The Agapemonites - the Victorian religious love cult

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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The Victorian English gentleman who announced he was the Son of God, and proceeded to have carnal relations with various attractive young ladies in his secretive religious cult. The 'Abode of Love' is an important chapter in British history, and not at all an excuse for John and Angela to giggle at a load of saucy Victorian hypocrites. 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	Hello and welcome to We Are History, the laughable attempt to the podcast with me, John O'Farrell.
0:13.2	And me, Angela, you tweeted that you're wearing roller skates.
0:18.0	I am wearing roller. I've got new roller skates, John. And I've been away for the weekend and they arrived.
0:23.6	Well, they arrived on Friday and my neighbour took them in and she just brought them around to me before we started recording.
0:29.6	So, and I couldn't wait.
0:30.6	So I've got my new roller boots on.
0:32.6	Right, okay.
0:33.6	Very exciting.
0:34.6	Do you want to see them?
0:35.6	Yeah, just to hold them up. Actually, I show you the other side, because the other side's got a pretty little rose on.
0:39.8	Lovely, it's lovely. Can I just say a bit weird, a bit weird.
0:42.5	A bit weird. Podcasting in roller skates, but, you know, it's a new thing.
0:46.6	Why not?
0:47.7	Yeah, well, as I said, I'm recording this bouncing up and down on a space hopper. So I hope that works for both of us.
0:54.8	I know.
0:55.2	I'm having a midlife crisis, John.
0:56.6	I think, well, that doesn't need explaining, does it?
0:58.5	I'm sitting here in roller skates and I'm 44.
1:02.3	So let's get on with the history.
1:05.8	Now, normally if one of us is leading on a subject and Angela is leading on this week's
1:09.4	subject, she chose this.
1:10.5	Then the other one introduces the show. That's the way we've sort of and balance it out a bit.
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