In this week’s episode of the Podscarf we welcome English stand-up comedian Angela Barnes and Tudor historian Adam Pennington to the studio for an hour of pure, unadulterated high-street nostalgia and medieval gore. Angela reveals how she used to operate as a suitcase-wielding, bootleg DVD library out of her dad's Great Yarmouth sex shop, and find out why the internal gases of King Henry VIII caused him to literally pop inside his own coffin. --- 00:00 – Gary's Basement Eggs and the Over-Tight Costume Crisis 00:19 – Formulating a £30 "Corned Beef Spam Nut" Kit for Nostalgic Pensioners 03:30 – Licky the Mascot Gives an Extravagant Face-Licking to a Married Woman 05:11 – Turning 50: The 1970s Nuclear Survival Kit Tobacco Tin Lore 06:39 – Waking Up to the Casualty Theme Tune 08:12 – Phoning in the "Angst" Tour and Saving a Life with The Archers 09:51 – Podcasting for "Young" Pensioners and Failing to Sing Like Jeremy Hardy 10:33 – Outsourcing Our Brains to Siri until We Become Sofa Blobs 11:43 – Sarah the AI Bot Summons the Medway Posse and Bigs up Chatham 13:20 – The Maidstone Anthem: Sex Shops, Golden Boots, and Prison Walls 14:40 – High Street Slander 15:22 – Checkers Model Shops and the Measurement Machines of the Golden Boot 16:28 – The Stoned Anagram and Wes Anderson's Secret Mansion in Basted 17:46 – The Caravan-Enthusiast, Naturist, Swinger Sex Shop Dad 18:20 – Sharing the Pre-Streaming Suitcase Bootlegs Like the Original Pornhub 19:22 – Amateur Dramatics as the Comic Fat Girl and Sudden Bereavement at 60 20:21 – Emceeing Jack Skipper’s First Ever Jill Edwards Comedy Showcase 21:13 – The Five-Day House of Games Sweep and Facing Social Media Trolls 23:08– ADHD Hyperactivity and the Sussex University Synesthesia Study 26:41 – The 19-Year-Old Brain Connection Realization and 10 Minutes of Stand-Up Material 27:35 – Ad Break: Regency Foods Present Princess Anne Molds and complimentary Cremation 29:19 – Adam Pennington Explains the Desperate Male Heir Mania of the Tudors 30:39 – Holbein Portraits, Breaking the Papacy, and Banishing Catholics From Succession 31:41 – A 400-Pound King Whose Gammy Leg Smelt From Three Rooms Away 32:08 – Jude Law Spraying Feces, Pus, and Blood Perfume All Over the Firebrand Set 32:48 – Illegitimate Lancastrians, Princes in the Tower, and the Game of Thrones War 34:30 – Tenuous Bloodlines: How 78% of Britons Are Descended From William the Conqueror 35:22 – Royal Imposter Syndrome and Beheading the Remaining Plantagenets 36:19 – Whispering Chromosome Irony Into the Beheaded Ear of Anne Boleyn's Legacy 38:00 – Fastidious Manners, Six-Foot-Three Strapping Youth, and Monastic Dissolution 39:33 – Hiring a Sword Executioner Before Anne Boleyn Even Went to Trial 40:27 – Heavy Petting in the Mid-50s: Catherine Howard and Jane Boleyn's Shared Fate 41:25 – Knighting a Sirloin Steak and Hanging Out at Hever Castle 42:26 – Ulcerated Leg Pain and Popping Open via Internal Coffin Gases 44:08– Sarcophagus Re-Gifting and the 11-Strike Axe Horror of Margaret Pole 45:10– QUIZZITY QUIZ: 53:08 – Gary’s Joke Corner 54:57 – Butterfly In Blue Jeans "Angela Barnes" by Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Derived from the Wikipedia article on Angela Barnes. / This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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