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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Inventing ‘the box’ and avoiding Agincourt (ft. Sunil Patel)
Description: Medieval England, 1415. The Battle of Agincourt is looming, Henry V is rallying his troops, and comedian Sunil Patel has gone straight to a tavern to ask a group of merchants if anyone's got a job going. His pitch: "I have a very particular set of skills that will only become apparent once you give me the job." The merchants are intrigued. They probably shouldn't be.
Sunil's approach to 15th-century England: refuse military service under any circumstances, befriend a portly moustachioed merchant, and pitch an invention so vague that nobody can explain what it actually does. "Patel's Device"...