{"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 wore real fur?","slug":"wait-they-wore-real-fur","published_at":"2026-03-29T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wait-they-did-what-7781555/wait-they-wore-real-fur","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-wore-real-fur-/106453308","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/io/Z/dl.mp3","summary":"People have worn fur to keep warm for thousands of years, but in the 1950s a fur coat became a fashion status symbol... often at the expense of smelly weasel-like creatures. This episode will answer questions like: Is it ethical to wear a fur coat? What animals are used for fur? How valuable are fur coats? What is faux fur? Find more episodes of kids’ history podcast Wait... They Did What!? with Tilly Oddy-Black on the Kids tab of ABC listen.","meta_description":"People have worn fur to keep warm for thousands of years, but in the 1950s a fur coat became a fashion status symbol... often at the expense of smelly wea…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":373,"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-wore-real-fur/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-wore-real-fur.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}