#81 Spies the Sequel (Part 1)

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re returning to a much loved subject: spies. We’ll be hearing about the British spy William Oliver, the origins of MI5 and MI6, plus how the Stasi operated in East Germany.

Elsewhere, this week we’ve been discussing exactly how massive milk used to be; we can agree from ‘Milk Bars’ to sponsoring the football league cup, it was simply an enormous beverage. If you’ve got anything to add on the golden age of milk, you can do so via: [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 Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:20.2	Thank you very much for downloading Oh, Water Time, the history podcast that tries to decide, and I know where I stand on this, if drinks, options are now far better than they ever have been.
0:31.7	And the reason I'm saying this is I've just recorded the O Brother podcast about the fall, which is presented by Paul and Steve Hanley, were in the band.
0:42.3	And they interview big fans of the fall, of which I am very much, I very much fall into that category and into that camp.
0:50.9	I absolutely love the band.
0:52.7	And Paul Handley, the drummer, when he was in the fall,
0:55.4	he joined when he was very young.
0:56.6	He was 16.
0:58.2	And he's just told me this,
0:59.6	because I've just finished recording it,
1:00.9	and I can't stop thinking about it.
1:02.7	Because he was 16,
1:03.6	all the venues knew he was 16.
1:05.1	He was obviously too young to have a pint before a gig.
1:08.8	So on his rider, it was four pints of milk.
1:13.7	So he was going on stage to perform.
1:19.4	That's amazing.
1:20.8	With one of the most era-defining bands to have ever come out of Manchester.
1:26.0	He was having a pint of milk for what thing.
1:30.8	Because he said, you know,
1:32.7	there was too much sugar in coke and lemonade.
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