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Trams in Trouble
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Week Ending 30 March 1924. Also in this episode: Singapore | Bus strike | Munich Trial | Agatha Christie | Waterloo Bridge
7 days ago
Week Ending 23 March 1924
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7 days ago
In this episode: Japan prepares for war | The speed limit | Roundabout | Tram finances | Machine-gun barrage | Street football |
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Week Ending 16 March 1924
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
In this episode: Conservative ideals | William Robertson | GWR in concert | In-train entertainment | Genial Omnibus | The Yarrow Scheme | Teapot Dome Scandal
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Week Ending 9 March 1924
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
In this episode: Churchill stands | Hitler: a correction | The end of the Caliphate | Gallipoli | A con woman | Trams | Buses | The Sparks Effect | German unemployment | Race riots in New York | Sugar | Egham vandalism
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Week Ending 2 March 1924
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
In this episode: Hitler on trial | Subways | Insanity | Future of war | Churchill the Conservative?| Vagrancy | Vitriol
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Week Ending 24 February 1924
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
In this episode: The Underground and The Competition | Poplar | Kahr resigns | Factory disaster | Flyover | River boats
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Week Ending 17 February 1924
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
In this episode: The Times reviews a car | Baldwin | Rhineland | Coolidge | Closing hours | Overcrowding | Oil & War | Vitriol
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Communist Russia, Tram Cars and the Gold Standard
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Welcome to "What the Paper Said" with your host, Patrick Crozier. In this episode, we will dive into the pages of The Times from a century ago, sharing some interesting news from the week ending on the 3rd of February, 1924. While the theme of the episode is focused on the gold standard, you will find a selection of unique stories from around the world that took place during this week in history.
The episode begins with some international news; Lenin's funeral which saw Petrograd renamed as Leningrad, and the tumultuous politics of the Soviet Union. Britain made the move to officially recognise the Soviet Union and in Omsk, a rebellion brought a fiery end to a local communist committee meeting. From Russia, we transition to the United States where the Teapot Dome scandal has begun to reveal corruption and greed at high governmental levels.
Moving away from politics, the host, Patrick Crozier covers less-touched upon territories like India, which was at that time a part of the British Empire. The Times carried an article about the political scenario of India, shedding light on representation, power dynamics, and the region's imminent influential figures – Gandhi and Nehru. Also discussed were legal rulings in South Africa that impacted race relations and the ubiquitous annoyance of tram cars.
The episode then dives into the world of finance, as Patrick discusses The Times' Annual Financial and Commercial Review and educates listeners on the ebb and flow of the economy after World War I - the boom and bust that followed - and how the gold standard played a significant role in stabilising the economy during those times. Furthermore, he touches upon a critical aspect of what was then considered a solution to money printing - the Gold Standard - exploring its pros and cons, and dispelling myths associated with it.
This episode offers an engaging journey through history, providing unique insights into international politics, finance, common law, and everyday lifefrom the 1920s. Tune into "What the Paper Said" and enjoy an immersive time travel experience.
Monday Jan 29, 2024
A Dive into the Times and Life of Woodrow Wilson
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
In this AI-assisted episode of "What the Paper Said," the host, Patrick Crozier, provides insights into what was making headlines in the Times from a hundred years ago, particularly during the week ending on February 10, 1924. The episode touches on a diverse range of subjects starting with the release of Mr. Gandhi from prison in India to the political developments in the Soviet Union. Major milestones like the appointment of a new Prime Minister and alleged attempts to destabilize Estonia are discussed.
The central highlight of this episode focuses on the recollections of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's life and contributions, as reflected by the Times. Explore the shifts in diplomatic landscapes, changes in architectural norms, the ebb and flow in fuel prices, gender bridges in the legal field, and the vital lessons gathered from historical events. Patrick concludes with a thoughtful assessment of Wilson's influence and legacy in shaping world affairs.
This show will take you on a trip through time, comparing past events with the present, critically analyzing the implications and outcomes of policy decisions, and drawing some eye-opening conclusions on the way history can impact the present day. Tune in to this riveting episode for a refreshing perspective on history through the lens of a century-old newspaper.
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Week Ending 27 January 1924
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
In this episode: Lenin dies | First Labour government | Railway strike | Thames floods | Clerical consternation
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Week Ending 20 January 1924
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
In this episode: The motor revolution and Hyde Park Corner | Railway Strike | Ernest Benn on unemployment| Labour leader's gaffe | HMV
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Three weeks Ending 13 January 1923
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
In this episode: terror bombing | advertising and Big Oil | Imperial Airways
Monday Jan 15, 2024
The World a Hundred Years Ago
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
How the world would appear to a reader of The Times in 1924.
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Week Ending 23 December 1923
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
In this episode: Motorway! | Rhineland | China | Latin | The Fax | Stalin | Motorways
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Week Ending 16 December 1923
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
In this episode: Britain tackles Foot & Mouth | Conrad von Hötzendorff | Railway turnover | Poison pens | German despotism | Honest politicians
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Week Ending 9 December 1923
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
In this episode: The War on Drugs | Election (19)23 | Rhineland | Cars | Helicopters
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Week Ending 2 December 1923
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
In this episode: Churchill campaigns | Berlin Bother | Rhineland separatism | RBS | The Slump | Traffic census | Basil Zaharoff | Fog | A Guardsman dies
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Week Ending 25 November 1923
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
In this episode: Election fever | Streseman loses | Havenstein | Ypres | Acting improperly | Viennese anti-semitism
Saturday Dec 16, 2023
Week Ending 18 November 1923
Saturday Dec 16, 2023
Saturday Dec 16, 2023
In this episode The Beerhall Putsch Part II | A general election | Armistice Day | Palestine | Murders of Jews | Aston Villa | Shoes | Wireless
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Week Ending 11 November 1923
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
In this episode: The Beerhall Putsch | Bonar Law buried | What next for Churchill? | Riots | KKK | Snuff
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Week Ending 28 October 1923
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Protectionism | More chaos in Germany | Doctors' Pay | Railway Profits
Saturday Oct 28, 2023
Week Ending 7 October 1923
Saturday Oct 28, 2023
Saturday Oct 28, 2023
In this episode Beveridge on overpopulation; trouble in Fascismo; Bismarck; a romantic count; and crookedness in the boxing ring.
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Week Ending 21 October 1923
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Churchill on Gallipoli (again).
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Week Ending 23 September 1923
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
In this episode: Booze stats | Disease stats | Mme Fahmy | Cabaret | KKK
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Week Ending 30 September 1923
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Martial Law in Germany | The snuff danger | The handrail danger | The Underground
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Week Ending 16 September 1923
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Mussolini according to a press baron; the Ulster border; a new German currency; a coup in Spain; a settlement in Corfu.
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Week Ending 9 September 1923
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Earthquake in Japan | Invaders in Corfu | The poor of Poplar (again) | Plans for the Holocaust | Ludendorff & The Nazis | Asquith & the War
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Catch-up ending 2 September 1923
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Taxation is theft | Road Safety
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Week Ending 22 July 1923
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
In this episode: the Singapore Naval Base; Haig on Ukraine; the Marie Stopes libel case; the Sir Alfred Douglas libel case; Cambridge University and women; the status of the Bank of England; a German terrorist escapes.
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Week Ending 29 July 1923
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
In this episode: Peace with Turkey; the debate on disarmament; the Bank of the England expands; the President abroad, schoolboys and gambling and Nigerians and booze.
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Week Ending 15 July 1923
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Do we need passports?; modern whaling; the future of freedom; extreme weather; 18-year-olds and drink; the end of the 3lb loaf; the death of the Queen Mother's cousin and an air race.
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Week Ending 8 July 1923
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
In this episode: Interest rates are up; the new US immigration system; the Glossop murders; the dangers of aluminium cookware; attack on the Met Office; a train crash; a train bomb; Wimbledon and the success or otherwise of the Ruhr occupation.
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Week Ending 1 July 1923
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
In this episode: The Versailles Treaty, Prohibition, the downside of Irish independence, the Parchim murder, banning the horse, flammable films, domestic service, prohibition and the Atlantic liner, Fascist violence, Harding goes west, Labour MPs in trouble.
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Week Ending 24 June 1923
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
In this episode: London's transport problem; London’s noise problem; some sailors burn to death; some gates fall down; Sunday drinking in Ulster; how to put up the rent; miners’ pay; a tuberculosis statistic; Claude Rains; the duel and the German officer and a concentration camp.
EconTalk on Santiago's buses.
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Week Ending 17 June 1923
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Coup in Bulgaria; Britain's fastest train; General Grierson gets a biography; Dzerzhinsky thinks he can run a railway.
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Week Ending 10 June 1923
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
The workers' paradise (again); Britain gets a new MP; the FBI gets royal approval.
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Week Ending 27 May 1923
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Hitler and his allies. Britain gets a new Prime Minister.
Thursday May 18, 2023
Week Ending 20 May 1923
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
The fall out from the Irish deportations; the limits of states' rights; the right size of underground trains; before the satellite dish.
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Week Ending 13 May 1923
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
In this week's episode: A socialist on Churchill; the perils of modern education; the Ulster Irish on the border; Austrian hyperinflation; the great pram race and someone throws an egg at a politician.
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Week Ending 6 May 1923
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
In this episode - as well as headlines big and small: FA Cup Final chaos; a banker predicts the Great Depression; Churchill on communism; race relations in South Africa and America.
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Week Ending 29 April 1923
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
In this episode; so, who is responsible for the BBC? The confusing Lord Curzon; the realities of hyperinflation.
Professor Barth's YouTube series on money.
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Week Ending 22 April 1923
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
In this episode: The Prime Minister is fighting fit; what happens to you if you are found with a gun; the head of Oxford University flexes his muscles; Hitler is on a charge; Parliament defies the will of the people.
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Week Ending 15 April 1923
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
In this episode the blessings - or otherwise - of socialism. Also in this episode, how Bulgaria deals with communists, Sunday trading and the slave trade... in Ethiopia
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Week Ending 8 April 1923
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
In this episode: When will the robots take over? What is a jury of matrons? What is a bride-elect and do London bus drivers make good nurses?
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Week Ending 1 April 1923
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
In this episode: Oscar Wilde's paramour goes bonkers. Also in this episode cycle safety, housing, immigration, air pollution, drugs and an ossuary. Oh, and Andrew Bonar Law is unwell.
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Week ending 25 March 1923
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
In this week’s episode: the Debate on Capitalism. Also in this week’s episode: the man who started the Great Depression is in court; the BBC undermines national defence; is the University of London under attack by Ukraine?; the inventor of the supermarket makes a killing, or so he thinks; London luvvies are a bunch of racists, Top Gear gets trolled by the London General Omnibus Company and some people have gone to sleep.
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Catch-up ending 18 March 1923
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
In this episode I catch up on what has been happening in the world since the last episode.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Week ending 11 February 1922
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
In this episode: Overhead electrification; the legality of crystal sets; US immigration law; how hospitals raise money; the legality of the French occupation of the Ruhr and Churchill writes a book.