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by nadagast 1774 days ago
In Our Time is a wonderful podcast, always interesting content! Also, as an American, the pace of the show and way of speaking is itself interesting to me.
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I love the no-nonsense, down-to-business way he starts every show:

“Hello. In 1896…”

Thank you, that is amazing. I just got to:

“Hello. Throughout history, people have taken drugs”

https://youtu.be/VdOr5FpLKR8

"And now it's time for In Our Time, the programme that just starts. The Byzantines..."

That's funny, although it's missing the one of the best bits about Radio 4: the Shipping Forecast. For some reason, I find the late (0040) and early morning (0520) shipping forcasts immensely familiar and comforting. It's been a part of my life since I was a small child getting up very early for school when I had no idea what Dogger, Forties, Cromarty and Rockall meant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxHa5KaMBcM

I’m completely unfamiliar with the other programmes, but that’s still pretty funny.