{"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 didn't have smart phones?","slug":"wait-they-didn-t-have-smart-phones","published_at":"2026-05-10T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wait-they-did-what-7781555/wait-they-didn-t-have-smart-phones","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-didnt-have-smart-phones/106453328","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/jo/Z/e6.mp3","summary":"Landline phones and fax machines seemed high-tech in the 1990s, but now they’re almost extinct thanks to smart phones and email... and does anyone remember telegrams? This episode will answer questions like: What is a fax machine and how does it work? What is a telegram? When were mobile phones introduced in Australia? What is a rotary phone? Find more episodes of kids’ history podcast Wait... They Did What!? with Tilly Oddy-Black on the Kids tab of ABC listen.","meta_description":"Landline phones and fax machines seemed high-tech in the 1990s, but now they’re almost extinct thanks to smart phones and email... and does anyone remembe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":514,"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-didn-t-have-smart-phones/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-didn-t-have-smart-phones.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}