{"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... you weren't allowed to be left-handed?","slug":"wait-you-weren-t-allowed-to-be-left-handed","published_at":"2026-05-31T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wait-they-did-what-7781555/wait-you-weren-t-allowed-to-be-left-handed","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wait-they-did-what-7781555","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/wait-they-did-what/left-handed/106692216","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/kl/Z/su.mp3","summary":"Up until the 1970s left-handed kids were forced to write with their right... or risk a rap over the knuckles. This episode will answer questions like: What is the history of left-handed people? Why was left-handedness considered evil? Who are the most famous left-handed people? Why were left-handed people forced to be right-handed? Find more episodes of kids’ history podcast Wait... They Did What!? with Tilly Oddy-Black on the Kids tab of ABC listen.","meta_description":"Up until the 1970s left-handed kids were forced to write with their right... or risk a rap over the knuckles. This episode will answer questions like: Wha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":360,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wait-they-did-what-7781555/episodes/wait-you-weren-t-allowed-to-be-left-handed/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-you-weren-t-allowed-to-be-left-handed.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}