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Prohibition

Short History Of...

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

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For thirteen years from 1920, the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic drinks was banned in the USA. The age of prohibition was a rowdy time: enlivened by jazz and wild parties; darkened by violence and lawlessness. But how did it come about? Who were its heroes and villains? And how did it change the face of the country it sought to purify? This is a Short History of Prohibition. Written by Danny Marshall. With thanks to Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

0:13.0

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

0:17.0

a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

0:24.0

Enjoy in every zip with red cups now back at Starbucks. Between forgetting the sellotape,

0:32.0

trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table and the cat taking down the tree again.

0:38.0

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0:44.0

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0:49.0

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0:57.0

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1:00.0

It's late on November 23rd, 1923. The full moon glitters on the Bay of Seabright, New Jersey,

1:08.0

where a hundred or more ships are anchored in the shallow waters.

1:12.0

Rum row, as it's known, becomes a floating street of iniquity after sundown.

1:18.0

Open boats filled the jazz bands, motor between the flitilla of larger ships,

1:23.0

applying their trade. Tourists and revelers turn out each night for the spectacle,

1:28.0

mingling with the hundreds of contact boats, ferrying their cargo to shore.

1:33.0

A little way off, rocking in the light swell, is a low sleek schooner, the Tomoka.

1:40.0

Standing near the wheel of the aff deck is Bill McCoy.

1:44.0

He pushes up the sleeves of his white shirt and leans on the railing, watching the water.

1:50.0

After a while there's movement.

1:53.0

A loud, powerful speedboat is coming to do business with him.

1:57.0

McCoy glances into the hold, where his crew are stacking small triangular packages.

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