Oh What A Time...

AND WE ARE BACK! And this week/month/year we're looking at: Calendars. How we ended up with the names for our months and days, how the Mayan calendar caused such a kerfuffle, the failed French attempt...

22 Tammi 202435min

Oh What A Time returns next week on the main feed but between now and then, we thought we'd drop a little excerpt from December's bonus episode onto the feed and this one is: GIFTS!Presidential gifts,...

16 Tammi 202416min

While we recover from Christmas and New Year, please enjoy our first 'best of' episode featuring some brand new correspondence and a few of our favourite bits from the first 6 months of the show.We'll...

8 Tammi 202454min

It’s time again for us to mine the OWaT mailbag and have another correspondence special (although we inevitably get sidetracked into Christmas chat).Now if this podcast is famous for one thing it’s: i...

25 Joulu 202322min

Get the decorations down from the loft and pop the tree up, because this week we're talking about: Christmas. We'll be covering the interesting history of Christmas traditions; from Carols to Decorati...

18 Joulu 202342min

This week we're looking into some huge undertakings through history in a category we're calling: BIG PROJECTS. How did ancient Rome manage to feed a population of 1 million people? How did Alexander t...

11 Joulu 202351min

This week we're looking at the aftermath of the 1929 Wall St Crash, which signalled the beginning of an era known as: The Great Depression (Merry Christmas!). We'll be looking at the origins of the cr...

4 Joulu 202350min

Here's a preview - about 15 mins of a 70 minute episode - of November's subscriber special on.. Heroes!Obviously, the Teenage Mutant Ninja/Hero Turtles are here, we're also looking at the heroes to ha...

30 Marras 202317min