Fin vs History

The National Union of Racist Burnt Toast | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 5/6)

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For too long, Britain’s communities had been indulging in a weird fetish for digging burnt toast out the ground whilst blacked up- so having defeate...

A Duke of Edinburgh Award With Live Ammunition | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 4/6)

29 Dec 2025

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Order your Not Today or British PMs T-Shirts at fumblerooskiproductions.com/store The British land on West Falkland and the land war begins, fighti...

The Belgrano was a War Fine | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 3/6)

26 Dec 2025

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Our Poor, Innocent Antarctic Model Village | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 2/6)

25 Dec 2025

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Mummy’s premiership is on the brink, when a fascist invasion of a Model Village on our very very southern border brings Mags a path to redemption ...

Smashing The Glass Floor As Well As The Ceiling | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 1/6)

22 Dec 2025

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In 1979 Britain had unemployment fever, and then Margaret Mummy Thatcher came along and gave us so much calpol we OD’d. Part 1 of 6 The sho...

The Sound of Blue Balls | Beethoven: The Great Composers (Part 2)

18 Dec 2025

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Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠https://surfshark.com/fvh Ludwig van Beethoven: the thinking ...

A Fritzlian Slip | Mozart: The Great Composers (Part 1)

15 Dec 2025

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Amadeus Mozart: The child genius, responsible for the some of the greatest music humanity ever produced, as well as what can only be described as an o...

W.O.P. | The Mafia (Part 2)

11 Dec 2025

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The Mafia (part 2) | W.O.P. Having been smashed by Mussolini, the Mafia rebuild in Prohibiton America, but not before they’ve given the Statue of L...

Natural Born Killers Who Kiss Their Mum On The Mouth | The Mafia (Part 1)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Mafia (Part 1) | Natural Born Killers Who Kiss Their Mum On The Mouth What was it about 19th Century Sicily that allowed greasy mummies’ boys to...

Buzzt-a-Nut Aldrin’s Lunar Land Acknowledgement | The Space Race (Part 2)

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With dead dogs and Russian women floating through space, the American Nazis at Nasa start to pull ahead in the contest to land man on the moon- but no...

In Space No One Can Hear You Sieg Heil | The Space Race (Part 1)

01 Dec 2025

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As the 2nd World War drew to a close, the Nazis’ rocket programme would form the basis of Man’s quest to conquer space. But why is this always fra...

Stagecoach W*anker (with James Buckley) | Dick Turpin & Highwaymen (Part 2)

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. Brought to you by Peter Christian- for free shipping on high quality Br...

Tough on blackface, Tough on the Causes of Blackface | Dick Turpin & Highwaymen (Part 1)

24 Nov 2025

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Britain's Shiny New Pacific Toilet | Captain Cook & The First Fleet (Part 2)

20 Nov 2025

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As the American War of Independence kicks off, Britain needs to find a new sewer - and in Hawaii, Captain Cook finally gets Cooked. The show for ...

Don't Topple Statues, Wedgie Them | Captain Cook & The First Fleet (Part 1)

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How did Captain Cook, the so-called founding father of White Australia and a boring map dweeb with an ugly wife, end up getting cancelled as the symbo...

Cult of Zero Personality | Pol Pot (Part 4/4)

13 Nov 2025

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The Regime falls, and yet Pol takes his boys back to the Jungle and carries on as before. Is this the most unsatisfying end to a dictator in history? ...

xG (Expected Genocide) | Pol Pot (Part 3/4)

10 Nov 2025

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Now in power, the Khmer Rouge get to work eradicating everyone with glasses with a strike rate that is truly Aguero-esque The show for people w...

A Tasting Menu of Napalm | Pol Pot (Part 2/4)

06 Nov 2025

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Cambodia is served a ten course tasting menu of fire from above, before Pol Pot tells an entire city to f*ck off The show for people who like history...

Jungle Blair & The Boy Who Di Canio-d Cambodia | Pol Pot (Part 1/4)

03 Nov 2025

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How did a smiley boy who was good at volleying footballs become the monster behind the Cambodian Genocide? The show for people who like history b...

BI BAM BINNOBENT BOF BALL BARGES | Caligula (Part 2)

30 Oct 2025

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Caligula makes a miraculous recovery from his deathbed, only to re-emerge madder, bloodier, and Chinese-ier than ever. The show for people who like...

Foreign Accent P*do Syndrome | Caligula (Part 1)

27 Oct 2025

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Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠⁠⁠⁠surfshark.com/fvh Caligula is infamous as a byword f...

History Fan TV | Prehistoric Man (Part 2)

23 Oct 2025

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When do humans start farming and why does Graham Hancock think people 60,000 years ago could fly? The show for people who like history but don'...

Measuring Skulls When The Women Have Gone To Bed | Prehistoric Man (Part 1)

20 Oct 2025

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Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠⁠⁠surfshark.com/fvh How did Prehistoric Homo Sapiens win ...

Chandler Bing & The Easy Peelers | Feudal Japan (Part 4)

16 Oct 2025

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How does Matthew Perry end up restoring the emperor of Japan? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For week...

19th Century Squid Porn | Feudal Japan (Part 3)

13 Oct 2025

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A Long Back and Sides | Feudal Japan (Part 2)

09 Oct 2025

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The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, ...

Men: Talk To Your Mates (and then Behead them) | Feudal Japan (Part 1)

06 Oct 2025

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Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠⁠surfshark.com/fvh Part 1: Accent fans, rejoice: we’re in...

Britain needs its Mummy: Jim Callaghan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

02 Oct 2025

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It's the finale of our Titanic series on Britain's post-war decline, and we reach Jim Callaghan and the Winter of Discontent. There are rubbish bags a...

“Stop Pegging Grandad!”: Harold Wilson (Part 2) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

29 Sep 2025

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Harold Wilson's second term, those were the days- when a civil servant could get away with sexually dominating a dementia-ridden prime minister. Th...

The Man Who Transcended Misogyny : Ted Heath | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

25 Sep 2025

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Ted Heath was the rudest man to ever be Prime Minster, as well as the fattest, the grumpiest and quite possibly the nonciest. The show for people w...

Seatbelts are Anti-Tittist: Harold Wilson (Part 1) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

22 Sep 2025

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The architect of the original woke nonsense, Harold Wilson's first government sees a slew of sacred cows slaughtered. The show for people who l...

The Worst Prime Minister You’ve Never Heard Of: Alec Douglas-Home | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

18 Sep 2025

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Alec Douglas-Who? A Prime Minister who was so boring and ineffective he’s too obscure even for pub quizzes, that’s who The show for people who ...

You've Never Had Your Prostate So Enlarged : Harold MacMillan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

15 Sep 2025

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Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠https://surfshark.com/fvh As a sign of how quickly things fal...

“Show us your Sunday Roast, Love!”: Anthony Eden | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Antony Eden, always the bridesmaid, never the bride - but when he did finally get married he pooed himself at the altar. How much is he to blame for S...

Bin Sniffers, Wicket Keepers, Lily Gilders & Chuff-Slingers: Winston Churchill | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

08 Sep 2025

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It’s Winston’s difficult second album, how do you follow beating Hitler? You drink brandy for breakfast , cut off some Malaysian heads, and frame...

Dropping the N-Bomb on Israel & Palestine: Clement Attlee (Part 2) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

04 Sep 2025

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Clement Attlee’s Britain left India like a man with IBS who’d just seen the restaurant’s hygiene rating. Could Clement have done anything differ...

Britain has a Cuck Dad and a Bitch Mum: Clement Attlee (Part 1) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

01 Sep 2025

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Clement Attlee might just be the most boring man to ever hold office. But how did this wet dweeb end up laying the foundations of modern Britain that ...

A Real Country Doesn’t Collapse Over Bananas (with Geoffrey Asmus) | The CIA Under Allen Dulles

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Geoffrey Asmus joins us to talk CIA coups under its most controversial head, Allen Dulles. Was he a sinister puppet master orchestrating coups against...

Denying the Holocaust in a Female Body Inspector T-Shirt | The Origins of the CIA

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grab your best bong and your least stained Female Body Inspector T-Shirt and settle in for a lesson on the truth they don't want you to know about, fr...

In this House We Say Grace with Horse Cock | Vikings (Part 2)

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Chemsex Furries head east down the Volga, before Harold Hard-Drive’s end signals the final curtain on the Viking Age The show for people who ...

The 9th Century #MeToo | Vikings (Part 1)

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How did one of the most violent societies in history end up at IKEA? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. ...

Start The Boats ! | Dunkirk Part 4: Miracle

14 Aug 2025

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It’s the last time this country loved a small boat, as everyone from the Ayatollah to an ex-Titanic officer mucks in to help the boys escape The ...

Boss Baby’s Darkest Hour | Dunkirk Part 3: Cornered

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The British Army is trapped in northern France by the Farty Techno Nazis, but how close did we come to surrender via a back channel with a big bowl of...

Hitler’s Farty Pig Forest Party | Dunkirk Part 2: Blitzkrieg

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While Hitler’s Doctor is trying to stop him farting, his troops are nailing amphetamines and storming through France in what proves to be the high p...

Neville Chamberlain’s Broken Bum | Dunkirk Part 1: Phoney War

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As war breaks out, the British realise their prime minister has a broken bum, and the first stop on Hitler’s stag is Scandinavia. Norway? Way. Th...

History’s Biggest Blabbermouths (with Bebe Cave) | Medieval Women

31 Jul 2025

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Being a woman in medieval times wasn’t the picnic it is nowadays - Bebe Cave joins us to unpack some of the Middle Ages biggest time wasters. See...

The Woman Who Died For A Pair of Trousers | Joan of Arc

28 Jul 2025

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The story of Joan of Arc - the patron saint of smells, the original Greta Thunberg - begs the question: is it really worth laying down your life for a...

France is a Toilet (with Tom Gilbey) | The History of Wine

24 Jul 2025

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No Bacon, No Beer, Loads and Loads of Gear | Dionysus & The Ancient Gods of Wine

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Get The White Hot Lawn Mower® 5.0 Ultra for 15% OFF with code FIN15 at Manscaped.com! #manscapedpartner From Georgia to Jesus via Goat Orgies, it t...

Gunned Down in Diamanté Panties | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 5/5)

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lenin finally seizes power, and gets rid of the Romanovs with the most protracted execution in history The show for people who like history but don...

Travelling Back In Time to Throw American Cheese at Lenin’s Head | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 4/5)

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

St Petersburg, February 1917 - the first and last time a woman’s march achieved something? The show for people who like history but don't care wh...

The Original 'Worst Guys At A House Party' | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 3/5)

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, the worst guys you met at uni, but just how do these f*ckboys corner Russia in a kitchen at 4am and tell it what to ...

Rasclaatputin & The Hebephile Prince | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 2/5)

10 Jul 2025

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Rasputin: men hated him, women wanted to sleep with him, and goats thought he smelled like them. The show for people who like history but don't car...

Why is Russia so F*cked in the Head? | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 1/5)

07 Jul 2025

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Russia: are you alright mate ? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free...

Amelia Aircrash & The Big Nazi Tit In The Sky | The History of Flight (Part 2/2)

03 Jul 2025

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The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to seri...

Fin Taylor - Ask Your Mother Comedy Special - Teaser

01 Jul 2025

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Fin's comedy special - Ask Your Mother - is out now on Spotify. Here's a little teaser we know you'll enjoy! Click here to watch the full specia...

The Wright Brothers were Flap-Dodgers | The History of Flight (Part 1/2)

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For centuries man thought that simply dressing up like a big owl would be enough to fly. But how come the people who finally cracked it were the most ...

We’re Going to Need A Bigger Urn (with The Grade Cricketer) | The History of The Ashes (Part 2/2)

26 Jun 2025

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Aussie podcast giants The Grade Cricketer join us to unpack the history of sport’s greatest rivalry- the Ashes, or as it’s also known: England vs ...

The Bowler’s Pegging, The Batsman’s Arsehole | The History of Cricket (Part 1/2)

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From Oliver Cromwell to Graham Gooch via Slavery and Rorke’s Drift, there is no sport with more historical symbolism than the battle between bat and...

A Suckling Biggins | The Aztecs (Part 5/5)

20 Jun 2025

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Tenochtitlan is besieged and defeated by the Spanish, and with it goes the Aztec knowledge of how to cook Gay Men - the Wagyu Beef of the Cannibal wor...

Dark Chocolate is Woke Nonsense | The Aztecs (Part 4/5)

19 Jun 2025

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Cortes kills Montezuma, but more importantly could a human impregnate a pig? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happ...

Monty’s Mexican Special Needs Zoo | The Aztecs (Part 3/5)

16 Jun 2025

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Aztec Emperor Montezuma finally meets the Conquistador Cortes, but finds the Spaniard so weird he considers putting him in his zoo for disabled people...

Spanish Sailors Playing Pan Cum Tomate | The Aztecs (Part 2/5)

12 Jun 2025

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Hernán Cortés, a horny Spaniard in middle management, sets sail across the Atlantic in search of New World Nookie The show for people who like hi...

Heston Blumenthal’s Cannibal Tapas | The Aztecs (Part 1/5)

09 Jun 2025

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Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice and using skulls as bricks- who were the Aztecs before the pox-laden Spanish arrived? The show for people who like his...

He Died Doing What He Loved (with Daniel Sloss) | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 4/4)

05 Jun 2025

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Daniel Sloss is still with us as we unpack the greatest fall from grace a dictator has ever had The show for people who like history but don't care...

It’s Raining Rubber Fists (with Daniel Sloss) | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 3/4)

02 Jun 2025

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Daniel Sloss joins us to talk Gaddafi in the 80s - including a show trial for toddlers, The Lockerbie disaster, and most heinous of all - a bomb in a ...

The People’s Republic of Jiblablabah | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 2/4)

29 May 2025

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Gaddafi, the illiterate intellectual, the thinking man’s man-who-can’t think, orchestrates perhaps the funniest terrorist attack of all time and f...

Why do Arab Men Smell So Good? | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 1/4)

26 May 2025

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Is Gaddafi the most mental dictator in history? One thing’s for sure, no tyrant smelled this good The show for people who like history but don't ...

Soggy Biscuit is a White Dominated Sport | The Golden Age of Piracy (Part 2)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The ugliest King there’s ever been dies without an heir, ushering in a golden age of pirates - who leave behind them a legacy of peg-legs, buried tr...

You think Fyre Festival was bad… | The Golden Age of Piracy (Part 1)

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who were the real pirates of the Caribbean and more importantly what did they sound like? The show for people who like history but don't care what ...

Look How Good I Am At Drawing Apples | The Renaissance Part 2: Holland

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why is Dutch art so weird? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free list...

Trust The Italians to Rediscover Porn | The Renaissance Part 1: Italy

12 May 2025

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If the dark ages were the straightest period in history, then the renaissance is when Europe turned gay, led by - who else - but the Italians The s...

Justice for Naughty Francis Bourgeois | The Eichmann Trial: Jerusalem, 1961 (Part 4/4)

08 May 2025

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The sesh has officially ended for Adolf Eichmann, as he is put on trial by his wife and kids and forced to reckon with what he did on the Big Nazi Sta...

The Oi-Vey Team | The Eichmann Trial: Mossad Capture (Part 3/4)

05 May 2025

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Eichmann’s Nazi son starts a forbidden romance with a holocaust survivor’s daughter, but these gold-star crossed lovers end up leading Israeli spi...

Ricardo The Gaucho Gobbler | The Eichmann Trial : Nazi on the Run (Part 2/4)

01 May 2025

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While the Nazi High Command are being tried at Nuremberg, Adolf Eichmann has gone to ground, and with the help of the Catholic Church, flees to Argent...

My pronouns are He / Himmler | The Eichmann Trial: War Criminal (Part 1/4)

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If the Nazis were a Stag Do, Adolf Eichmann was the guy who phones the pub and books the table for 12…but when the sesh ends, Adolf doesn’t want t...

Instel (Involuntary Sterilised) | Charles Darwin & The Birth of Eugenics (Part 2)

24 Apr 2025

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Charles Darwin’s cousin misunderstands what Charlie meant and starts a train of thought that ends in some very naughty trains in Germany We’re g...

When Birdwatching Goes Too Far | Charles Darwin & The Birth of Eugenics (Part 1)

21 Apr 2025

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How did a humble British bug-chaser’s ideas about finches lead to America forcibly sterilising people? We’re going on Tour in October! Patreon p...

I’m Not Racist, Some of My Best Hostages Are Black | The Iranian Revolution, 1979 (3/3)

20 Apr 2025

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The Shah goes on his holibobs and Ayatollah Khomeini uses a hostage crisis to play 4 dimensional woke chess The show for people who like history but ...

Please Don’t Cut Our Heads Off | The Iranian Revolution, 1979 (2/3)

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Ayatollah still hasn’t finished his book, and Mohammad Reza Shah spends the GDP of a small country on a primary school nativity play The show f...

An MI6 Coup Against A Persian Power Bottom | The Iranian Revolution, 1979 (1/3)

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Ayatollah vs Shah, Grumpykins vs Little Rich Twink, the era-defining event of the modern Middle East. The show for people who like history but...

Only A True Artist Would Kick His Pregnant Wife Down The Stairs | Nero & the Emperors of Rome (Part 2) with James McCann

10 Apr 2025

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Nero: Was the Roman Emperor’s third wedding the first ever gay marriage? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened...

I’m A Stud Pig, Get Me Out Of Here | Nero & The Emperors of Rome (Part 1)

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re in Ancient Rome for a carnival of incest, violence, matricide and depravity. If you think PartyGate was bad, wait until you hear about Tiberiu...

“My horse, my horse, oh sh*t I’ve lost my horse” | Richard III and The Princes in The Tower (Part 2)

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard III has manipulated his way to the throne, but in less than two years his naked corpse will be flung over a horse, with arrows shoved up his a...

A Spine Like A David Beckham Free Kick | Richard III and the Princes in the Tower (Part 1)

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard III, Britain’s last medieval King: Disabled icon? Or just another nonce found in a car park? The show for people who like history but don'...

The Great Mongol Wedgie Tour | Genghis Khan (Part 2)

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series,...

The Man Who Conquered Borat | Genghis Khan (Part 1)

24 Mar 2025

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The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series,...

Like Falling Into the 9/11 Memorial | The Titanic (Part 3/3)

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series,...

This is Why You Should Always Upgrade | The Titanic (Part 2/3)

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series,...

‘Fatberg, Dead Ahead!’ | The Titanic (Part 1/3)

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series,...

PC Thicko is on the case | Jack the Ripper: The Suspects (Part 3/3)

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series,...

How Annoying Were These Women Though? | Jack the Ripper: The Murders (Part 2/3)

13 Mar 2025

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The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series,...