 1960s when my father was going on
0:56.1	well early 70s when dad started going on Stags I remember asking my dad once
1:00.4	how was it what did you do and he said I went to my local village to my
1:04.3	local pub I went to all the time for a pint the night before the wedding we were
1:08.6	home by nine o'clock not good enough dad's got to be Berlin 25 complete idiots Prague Bue deist
1:17.8	Talaen Riga Dublin someone's got to get arrested someone's got to ring an ambulance because they think they're
1:25.0	having this stroke and actually it's a panic attack because they hang over so bad.
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