#79 Prehistory (Part 1)

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week we’re taking a look a Prehistory and specifically; how clever were the Neanderthals? What was early mankind getting up to? And finally, what did the Flintstones get right in their depiction of Stone Age man?

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad free.
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0:19.9	Hello and welcome to Oh, What a Time. It's a history podcast. And speaking of history, I've been watching Wolf Hall, The Middra and The Light, starring Mark Rylance. Have you seen this on BBC?
0:29.4	No, I haven't seen it. What's it about?
0:31.0	It covers the life and times of Thomas Cromwell. But we're now, we're at the business end of Thomas Cromwell's life. There's three episodes left.
0:39.0	And it's very authentic in terms of that Henry VIII's reign,
0:43.8	what the lighting looked like, what the rooms look like,
0:46.3	what the dress look like.
0:47.1	And there's something I've picked up on that once I noticed it,
0:49.5	I just couldn't unsee it.
0:51.1	There's a lot of eating scenes where they're having discussions while eating.
0:54.6	And I couldn't help but notice, I haven't yet once seen a knife and fork. Everyone eats
1:00.1	with their hands. Right. And it made me think about, you ever have, go to like a Chinese
1:04.7	restaurant and have spare ribs? Like, that's disgusting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's twice as disgusting in
1:09.5	1500.
1:14.6	This is definitely before they introduced that small bowl of water.
1:17.5	You're supposed to dip the end of your fingers in after you've eaten the meat.
1:18.3	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:21.1	Or the tiny little individual wet wipe.
1:21.9	Oh, yes.
1:23.3	Lemon scented.
1:23.7	Yeah. They wear hundreds of years from the lemon scented individual wet wipe.
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