IFS Unlocked: History Box - Andersen Visits Dickens Part 1
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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(Rec: 10/9/24) Some stalkerish conduct, walk-in baths, being patronised, a gadget, war on Superdrug, and a shave request.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it. |
| 0:06.0 | This is Top Flight Time Machine. I am Andy Hotbody Dawson, Pow, Pow, Pow. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Sam Nifty Delaney, so what? |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome along. It's the beginning of a new history box. |
| 0:15.1 | We are keen historians, we are esteemed historians. |
| 0:19.7 | We're big on the history scene, basically, and |
| 0:22.2 | this time we're looking at, it's the time in 1857, when Hans Christian Anderson, the famous |
| 0:36.7 | children's author, |
| 0:37.9 | paid a visit to Charles Dickens |
| 0:40.2 | and stayed with him in his house for five weeks |
| 0:43.7 | to Dickens's consternation, let's just say eventually. |
| 0:50.2 | My daughter recommended this to me, and I looked at it, |
| 0:53.6 | and I thought, yes, this is very good. |
| 0:55.8 | This is the kind of thing that we want to be covering on top flight time machine. |
| 0:59.3 | It's amazing, isn't it? |
| 1:00.3 | Because I wouldn't have ever thought, if you'd ask me, I wouldn't have been certain that they were even alive in the same time. |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.8 | I would have dated. |
| 1:09.3 | Instinctively, I would have thought Hans Christian Anderson was, came long before Charles Dickens. |
| 1:15.4 | 50 years at least before, I would have said, yeah. |
| 1:18.3 | Hans Christian Anderson, in case you're not familiar, was a Danish author who wrote such classic stories, fairy tales like the Emperor's New Clothes, |
| 1:30.4 | the Little Mermaid, the Princess in the Pea, |
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