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Old Tweedy's Big Moustaches

62 min • 8 april 2021

Who was Molly Bloom’s father, Major Brian Cooper Tweedy? Far more than meets the eye.

Topics in this episode include Michael Caine and Zulu, what the heck a footleaf is and other lovely minutiae, the origin of the Blooms’ jingly-jangly bed, Major Brian Cooper Tweedy and his military career, Molly’s time in Gibraltar and her memories of her father, Rorke’s Drift, Plevna, cheating at auctions, philately, sparrowfarts, Wolseley and Gordon in Khartoum, deception and lies, classism in the British military, and many shocking facts about Major Tweedy.