Episode 54 - Beefhead Day

Beef And Dairy Network

Beef, Ben, Comedy, Dairy, Maximumfun, Partridge

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate Beefhead Day by speaking to Professor James Harcombe about its true origins. Plus new music from Paul Paul. By Benjamin Partridge, Mike Shephard, Kat Sadler, Catherine Brinkworth, Max Davis, Rhodri Viney and Eugene Capper. Stock media provided by Setuniman/Pond5.com and Soundrangers/Pond5.com

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0:00.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh! Happy beefhead everyone!
0:05.1	Hello, it's me, old Sedunston Hoves, with a message from Mitchell's.
0:15.0	On the twelfth day of beefhead, Mitchell sent to me,
0:19.5	Twelve farmers trousers, eleven turbo minces, ten hormone missiles, nine pig mussels,
0:25.5	eight milking Jackson seven tranquilizers, six semen silos, five types of meat.
0:34.5	Four German farm hands, three angry hens, two milking gloves, and a bag of nutritional sand.
0:43.5	A jolly happy and festive beefhead day, or Christmas, or Hanukkah, or whatever you might be celebrating from Mitchell's.
0:53.0	If it's not Mitchell's, get back on your heifer-drawn carriage.
1:09.0	Hello, and welcome to the Beef and Dairy Network podcast,
1:13.0	the number one podcast for those involved, or just interested, in the production of beef animals and dairy herds.
1:19.0	The Beef and Dairy Network podcast is the podcast companion to the Beef and Dairy Network website,
1:24.0	and a printed magazine brought to you by Mitchell's.
1:28.0	Now, the lights, the candied beef festoon from the ceiling, and the general lack of application to admin tasks going on here at Beef and Dairy HQ can only mean one thing.
1:39.0	It is, of course, beefhead season, and you'll know down to be looking forward to some time off work to eat chocolate sparrows and drink beefhead soup with your friends and families.
1:48.0	Many of you already will have taken the kids to sing carols in front of a giant beef statue of Saint Beefhead.
1:55.0	Also, thank you for all the beefhead cards we've received this week, and the hot soup that many of you have sent in the post.
2:02.0	But is the beefhead season just about gifts and overconsumption and rich, rich soup?
2:07.0	Historian James Harkham, formerly of the University of Plymouth, says no.
2:11.0	This month he released a pamphlet called the Truth about Beefhead Day,
2:15.0	which James to educate readers about what he claims are the true historical origins of Beefhead Day, which he feels have been forgotten.
2:23.0	I went to Plymouth to see James, and started by asking him why it is important that we know about the true origins of Beefhead Day.
2:31.0	I don't want to take away from the very special Beefhead Day memories, obviously family and things like that.
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