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Neil Oliver Podcast

The World’s Deadliest Pandemic! - episode 90

Neil Oliver Podcast

Fat Belly Films

Neil Oliver, Comment, Travel, Britain, History

4.8981 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Questions swirl around the most lethal pandemics in history - the Black Death killed a higher proportion of the world’s population, but the Spanish Flu, which started in 1918, killed more people. This week as the First World War is still being fought, Neil travels to Kansas in the United States of America to meet the person who is said to be ‘patient zero’.


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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.

0:25.9

Selected routes turn supply, saving in comparison to an anytime return fare.

0:30.0

Greetings fellow time travelers it's always lovely to have you with me

0:36.9

Trudy and I were talking about it just this morning in fact because Trudy hears me

0:41.3

seeing to camera things like the past couple of years.

0:46.2

But of course it's 2024 now and all of this kicked off in 2019,

0:51.0

20. It's four years now. And over that period of time I've got to know you, the fellow

0:59.5

time travellers, a bit and you've got to know me so we've been traveling through space and time

1:04.6

together for a considerable chunk of time and I've been affected and changed by

1:10.7

it all and I suspect many of you feel affected and changed too. Well it's a shared

1:15.2

experience we've got it in common. Always a big thank you to everyone who has

1:20.4

already joined my Patreon site, that's the financial support that lets Paul and I get on with the work and let's keep this podcast series going, keeps the wheels on the bus so to speak and so if you're already

1:34.8

there and making that contribution a huge thank you what more can I say but thank you and

1:40.4

I'll always continue to repeat that message of thanks. If you're not a

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