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Rex Factor

Rex Factor

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2010

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In our first ever podcast we take a brisk stroll through history with sweeping generalisations taking us from Stonehenge to the ninth century. Reviewing proper will start with Alfred the Great next time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rex Factor.

0:06.0

This week.

0:07.0

Background Easter. featuring your host Graham Duke. Hello!

0:30.0

Hello! Welcome to Rex Factor!

0:32.0

Rex Factor! Rex Factor.

0:34.0

The first ever of these podcasts.

0:36.0

Yeah, a little pilot of the fantastic project that is Rex Factor.

0:42.0

That name again. Right. So the concept, Graham? Yes, well firstly, I'm Graham.'m Ali, and we are the people who are doing this.

0:55.6

And what we thought we'd do is, rather than these boring podcasts we tend to listen to,

1:00.6

excluded the BBC's ones which are excellent and no way need replacing

1:04.3

or adding to.

1:06.3

Lots of other people do ones and it's always quite dry it's just one person reading

1:10.7

about scripted, scripted often American and it's just not that engaging

1:16.8

so we thought we do a proper fun podcast using the theory of the top jump indeed Indeed. Yeah. And we're basing it around all the

1:25.4

kings and queens of England. So we're going to look at each one pretty much

1:29.1

individually and decide who's the best, who's the worst. And I've got a number of factors which we're

1:34.6

based on it upon and all the fun things on the way and all the fun things long so

1:37.8

we'll be looking particularly at warfare battleiness how good they were at

1:40.9

fighting scandal the notoriety the bad stuff that they did,

1:44.4

governance or as you wonderfully termed it subjectivity.

1:48.0

Yes, you wouldn't want to be subject to the king.

1:51.0

That's a good one.

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