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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…”

Then you might enjoy this: http://pascalwyse.com/blog/2017/12/15/in-our-time-machine

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..."

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

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

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