PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episodes
Crashing the Greatest Party in History: PastMaster 3rd Birthday Special
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Florence, 1480. The Palazzo Medici is blazing against the February dark, 500 guests in silk and masks are drinking like nothing bad happened two years...
A Vegetarian with Bad Knees vs. Vlad the Impaler, ft. Rohan Sharma
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Wallachia, 1456. Vlad III has just retaken his throne, impaling stakes line the city's edge, and a scribe named Constantin has hidden the only written...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Cricket: Qin Dynasty China ft. Caroline McEvoy
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Qin Dynasty China, 212 BCE. Climbing into the time travel machine otherwise known as the Hen & Hound, award-winning comedian Caroline McEvoy steps fo...
How to conquer Greenland ft. Ashley Haden
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Greenland, 986 CE. Erik the Red has just established the first Norse settlement at Brattahlid, and comedian Ashley Haden has been living among the col...
Hot Dog Hijinks at the Great Library of Alexandria, ft. Lexx Education podcast
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Comedy science siblings Laura Lexx and Ron from the Lexx Education Podcast join PastMaster on a desperate attempt to save the Library of Alexandria be...
Accidental Mayan Blood Sacrifice ft. Bilal Zafar
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Bilal Zafar joins us on a Mayan Adventure of Apocalypto proportions. Tasked with warning the king about an upcoming solar eclipse, Bilal mus...
A few sherbets for the Silk Road ft. Esther Manito
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Esther Manito joins the PastMaster team for a time travel trip to the ancient Silk Road. On a mission to hire a crew and trek a caravan of s...
What next for PastMaster... ?
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can the past be mastered? Is AI still cool? Where has Keon gone? As the hands of time click forward into 2026 we ask – what is the future of PastM...
TRAILER — "Modern Knowledge, Medieval Consequences"
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Picture this, you've been sent back in time. You have nothing but the clothes on your back and the knowledge in your head. Could you survive and thr...
The Santa Claude Intervention: PastMaster Christmas Special
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The night is clear. Your purpose is holy. But something has gone very, very wrong at the North Pole. In this special Christmas edition of PastMaster,...
Nuns of Death: The Beastmaster Cometh (Part 3)
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Death Wish Speed Run! The game where we see who can die the quickest and most stylish death in history. We're back in the unforgiving 7th Century...
Nuns of Death: Death Wish Speedrun. Burn the witch! (Part 2)
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of 3 we return to a 7th Century nunnery on a Death Wish Speed run - a mission to die as quickly and as stylishly as possible in the past. ...
Nuns of Death: Death Wish Speedrun in a 7th Century Nunnery (Part 1)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you try to die as quickly as possible in one of medieval England's most peaceful locations? It's the return of "Death Wish Speed R...
MC Wicked Drops the Beat at Woodstock
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if hip-hop had been invented at Woodstock? Join MC Wicked as he attempts to blow flower children's minds with beats from the future. Hip-hop "ex...
Persia McPersia goes to Persia – Live at the Cheerful Earful Comedy Podcast Festival
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our second ever live show rapper and funnyman Nick Horseman rejoined PastMaster hosts Tan and Ryan for an adventure in the Colosseum of ancient Rom...
The Man who Destroyed Civilisation While Trying to Share a Bowl of Frosties with Charlie Simpson.
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if your love of breakfast cereal commercials could end civilisation? Guest Al Clayton journeys to Neo-Singapore 2999 to save humanity's cultural...
Miracle tea at the Great Exhibition (ft. Chris Reading)
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and film director Chris Reading joins the PastMaster crew for a journey to Victorian London and the Great Exhibition. With a mission to acquir...
Mr Blobby tries to save the Titanic
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show Ian Walker joins Tan to pit four AI large language models against each other and see which makes the best Game Master. The set...
The Battle of Hee Hee Hastings
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keon travels back to October 13th, 1066, as the mysterious "Agent M" with a mission to help King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. But who exactly is ...
Greased Lightning – Quantum Leap gone wrong
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered what would happen if you woke up in someone else's body with no idea who you were or what you were supposed to do In this Quantum Leap...
The Greatest Conspiracy in History – The Arkham Investigation PART 2 (ft. The Apocalypse Players)
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Joseph return as Gert and T.G. Fells to conclude their investigation into the missing Ezra Whitmar. What begins as a simple missing person cas...
The Arkham Investigation PART 1 (ft The Apocalypse Players)
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Wheeler and Joseph Chance from the award-winning Apocalypse Players podcast bring their Call of Cthulhu expertise to 1920s Arkham, Massachusetts. ...
Red Dead Sensation – Stopping a War in the Wild West (with the power of music)
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Horseman returns to PastMaster, becoming refined English gentleman Thorne Jackson-Reynolds. He arrived in the lawless Dakota Territory with an i...
Short message: back in July!
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The PastMaster crew is on summer vacation to recharge the batteries of our time machine. We'll be back at the start of July with adventures to the Wi...
Aussie Rules Speed Run – Death Wish Down Under
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
PastMaster takes a dark turn as Ryan, Tan, and guest Nick Horseman compete in a 'Death Wish Speed Run' at Port Jackson's newly established penal colon...
The Medieval African Billionaire space program – Mansa Musa and the Golden Rocket
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Step back to 1330 and meet the richest person who ever lived - Mansa Musa, with a net worth of $700 billion in today's money! Can Ryan convince this g...
Battle Magic – Cocaine Diplomacy in 55 BCE
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you replace Asterix's magic potion with cocaine? Risky Dave finds out the hard way when he tries to help a Gallic tribe resist Juliu...
Matthew Crosby and the Satanic Cult
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian and writer Matthew Crosby steps out of his bathtub time machine to join us on a murder mystery adventure in Victorian London. When mysterious...
Who can build the best Trojan Horse?
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the Trojan Horse...wasn't a horse at all? In this epic battle of wits, Tan and Keon compete to design history's greatest deception at the wall...
The Haunting of Henry VIII, ft Fetch the Smelling Salts
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oh hey girl hey, its the diarrhea service! That's how to convince a maid in Henry VIII's royal palace that you're just one of the staff and not a time...
Ancient MesoPOOtamia... – Death Wish Speed Run ft Nick Horseman
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this unseen episode, from PastMaster’s darkest vault, rapper and comedian Nick Horseman sets course for Ur in the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia....
Danny Dyer calls The Void a slag. The Big Bang, Garden of Eden and the East End
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Thots TV team are back in the hot seat with the most impossible challenge yet. Travelling back to before the Big Bang. Embodying a "heat-resistant...
AC/DC and The Battle of the Bots – ChatGPT vs Claude
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's a battle for the ages as Keon and Tan go head-to-head in a shocking two-player PastMaster showdown! In this electrifying episode, we travel back ...
Claudanum-dreams. A gothic literature revolution, featuring Thots TV
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Thots TV podcast join us for a gothic adventure full of literary titans, a 'haunted house' and lashings of laudanum. It's 1816, the year without ...
Claude of the Rings
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're breaking out of the historical timeline for a quick trip back to Middle Earth. Back in Season 1 we took ChatGPT on a quick excursion here, so ho...
One Giant Mess for Mankind: hitching a ride on Apollo 11
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Return guest Chris Dillon joins us for another historical misadventure as he attempts to infiltrate one of humanity's greatest achievements - the Apol...
The Social Network Stealer. Founding Facebook First
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the Zuck stops with us. Journalist and writer Chris Dillon joins us in the recent past to reshape tech history! The year is 2003, and...
Sense and Shootability with Micky Overman
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Micky Overman joins PastMaster for the Season 4 premiere, heading to Pride & Prejudice times to give sexism a punch on the nose. Micky ste...
The Ghost of Christmas PastMaster
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time of the year and the PastMaster crew have pulled out all the stops to go on a festive adventure for the ages. Tinsel ✅ Santa hats ✅...
The Truth Behind Stonehenge – [REPLAY]
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The countdown to Christmas continues with another PastMaster replay special. We've turned back the clock to this episode from Season 2 where we uncove...
True Crime Special – Jack the Ripper's identity revealed [REPLAY]
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In true PastMaster style we're turning back the clock to revisit the past. In this case, our own podcasting past. In this episode from Season 2, Tan ...
PastMaster Live – How to become worshiped as a god
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our first-ever live show, Ryan tries to persuade a boatful of explorers that he is a deity. Plus our live studio audience attempts to "bake a gun" ...
Freaking out the Founding Fathers of America
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With American politics constantly in the news right now PastMaster heads back in time to visit the first presidents of the USA to see what they were l...
Plato's Wrestlemania & the Search for Atlantis
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is Atlantis real? That's the question we've been pondering as Tan takes to the PastMaster hotseat to try and uncover the truth. Travelling back to an...
HardMode 3.0 - Hard Claude with a Vengeance
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is Claude a more realistic GameMaster than ChatGPT? This week we're bringing back 'Hard Mode' to PastMaster. We've crafted a particularly difficult ...
Important PastMaster Announcement(s)!
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We've been a little quiet over the summer, but fear not, the wheels of time are still turning at the PastMaster HQ! We've got 3 exciting announcements...
‘Lady Claudius’ vs Robin Hood (ft Heidi Regan)
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Heidi Regan joins the PastMaster team for the chance to meet her hero Robin Hood. Sent on a mission to steal the Sheriff of Nottingham’s...
Cockney GameMaster vs Samurai Warriors
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
GameMaster Claude is back and is as weird as ever! Tan has always wanted to return to feudal Japan to meet some Samurai warriors. He finally gets hi...
Does AI believe in Aliens? The Truth behind Area 51 (ft Sunil Patel)
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aliens. Living amongst us. Possibly. What does GameMaster think? Surely with access to all the knowledge on the internet, our AI-powered guide has pa...
Infiltrating Pablo Escobar's Cartel. "El contacto y las tartas"
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Keon takes the reins to explore 1970s Medellín, Colombia. The mission: Become Pablo Escobar’s right-hand man with a 50/50 split of all th...
Move over ChatGPT, Clever Claude is the new GameMaster (ft Nick Horseman)
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
GameMaster - the AI-powered narrator of PastMaster adventures - gets a makeover in today's episode. ChatGPT has been benched and replaced by a compe...
Pheasants & Phlatulence. The best drama. Period. (ft Kim and Alice from Fetch the Smelling Salts)
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brace yourself. We're heading to rural Derbyshire in 1813 with Alice Nagle and Kim Marsh from @fetchsmellingsalts for a romp through Regency E...
Sunil Patel's Roman Rampage
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian and actor Sunil Patel (Alice & Jack (C4) The Witchfinder (BBC), This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC), Stath Lets Flats (C4) is back in the hot...
AgathAI ChristiGPT – Can we make a compelling murder mystery drama?
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
First Sherlock Holmes then Hercule Poirot and now Inspector Klaus. Keon pits himself against the greatest crime-solving detectives in a special Murde...
Saving Walt Disney (ft Verbal Diorama’s Em McGowan)
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Disney's "Dark Ages" typically encompasses the late 1960s to the late 1980s. During this time the quality and success of Disney animated films suffere...
Hard Mode 2.0 – Can Tan become a god in Ancient Sparta?
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with Season 3 of PastMaster! This week's episode is PastHard with a Vengeance as Ryan tries to turn the tables on Tan with his version of ...
Season 3 Trailer – The Past and the Furious
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The PastMaster crew are back with Season 3. And it's promising to be more Past-ery and more AI-y than ever before. Featuring upgraded GameMasters, ...
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - Season 2 Finale
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Looking back on highlights of season 2, Ryan, Keon and Tan pick out the good, the bad and the tremendously ugly. Phallic AI art and GameMaster’s do...
The Mary Celeste - Mystery Solved (kinda)
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The PastMaster team joins the fateful final voyage of the Mary Celeste, the merchant ship whose crew vanished without a trace in the Atlantic Ocean in...
The Sausage of World Peace (Dinner Party Master)
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team head to the Palace of Versailles to host a fantasy dinner party attended by the good (Jesus and Gandhi), the bad (Hitler, Stalin an...
Two Mad Dogs, a Swan Burger and a Fighting Bear (ft. Marc Zakian)
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the ultimate battle of man vs machine, we pit our human guide against artificial intelligence for an adventure through time. But who will emerge as...
Harder, faster, Past-ier – Royal Rumble in the American Revolution
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Besieged by PastMaster fans asking for the game to be made harder, Tan updates the rules of the game, giving us all new ‘hard mode’. This is an ...
Operation: Save Jesus (ft. Nick Horseman)
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Returning to PastMaster for another crack at the past is rapper and comedian Nick Horseman. Nick (AKA Cat R Pillar) and Keon (AKA Colin Winkleforth) f...
FutureMaster – We've been to the year 3000. Can confirm, they don't live underwater
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keon flexes his muscles and updates his Insta profile pic before jumping into the time machine and darting off to the 30th century. Landing in a year...
Stop the Berlin Conference! (ft. Chinny Ukata & Astrid Madimba from It's a Continent)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Special guests Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba from It’s a Continent podcast join the PastMaster crew for a mission at the Berlin Conference of ...
Solving the Mystery of Stonehenge
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keon’s always wanted to know who built Stonehenge and why. So Ryan used PastMaster to find out (of course). In what is possibly the trippie...
Labour of Time (ft. Tom GK)
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian and writer Tom GK returns to the PastMaster studio, taking the hot seat for his first time as a player. Heading to the Labour Party confere...
We solved Jack The Ripper!
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tan travels back to the slums of Victorian Whitechapel in a bid to catch Jack the Ripper and solve one of the most notorious unsolved crimes ever. Do...
"The Strategist" sniffs out Napoleon Bonaparte (ft. Nick Horseman)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest rapper and comedian Nick Horseman returns to PastMaster in the year 1805 for an adventure aboard the HMS Victory en route to the Battle ...
Sorcery Slam (Hallowe’en special) ft. Tom GK.
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
PastMaster is back for season 2 and for this Halloween special Tan takes on the Witchfinder General himself in a bid to end the persecution of witches...
A blast from the PastMaster — Season 1 Finale (featuring special guest ‘Dave’)
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re wrapping up Season 1 of PastMaster with a look back on some of the highlights of our adventures so far. Joining us “live, in-person” for ...
Barbenheimer (2 Player PastMaster)
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Barbie and Ken try to prevent nuclear war by sabotaging the bomb in our first two-player game of PastMaster. Barbie, played by Keon, goes deep underc...
Cap’n F**k-C**tle’s Sweary Sea Shanty
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING: While we have bleeped out the worst of the swear words, this episode is definitely not safe for work or those who don’t w...
Olympic wheelbarrow racing (with special guest Louise Banham)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the first ever Olympics Keon sets out to win a gold medal and introduce some new sports to the Games, starring special guest Louise Banham as the v...
Elizabethan Jazz Hands (with special guest Louise Banham)
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I feature in this episode set in 1592. Special guest Louise Banham attempts to become ruler of England by introducing ...
Aria of Death: A Mission to kill Hitler (ft. Nick Horseman)
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Nick Horseman stars in a time travelling mission to kill Adolph Hitler before he can rise to prominence. Adopting the moniker of Klaus ...
Death Wish Kitty (ft. Nick Horseman)
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The gang head back to ancient Egypt, this time with a cunning plan involving poles, furs and a beatboxing cat-god... With Keon away the team welcomes...
Al Capone: The Windy City Wedding Whisky Run (ft. Nick Horseman)
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest comedian and rapper Nick Horseman stars in a wise-cracking journey to prohibition-era Chicago. With his gangster patter down to a tee an...
When in Rome...
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tan visits an ancient Roman amphitheatre to try and spruce up their chariot designs with some 21st-century know-how. PastMaster is the time-travel rol...
Egypt, pt 2 – Are ghosts real or not then?
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We rejoin Keon (AKA Kheper) on his treacherous journey to the Egyptian underworld to see if Anubis, the god of the dead, will play ball with his theme...
Egypt, pt 1 – Ancient Egyptian beard modelling
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
GameMaster gets a makeover from pithy and sarcastic to a bitter, angry old man for this beard-themed trip to ancient Egypt. The game’s difficulty le...
Galilee, pt 2 – Come on Jesus, what was your best miracle?
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tan finally meets Jesus. Picking up from the knife-edge where we left off last time, we also find out whether Tan’s plan to take over the saffron tr...
Galilee, pt 1 – Baron Saffron sets up shop
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tan journeys to the era of Jesus Christ in Galilee, circa 25AD. After getting caught stealing some bread, he forges an unlikely friendship with a spic...
The land before time (and logic)
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tan visits the Jurassic era to test whether he can avoid becoming lunch and emerge victorious as leader of the dinosaurs. Pushing the parameters of t...
Inventing ‘the box’ and avoiding Agincourt (ft. Sunil Patel)
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest comedian Sunil Patel visits a brothel in the mid-15th century. Despite this indulgent opening, his savvy negotiations and surprisingly v...
Charles Darwin: On the origin of "On the Origin of Species"
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan gaslights Charles Darwin about who really wrote On the Origin of Species and orders the scientist to give him a piggyback across town. Using the...
Fixing The Lord of the Rings
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dragging our AI Gamemaster off to JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Tan finds out how orc visitor ‘Thokk the Unthinkable’ gets on in the Shire and whe...
Headbutting into the Viking Times
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keon explores his inner murder hobo, journeying to Denmark at the height of the Viking empire where he seeks to be worshipped as a god and to start a ...
Medieval Breakdancing Badgers
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan give Guns N’ Roses a makeover on the lute and tries to seduce a lord’s wife. But could his animal training know-how prove the real key to suc...
Kentucky Fried Western
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On our maiden voyage back in time, Keon heads to the Wild West to make a name for himself among the cowboys with a fast food franchise that promises t...
TRAILER – "Roads? Where we're going they haven't invented roads yet!"
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you could go back 10 years what would you do? Buy a bunch of bitcoin probably. What about 100 years, 200, 500? Could you survive and thrive? Or wou...