One Billion!
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Either each of us matters or none of us do and if we live amongst a population where too many people think that none of us matter, that’s the road to a dark place! This week Neil takes us on a mystery tour to the turn of the C19th when the world’s population of homo sapiens tops 1 billion mark for the very first time.
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| 0:00.0 | The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure. |
| 0:03.5 | Do we have to go home today? |
| 0:05.5 | sighed Anne. |
| 0:06.5 | I agree said Dick. |
| 0:08.0 | Even Timmy looks sad. |
| 0:09.5 | Cheer up everyone. |
| 0:11.5 | Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday |
| 0:17.0 | Oh you are clever Julian said Anne save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway. |
| 0:24.4 | Adventures start here. Selected routes apply. |
| 0:27.6 | Saving in comparison to an anytime return fare. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello fellow time travellers. I love each and every one of you great to have you along for the ride |
| 0:37.5 | We've been traveling together for years now seems incredible |
| 0:42.2 | So before we kick off on today's bite of the trip, today's episode, a couple of quick adverts for you. Hope you don't mind. |
| 0:50.0 | Firstly, my new book, my new book has just published last week. |
| 0:54.8 | It's called Haunting's A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find them. |
| 0:59.1 | And it's available in all good bookshops. |
| 1:01.3 | It's available by whatever means you acquire your books |
| 1:03.5 | it's there's an audio version of it which I recorded myself so it's my voice |
| 1:07.2 | reading it it's a contemplation of various things it's a history book to some extent |
| 1:11.5 | because all of the haunted places that I describe, you know, have a backstory that explains, you know, maybe it's a battle, maybe it's a stately home, a patch of landscape that's had a story long enough to have generated stories of |
| 1:26.9 | haunting. So there's history, there's traditional ghost stories in it, but it's also a |
| 1:32.3 | contemplation of why it is we seem to have |
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