That Time When

Finding the Northwest Passage through the Arctic is big business, it could make you rich and famous. You're going on some of the most advanced ships the 19th century can offer. They've even got central heating! Forget that the ships are the Terror and the Erebus, you'll make your fortune, right? In this first part of our episodes on the lost Franklin Expedition we'll hear about how this doomed voyage got started and why everything seemed like it would be just fine.

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You know who we like here at That Time When? We like clever and influential women who are super bitter about how society looks down on them. This week on That Time When we go to the seaside, and onto the Jurassic Coast to hunt for fossils with Mary Anning. We're also learning why people might have accidentally eaten fossilised poop.

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There can be no more welcome sight, as a soldier during the Crimean War, than discovering a cottage/hotel where you can be offered hot tea, lemonade, champagne, and a nice slap up meal while getting your wounds treated and having that cholera of yours looked into. You've been meaning to get around to it. This week on That Time When, Amelia tells us the story of Mary Seacole, who is often forcibly compared to Florence Nightingale, but just seemed to be a bit more fun.

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Let's face it, we'll never be as cool as Beate Klarsfeld. This week on That Time When, Barnaby tells us some of the stories of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, who have devoted their lives to fighting fascism by hunting Nazis. Who else can say they brought down a high ranking politician by giving him a slap? What cooler life can you lead than managing to hunt down some of the worst people the 20th Century produced? Anyway, trip to the Barbie museum, anyone?

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Every young girl dreams of her wedding to Jesus, and why wouldn't you? According to Margery Kempe he is super hot. This week on That Time When, Amelia tells us about the life of Margery Kempe: mystic, sex addict, failed businessperson, and all round weeper of the year contest winner.

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Well this isn't an episode to make Barnaby's mother proud of him. This week on That Time When, Barnaby tells us about one of the Emperor's of Quacks from the 18th century. Find out why burying yourself in a hole could be good for your health, or why you might accept a free electric shock, but most importantly, find out why Dr Graham built one of the maddest sounding beds ever.

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When you think of deadly floods you'll probably think of water moving at breakneck speed, but not in Boston in 1919. This week on That Time When, Amelia tells us about a much stickier and thicker flood: Molasses. Find out how a Captain Planet villain caused Boston to become sugar-glazed for many years to come. Also, Barnaby would like to apologise that he got the name of J Jonah Jameson wrong, he now knows the J comes at the beginning and has been justly chastised.

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It's the half-term here in the UK, which means that Amelia can take time away from moulding young minds to help attract perverts to our podcast with this salacious story. Did women in the 19th century duel while topless? Was it for 'health reasons'? Or was it just an excuse to sell dirty postcards? Tune in to this bonus episode to find out.

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A bit of a swerve this week, because we're talking about something that didn't, strictly speaking, happen. Barnaby takes us more recent than we've been before, and probably as recent as we'll ever go, in order to talk about an accidental pandemic in a video game, and helped teach scientists about how people behave in such a situation. I wonder if that has any relevance to the last year or so...

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Did Aretha Franklin fall into a rift that split her life, sliding doors style, until she became two people? This week, Amelia tells the story of Vickie Jones, whose singing imitated Aretha Franklin so convincingly that it resulted in her kidnapping, fraud, and eventual stardom.

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