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Music & SFX by our good friends at ZapSplat

It’s a tale of Berserkers, bridges and brothers in the second instalment of our 1066 Epic!

William of Normandy and all the Knights of France are poised to invade Anglo Saxon England…trouble is they’ve got wind…but it’s the wrong sort of wind!

Which means the Normans can’t invade…so nothing to see here then?

NO! VIKINGS! TEN THOUSAND OF THEM!

On Raven’s Wings the Horde of Harald Hardrada is descending on the North…and you know what?

The North of England likes Vikings.

It doesn’t like Tostig much but he’s come along for the ride!

Sweet Harry G and his Huscarl’s are gonna have to get their skates on or they’ll miss the Battle of Stamford Bridge and all the tanning that goes on before hand!

And hopefully the Normans won’t invade while Harold is at the other end of the country…*

Thanks to Scotty Buckley for music and Zapsplat for sfx & music

*its not spoiler to say they will! But thats next time!

That's right we've done a trailer! That's how hyped we are!

Join the silliest boys in history for part two of our 1066 epic!

A tale Berserkers, brothers and of course Bridges....on Friday the 16th of January 2026!

Here on the Silly History Boys Show!

Hello listener and welcome to a special podcast brought to you by the Silly History boys show in association with the nice people at the Rubbish Shakespeare Company AND the arts council of England.

These special episodes come from the Story Forge stage show that me (your Dear Uncle Bob Bob) have been performing with Wicked Cousin Lee up and down the country in 2025, thanks to support from the nice people at Arts Council England.

The Story Forge show is a piece of spontaneously sweaty theatre made from mad cap suggestions  from our baying audiences.

Every show has been special but some of the stories that those wild young minds have created  have been so special that we just had to show you! They really could be actual myths…except they’re not

So the following tale was created live and sweatily on stage and featured a member of our audience as the titular hero! 

So sit back and enjoy…the tale of Marcus…the wide knowing.

The feeling when you open the speedboat shaped present to find out it's a clip-show. 

SORRY! But we boys wanted to do something, anything for Christmas. 

Enjoy the clips from our previous festive frolics with the same gusto you exhibit when waging war on xmas dinner. 

We'll see you in 2026!

Seasonal bells peal for ZapSplat for their excellent SFX & Music

The saviour is indeed born but then replaced by Scott Buckley and his glorious music. He is our god now...

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Hello listener…it is I your dear Uncle Bob Bob and welcome to a special podcast brought to you by the Silly History boys AND the Rubbish Shakespeare Company. 

These special episodes come from the Story Forge stage show that I (your Dear Uncle Bob Bob) have been performing with Wicked Cousin Lee (Rubbish Shakespeare company) up and down the country in 2025, thanks to support from the nice people at Arts Council England

The Story Forge show is a piece of spontaneously sweaty theatre made from mad cap suggestions from our baying audiences.

Every show has been special…but some of the stories that those wild young minds have created  have been so special that we just had to show you! 

They really could be actual myths…except they’re not.

So the following tale was created live and sweatily on stage and featured a member of our audience as the titular hero! 

So sit back and enjoy…How Cherry Grove Came to be….a shiny new myth straight from the sizzling mind of Joel Morrow. 

WHERE are those Silly boys?!

Sorry that we've been unexpected and suspicious quiet of late...

But we promise that will change soon!

For the lack of episodes we are...as always...sorry!

Tapestries, arrows in the eye and conker gags for the whole family! *

It’s the history bit that everyone knows…or do they?*

King Edward the Confessor of England hasn’t got  any kids…but think about all the spare time he must have…well kind of….he’s dead…

WHO’ll BE KING?!

William Duke of Normandy says King Edward pinky promised him the gig…but there no proof of that…Harold Godwinson reckons it’s *him…there’s no proof of that either…

Only one way to settle it…FIGHT!

Let us take you back to that faded primary school carpet…and tell you the most famous story in all of English History!*

With all the shrieking, sword fights and Silly Voices you could shake a tapestry at!

A score of Saxon Manors for Scott Buckley for the use of his music.

The Spoils of a Generation of Disinherited Jarls to the nice people at Zap Splat for all their music and sounds!

Papal Immunity to do anything he pleases for Dan Danny Bradley of Danny Bradley Music.

*not the BBC** apparently haw haw what larks! 

*alright he probably didn’t get an arrow in the eye. Call off your dog, we’ve got to sell this thing to the norms you know!

*his family actually own already England so why would they give it to some French Viking b####?!

*unless you’re still in school, do you sit on the carpet still? Or do you all sit on a big iPad? 

**Someone should just tell the poor people who make TV that the history nutters will never enjoy anything! So it’s best not to bother!

Grab your knotted bedsheets! Cook that file into that cake! Dig out your Get Out of Jail FREE card from childhood! Coz the Boys are Escaping again!

Join the Silly History Boys and a special famous history guest for their next instalment of the Greatest of Great Escapes! 

Early parole for ZapSplat for wet dungeon and clanking chains sounds (and music!)

Lord Fast Fingers gets to Shawshank it through over a mile of poop and pee for his intro sting.

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The Silly History Boys most Dear Uncle is off on tour with the Story Forge Show!

And YOU are invited…on an hilariously unique family-friendly theatrical adventure! 

Join the ludicrously learned (and undeniably loopy) duo, Professor Doctor Lee Hithersay and Doctor Professor Robert Rhys Bond, as they embark on a quest to forge three brand-new myths live on stage!

Will your adventure unfold on the sun-drenched shores of Ancient Egypt, amidst the icy fjords of Viking legend, or in the inky depths of Neptune's ocean?

The choice is yours! Shape the narrative, suggest the world, and even take centre stage as the hero of your very own myth (participation entirely optional, shy souls still welcome!).

Forge your own unforgettable story and become a legend – you'd be mad to myth it!

Nice Things People have said about Story Forge...

TICKET LINKS and Venues all Below 

Suitable for ages 7+ Running time 1 hour and no interval

Derby Theatre September 20th, 11am and 2pm

https://derbytheatre.co.uk/event/story-forge/

Maesteg Town Hall November 6th at 1.30

https://awenboxoffice.com/whats-on/the-story-forge-make-your-own-myth/

Hoole Community Centre in Chester September 21st at 1.30pm

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/chester/hoole-community-centre/rubbish-shakespeare-company-silly-history-boys-the-story-forge-make-your-own-myth/e-lellam

Chelmsford theatre, Saturday the 27th of September 

11.30 and 14.30

https://www.chelmsfordtheatre.co.uk/event/the-story-forge-make-your-own-myth

Farnham Maltings, the Great Hall, Sunday the 28th of September. 11am and 2.30

https://farnhammaltings.com/events/the-story-forge

Friday the 3rd of October, 6pm

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/chester/tarvin-community-centre/the-story-forge-make-your-own-myth-the-rubbish-shakespeare-company-silly-history-boys/e-xokpvr 

Gosforth Civic Theatre, 4th of October, Newcastle 11am and 2pm

https://www.gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-story-forge-make-your-own-myth

Queens Hall Hexham, 5th of October, at 2pm

https://www.queenshall.co.uk/whats-on/the-story-forge-make-your-own-myth

The Stables Milton Keynes, 11th of October at 2pm 

https://stables.org/event/rubbish-shakespeare-company-the-silly-history-boys-the-story-forge

Story Forge Warwick Arts Centre, October 12th. 11.30 and 2.30

https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/nvO-the-story-forge-make-your-own-myth/

Story Forge Armly/Leeds, St Bartholomew church, for Red Ladder Theatre Company 

https://www.redladder.co.uk/whatson/story-forge/

Dorman Museum November 9th. 11.30 and 2.30

https://online1.venpos.net/ConsumerSite/VisitDateTime?LID=936&PID=440cf6d7-e6ee-48c9-aee5-b0e31a1d3d1a&LNG=en&VD=2025-11-09T00%3A00%3A00

The Story Forge was banged together with the molten talents of these nice people…

Performed by Lee Hithersay, Robert Rhys Bond and Oliver Wilson, Ryan Byrne and Daniel Bradley 

Props and costume design by Alice Rowbottom

Set design by Alex MacDonald

Lighting Design by Beccy Hillam

Written by Robert Rhys Bond and Lee Hithersay

Directed by Mark Smith

That's right folks! Captain America is old, Black Widow is pancaked and Tony Stark puts something in my eye! It's the end of our soft reboot sequel franchise cash grab that was THE PRETENDERS

Find out what happens to the fake Richard of York and wannabe fake King Richard IV of England 

York Will Sail, The Cornish Will Rise and Tudor will play his cunning games. 

Big thanks to ZapSplat for zaps and splats (and music)

Scott Buckley for his sweet music

Doug Maxwell for appropriate history music for regal types

Danny Bradley for his made to measure Delilah! 

Extra thanks to the history man, and all things WotR, Nathen Amin!

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Giz us a like and review on your chosen podcast platform! 

“The Pretenders and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Tudor before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the country”

Now we have that vague logline out of the way we can get all “logged-down” in our next instalment of THE PRETENDERS.

Meet Perkin Warbeck, a handsome silk-merchant from the Low Countries. A handsome silk-merchant with a secret (GASP!) A secret claim to the Throne of England (GASP!). Who will stop at nothing until his secret is revealed, revealed and taken super seriously by the powers that be.  

Thanks to ZapSplat for zips zaps boings and music

Thanks as ever to Scott Buckley for his awesome music

Thanks to Kevin McLeod for his track 'Court of the Queen'

Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the theme music

We have Social Media - why not hit us up? SillyHIstoryBoysShow on all of it!

Finally (but definitely not leastally), massive thanks to all who have seen us over the summer. We have met some lovely people and everyone has been very nice to us. Thanks!!

PRETENDERS....ASSEMBLE!

We're Stoke-ed for this one...Stoke Field to be exact!

The Tudor Crown is in deadly danger from the dreaded Usurper-tron...well a small boy named Lambert Simnel who may not be 100% up for overthrowing the crown...but its too late to turn back now!

William DJ de la Pole and his good buddy Tom Fitz Gerald have invaded Lancashire...but waiting for them is a dastardly collection of Clifford's, Woodville's and Stanleys! 

The road leads west across the dreaded desert of Yorkshire to a Rampire infested hill in Lincolnshire!

Who will be victorious? 

You'll be RED GUTTER-ed if you miss it!

Join us for the tale of Lambert Simnel the boy who would/won't be King!

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Thanks to zapsplat for the SFX and music Thanks to scott buckley for his incredible music Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for his music Strings by Jonny Dyer

Find out in this weeks VERY silly telling of the Battle of Stoke Field.

You'll be gutted if you miss it....RED GUTTER-red!

There was an idea...to bring together a group of silly middled aged boys to make even the most dry bits of history...silly...that we never could...

The Silliest boys in history return for....Pretenders...ASSEMBLE!

We're plunged screaming and yawning back in the thorny history bed that is.

THE WARS OF THE ROSES again.

Henry Tudor smoked Richard the Third at the battle of Bosworth* to start the Tudor Dynasty.

But its only two years later and John de Pole Earl of Lincoln is already burying little presents in Henry Tudor's Rose garden...a little White Rose Present...has one of the Princes in the Tower survived?

Or is it just a no mark peasant twit called Lambert Simnel who has a passing resemblance to a dead Prince?**

Queue a mad dash to hire Irish Gallowgass, Antipodal Mercs with a great faith in the Schwartz (Martin) and massive swords!

Join us for the tale of Lambert Simnel the boy who would be King!

Enjoy the show? Want help us by new noises?! You can help make the show by hanging us a few quid on Kofi!

Ko-Fi

Thanks to zapsplat for the SFX and music

Thanks to scott buckley for his incredible music

Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for his music

Strings by Jonny Dyer

*alright actually he got his Mum on them!

**kind of but no

Geoffrey of Monmouth is once more put to the question by The Silly History Investigation Squad Department P.D.

Will he conclude the epic tale of Brutus, First King of the Britons?

...

Yes. He will.

Thanks to zapsplat for the SFX and music

Thanks to scott buckley for his incredible music

Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for his music

For many centuries Geoffrey of Monmouth's book 'The History of the Kings of Britain' was considered the go-to reference for information on British kings, but in recent years doubt has been cast on it's reliability. Only one crack squad of investigators can get to the bottom of this mystery... The Silly History Investigation Squad Department PD!

Come and hear the tale of Brutus, first King of the Britons from Geoffrey of Monmouth himself!!

Thanks to Zapsplat for music and sfx

Thanks to Scott Buckley for his awesome music

Thanks to you for listening!

Apples yeah? Everyone LOVES apples. But imagine if they were GOLD! OMGeeees you'd never have to work again. 

Where was I? Oh yeah, HERACLES! 

Everyone's fave, yet troubled demigod has yet another labour. 

To steal the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.

We'll meet giant men at the space gym. A dude what is tied to a mountain, and yet MORE sons of Poseidon. 

Enchanted apple pie for ZapSplat for Music & SFX 

Burn your mouth off apple turnover for extra SFX by FreeSFX

and the whole run of the mythical garden and all the sin he can eat goes to Scott Buckley for his amazing apple (not apple) related music.

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The Lambton Wyrm a medieval monster tail...gets the Silly treatment!

The Silly History boys are ‘wyrm-ing’ their way back into your affections with a monstrous medieval legend…the Lambton Wyrm!

John Lambton is a little Geordie scamp who loves nothing better than going fishing with his best mate Gazza*.

UNTIL he fishes a DRAGON out of the river Weir...we blame water companies!

Cue an adventure of terrifying monsters, terrifying accents** and the terrifying notion of taking responsibility for your actions!***

Music & SFX by ZapSplat

Strings by Jonny Dyer

Extra music by Scott Buckley

Extra Extra music by Futuremono & The Soundings

Extra Extra Extra music by Shane Ivers at Silverman Sounds

*is it that Gazza? You'll have to find out, will he bring the Dragon some chicken?

**Sorry Northumberland 

***Yes that could be another crack at the Water Companies 

Grab your hacksaw, lock picks  and balaclava and join the Silly History Boys for a historic crime spree...the prize? The Crown Jewels of England!

Join the dashing Irish rogue Colonel Blood and his gang of idiots as they embark on a journey that will lead to one of the most daring (and frankly silly) robberies in British and Irish history!

This ripping yarn takes us haring across battlements of Dublin Castle, through the seedy underbelly of restoration London and to a moonlight shoot out under the eves of the dreaded Tyburn gallows. Via a specialist coffee shop in Amsterdam!

Then follow our gang of very silly rascals to to dreaded Tower of London itself!

Will the crown of England be theirs....or has someone failed to bring an adequate bag

Join us the Silly history boys for the funniest trip to the dungeon ever...

Music and SFX by or regular accomplices ZapSplat

Big thanks to  Carsten Altena of info@sonargymusic.com, Danny Bradley, Brian Bolger and Dan Henig for their music 

Big thanks to Lord Fast Fingers seeing nine consecutive life sentences for the intro music! 

Music and SFX by or regular accomplices ZapSplat

Big thanks to  Scott Buckley & Danny Bradley for music that we never used, but hey, we lean on them heavily so have some more thanks anyway.

Colonel Blood and the Crown Jewels Robbery of 1671 is this weeks silly offering to you fine folk!

Marvel at the unabridged, hands down silliest robbery in History!

Yes....alright you've heard it before. 

Sorry.

We have been a bit busy running about this month...new episodes will be forth coming!

Exit the Dragon…in which the Last King of Wales soars to his highest and…well you’ll see.

The Third branch of the tale of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn see the King of Killer Wales assemble an army of outbreak-able shields and unmanageable accents!

AND UNITE WALES! 

And for an encore takes on the Norman Hordes and their suffering Saxon allies in a massive equestrian accident called…the Battle of Hereford!

Its a Good win for Griff…but unfortunately there’s a more than one Godwin this week!

Join the Silly History Boys for a Wales of a time!

Please do rate and review and why not tell a friend or a neighbour who you one day seek to supplant as the greatest Kingdom in all Britain!

Enjoy this rip roaring Norman stomping romp through some little known history? Buy us a Ko-Fi and keep the show going!

TIDY!

The Glory of old Rome belong to Farya Faraji for his track the Sons of Mars.

Dioch to Puremusic

Dioch to Tuttkile

And of course to ZapSplat for scrums and scrapping noises!

And big sweaty cutch for Time Travelling musicologists Jonny and Vicky at Sounds of Time! 

Tom Jones turns his chair round for Lord fast Fingers for the Silly History Boys show theme!

And big up to Dan Danny Bradley of Daniel Bradley Music 

A Chippy lane black card for Jez Hewitt's incredible Epic Version of Sosban Fach!

Previously on the Silly Boys Show!

Here are Parts 1 and 2 of the tale of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn the last King of Wales.

Part three is on the way but here’s a recap because Uncle Bob Bob is slow at editing!

Another deep dip in the dark ages with the Silliest Boys in history!

...this week we're swimming with Wales!

Join us for battles, betrayal, Brummies and boyos as we begin the tale of...

Gruffydd ap Llewellyn the Last Action King of Wales!

Can squirty young Griff become King of the Britons because a stew told him he would...or will his wicked Uncle, mean Sister and legions of Mercian Brummies blunt his horns?

There only one way to find out...the silly way…tidy!

A cutch for  ZapSplat for music and SFX for this tale from the land of song.

Dioch to Scott Buckley for his epic music.

A peck on the cheek from Katherine Jenkins for Lord Fast Fingers for the intro.

Dioch to Dan Bradley of Dan Bradley music and a Sospan of Cuddles for Jen Hewitt Music!

Come scrum down in our socials Insta & FB @SillyHistoryBoys

or buy us some cheese on toast and a SA Dark on Ko-Fi 

Listen butt why not give us a rate and review on your chosen platform? You knows it clart! 

Thanks all! 

SHB

Snuggle up listener! It's time to drift off to sleep with the relaxing tones of The Silly History Boys (well... Bilbo and Pear Bear) and the Enchanting music of Guild of Ambience once again!

This time we're doing Norse stories... which we'll probably end up making full blown episodes one day as they're great fun and full of adventure!

...but also very relaxing.

Thanks to Guild of Ambience for their track Enchanted Lands Vol 1.

You can't keep history imprisoned for long listener! Join the Silly Boys as they look at a couple of examples of historical great escapes... if you like it we might do more in the future!

Thanks as ever to zapsplat.com for SFX and music

Thanks to Scott Buckley for the amazing music

Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the intro music

...and thanks to you listener! Now quick - leg it while the guards are distracted!!

No new episode this week folks - we've been running around being Vikings and whatnot for half term! Instead here's an info dump of where we are going to be performing live this year... that's nearly as good as an episode isn't it?

Oh, alright, it's not. Don't look at us like that. We'll be back as soon as we can with a fresh episode of squishy and silly history we promise!

Until then... k thanks bye!!!!

Thanks to ZapSplat as usual!

Let’s get this labour MOO-ving dear listener! No, it’s not the Cretan Bull again, but the famed red cattle of Geryon! (you remember them kids!)

Roll up Roll Up to the poorly lit carousel of slightly different voices – TWENTY-TWO this week!

We really need to stop those boys, they’re out of control…

Larks of course! The boys do a great job under trying circumstances. Those circumstances being ACTUAL SUBSTANCE to this episodes Myth.

We’ll meet Giants!

Rando God’s we probably won’t see again!

A Herdsmen and his dog (for those fans of Countryfile)

And so many demi-gods getting whacked you’d think they’re an endangered species.

Big thanks to ZapSplat for music and general screaming

Henry Mahy at BattleForge Productions for his sweet track Through Fire and War (which I’m now calling Heracles’ lovely club-spree choon)

Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro

AND YOU DEAR LISTENER for giving us some support on Kofi ...drat…we’ll get you next time.

If you’re unable to kofi, why not give us a rating and review on your chosen podcast platform?

Cheers all and happy labouring!

Back once again with the renegade master... of England. It made sense when I started writing it.

It's the grand finale of the story of Bad King John STOP CALLING ME THAT! GIVE ME THE KEYBOARD YOU LITTLE PUNK.

HEAR THE TALE OF HOW I, JOHN THE GREAT, CONQUERED NOT ONLY EUROPE BUT STUCK IT TO THE POPE TOO. THEY ALL THOUGHT THEY COULD MESS WITH JOHNNY BUT I HAD THE LAST LAUGH.

Did you?

YES!!!

Thanks as ever to Zapsplat for the awesome noises and music.

Thanks to Scott Buckley for his incredible music.

And thanks to you for listening, Dear Listener!

Uncle Bob Bob is nowhere to be found and the Silly Boys are once again suffering under the lash of ENGLAND'S GREATEST KING! WHO READS THIS RUBBISH ANYWAY? BLAH BLAH BLAH EPISODE CONTENTS BORING.

COME AND LISTEN TO MY TALE, ME, JOHN I, BEST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE MONARCH ENGLAND IRELAND AND SCOTLAND AND FRANCE AND WALES HAS EVER KNOWN.

Thanks as ever to Zapsplat for the zips and zaps and music.

Thanks to Scott Buckley for the music.

Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the intro music.

And thanks to you for listening!

100 Episodes! Can you even believe it, dear listener?

Also Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This week we're telling the tale of KING JOHN THE GREAT WHO WAS SUPER GREAT AND THE BEST KING EVER AND EVERYONE THOUGHT HE WAS MINT

Thanks as ever to Zapsplat and to Scott Buckley for the amazing sfx and music.

Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the Theme Tune

And thanks to YOU for listening to over one hundred of these things!

He’s back in the booth dear listener! It’s Heracles! This week he has to go shopping for a belt, or is it a girdle? Come join our hero, and some of the Argonauts, for the mother of all shopping trips to the Edge of the Known World (accessories dept.)

A nice Kate Spade holdall for our friends at ZapSplat

Some sort of nice floaty scarf for Lord Fast Fingers for his intro music!

Come give us some girdle money on our Ko-fi

Check us out on our socials, Insta & Facebook

Please do leave us a review, they help they really do!

Pop your jim-jams on dear listener and get ready to be snug as a bug in a rug. It's bedtime 3! Join the Pear Bear as he indulges in some classic tales from the county of Norfolk, in a lovely bedtimey way.

Thanks to The Guild of Ambience for the relaxing and snuggly music.

Thanks to Hugh Lupton. Nice book sir.

Nighty Night!

The King of Killer Wales rides again!

The Second branch of the tale of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn pits our army of idiots against a deluge of dark aged danger!*

Waling Mid Walians, lethal Irish Vikings and very Nasty Normans are all set to topple the Last King of Wales from his cheese of toast throne!

Will they succeed?

Or will the Last Action King of Wales side step them with a surprisingly Saxon alliance with an absolute Svein of a Godwin!

Join the Silly History Boys for a Wales of a time!

Please do rate and review and why not tell a friend or a neighbour who you one day seek to supplant as the greatest Kingdom in all Britain!

Enjoy this rip roaring Norman stomping romp through some little known history? Buy us a Ko-Fi and keep the show going!

TIDY!

The Glory of old Rome belong to Farya Faraji for his track the Sons of Mars.

Dioch to Puremusic

Dioch to Tuttkile

And of course to ZapSplat for scrums and scrapping noises!

And big sweaty cutch for Time Travelling musicologists Jonny and Vicky at Sounds of Time! 

Tom Jones turns his chair round for Lord fast Fingers for the Silly History Boys show theme!

And big up to Dan Danny Bradley of Daniel Bradley Music 

A Chippy lane black card for Jez Hewitt's incredible Epic Version of Sosban Fach!

*alright early medieval 

Hi Listener,

Sometimes it's very hard to make things silly, so this time we're not going to. This is a show Tombo wrote many moons ago after he spoke to some people who were genuinely in the history and did the history... and it wasn't always nice.

CONTENT WARNING!!! This episode features actual history where not everyone makes it to the end in an actual serious way that isn't funny.

It's really important though, because perhaps if we hear what people in the past had to do we can try and avoid having to do it again...

Thanks to Zapsplat for the SFX as always.

Thanks to Scott Buckley for his amazing music.

Thanks for listening.

Remember what others did folks... Then maybe we and our children won't have to do it.

It's spooky season once again, dear Listener, and the Silly Boys are off earning a crust all over the land. Pear Bear and Bob Bob present a pair of ghastly tales to give you the chills.

PREPARE THE BACKUP UNDERPANTS!!!

Thanks to ZapSplat for zips zaps boings and music and thanks Scott Buckley as always for the awesome music.

Happy Halloween!

Hello Listener you still look jiggered!

Come on luv, you’ve worked hard enough, running round pits school yard crying "Surprise! I'm Richard III" (as your mam downloads all the Heracles episodes).

Its time to cuddle up in bed with your flat cap…and a story!

Continuing our new feature, Bedtime Stories

But don’t worry the screeching and explosions will be back next time.

For now cosy up with…some Forgotten Yorkshire Folk and Fairy Tales;

The Donkey, The Table and The Stick

The Potato and the Pig

and Potter Thompson

Sithee on t'morrow

Stories Sourced from Forgotten Yorkshire Folk and Fairy Tales

Music used with Kind Permission of the Guild of Ambience.

Hold your horse’s listener, it’s dinnertime! And Heracles is taking us out on a hot date to the Kingdom of Thrace. But wait- are we the appetiser?

On the menu are Wicked Kings, Troubled Gods and Flesh-Eating Horses!

Call ahead for a reservation to avoid disappointment!    

A big thanks to ZapSplat for scuffles and tussles.

A heavily reduced Mount Olympus summer ski-lift pass to Scott Buckley for his tracks The Summoning and Titan.

All the veggie porridge Lord Fast Fingers can eat for the intro.

Come get us on our Socials (Insta & Facebook)

Pay the ferryman for us? No silly, not Charon, but Ko-Fi

Please do rate and review and why not tell a friend (or even better, an enemy?)

Another deep dip in the dark ages with the Silliest Boys in history!

...this week we're swimming with Wales!

Join us for battles, betrayal, Brummies and boyos as we begin the tale of...

Gruffydd ap Llewellyn the Last Action King of Wales!

Can squirty young Griff become King of the Britons because a stew told him he would...or will his wicked Uncle, mean Sister and legions of Mercian Brummies blunt his horns?

There only one way to find out...the silly way...tidy!

A cutch for  ZapSplat for music and SFX for this tale from the land of song.

Dioch to Scott Buckley for his epic music.

A peck on the cheek from Katherine Jenkins for Lord Fast Fingers for the intro.

Dioch to Dan Bradley of Dan Bradley music and a Sospan of Cuddles for Jen Hewitt Music!

Come scrum down in our socials Insta & FB @SillyHistoryBoys

or buy us some cheese on toast and a SA Dark on Ko-Fi 

Listen butt why not give us a rate and review on your chosen platform? You knows it clart! 

Thanks all! 

SHB  

Hello Listener you look tired!

Come on you’ve worked hard enough today its time to cuddle up in bed with…a story!

A new feature for us silly boys with a little screeching and explosions to lull you to sleep!

But don’t worry the screeching and explosions will be back next time.

For now cosy up with…some Tales from Wales.

The Eagle and the Wren and the Coat of Beards.

See you next time Nos da!

Music used with Kind Permission of the Guild of Ambience.

https://theguildofambience.bandcamp.com/community

Someone has cut off the hair of the Goddess Sif, and she's super unhappy about it. So unhappy that she's made the Silly Boys all be in the same room to record her saga!

Join us as we venture back to Asgard again, live before ourselves.

It's a tale of origins, of weapons, of stubby handles.

Thanks to www.Zapsplat.com as always for their zips, zaps, boings and whatnot, and to www.scottbuckley.com.au for his awesome music.

Our hero is struggling with his mental and personal wellbeing as he approaches his 7th labour.

Is Heracles having a mid-labour crisis? 

Has he fallen out of Love with Labouring?

Perhaps wrestling a good looking bull will help? We're talking Chris Hemsworth levels of beefcake yo. 

Join Heracles as he goes on a bit of a jaunt with daddy Zeus to visit Uncle Poseidon to witness how Minos became King of Crete.

(and perhaps find out how the feared Minotaur came to be)

Such a jam packed show with barely any source material!

A ton of bull puns to ZapSplat for music and SFX

A barn load of bull wordplay to Scott Buckley for his medium well music

A bolt gun of bull puns for Lord Fast Fingers for the intro.

Come wallow in our socials Insta & FB @SillyHistoryBoys

or buy us a steak on Ko-Fi

Please do rate and review :)

Thanks all! 

SHB  

OMGosh are we wilfully niche for you this time listener! What starts off as an episode about The Percy Family, turns into a deep dive on Wressle Castle and it's ownership! 

Some say this conflict over Wressle Castle starts the feud between the families Percy & Neville; which in turn may have given the Wars of the Roses a big old push in the fight direction. 

This episode is ram packed with interesting tidbits listener! Why it has contract law, local and not so local caretakers, and many familiar characters from History. 

Why there's Henry Percy (you can call him Harry Hotspur), his son Henry Percy, and who can forget Henry Percy's son, Henry Percy?  

You'll laugh with Henry VI, cry with Richard Duke of York, and be slightly weirded out by the Kingmaker himself, Richard Neville Earl of Warwick.

If we could bequeath a wressle castle shaped prezzie to ZapSplat for music and sfx we would!

Big Scotty Buckley get all the roses for his tracks Absolution and Legionnaire

Brian Bolger gets a cinnamon bun from St Albans market for his track Black Mass

and Lord Fast Fingers Rob Tristram gets to keep being our friend. 

Chuck us some Coin on Ko-Fi?

Get us on Insta and Facebook - the silly history boys

Please do rate and review! Give five stars if you were confused by this episode! It's how we roll. 

LOVE YOU!!! 

Nail the doors shut, barricade the fridge, the Silly History Boys are back…and so are the Vikings!

Rollo and his gang of idiots return laying siege to the mighty city of Paris.

Only two hundred brave souls, a few croissants and quite a lot of hot wax stand between the Viking Horde and the conquest of France…only bickering can stop them…and giant cross bows.

Join the Silliest boys in history for a most irreverent dive into Abbo Cernuus Bella Parisiacæ urbis and discover how Viking Hot Bod Rollo the Walker founded the Duchy of Normandy!

A big pile of tax free Danegeld to ZapSplat for music & SFX

 Scott Buckley will be placed in a Longship and set on fire to thank him for his glorious music!

We honour Lord Fast Fingers and his very fast fingers for penning the intro 

Hit us up on our Ko-Fi and your place in Valhalla is assured!

Please Rate and Review  and Odin's Ravens will fly down from his throne and do the washing up!

Its the Silly History of England Part two: Return of Jafar!

Swotty Uncle Bob Bob is back for part two of the Silly History of England!

A special 'talky' podcast where everyone's favourite History Pervert attempt to bridge gaps in people's knowledge and explain complicated history...in terms that a silly person can understand. 

This week he over stretches himself by trying to get through the Hundred Years War (and the wars of the roses but he does not get there) 

A generational dust up between two neighbours who have more in common than they'd care to admit!

Longbows, underpants and well baked saints are the order of the day as one silly boy wrestles with 116 plus years of awfulness!

Tune into our regular show in two weeks time where they'll be just as much talking but way more explosions!

Mr Ritchie there’s something happening in 9th Century France!

VIKINGS!

There's many a Dane axe to be ground in the story of ROLLO THE WALKER...not to mention FEUDS, people falling in the water and HAIRCUTS worse than DEATH!

Join the exiled ROLLO and his extremely SILLY band of VIKINGS as they travel to FRANCE in search of riches and ADVENTURE...which another way of saying STEALING and murder...we remind you this is still supposed to be a show for families!

It's just that Vikings are horrible!

Next week the siege of Paris, the birth of Normandy and more people going 'ARGH' as they fall in the water await!

A big pile of tax free Danegeld to ZapSplat for music & SFX

 Scott Buckley will be placed in a Longship and set on fire to thank him for his glorious music!

We honour Lord Fast Fingers and his very fast fingers for penning the intro 

Hit us up on our Ko-Fi and your place in Valhalla is assured!

Please Rate and Review  and Odin's Ravens will fly down from his throne and do the washing up!

Thumping techno, thumping monsters and over flowing toilets!

It's the silliest telling of the labours of Heracles ever!*

This week...the taming of the Stymphalian Birds!

But where has our favourite Demi God been for almost a year?! Rightings wrongs? Being righteous?**

He's not completely sold out has he?***

Join us for the 'unbearable weight of being a Demi god' for vengeful goddesses, killer birds and karma police on the acoustic guitar!

Here's the  Kofi!

For anyone who would like to contribute to our labours of love!

Please do rate and review on your chosen platform, it really helps!

Thanks to ZapSplat to Bangs, Boings and Burning SFX.

Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro

And to Scott Buckley for his epic tracks

Dan Henig for his track Danger Snow

And to        Synthezx - Portfolio for the Terminator Trailer Track!

AND to Jez Hewitt productions for the Legend of Svetlana 

* look we're putting it out there, its the silliest version ever! Come at us bro and you can bring your dinner an all!

** he has yeah 

***big time man he'll be punching a Towie on celebrity big brother at this rate.

FIRE! STILL FIRE! 

If you thought the first part of our tale was overcooked, then get in on this chewy action! 

The Great Fire of London is taking hold! 

The Pear Bear is in search of Samuel Pepys and the other Silly Boys! 

Mayor Bloodworth is flapping and there is nary a fire-hook to be seen! 

Can the boys help this fine old city? Or will their family MegaBus seasonal pass prove a waste? 

We'll meet Kings and Dukes, hang with shifty bakers and feel conflicted regarding poor watchmakers. 

Come inside! It's warm. (and why not listen to Fire part 1 if this is your first exposure to us?)

Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX

And to Lord Fast Fingers for the intro

Hit us up on our Ko-Fi if you like what we do :)

Please do Rate and Review - we'll love you for it. 

FIRE! FIRE! 

That's right, it gets everywhere, even the school national curriculum! So if you know anyone on KS1, force them to listen to this! They'll cry, they'll resit, they'll learn (?)

They'll learn everything from [INSERT HISTORY FACT HERE] to [DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN MUMMY? HERE]. Oh the fun you'll have! 

Join the Silly Boys and a special literary guest as they explore 17th C London. 

Thanks to ZapSplat to Bangs, Boings and Burning SFX (and a sliver of music)

Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro

And thanks to you listener for donating on our Kofi

(no? we'll get you one of these days)

Please do rate and review on your chosen platform, it really helps!

The Silly History Boys are on trial...and they plead silly!

This weeks episode puts the 'ARGH' in Courtroom Drama as we are flung screaming into the bubbling cauldron of medieval justice...with Trial by Ordeal.

Water, Fire and Combat are the only to freedom this week via the stories of...

Queen Emma of Normandy's red hot trial by FIRE

The PAINFUL trial by COMBAT between Guy of Steenvord and Iron Herman

And Thomas 'Tom FOOL' Fermor vs the Sweet Shop Owners of Derby. Lets hope they throw the book at him.

The court orders you get in your ears and laugh as much as you learn!

Or else!

The court recognises ZapSplat for their awesome music and SFX and will have them put up in a nice hotel!

 Scott Buckley is awarded damages for the use of his epic music in such a silly show.

Lord Fast Fingers is let off with a slap on the wrist for his rendition of the Silly History Boys show theme tune!

He's back!

Katana's sing and hearts flutter as one of the show's early heroes returns!

Miyamoto Musashi is thirteen going on forty (judging by his voice)

He yearns to be the best swordsman in all Japan but his Father wants him to commit to the family business...

Unfulfilling Saturday jobs and duels to the death are the order of the day in this definitely true retelling of the boy hood of perhaps the most famous Samurai of all...

And what the historical record lacks in detail...the Silly History Boys fill with gags!

Want to give us a (sword) tip? Then hit the link and hit us up :)

Oh hi there our lovelies. 

You looked stressed and/or full of sugar. It must be half term! 

That means the Silly Boys aren't here, but babysitting your ungrateful brood of-... little darlings. 

The Pear Bear and Bilbo have been at the Jorvik Viking Festival (at least one of them will have broken their hand in sword school) and it gave the us an idea for content. 

We've smashed together four Norse Myths (starring all your fave gods) from a cross-over we did last year.

All four tales in one place.

The Mead of Poetry

Thor goes Fishing for the Midgard Serpent 

Loki and the Golden Apples

and 

Beauty by Baldur

Big thanks to 

ZapSplat

Scott Buckley

Danny Bradley

Freshman Sound

For Music and SFX! 

And here we go listener. Closing the Sarcophagus lid on our first (but hopefully not last) Egyptian tale.

Big thanks to the nation of Egypt for being a good sport with all the fun liberties taken with your rich history.  

A weighty box of gold talons for ZapSplat for all the music and murder noises.

A bit of the Pyramid of Unas (that Pear Bear chipped off) goes to Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro

Come visit us on our socials! The usual places like Insta and Facebook. Type in The Silly History Boys

If you like what we do then why not tip us on Ko-Fi ? (at the moment it's mainly our good mate Rick. We'll have to start calling him Dad! And he DOES NOT want that)

Mummy! Mummy! The Man Mummy! 

It's Myth time again dear listener! 

Let us away to ancient Egypt to hear the suntanned tale of how the first mummy came to be. 

We don't actually do that here but we lay all the ground work! 

There's sibling, er, lets say Rivalry. Fratricide! And Braiding of Hair! All the things your stuffy history prof wouldn't teach you coz it's just too silly...and dangerous and sexy.  

Big thanks to ZapSplat for their awesome music and SFX

The biggest pyramid is reserved for Scott Buckley and his top notch music when he dies

Lord Fast Fingers will be getting his own SIGNED* Panini sticker of former Boro striker Mido. (* by PearBear) 

"Do The Battle Of Hastings like you promised"

- Henry Coates (Skegness)

"I'm still waiting on the American Civil War you melts"

- Ed Holdcroft (Kings Lynn)

"Please just stop"

- Our mums (all over)

ALL GREAT TIPS! But if you do want to tip us, come on to our Ko-Fi

and put your money where our mouth is. 

Come get us on all the socials and please do rate and review. It would mean the world to us and our mums. 

Thaaaaaaannnnnnkkkkssssssss

Happy 2024!

Now that the new year is here...we all deserve a holiday!

So pack your sun cream, chainmail and Song of Roland double cassette! 

Cos it’s a Norman holiday!

It’s 999AD and everyone’s least favourite French Vikings on horses are off to see Jerusalem!

Hopefully the journey will stop them being quite so horrible*, certainly once they see the holy city** they’ll no doubt become much nicer! They won’t just get into a scuffle with some Saracens and lay the foundation for the conquest of Italy and the Crusades…***

Join the Silly History Boys in a conjecture heavy adventure across boiling seas and sweltering deserts where we finally learn the origin of 

The Salerno Tradition…what’s that you ask?

Erm just listen!

Thanks as ever to ZapSplat

And to Scott Buckley

And to...

You.

*it won’t 

**no

***yeah it’s that 

CRUSAAAAAAAADE!!!!!

The Third Crusade to be precise! Join the Silly Boys as they examine the motivation of all the key players of the Lionheartiest of all the crusades.

Oh alright, it's silly voices, sword noises and facts.

Get amongst it!

Thanks as ever to ZapSplat

And to Scott Buckley

And to...

You.

See you in 2024 dear listener! OKTHANKSBYEEEEEE!

Join us as we continue the tale of Richard I 'The Lionheart'... greatest King ever?

Find out this week!

Alright, you won't find out as that's an answer entirely too subjective to tackle in a show with silly voices and sword noises... but the silly voices and sword noises are extra good this week to make up for it.

Thanks for...

Music & SFX ZapSplat

The track Juggernaut by Scott Buckley 

The track Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers at Silverman Sound

The track Pendulum Waltz by Audionautix

This week we're taking a look at a King so famous he's on the football clothes -  Richard I, The Lionheart!

But how did he become known as 'Couer de Lion' (The Lionheart)?

Join us as we deconstruct the events of the day and provide fresh analysis on the early life of probably the best King to ever have Kinged... or was he?

He wasn't he was terrible.

Also the 'analysis' is just our usual silly voices.

And noises from www.Zapsplat.com

And music from www.Zapsplat.com

But mainly music from Scott Buckley www.scottbuckley.com.au

With thanks to all of you for listening.

Kbye.

Watch out listener! It's Halloween and the passing of the season of the sun has brought a thinning of the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead...

Or it's just people putting on costumes and wandering the neighbourhood begging for sweets...

Either way it's time for another SpOoOoky episode of The Silly History Boys Show! 

This week the boys have, once again, left Pear Bear by himself whilst they swan off to perform for actual people. This week's episode gives you a taste of what they've been doing live!

Then Pear Bear reads a poem.

A SpOoOoky poem!

Prepare your backup underpants!!

Who are the most famous family in history? The Tudors? The Stuarts? The Osmonds?

No! Wrong! Silly!

Just before 1066 and all that...the Godwin Family were 'god winning' the Dark ages!

Mainly through murder plotting and ACID.

So join the Silliest Boys in history and Tremble at the torrid tale of the house that Earl* built...

right before Anglo Saxon England got 'one in the eye' from William the Conqueror! 

Vikings, Saxons, Normans and ACID** Oh and laughs! Lots of Silly Laughs!

An Earldome and a luxury hamper is winging its way to musical science man Scott Buckley

ZapSplat get to marrywhich ever of us has a daughter/Hazmat first for the their sounds effects

For the 78th Time we thank Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro

and you kind listener for buying us a decaff juice on Ko-Fi ... 

Come find us on your fave anti-social media for updates on our live shows and general boobery. 

RATE and COMMENT leave THREATS on your platform! We're big boys, we can take it. 

*He was an Earl, he wasn't called Earl, its a title. Stop being Silly.

** No. Behave.

Oh God no! Not another Game of Death of Thrones of Death episode! 

Shaddup and take your medicine.

You've had Kings from Ancient Greece shoppin' in Argos

Chinese Rulers on the bog

Holy Roman Emperors doin' scream therapy

But now it's the turn of the French not yet French!

It's the slightly embellished tale of Louis III. Not sure if he had a nickname. Louis the questionably amorous? We just don't know. 

For always awesome music a big thanks to Scott Buckley

ZapSplat for some lovely SFX and more music

Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro

and you kind listener for buying us a decaff juice on Ko-Fi ... oh come on! Take the bait will you?!

Come find us on your fave anti-social media for updates on our live shows and general boobery. 

Rate and comment on your platform! We're big boys, we can take it. 

The Silliest boys in history are back! For the LAST INVASION of BRITAIN!

A true tale from Welsh and British history that is so silly, you'll think we made it up!

in the 1797 all roads lead to Fishguard, a small village on the Welsh coast including....

A sinisterly Yorkshire sounding French Convict army 

The two biggest idiots in the British army (which 1797 is saying something)

One of Wales's greatest heroines with a shoe shop and a hammer

And A LOT of dodgy Portuguese plonk!

The Battle of Fishguard is one of the oddest/silliest events in history and what better set of idiots to tell you this tale than the Silly History Boys!

Thanks for joining us for Season 5 and thank you to.... 

ZapSplat for all the zapas plats and other sound effects

Scott Buckley For is his wodner music 

Danny Bradley for his brilliant redition of Land of my Fathers

If you enjoyed us why not buy us a coffee or a tea or a hot juice on Ko-Fi

In school, remember that far back? Did you ever have that badly dressed man bore the pants off you teaching history?

His vocal monotony rapping his way through our dull backstory? WELL UNLUCKY FOR YOU!

For the sexily well healed sonic powerhouse that is you dear Uncle BobBob is going to take you through the ENTIRE History of England (part1) 

Sit back (with your red pen?) and smugly raise the side of your mouth along with SHB's premium Zoom Historian.

You'll learn, you'll laugh, you'll something else beginning with L.

Thanksseeyalaterbyeeeeeee 

It's another Strange Demise in the unfortunate sphere of The Game of Death of Thrones of Death! 

And we're in Rome, in and about Rome, sort of near Rome, ok he's Roman at least! Valentinian The First. 

Come hear how he screamed himself to death! (spoilers)

Big thanks to Scott Buckley for some lovely music

ZapSplat for Music, Marching and Bears! 

Pay us money to stop on Ko-Fi. WE DARE YOU.

Visit the Socials - Facebook, Insta, Twitter (we're not callin' it X, I mean come on. It's like an awful student film that Bilbo wrote thinking he were proper cuttin' edge)

Oh man what's that smell?!

It's the Silly History Boys doing their thing! waitwhat?

Our Hero Heracles is charged with cleaning out some mucking old stables. Thirty years of filth pooped out by Immortal Cows no less. 

If that doesn't have you downloading, we don't know what will!

Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX

Henry from BattleForge Productions for his track Through Fire and War   

Lord Fast Fingers for the intro

and YOU for donating on Ko-Fi (ooo we'll get cha one of these days)

please do rate and review 

The Silliest boys in history are in Japan for the 'Revenge of the Forty Seven Ronin'.

The classic and true tale of old Japan...now with silly bits and sword fights!

The Samurai of Asano are dishonoured when their master is teased into poking a civil servant with his Tanto! And sentenced to a gruesome death (don't worry we only used balloons)

They decide that Revenge is dish best served...silly!

Big thanks

to ZapSplat for music & SFX Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro.

YOU for being so generous on our Ko-Fi page (damn, so close)

Come visit us on our socials @SillyHistoryBoys or @SillyHistoryBoysShow (ooo I've got to check both now, they're so similar!) 

Please do Rate & Review and we wills end Ninjas with sweets!

No way?! A second Game of Death of Thrones of Death (itsaworkingtitle).

We had so much fun in Argos on our first GOTODOT, that we're back for number two. 

Let us away to Ancient China! To meet Duke Jing, the ruler of the State of Jin, and ask "how did he die"?

Yachting Accident? 

A Sedentary lifestyle coupled with a Bad Diet? The Silly History Boy ending?

Or maybe it was for a Bet? 

There's so many ways!  

Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX

Big Scotty Buckley for his track "Legionnaire"

Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro.

YOU for being so generous on our Ko-Fi page (damn, so close)

Come visit us on our socials @SillyHistoryBoys or @SillyHistoryBoysShow   (ooo I've got to check both now, they're so similar!) 

Please do Rate & Review (we're tired of haranguing strangers at train stations with iPhone's on show)

Welcome to the Game of Death of Thrones of Death...(itsaworkingtitle).

A clutch of new silly storytelling shows based on a LIVE show we're not even sure works yet! Just like that pirate rollercoaster thing. 

Each show we take an Historic Ruler and explore the interesting / fantastical / stupid way that they met their end. 

We kick of GODOTOD (itsaworkingtitle) with an ancient Greek King called Pyrrhus of Epirus, and his disastrous trip to Argos*

Big thanks to ZapSplat for sfx and music

Extra big thanks to Scott Buckley for more excellent music

* Argos is a tech-led retailer in the UK and Ireland. Had to google them them to see if any other countries have an Argos. The answer is no, but I did found out they're owned by Sainsbury's**. So there's a lot of local Argos gags...soz. 

** Sainsbury's is a supermarket in the UK & Ireland. Had to google them them to see if any other countries have a Sainsbury's. The answer is no, but I did found out they tried to crack (and failed) in Egypt. I suppose it is hard to invade as it's  protected by seas at the North and the East and large deserts on the West and the South. Anyway. Soz.

Its 1857 and there's reports of a beast stalking the East End...surely there can't be...A TIGER IN VICTORIAN LONDON?

A case for…The Police? The RSPCA? The Silly History Boys?*

The boys are on the trail of a tail, what a tale!

Is there really a Tiger on loose in Victorian London? What has it got to with Charles Jamrach and his pet shop where you can buy a leopard and still have change for Greggs?

Find out in this silly but true adventure from the silliest boys in history!

*Surely they’re the least suitable...

Episode 69 is here and it's a rum soaked, sword swinging, cannon blasting Pirate extravaganza! Join the Silly Boys as they return to the pirate port of Nassau alongside none other than Anne Bonny, amazingly voiced by the incredible Ashling Leyne of Lashing Rain Voiceovers!

Thanks as ever to Zapsplat for SFX and music

To Scott Buckley for his amazing music

To Danny Bradley for his music

To Lord Fast fingers for his music

Basically, if you make music, we will use it. Thanks.

The Silliest of Boys connected with history return once more for a classic saga built for flickering campfires!

It’s Beowulf baby!

The monster Grendel is loose in dark age Scandinavia and its up to the gravel voiced Prince of Gertland to leave his Warhammer and deal with him!

But behind every great monster is an overbearing Mother and this time she’s got a big sword!

Thanks  to ZapSplat for slime, slicing and splatters! And 344 Audio for even more sound effects !

We are as always indebted to musical science man

Scott Buckley for the tracks Age of Wonder,  Hour of the Witch and the Rise

We duffle our dark age tiles to Dan Bradley of Danny Bradley music!

And thump our spears for those nice people at Orchestralis 

https://www.orchestralis.net/#/

and of course  Lord Fast Fingers for the intro! 

Please rate and review us on your chosen podcast platform!

Or buy us a coffee on KO-FI

Centaurs! Huge Killer Boars! WINE!!!

The things that get dug up, like a disappointing truffle (what do you mean it's not chocolate?!), when the myth is so very thin! 

Join us dear listeners for the fifth instalment (4th Labour) of everyone's fave Demi-God, Heracles! 

Big thanks to ZapSplat for breaking glass and driving snow!

Freesound & Fesliyan Studios for a bit and a bat

Scott Buckley for the track Absolution 

Battleforge Productions for the track Through Fire and War

and Lord Fast Fingers for the intro! 

Please do rate and review.

Check us out on the socials 

Or buy us a coffee on KO-FI

It's that time of year dear listener! Christmas episoooooooode!!!

For your holiday history fix this year we're telling two tales of different festive traditions that have heavily influenced our annual celebrations...

Join Caesar and Mark Antony as they celebrate Saturnalia, a Roman festival that gave us presents, gambling and drinking whilst wearing silly hats (or a Tuesday at Pear Bear's house) then take a trip to Iceland to meet Gyrla the giant and her Yule lads who are... unusual.

Happy holidays dear listener!

Thanks, as ever, to...

Scott Buckley and his brilliant music

Zapsplat and their awesome zaps, splats and music

Lord Fastfingers for the intro music

And everyone else who has contributed to our silly show this year. We'll be back in 2023! Byeeeeeeee

The Silly History Boys are back again to continue the laborious labours of everyone’s fave Demi God…Heracles!

Weary of our hero’s popularity the wicked King and naughty goddess Queen Hera plan to set our hero up for a fall…

He must hunt the fastest thing alive…no not Sonic!

The Golden Hind of Artemis!

Can he catch it? What happens if he does? Will the goddess of the hunt turn him into a dart board?

Find out on a simply epic chase across Ancient Greece, through mountains, deserts and top notch gastro pubs!

Did we mention its silly…cos it is very silly indeed!

Blessing of Zeus for ZapSplat for all their zaps and splats and music

Scott Buckley is assured a place on the Parthenon for all his epic tracks!

Rate and review on your chosen platform platform ‘deer friends’ of history!

Also…do you erm…want to buy us a coffee?

Help support the show with a donation on Kofi below! We’d be ever so grateful and we won’t spend it all on sweets (we will spend ‘some of it’ on sweets)

ko-fi.com/sillyhistoryboys

Light that fuse! It's the silly boys (non) Explosive final chapter of The Gunpowder Plot! 

Will Robert Catesby get that Catholic England he so badly craves? (no)

Will Guido Fawkes be able to get the smell of smoke & meaty carnage out of his clothes? (no need to worry about that Guy - you won't be able to use your hands!)

Will boar hunting be ruined for King James? (I don't know if he even hunted Boar. It was probably Deer or Conspiracy Theories)

The future of England will turn on the contents of this show dear listener.

Musket fire, chops and plops (plus the music!) by those dirty traitors over at ZapSplat

Doug Maxwell's head is on a spike for the use of his track Renaissance Castle

An unmarked grave is on offer for Lord Fast Fingers for the intro music and another lick or two

Want to Tip us? Other than "be better" or "pay for your haircuts maaaaaan"? Then you can on Ko-Fi Silly History Boys

Come say hi on Insta, Facebook & Twitter

Please do rate and review. It helps us enormously! 

Never go back when the firework is lit! Unless it's for the second silly part of the Gunpowder plot

When we left our plotters they were but four strong...or was it five? Confusing! 

But never fear, the silly boys go full character overload! (And yes, Uncle BobBob still has loads to say)

Covert glances across a crowded ballroom to ZapSplat for "Kerblammos!" and music

Super secret hushed whispers for excellent music from big Scott Buckley

Suspicious letters mail directly to Lord Fast Fingers for intro earworm

Want to buy the Silly Boys a coffee? Why not coffee on Ko-Fi Silly History Boys

(We might spend it on other stuff) 

Kerblam-OoOoOoOh listener! It's that time again when we on our island celebrate a bunch of folks not getting murdered by celebrating the torture and murder of a Guy by setting an effigy of him on fire! It's not crazy if you get to eat spiced cake I tells ya! 

This is first of of Gunpowder three-parter, and you know what? It's quite interesting. 

A mug of cider to ZapSplat for music and SFX

A slice of parkin to Doug Maxwell for extra music. 

Cheap fireworks a gogo to Lord Fast Fingers for our intro music. 

Why not rate and review? Propel us up the podcast charts like a shonky explosive! 

Silly Me Timbers AGAIN Mates!

Following the following sea that was Henry Avery part one...its Henry Avery part two!

Have the crew of silly pirates bitten off more than they can chew as they try and rob....The Grand Mughal fleet?

How much cannon smoke and people falling in the water will it take to win the wrestle the greatest treasure in history from its rightful owners?

And even if they can get the glitter, will the Pirates live to spend it?

Join those silliest and most salty of Boys for more man hunts, musket smoke and people saying YAAAAARGH!

Drink up me hearties yo ho!

Promotion to official ships DJ to Daniel Bradley Music for his performance of Health to the Company!

An extra ration of rum and a lick of the cat for for ZapSplat for all their zaps and splats and music

Scott Buckley is permitted shore leave in the next port of ill repute for his tootling!

Outrageous plank walking fiddling by Kofi Young 

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Silly Me Timber Mates!

The Silly History Buoys are back with another ration of nautical naughtiness!

It’s the scurvy tale of Henry Avery/Every the man they call the ‘Pirate King’

Why do they call him that?

Is it because he has a Las Vegas residency and a penchant for hamburgers? *

Join Avery and his crew of silly pirates on their quest for personal freedom, self determination and lots of money!

The Cape of Death, Vengeful Ghost Ships and Horrible Dutch accents await you on ‘The Pirate Round’ the most lethal sea route in the 17th century!

An extra ration of rum and a lick of the cat for for ZapSplat for all their zaps and splats and music

Scott Buckley is permitted shore leave in the next port of ill repute for his tootling!

Outrageous plank walking fiddling by Kofi Young

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*No. 

This week we continue the tale of the mighty Ragnar Lothbrok and worry not; there's PLENTY devil cows!

Join us for the silliest saga we've ever told... and that's saying something!!

Thanks as ever to ZapSplat for zips and boings and music, Scott Buckley for fabulous chooons and Lord Fastfingers for his fast fingers!  

Those Silly Boys are  back in the wonderful world of mythtory again this week dear listeners as they begin the tale of the greatest Viking that ever there was... according to some. There's dragons, princesses, mighty warriors and lashings of silliness for all to enjoy!

Thanks to Scott Buckley for his awesome music.

Thanks to Zapsplat for zips boings splats and music

And thanks to you for listening!

KER-SMASH!!!

Our Ancient Greek Hero Heracles is here to save us again!

The Mighty Hera and her mortal lacky King Eurystheus are at it again with their labours!

Not only does the Tesla need washing, but the dryer needs de-linting too! 

Oh and there's the small matter of the Nine Headed Hydra of Lake Lerna (a lovely day out I've heard and at v. reasonable price)

If you're new to the Silly Heracles Show, then why not check out episodes 36 & 37 for a crash course in Heroism? 

Big thanks and brave adventuring for ZapSplat for doors that burst open, doors that slide and, of course, doors that slam closed.

A magic golden sword is bestowed upon Scott Buckley for the use of his track The Summoning

May the Gods bless Henry Mahy at BattleForge Productions for the use of the track Through Fire And War

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Meet a medieval man of wealth and taste! FOR OUR EPIC 50TH Episode!

This week those Silly History Boys bring you the story of the darkest of Dark Knights, Robert the Devil!

When couple of dark age Normans ask the actual devil for help with a son...its goes exactly as you might expect!

Except it doesn't actually!

Can Sir Robert the Devil redeem himself? Honour his Knightly vow? Rescue his parents? AND save Rome from an army of suspiciously Scouse Saracens?

Listen and find out, we promise 'a HELL' of a ride!

Big thanks to Brian Bolger. Brian we can't find your website!

Zap Splat for all our Zaps and Splats sourced for free!

and Danny Bradley of Daniel Bradley Music for his hellishly good tracks!

And to you dear listener for being with us for FIFTY of these silly things!

Check us out on @sillyhistoryboys show or drop us a line on sillyhistoryboys@gamil.com

Three. Three episodes on tea, we're so sorry. 

Let us go out with a episode a touch longer than our usual fayre. 

We have Tea Party's to attend and other unsavoury bits of history to cover. 

A big thanks to Tombo (who hates tea)

Uncle BobBob (whom I found out also hates tea but it'd knacker my narrative)

And The Pear Bear (who loves tea but has reeeeally got into coffee lately. I'm worried for him)

Tea-cup jangling and door slams care of ZapSplat

The tracks Discovery and Absolution by the tea crazed (probs hates tea too) Scott Buckley

Chin chin to Lord Fast Fingers for the intro music (I'm pretty sure i've seen him drink tea before)

I might have to take a lay down having written and edited a Tea-rilogy.

"It seemed like a fun idea at the time..."

-Uncle Bilbo 2022

Back once again for the digestive aid master. 

Tea! The cure for all ills.

The silly boys battle their way out of the Siege of Kaifeng to, well, who knows where! 

Tea is on the move and so are the silly boys.

Big thanks to ZapSplat for things that go KLACK and songs what go DO-DE-DUMDUMDUM

Extra to thanks to Shane Ivers at Silverman Sound for the track Medieval Banquet (which we use for any royal setting, historically accurate time period be darned!)

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Oh no! It's the guy who brought us "gardens" and "A Victorian French Filmmaker whodunnit"! 

Yeah that's right! Whatcha gonna do? Not listen?! Erm don't answer that.

The Silly Boys are taking a vague and a broad stroke look at the history of tea. So dense and silly was it, that we barely make it out of China with our lives!

Put the kettle on and have a sly biscuit or three.

Thanks to ZapSplat for music and SFX

And an extra lump of sugar (he had a real problem as a child) goes to Lord Fast Fingers for our earworm intro

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Finally...the Silly History Boys bring you....the most famous/silliest crime in British history...The Crown Jewels Robbery of 1671!

Only two crazed Welsh pensioners and their quietly passionate daughter stand between career rascal Colonel Thomas Blood and his gang of witless felons!

Will the crown of England be theirs....or has someone failed to bring an adequate bag?

Join us the silliest history boys for the funniest trip to Tower of London dungeon ever...

Music and SFX by or regular accomplices ZapSplat

Big thanks to  Carsten Altena of info@sonargymusic.com, Danny Bradley, Brian Bolger and Dan Henig for their music 

Big thanks to Lord Fast Fingers seeing nine consecutive life sentences for the intro music! 

*No prizes for guessing...

Grab your hacksaw, lock picks  and balaclava and join the Silly History Boys for a historic crime spree...the prize?

The Crown Jewels of England!

Join the dashing Irish rogue Colonel Blood and his gang of idiots as they embark on a journey that will lead to one of the most daring (and frankly silly) robberies in British and Irish history!

But how much of the legend of Colonel Blood is true? And was he dashing romantic rascal or an awful history man?*

This ripping yarn takes us haring across battlements of Dublin Castle, through the seedy underbelly of restoration London and to a moonlight shoot out under the eves of the dreaded Tyburn gallows. Via a specialist coffee shop in Amsterdam!

But theirs more to the rogue than just the robbery...so stay tuned next time...for there will be Blood!

Music and SFX by or regular accomplices ZapSplat

Big thanks to  Scott Buckley & Danny Bradley for music that we never used, but hey, we lean on them heavily so have some more thanks anyway.

Big thanks to Lord Fast Fingers seeing nine consecutive life sentences for the intro music! 

*No prizes for guessing...

This week the Silly Boys have decided instead of talking about actual history they want to tell you a story, a story written by a history person in history times.

Fortunately it's not one of the awful history people - which describes pretty much all of them - it's Geoffrey Chaucer.

...Who was probably awful anyway - because he was a history person.

Apparently he wrote the Canterbury Tales using the tears of children he'd punched in the arm... at least that's what we heard anyway.

Thanks to Zapsplat for the music and sfx.

Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the intro music.

Thanks to you for reading this far. That's it though. I'm done now. Bye.

This week the Silly Boys are heading back to Ancient Rome to answer the question 'what happened after Caesar died?'. 

Join us as we riot, attend a funeral, riot again, lie about an inheritance, flee to the East and have some lovely battles.

SFX from Zapsplat

'Pleasure and Sin' by Sinyells

Amazing orchestral brilliance from Scott Buckley

Further music from Zapsplat

Yes you read that correctly, "gardens"!

Nothing says "rip roaring thrill-ride" through our bloody and divisive history like gardens!

(Ask Uncle BobBob!)

Join us as we celebrate the Tradescant's (John the Elder & John the Younger) and all they flowered in our nation of gardeners. Let them show you that they're more than just a difficult name to pronounce!

Music and SFX by the miracle growers at ZapSplat

We thanked Scott Buckley & Danny Bradley for music that we didn't use this time, but hey, we lean on them heavily, so have some more thanks anyway.

Big thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the intro music (incidentally his temporary canvas garage blew down in storm Eunice and all his garage items were strewn across his GARDEN. Thanks for staying on brand Lord Fast Fingers).

Asgard's Doom is nigh!

Loki is free and all his horrible kids are on their way!

Can Thor, Odin and the rest of the gods defeat an army of ultimate evil and stave off Norse Armageddon?!

Can the Silly History Boys really keep up this level of epic?! *

Find out the answers in a rapturously silly retelling of the tale of Ragnarök!

Giant Wolves, Giant Snakes and Giants over acting abound this week!

Big Thanks to Zap Splat for all our epic noises!

Music this week and there’s a lot of it! Was provided by Lumen Media, Brian Boland, Freshman sound and Daniel Bradley of Daniel Bradley music!

Feast well with our thanks brave skalds!

*no

Giant Wolves, herb murder and flaming caravans!

RAGNAROK is nigh! Silly style!

Join our old friends the Asir (the Gods of Asgard and Norse mythology to their mates) in the first part of the story of Ragnarok or the legend of the norse apocalypse.

Hunky Thor, shifty Loki and one eyed Odin! Plus that kitten raising sweet heart Baldur! Some very chatty mistletoe and a very shifty puffin!

Plus Giants Snakes, Valkyries and very silly voices! 

Join the Silly History Boys as they tell you the real legend of Thor Ragnarok...but with more royalty free synth! 

Music & SFX thanks to ZapSplat and Danny Bradley music

Kick back with William the Conqueror and his Norman mates for medieval Europe's favourite bed time story!

The Song of Roland!

The incredibly violent and tragic tale of Sir Roland, the Knight with the famous horn...pack that sniggering in...this is educational!

Join the Mighty Roland, the sensible Sir Oliver, the noble Charlemagne and slimy snake weasel Ganelan!

In a legend a thousand years in the making...and if anyone has made a version as silly as this one, then frankly we give up!

We thank the Noblest website address of all (yes even better than that one)Zapsplat for their brilliant SFX and music!

The name Scott Buckley shall remembered forever in Song for his Music!

Thanks and big respect to Trondhjesm Kvinnelge Studentsangforeng for their amazing singing!

Add to that boney immortal blues warrior Daniel Bradley of Daniel Bradley music for his version of the Chason de Roland! https://dannybradleymusic.com

Twas the day before Christmas and all through the house everybody listened to the Silly History Boys.

You're welcome.

That's right listener... It's our Christmas special - our second Christmas special! - so don your Christmas jumper, baste your turkey and treat yourself to a mulled cup of whatever you fancy... this year we examine three AWFUL Christmases. Won't that be nice?

A tot of brandy to Zapsplat for their brilliant SFX and music.

A mince pie with actual mince inside for Scott Buckley because he lets us use his music.

A stocking full of festive cheer to Lord Fastfingers for the theme tune.

...and a God Bless Us, Everyone, to you dear listener.

IT'S CHRIIIIIIIIISTMASSSSSS!!!!

EMERGENCY DEMI-GOD KLAXON!

That's right listener, we had an emergency and we broke the glass on Heracles part2.

Our mighty hero begins the laborious task of, er, his labours. 

Hera hates him.

Big Daddy Zeus won't take him to the footie.

And to top it all off there's now a huge Lion! (as big as a bus stop)

Huge thanks to ZapSplat for their killer sfx & music

Big God Energy goes to Scotty Buckley (coz he's like, our god now)

And lets pass the collection bowl around for Henry at Battleforge Productions

It's Hercules this week folks-

*coughcough*

You should really get that checked. Anyway, it's Hercules folks-

*low murmuring*

Do you mind?! I'm doing the show-notes!

*intense whispering*

What?! It's pronounced HERAcles? As in "servant of Hera"?

*smug silence*

Well. We're only two episodes back listener and we're already learning! You've been told, Romans!

When the Silly History Boys need a hero, when the Silly History Boys need to fill a muscly heroic Greek shaped hole, they turn to Heracles.

We shall be turning to our demi-god quite a few more laborious times over the coming season(s) dear listener.

Get the stirring music going for this snappy origin story and lets hope it's more Johnson than Sorbo

All hail the Olympus Mons that is Scott Buckley for music fit for Gods

Praise be to those shifty shape shifting sky gods over at ZapSplat for some cracking thunder and whatnot

And manna from heaven to be showered upon Henry Mahy of Battleforge Productions for his track that we lovingly call "Awesome Achilles" and will never stop using (no matter how much he threatens us! Only joshing! Oh the japes we have!)

Oh what's that? The Leeds International Film Festival is on? What a coincidence!

Well the silly boys may as well take a look at one of the city's adopted sons.

Credited by some as the father of film.

Get your popcorn and shut the heck up.

We present Louis Augustine Le Prince

The award for best soundtrack goes to Scott Buckley (Hey he's a scientist too, like our Gus!)

The Academy award for Best Audio Effects goes to ZapSplat

And the lifetime achievement award was dumped on the doorstep of Lord Fast Fingers (he's so proud)

Tidings of discomfort and ploys to you all folks!

The Silly Boys are back with a Halloween special to whet your ear hunger before we smash into Season 3.

We present a show wot Tombo sort of wrote for a gig we "did" at Whitby Abbey... lord I can't even remember when now. The before times maybe?

Thanks to all who contributed, especially the Silly History Girls who we really made work (for free) during their free time (birthdays, lunch breaks and escaping from their kids)

A huge sloppy jump scare for the master of sound Scott Buckley

Bags of sweets for those devils at ZapSplat

And we raise a flagon of suspicious bubbling liquid for the creator of our title music (coz I forgot to thank him in the verbal credits innit), Lord Fast Fingers

Bos-worth the wait? The Silly History Boys will 'field' that!

Edward IV is dead! Who will be King now?! Well his son surely?

No actually.

Duke Richard of Gloucester is a good little brother but he's a rotten Uncle!

Henry Tudor once met the old King at a party so he's going to have a go as well!

Who will finally win 'the Wars of the Roses?!

Well you dear listener are the real winner for now is the Winter of our 'mass-content' it's the longest episode ever! Well who could resist...

It's Richard III vs Welsh Under Dragon Henry Tudor!

It's gonna be history yo! Silly History!

Yo Dear Uncle BobBob - Humour me and use hyperlinks? Cheers. Uncle Bilbo....yes I've gone full Beyonce now.

Thanks to the folks at ZapSplat for Music and fun sounds

Banners raised in the name of Scott Buckley for his excellent range of music.

Thanks to Shane Ivers @ silvermansound.com for the songs 'The Medieval Banquet' and 'Magic of the Season'

Dioch to Dan Bradley for his tidy tidy music!

Tew-king it out for the Throne! Wars of the Roses Four.

The Silliest of boys are back! Back from Whitby and back to our usual format of battles and buffonery!

The King Maker is dead but King Edward has not time to put his feet up because Margaret of Anjou has invaded England!

Cue a race across the country to make terrible Queen puns where all 'evil lanes'  lead to...the battle of Tewkesbury.

Can the King, the Dish and Sociopath stop Queen Margaret, Another Lord Somerset and the utterly insane Prince Edward of Westminster from lengthening the war and being horrible to Gerbils?

Find out in another exciting edition of the Silly History Boys Show!

Thanks to the folks at ZapSplat for Music and fun sounds

Banners raised in the name of Scott Buckley for his excellent range of music

The time has come for the Kingmaker Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick to start ruffling feathers.

Wedding Plans

Huge Medieval own goals

And, of course, plotting!

Let us see how he gets on!

Thanks to the folks at ZapSplat for Music and fun sounds

Banners raised in the name of Scott Buckley for his excellent range of music

A favourable coupling is in the offing for Shane Ivers at Silverman Sound for the use of the track Medieval Banquet

A cracking hit for six goes to Oui Zevelek for the Soul Limbo cover

Come rally to our cause on Facebook @ sillyhistoryboysshow and SHB_Show on Twitter

Richard, Duke of York is dead (Spoiler) but that doesn't mean the Wars of the Roses are over! Join us as we explore the events that unfold in the aftermath of the Battle of Wakefield, we guarantee mayhem, murder, treachery and snow. LOTS of snow.

Thanks to Scott Buckley for his lovely music.

Thanks to Shane Ivers @ Zapsplat for SFX and further music

Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the theme music

...and thanks to Tombo. For writing* this episode. Didn't he do well?

*Bilbo helped and years later has only just realised his rightful praise and adulation was not noted here :/

The Silly Boys are facing one of their greatest ever challenges this week - that's right, we're doing the Wars of the Roses!

Join us as we attempt to make sense of one of the most important yet confusing conflicts in British history... with silliness and sound effects.

Thanks to Shane Ivers @ silvermansound.com for the songs 'The Medieval Banquet' and 'Magic of the Season'

Thanks to Scott Buckley for the songs 'Helios', 'Pathfinder', 'Descent', 'Freedom', 'Centurion' plus others! We leaned on you hard this week Scott!

Thanks to Zapsplat for SFX and additional music.

...and finally, thank you for listening! 

Pirates were so Silly that we decided to come back for one last serving of lime juice!

Hear the learning spurt forth from the Silly History Boy's knowledge arteries!

Want to learn about cannons? We got ya!

Chain Shot & Rigging (BobBob's post-university failed doom-core outfit)? We shin up there!

And have an eavesdrop on the life and times of pirate Captain Edward England

CROSS-PROMOTION KLAXON!

We have some special guests press-ganged into silly service this week too. Big thanks to Sam & Tom from the That Was Genius Podcast

SFX and Epic Music from the creatures of the deep otherwise known as ZapSplat

The Track Aloha & Aloha by the wonderfully cannon rammed Møme

Struggling for air in the hold, begging for grog with promise of music in return is Scott Buckley

Fiddling with himself, he just won't stop, is Kofi Young

And a big thanks to Danny Bradley for yet more music! We really are pirates.

Sequel Me Silly Timbers mate!

Them Silly History Coves is back...wi the conclusion by the powers!

Daring blockades, kidnap and the world record for headless backstroke await this week in the second part of the tale of Blackbeard the Pirate...which ironically in the same number of bits he ends up it! Spoilers!

Join the scurvy history boys in weevil infested adventure across the high seas and finish the (mostly) true tale of the most famous Pirate of all!

Drink up me hearties yo ho!

Hearty Thanks to Sam Kofi Young for his wonderful score! Kofi Young

Special Thanks to ZapSplat for all the noises of people falling in the water!

And Rob 'Lord Fast Fingers' Tristram for his music!

And more musical thanks for Daniel Bradley

Silly me Timbers! Tis the Silly History Boys Show!

Grab your parrots/patches me hearties and have a pull of mummy's secret rum!

It's the tale of the most feared Pirate of all!

Blackbeard!

Join the scurvy history boys in weevil infested adventure across the high seas and hear the (mostly) true tale of the most famous Pirate of all!

Drink up me hearties yo ho!

Hearty Thanks to Sam Kofi Young for his wonderful score! Kofi Young

Special Thanks to ZapSplat for all the noises of people falling in the water!

And Rob 'Lord Fast Fingers' Tristram for his music!

Join us as we take a trip down memory lane... a lane filled with gun-wielding criminals who'll rob you and leave you in a ditch.

That's right! Highwaymen!

This week is a literal rogues gallery as we tell the tales of our favourite highway ne'er-do-wells!

Thanks to Scott Buckley for the songs 'Pomp and Celebration' and 'Legend of Kvothe'.

Thanks to Lord Fastfingers (as ever) for our theme tune and other musics.

Thanks to John Bartmann for even more music. So much music.

Thanks to Zapsplat for bells, whistles, bangs and thumps.

If you like the show please leave a comment and a rating, then tell all your friends. Then tell your acquaintances, work colleagues and enemies too. Thanks.

We're back!

Join us as we hit the ground running (from the authorities) to start season two!

This week we travel to the 18th Century and examine the story of Mr Richard 'Dick' Turpin with a fine (silly) toothed comb.

Gunfights! Silly voices! Mugging! It's all here for you to enjoy!

Thanks to ZapSplat for SFX and music.

Thanks to Scott Buckley for the songs 'Descent' and 'Legionary'.

and thanks, as ever, to Rob 'Lord Fastfingers' Tristram for his music.