90. The Real Dick Whittington
Who Did What Now
Katie Charlwood
4.6 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The tale of Dick Whittington (and his cat) is one that has flowered through folklore and onto the stage, becoming a pantomime staple several centuries after London's most popular medieval mayor left his mark on the capital. The original rags to riches story, a young boy eaves his home in the country in search of fortune and his place in the world, naturally he heads for London, where he is told, the streets are paved with gold! But who was Dick Whittington, and why do we still tell stories of this man several hundred years after his death? Listen now to find out the facts behind the fable...
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | Hello, delicious friends. The episode you're about to hear was supposed to be released |
| 0:18.7 | pre-Christmas, 2023, but as you are about to hear, |
| 0:23.5 | there were circumstances beyond my control, which led to this not being released on time. |
| 0:30.3 | So I hope you'll enjoy this festive-themed, panto-esque episode. |
| 0:42.8 | And apologies, if I'm wheezing, I still have, you know, the pneumonia. |
| 0:50.4 | And it's getting there. I'm on medication. Everything is, you know, going the way it should be. |
| 0:56.1 | But I hope you enjoy this episode and I am so sorry for the delay. Hi everybody and welcome to Who did what now, the history podcast. |
| 1:15.6 | That's not your history class. |
| 1:17.7 | With me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot and Reader of Books. |
| 1:24.3 | Now, gentle listeners, I love you so much. I really do. And I got some really cute reviews in. So that's |
| 1:33.5 | wonderful. Love that. You're wonderful. You've really brightened up in my weekend. Because |
| 1:39.3 | gentle listeners, I have been beset upon by a series of calamities. I thought the worst part of my week |
| 1:46.4 | was going to be the fact that a wonderful follower of the podcast had sent me in a link |
| 1:51.9 | to a Clarabelle the Cow bag. Like it's a Disney Loungefly collaboration. It's gorgeous, it's perfect, it it's amazing but it's only available in the |
| 2:04.2 | US and I can't buy it so I was like oh no I know I thought you know it's the 100 year anniversary |
| 2:11.1 | it's let me get a addition it's like we're just now because it's coming to the end of the year and I was |
| 2:16.0 | like oh oh no I can't buy it. |
| 2:19.4 | And I thought that's sad. You know, that'll be, that'll be the worst part of my weekend, right? |
| 2:25.8 | Right? No. No, no, no, no. So I had a friend come in and I was seeing them before I was heading away for the weekend. |
| 2:35.4 | And their glasses were all wonky. And I was like like let me fix that for you because I'm always fixing my own frames right |
| 2:39.9 | and completely snap the leg off just gone snip snip snip gone broke them so now I'm going to try and get |
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