
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!
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!
Episodes

Friday Oct 10, 2025
1066 When Harry Met Billy (or Episode 115)
Friday Oct 10, 2025
Friday Oct 10, 2025
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!

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