Eleanor & Alasdair Read That
Hosted by Alasdair and Eleanor and Eleanor Morton · Eleanor Morton & Alasdair Beckett-King
5.0from 356 ratings
- 23
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 356
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Eleanor & Alasdair Read That
Two red-headed comedians revisit classic kids’ books. Will our childhood treasures stand the test of time? Or will we be forced to make fun of them on a podcast?
- Publisher
- Eleanor Morton & Alasdair Beckett-King
- Category
- arts · comedy
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 20 Dec 2024
- Latest episode
- 19 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 23 episodes have a transcript.
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
We Read The Water-Babies
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We Read The Water-Babies
Published 19 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yes. How much do you know about child chimney sweeps, Alistair? Not a huge amount. I know that they brought in legislation trying to improve conditions for child sweeps. Not abolish the whole system, but trying to improve conditions the year after this came out in response to it. But it wasn't until about 10 years after that that they came up with legislation that did actually take before they abolished child labour in general. Yeah. Boo. Bring it back. But it seems like for about 50 years, the British government was like, there's just no way to crack down on this. There's just simply no way to stop this. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 75 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 281 ratings
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- 4
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 67
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Alasdair and Eleanor and Eleanor Morton host the show. Published by Eleanor Morton & Alasdair Beckett-King.
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