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The Silly History Boys Show

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Gather round your camp fires and listen! To tales of daring, horror and high adventure from the worn pages of our History Book Not a talky Podcast. More like Action Radio! Join the man known only as the Pear Bear, the unflappable Tombo and your new favourite Uncles BobBob & Bilbo. Let us take a questionably queasy trip through the squishy bits of history and myth. Fun for all the family? We don’t know yet... But we promise it’ll be silly, it’ll be fun!

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All Episodes

52:00

Heracles? How Do You Like Them Golden Apples (of the...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/05/23

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

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36:33

The Lambton Wyrm or John Lambton's The Thing (or...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/05/08

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

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53:14

Colonel Blood and Crown Jewels Robbery of 1671

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/04/25

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

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01:24

Colonel Blood Returns

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/04/24

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!

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55:07

Exit the Dragon Gruffydd ap Llewellyn part 3 (or...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/04/11

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

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01:07:29

Gruffydd ap Llewellyn Last Action King of Wales So...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/04/04

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

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01:16:14

Silly History Viking Bedtime Special

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/03/28

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.

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26:33

Great Escapes (or Episode 104)

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/03/14

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!!

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05:47

Where are the Silly Boys?

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/02/28

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!

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48:24

In The Heat of Cattle; Heracles and the Cattle of...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/02/14

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

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43:57

Going, Going, John; Bad King John Part 3 (Or Episode...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/01/31

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

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38:29

Heir Today, John Tomorrow; Bad King John Part 2 (Or...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2025/01/17

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

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37:50

Here's JOHNNY! ; Bad King John Part 1 (or Episode 100)

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2024/12/31

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!

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39:37

Fellows & Amazons; Heracles and the Girdle of...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2024/12/20

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,

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01:01:47

Silly History Bedtime Special 3

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2024/12/06

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!

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37:53

Wales Whales on the Normans. Gruffydd ap Llewellyn...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2024/11/22

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

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22:39

Remembrance Day Special

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2024/11/11

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

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46:15

Halloween 2024: Oni You Could Fall in the River......

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2024/10/31

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 www.Zapsplat.com for zips zaps boings and music and thanks www.Scottbuckley.com.au as always for the awesome music. Happy Halloween!

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43:02

Silly History Bedtime Special 2

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2024/10/18

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

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38:13

Havin’ a Mare; Heracles & The Mares of Diomedes (or...

The Silly History Boys Show ·

2024/10/04

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

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