The Silly History Boys Show

Statesman, Soldier, Writer, Explorer. Walter Raleigh goes on his greatest adventure yet...a meeting of minds, with the silly boys! 

The boys will take a look at his life (and the fit and proper person criteria for the National Curriculum).

They explore some myths and the darker corners of Raleigh's life.  

What will they find? Well we're pleased you've joined us. 

A Royal Charter to explore the New World goes to ZapSplat for music and SFX

All the potato he can stuff into a pipe for Jonny of Swan-Dyer Music for extra music

A chance for gold in El Dorado for Doug Maxwell for the track Renaissance Castle

And a free trip to the Tower of London for Lord Fast Fingers and his Intro music.

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Our quest east into the lands beyond dark-age Russia continues, dear listener, and our late-stage Christian viking hero, Yngvar, will face a multitude of trials... most of which will be even more silly than last episode!

Thanks as ever to....

Scott Buckley and his fabulous music

Zapsplat for the zips zaps and boings and music

Lord Fastfingers for the intro music

And you, dear listener!

Picture yourself on a boat on a river dear listener, and then imagine there's a giant, a dragon and a the boat is full of late-stage Swedish Vikings!!

 

Join us for a rollicking good adventure as we set sail for lands unknown in a saga that's based on real life events... probably maybe a bit.

 

Thanks as always to Scott Buckley for his awesome music.

Thanks to zapsplat.com for music and zips zaps and boings.

Thanks to Brian Bolger for his music.

And thanks as always to Lord Fastfingers for the intro music.

Monsters, Titans and manure!

Were tough…but the LAST LABOUR of HERACLES is going to be RUFF!

Can Heracles travel to the depths of the Underworld…pass dozens of his old enemies…again favour from Hades the Lord of the Dead…AND wrestle the monstrous triple headed hell hound CERBERUS?!

What old friends and enemies will he meet on the terrible passage through the realm of death...and what stupid accents will they have?

And will our hero survive this last and most terrible labour!

 

Enchanted Cong stuffed with Lindor for ZapSplat for Music & SFX 

Burn your mouth off apple turnover for extra SFX by FreeSFX

A rub down in high end dog groomer for  Scott Buckley EPIC music.

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Marry Nuncle! 

Art thee not restful of shows regarding notable p'rsons?

Then worry ye not! (ok that's enough of that)

This episodes covers the most silly of history people! The Fool... the Jester... The Silly Boy!

Come listen to what makes us tick. What puts food on the table. What gets us struck from the guest list.

Thanks to the jokers at ZapSplat for SFX and a bit of music

Massive musical big up to the quick-witted bantersaurus that is Jonny Dyer for scoring (against his knowledge and probably better judgement) the show.

Lord Fast Fingers for the intro 

Come do our Silly Walk of York! 

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Are your Tapestry fingers tingling? They should be...because it's here!

1066 and ALL of that!

An ill wind blows William the Conqueror (cough spoiler) and his army of awful Normans right onto the big bottom of England.

Can Sweet Harold G march really fast and to stop them...or will this prove one battle too far for England's greatest tash!

Well you probably know what's going to happen...but you might get ONE IN THE EYE with some facts that's won't be in your school books!

Knights, Huscarls. Crack Saracen Archers, Shield walls, Panicky Fyrd, and some suspiciously Welsh Bretons are all part of this very silly Tapestry...that is our longest episode yet!*

Ta to Puremusic!

Thannks to Tuttkile

And of course to ZapSplat for scrums and scrapping noises!

And to Scott Buckley for his epic tracks

And to   https://audiojungle.net/user/synthezx     Synthezx - Portfolio for the Terminator Trailer Track!

 

 

 

*yes we mean 1066 and ALL that, if we MISSED ANYTHING from the most famous story in English history...then we will gladly eat our hats/nasal helms and cry!

*I mean they could be by now...look at us..its been ages since we looked at a school book!

*or not as the case may be!

*Wait till we do Owain Glyndwr, we'll be in the studio for months, we'll have a studio by then!

 

Hi listener! Some news on our plans for 2026!

Here's one of our many links to The Silly Walk of York

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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!

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. 

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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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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“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

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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 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!

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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!

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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!

 

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