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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

One Billion!

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K 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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Season 1: Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The British Isles

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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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