#78 Recreation (Part 2)

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

Elis’ is off filming his stand-up Christmas special, so we’re delighted to welcome in his stead the star of Radio X, Pappy’s and the Beckenham fireworks display: Matthew Crosby! And we’ll be discussing Recreation; how the vikings spent their spare time, the smash hit Tudor game of Fives and the national obsession with modelling.

Plus, it turns out Tom spent his childhood on a chair, up a tree. If you’ve got anything to say about this or anything else, please do drop us an email: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of, oh, what a time early and ad-free.
0:04.9	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:09.1	Hello and welcome to Part 2 of Recreation.
0:12.1	Let's go on with the show.
0:25.1	Okay. Okay, cool.
0:29.0	I want to tell you now about a historic game called Fives.
0:31.4	I think when I went to school, it was called Slapball.
0:32.5	Did you play this game?
0:32.9	I'm sorry?
0:34.6	It was called SlapBol. That sounds like a very different game.
0:35.6	No, did you know, what would...
0:36.6	Was I in the changing room after games? Yeah, I'm getting to really traumatic memories coming back to me of Slap Bowl. That's not a very different game. No. Was that in the changing room after games?
0:38.2	Yeah, I'm getting to really traumatic memories coming back to me of Slap Ball.
0:41.7	Oh my God.
0:42.8	Who told you about that?
0:45.0	There's a reason my voice didn't break until I was 17.
0:48.3	It's the reason I was a head choir boy of Bath.
0:50.4	I'd be quiet.
0:52.5	Top C, not a problem.
0:55.1	What was slap ball?
0:56.6	You know, you get a little tennis ball and you slap it against the wall.
0:59.8	Really?
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