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Captain Thomas Moore

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Comedy, Society & Culture

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Captain Sir Thomas Moore (30 April 1920 – 2 February 2021), more popularly known as Captain Tom, was a British Army officer and fundraiser. He made international headlines in April 2020 when he raised money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic. He served in India and the Burma campaign during the Second World War, and later became an instructor in armoured warfare. After the war, he worked as managing director of a concrete company and was an avid motorcycle racer.

On 6 April 2020, at the age of 99 during the first COVID-19 national lockdown, Moore began to walk 100 lengths of his garden in aid of NHS Charities Together, with the goal of raising £1,000 by his 100th birthday on 30 April. In the 24-day course of his fundraising, he made many media appearances and became a household name in the UK, earning a number of accolades and attracting over 1.5 million individual donations.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to citation needed, the podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how it works now.

0:29.9

I'm Noah and I'm going to be circling around this week's subject, but to do it right, I'll need some people to exploit me.

0:35.2

First up, a Brit and a guy America would be happy to hand over in an exchange, Marsh and Eli.

0:41.2

Okay, yeah, sorry, we do not want him.

0:43.5

Eli once stayed in the UK for an extra week by mistake, and the hotel to Manchester just started sending in random guests into his room to flush him out.

0:52.6

True.

0:54.7

Jokes on them.

0:56.3

I just tried to turn it into a sex thing.

0:57.3

I was like, hello.

1:00.1

And also joining us tonight,

1:02.5

two men more American than apple pie,

1:03.9

because that comes from England,

1:05.4

Heath and Cecil.

1:07.4

It's such an overrated pie.

1:07.8

Right. Well, is either pie or universal health care.

1:12.9

You're welcome, America.

1:15.5

And before we get going, I want to take a second to thank our patrons.

1:18.2

Patrons, I should confess up front that this whole crowdfunding thing can be a little shaky,

1:22.6

but some people who use it don't suck, I promise.

1:25.7

And if you want to give you a chance to prove that, stick around to the end of the show to find out how you can give us money. And with that other way, tell us, Cecil, what person plays, think concept phenomenon or event? What we'll be talking about today? Today, we're going to be talking about Captain Tom Moore. Okay. So Marge, you chose this topic. So are you ready to explain to the listeners why you chose to do a Tomless episode about Tom Moore?

1:47.6

Well, it's because it's about an old guy named Tom who needs help to walk, and I didn't want to be too ghost of Christmas future on it.

1:55.1

Jesus.

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