#80 Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer (BONUS EPISODE)
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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We're back next week but until then, we have ANOTHER bonus subscriber episode for you to enjoy.
BUT CRUCIALLY, DON'T FORGET! The comedy history podcast that has spent as much time talking about the invention of custard as it has the industrial revolution is here with its first ever live show! Thursday 15th January at the Underbelly Boulevard in London’s Soho.
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So.. Onto this episode which was first broadcast to subscribers in December 2024:
We’re discussing the iron curtain, East and West Berlin, the infamous Stasi and East Germany.. all covered within the book that Elis has just read: Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer.
Plus; how has Tom managed to lay his washing out in a manner that looks like a spider on LSD? We don’t have a clue, but if you know you can email us at: hello@ohwhatatime.com
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Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free, |
| 0:06.4 | plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access |
| 0:11.9 | to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water |
| 0:16.9 | Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in history you might have popped up. |
| 0:23.8 | For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time. We're still on our Christmas slash New Year holiday. |
| 0:33.1 | But today we have a bonus subscriber episode for you. This is number 80, Beyond the Wall, East Germany, 1949 to 1990 by Katja Hoyer. It came out last December and this is East Germany during the Starzy era. It is Ellis's era in many respects. |
| 0:50.6 | But we don't just have an excellent subscriber special for you about one of the periods in history I'm most interested in. |
| 0:56.8 | In fact, Elle, by the way, very briefly on this, you impressed me so much with your sell of this book. |
| 1:01.4 | I bought it for my father-in-law this Christmas as is gift. |
| 1:04.4 | Lovely stuff. |
| 1:05.6 | That's the impact you have on the, Elle. |
| 1:07.4 | It's classic father-in-law stepdad stuff. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm not here just to talk about Katia Hoyer's fantastic book Beyond the Wall. I'm here to talk to |
| 1:17.8 | you about live shows. What did Elvis Presley love, as long as it was in America? What did the |
| 1:24.5 | Beatles love? Up to 1966. |
| 1:28.6 | What do we love? |
| 1:29.5 | That's right. |
| 1:31.4 | I'm talking about live performances. |
| 1:32.9 | We're live animals. |
| 1:36.2 | I had LSD right up until you revealed. |
| 1:42.5 | We're doing a gig at the Underbelly Boulevard in London on the 15th of Jan. |
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