{"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 could send witches to jail?","slug":"wait-they-could-send-witches-to-jail","published_at":"2026-05-24T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wait-they-did-what-7781555/wait-they-could-send-witches-to-jail","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-could-send-witches-to-jail-/106453338","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/ki/Z/ic.mp3","summary":"‘Witches’ were burnt at the stake hundreds of years ago, but witchcraft was still illegal in Australia right up until the 2000s... luckily, it’s safe to wave your wands today. This episode will answer questions like: Is witchcraft illegal in Australia? Are witches real? What is Wicca? What does the church say about witches? Find more episodes of kids’ history podcast Wait... They Did What?! with Tilly Oddy-Black on the Kids tab of ABC listen.","meta_description":"‘Witches’ were burnt at the stake hundreds of years ago, but witchcraft was still illegal in Australia right up until the 2000s... luckily, it’s safe to w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":453,"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-could-send-witches-to-jail/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-could-send-witches-to-jail.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}