The Worst Prime Minister You’ve Never Heard Of: Alec Douglas-Home | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979
Fin vs History
Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Finn versus history. |
| 0:16.7 | It's the big one. |
| 0:17.6 | The big one. |
| 0:18.5 | It's Alec Douglas Hume time. |
| 0:20.2 | The one you've been waiting for. You can rest easy. We're finally getting to the goat. It's here. The big one. Finally. Don't worry. We have listened to your comments. Yeah. Every week we have people begging us to do this topic. Douglas Hume, when? Yeah. And we're like, look, we want to establish ourselves first. |
| 0:39.1 | We want to, we want to practice what it means to do, a comedy history podcast. Douglas Hume, when, when, when? Cowards. Cowards. Release it. You won't do it. Release it now. You won't do it. You won't do it. being censored. You're scared. You're scared of touching the great man. |
| 0:53.2 | Sir Alec Douglas Hume, the man, the myth, the legend. |
| 0:57.3 | Sir Alec Douglas Hume, the man, the myth, the legend. |
| 0:57.3 | Sir Alec Douglas, who? Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. I'd not heard of him before we |
| 1:02.9 | started doing this series. I think I'd heard of every post-war British Prime Minister, at least |
| 1:06.8 | in a passing way. Yeah. But this is the only one I had literally no idea. |
| 1:11.0 | Genuinely thought it went |
| 1:11.7 | at Millen Wilson. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.7 | We could have arguably skipped this one |
| 1:14.5 | if we weren't doing the test cricket |
| 1:15.7 | approach to the series. |
| 1:17.3 | You can't skip a session of test cricket. |
| 1:19.2 | There's lulls. |
| 1:19.8 | That's not test cricket. |
| 1:21.0 | There will be lulls. |
| 1:22.1 | That's what makes it exhilarating |
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