{"podcast":{"title":"Wait... They Did What!?","slug":"wait-they-did-what-7781555","podcast_index_feed_id":7781555,"rss_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/feeds/106388136/podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/wait-they-did-what/","image_url":"https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/081b693d341a00bd885956c492c23470.jpg?src","author":"ABC Australia","episode_count":12,"summary":"Wait... They Did What?! is the question you’ll be asking after travelling back through modern history with comedian Tilly Oddy-Black. Perfect for kids aged 8 and over, Wait…They Did What?! unearths the weird, wild and outright scandalous common practices of people in the olden days... like letting kids buy fireworks, banning bikinis on the beach, putting blood-sucking leeches on sick people, and riding in cars without seatbelts. Credits: Host: Tilly Oddy-Black Producers: Samantha Turnbull and Soumia Bella Sound engineer: Que Nguyen Archive researchers: Michael Osmond and Carolyn Cage Composer: David McDonald Executive producers: Veronica Milsom and Alex Lollback","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wait-they-did-what-7781555"},"episode":{"title":"Wait... they banned bikinis?","slug":"wait-they-banned-bikinis","published_at":"2026-04-26T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wait-they-did-what-7781555/wait-they-banned-bikinis","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wait-they-did-what-7781555","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/wait-they-did-what/wait-they-banned-bikinis-/106453324","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/jd/Z/5h.mp3","summary":"Bikinis come in all shapes and sizes today, but in the 1960s you could get arrested for wearing one in public... if the ‘beach inspector’ thought it was too skimpy. This episode will answer questions like: Who invented the bikini? Why was the bikini banned in Australia? What is a beach inspector? How have swimsuit laws changed? Find more episodes of kids’ history podcast Wait... They Did What!? with Tilly Oddy-Black on the Kids tab of ABC listen.","meta_description":"Bikinis come in all shapes and sizes today, but in the 1960s you could get arrested for wearing one in public... if the ‘beach inspector’ thought it was t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":548,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wait-they-did-what-7781555/episodes/wait-they-banned-bikinis/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wait-they-did-what-7781555/wait-they-banned-bikinis.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}