#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: hello@ohwhatatime.com
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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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