Josh Widdicombe

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2,556 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Aug

Josh Widdicombe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Romanov line has only basically just started and ended the Russian Revolution.

But yeah, he has a tough start to life.

Yeah.

Because Moscow see themselves as the third Rome.

It's the first Rome, which is Rome, second Rome, which is Constantinople, and Moscow.

So it's already defining itself as distinct from both Catholic and also the Protestant world.

Suffering.

What's interesting is in Britain, we're quite miserable, and we seem to celebrate terrible things happening.

But it has a very distinctly different feeling to Russia.

And also, I think Britain's a much smaller country.

Everything's less dramatic here.

So what we glorify is anything being a bit shit.

Yes.

Or I thought I'd enjoy my birthday, but it was disappointing and it rained.

In Russia, it's like, I thought I'd enjoy my birthday, and then my entire family was killed by bears.

Charlie's actually brought up something quite interesting.

Estimates of Moscow's Muslim population range between 2 to 3 million, establishing it as the city with the largest Muslim population in Europe.

Moscow... Moscowistan.

Look at that.

No idea.

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