The Silly History Boys Show

Is That a Rag? Nah; Ragnar Lothbrok Part 2 (or Episode 55)

This week we continue the tale of the mighty Ragnar Lothbrok and worry not; there's PLENTY devil cows!

 

Join us for the silliest saga we've ever told... and that's saying something!!

 

Thanks as ever to ZapSplat for zips and boings and music, Scott Buckley for fabulous chooons and Lord Fastfingers for his fast fingers!  

Loth to Brok the Subject; Ragnar Lothbrok Part 1 (or Episode 54)

Those Silly Boys are  back in the wonderful world of mythtory again this week dear listeners as they begin the tale of the greatest Viking that ever there was... according to some. There's dragons, princesses, mighty warriors and lashings of silliness for all to enjoy!

 

Thanks to Scott Buckley for his awesome music.

Thanks to Zapsplat for zips boings splats and music

And thanks to you for listening!

Get Hydra; Heracles part 3 (or Episode 53)

KER-SMASH!!!

Our Ancient Greek Hero Heracles is here to save us again!

The Mighty Hera and her mortal lacky King Eurystheus are at it again with their labours!

Not only does the Tesla need washing, but the dryer needs de-linting too! 

Oh and there's the small matter of the Nine Headed Hydra of Lake Lerna (a lovely day out I've heard and at v. reasonable price)

If you're new to the Silly Heracles Show, then why not check out episodes 36 & 37 for a crash course in Heroism? 

Big thanks and brave adventuring for ZapSplat for doors that burst open, doors that slide and, of course, doors that slam closed.

A magic golden sword is bestowed upon Scott Buckley for the use of his track The Summoning

May the Gods bless Henry Mahy at BattleForge Productions for the use of the track Through Fire And War

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Sympathy for Robert the Devil (or Episode 50)

Meet a medieval man of wealth and taste! FOR OUR EPIC 50TH Episode!

This week those Silly History Boys bring you the story of the darkest of Dark Knights, Robert the Devil!

When couple of dark age Normans ask the actual devil for help with a son...its goes exactly as you might expect!

Except it doesn't actually!

Can Sir Robert the Devil redeem himself? Honour his Knightly vow? Rescue his parents? AND save Rome from an army of suspiciously Scouse Saracens?

Listen and find out, we promise 'a HELL' of a ride!

 

Big thanks to Brian Bolger. Brian we can't find your website!

Zap Splat for all our Zaps and Splats sourced for free!

and Danny Bradley of Daniel Bradley Music for his hellishly good tracks!

 

And to you dear listener for being with us for FIFTY of these silly things!

Check us out on @sillyhistoryboys show or drop us a line on sillyhistoryboys@gamil.com

 

 

T3: Rise of the Caffeine; A Silly History of Tea part 3 (or Episode 49)

Three. Three episodes on tea, we're so sorry. 

Let us go out with a episode a touch longer than our usual fayre. 

We have Tea Party's to attend and other unsavoury bits of history to cover. 

A big thanks to Tombo (who hates tea)

Uncle BobBob (whom I found out also hates tea but it'd knacker my narrative)

And The Pear Bear (who loves tea but has reeeeally got into coffee lately. I'm worried for him)

Tea-cup jangling and door slams care of ZapSplat

The tracks Discovery and Absolution by the tea crazed (probs hates tea too) Scott Buckley

Chin chin to Lord Fast Fingers for the intro music (I'm pretty sure i've seen him drink tea before)

I might have to take a lay down having written and edited a Tea-rilogy.

"It seemed like a fun idea at the time..."

-Uncle Bilbo 2022

 

 

T2: Judgement Tray; A Silly History of Tea part 2 (or Episode 48)

Back once again for the digestive aid master. 

Tea! The cure for all ills.

The silly boys battle their way out of the Siege of Kaifeng to, well, who knows where! 

Tea is on the move and so are the silly boys.

Big thanks to ZapSplat for things that go KLACK and songs what go DO-DE-DUMDUMDUM

Extra to thanks to Shane Ivers at Silverman Sound for the track Medieval Banquet (which we use for any royal setting, historically accurate time period be darned!)

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For All The Tea in China; A Silly History of Tea part 1 (or Episode 47)

Oh no! It's the guy who brought us "gardens" and "A Victorian French Filmmaker whodunnit"! 

Yeah that's right! Whatcha gonna do? Not listen?! Erm don't answer that.

The Silly Boys are taking a vague and a broad stroke look at the history of tea. So dense and silly was it, that we barely make it out of China with our lives!

Put the kettle on and have a sly biscuit or three.

Thanks to ZapSplat for music and SFX

And an extra lump of sugar (he had a real problem as a child) goes to Lord Fast Fingers for our earworm intro

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Colonel Blood Part 2; A Kick in the Crown Jewels (or Episode 47)

Finally...the Silly History Boys bring you....the most famous/silliest crime in British history...The Crown Jewels Robbery of 1671!

Only two crazed Welsh pensioners and their quietly passionate daughter stand between career rascal Colonel Thomas Blood and his gang of witless felons!

Will the crown of England be theirs....or has someone failed to bring an adequate bag?

 

Join us the silliest history boys for the funniest trip to Tower of London 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! 

*No prizes for guessing...

 

 

 

 

 

Colonel Blood Part 1: More Heist Less Speed (or Episode 45)

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!

But how much of the legend of Colonel Blood is true? And was he dashing romantic rascal or an awful history man?*

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!

But theirs more to the rogue than just the robbery...so stay tuned next time...for there will be Blood!

 

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.

Big thanks to Lord Fast Fingers seeing nine consecutive life sentences for the intro music! 

*No prizes for guessing...

 

Radish Mail Order Ate Cupids Hat - The Pardoner’s Tale (or Episode 45)

This week the Silly Boys have decided instead of talking about actual history they want to tell you a story, a story written by a history person in history times.

Fortunately it's not one of the awful history people - which describes pretty much all of them - it's Geoffrey Chaucer.

...Who was probably awful anyway - because he was a history person.

Apparently he wrote the Canterbury Tales using the tears of children he'd punched in the arm... at least that's what we heard anyway.

Thanks to Zapsplat for the music and sfx.

Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the intro music.

Thanks to you for reading this far. That's it though. I'm done now. Bye.

Caesar The Reins Of Power (or Episode XLIII)

This week the Silly Boys are heading back to Ancient Rome to answer the question 'what happened after Caesar died?'. 

Join us as we riot, attend a funeral, riot again, lie about an inheritance, flee to the East and have some lovely battles.

 

SFX from Zapsplat

'Pleasure and Sin' by Sinyells

Amazing orchestral brilliance from Scott Buckley

Further music from Zapsplat

A Gardeners World (or Episode 42)

Yes you read that correctly, "gardens"!

Nothing says "rip roaring thrill-ride" through our bloody and divisive history like gardens!

(Ask Uncle BobBob!)

Join us as we celebrate the Tradescant's (John the Elder & John the Younger) and all they flowered in our nation of gardeners. Let them show you that they're more than just a difficult name to pronounce!

Music and SFX by the miracle growers at ZapSplat

We thanked Scott Buckley & Danny Bradley for music that we didn't use this time, but hey, we lean on them heavily, so have some more thanks anyway.

Big thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the intro music (incidentally his temporary canvas garage blew down in storm Eunice and all his garage items were strewn across his GARDEN. Thanks for staying on brand Lord Fast Fingers).

For Those About to Ragnarök (We Salute You); Ragnarök Part Two (or Episode 41)

Asgard's Doom is nigh!

Loki is free and all his horrible kids are on their way!

Can Thor, Odin and the rest of the gods defeat an army of ultimate evil and stave off Norse Armageddon?!

Can the Silly History Boys really keep up this level of epic?! *

Find out the answers in a rapturously silly retelling of the tale of Ragnarök!

Giant Wolves, Giant Snakes and Giants over acting abound this week!

 

Big Thanks to Zap Splat for all our epic noises!

Music this week and there’s a lot of it! Was provided by Lumen Media, Brian Boland, Freshman sound and Daniel Bradley of Daniel Bradley music!

Feast well with our thanks brave skalds!

 

*no

 

Ragnarok-ing in the Free World (or Episode 40)

Giant Wolves, herb murder and flaming caravans!

RAGNAROK is nigh! Silly style!

Join our old friends the Asir (the Gods of Asgard and Norse mythology to their mates) in the first part of the story of Ragnarok or the legend of the norse apocalypse.

Hunky Thor, shifty Loki and one eyed Odin! Plus that kitten raising sweet heart Baldur! Some very chatty mistletoe and a very shifty puffin!

Plus Giants Snakes, Valkyries and very silly voices! 

Join the Silly History Boys as they tell you the real legend of Thor Ragnarok...but with more royalty free synth! 

 

Music & SFX thanks to ZapSplat and Danny Bradley music

 

The Song of Roland or a Song for Norman! (or Episode 39)

Kick back with William the Conqueror and his Norman mates for medieval Europe's favourite bed time story!

The Song of Roland!

The incredibly violent and tragic tale of Sir Roland, the Knight with the famous horn...pack that sniggering in...this is educational!

Join the Mighty Roland, the sensible Sir Oliver, the noble Charlemagne and slimy snake weasel Ganelan!

In a legend a thousand years in the making...and if anyone has made a version as silly as this one, then frankly we give up!

 

We thank the Noblest website address of all (yes even better than that one)Zapsplat for their brilliant SFX and music!

The name Scott Buckley shall remembered forever in Song for his Music!

 

Thanks and big respect to Trondhjesm Kvinnelge Studentsangforeng for their amazing singing!

Add to that boney immortal blues warrior Daniel Bradley of Daniel Bradley music for his version of the Chason de Roland! https://dannybradleymusic.com

 

Christmas Clangers (or Episode 38)

Twas the day before Christmas and all through the house everybody listened to the Silly History Boys.

 

You're welcome.

 

That's right listener... It's our Christmas special - our second Christmas special! - so don your Christmas jumper, baste your turkey and treat yourself to a mulled cup of whatever you fancy... this year we examine three AWFUL Christmases. Won't that be nice?

 

A tot of brandy to Zapsplat for their brilliant SFX and music.

A mince pie with actual mince inside for Scott Buckley because he lets us use his music.

A stocking full of festive cheer to Lord Fastfingers for the theme tune.

...and a God Bless Us, Everyone, to you dear listener.

IT'S CHRIIIIIIIIISTMASSSSSS!!!!

Won‘t Take This Lion Down; Heracles part 2 (or Episode 37)

EMERGENCY DEMI-GOD KLAXON!

That's right listener, we had an emergency and we broke the glass on Heracles part2.

Our mighty hero begins the laborious task of, er, his labours. 

Hera hates him.

Big Daddy Zeus won't take him to the footie.

And to top it all off there's now a huge Lion! (as big as a bus stop)

Huge thanks to ZapSplat for their killer sfx & music

Big God Energy goes to Scotty Buckley (coz he's like, our god now)

And lets pass the collection bowl around for Henry at Battleforge Productions

 

Trial & Hera; Heracles part 1 (or Episode 36)

It's Hercules this week folks-

*coughcough*

You should really get that checked. Anyway, it's Hercules folks-

*low murmuring*

Do you mind?! I'm doing the show-notes!

*intense whispering*

What?! It's pronounced HERAcles? As in "servant of Hera"?

*smug silence*

Well. We're only two episodes back listener and we're already learning! You've been told, Romans!

When the Silly History Boys need a hero, when the Silly History Boys need to fill a muscly heroic Greek shaped hole, they turn to Heracles.

We shall be turning to our demi-god quite a few more laborious times over the coming season(s) dear listener.

Get the stirring music going for this snappy origin story and lets hope it's more Johnson than Sorbo

All hail the Olympus Mons that is Scott Buckley for music fit for Gods

Praise be to those shifty shape shifting sky gods over at ZapSplat for some cracking thunder and whatnot

And manna from heaven to be showered upon Henry Mahy of Battleforge Productions for his track that we lovingly call "Awesome Achilles" and will never stop using (no matter how much he threatens us! Only joshing! Oh the japes we have!)

 

 

The Artist Informally Known as Louis Le Prince (or Episode 35)

Oh what's that? The Leeds International Film Festival is on? What a coincidence!

Well the silly boys may as well take a look at one of the city's adopted sons.

Credited by some as the father of film.

Get your popcorn and shut the heck up.

We present Louis Augustine Le Prince

The award for best soundtrack goes to Scott Buckley (Hey he's a scientist too, like our Gus!)

The Academy award for Best Audio Effects goes to ZapSplat

And the lifetime achievement award was dumped on the doorstep of Lord Fast Fingers (he's so proud)

A Shawl from Grace; The Woes of Whitby‘s Women - Halloween Special (or Episode 34)

Tidings of discomfort and ploys to you all folks!

The Silly Boys are back with a Halloween special to whet your ear hunger before we smash into Season 3.

We present a show wot Tombo sort of wrote for a gig we "did" at Whitby Abbey... lord I can't even remember when now. The before times maybe?

Thanks to all who contributed, especially the Silly History Girls who we really made work (for free) during their free time (birthdays, lunch breaks and escaping from their kids)

A huge sloppy jump scare for the master of sound Scott Buckley

Bags of sweets for those devils at ZapSplat

And we raise a flagon of suspicious bubbling liquid for the creator of our title music (coz I forgot to thank him in the verbal credits innit), Lord Fast Fingers

 

Bosworth the Wait - Wars of the Roses Part 5 (or Episode 33)

Bos-worth the wait? The Silly History Boys will 'field' that!

Edward IV is dead! Who will be King now?! Well his son surely?

No actually.

Duke Richard of Gloucester is a good little brother but he's a rotten Uncle!

Henry Tudor once met the old King at a party so he's going to have a go as well!

Who will finally win 'the Wars of the Roses?!

Well you dear listener are the real winner for now is the Winter of our 'mass-content' it's the longest episode ever! Well who could resist...

It's Richard III vs Welsh Under Dragon Henry Tudor!

It's gonna be history yo! Silly History!

Yo Dear Uncle BobBob - Humour me and use hyperlinks? Cheers. Uncle Bilbo....yes I've gone full Beyonce now.

Thanks to the folks at ZapSplat for Music and fun sounds

Banners raised in the name of Scott Buckley for his excellent range of music.

Thanks to Shane Ivers @ silvermansound.com for the songs 'The Medieval Banquet' and 'Magic of the Season'

Dioch to Dan Bradley for his tidy tidy music!

 

 

Tew-king it out for the Throne! - Wars of the Roses Part 4 (or Episode 32)

Tew-king it out for the Throne! Wars of the Roses Four.

The Silliest of boys are back! Back from Whitby and back to our usual format of battles and buffonery!

The King Maker is dead but King Edward has not time to put his feet up because Margaret of Anjou has invaded England!

Cue a race across the country to make terrible Queen puns where all 'evil lanes'  lead to...the battle of Tewkesbury.

Can the King, the Dish and Sociopath stop Queen Margaret, Another Lord Somerset and the utterly insane Prince Edward of Westminster from lengthening the war and being horrible to Gerbils?

Find out in another exciting edition of the Silly History Boys Show!

 

Thanks to the folks at ZapSplat for Music and fun sounds

Banners raised in the name of Scott Buckley for his excellent range of music

 

You’re Getting On My Warwick - Wars of the Roses Part 3 (or Episode 31)

The time has come for the Kingmaker Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick to start ruffling feathers.

Wedding Plans

Huge Medieval own goals

And, of course, plotting!

Let us see how he gets on!

 

Thanks to the folks at ZapSplat for Music and fun sounds

Banners raised in the name of Scott Buckley for his excellent range of music

A favourable coupling is in the offing for Shane Ivers at Silverman Sound for the use of the track Medieval Banquet

A cracking hit for six goes to Oui Zevelek for the Soul Limbo cover

 

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Towton for the Throne is Snow Joke - Wars of the Roses Part 2 (or Episode 30)

Richard, Duke of York is dead (Spoiler) but that doesn't mean the Wars of the Roses are over! Join us as we explore the events that unfold in the aftermath of the Battle of Wakefield, we guarantee mayhem, murder, treachery and snow. LOTS of snow.

Thanks to Scott Buckley for his lovely music.

Thanks to Shane Ivers @ silvermansound for his 'The Medieval Banquet'

Thanks to Zapsplat for SFX and further music

Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the theme music

...and thanks to Tombo. For writing* this episode. Didn't he do well?

 

*Bilbo helped and years later has only just realised his rightful praise and adulation was not noted here :/

 

All York And No Play (Makes A Dull Boy) - Wars of the Roses Part 1 (or Episode 29)

The Silly Boys are facing one of their greatest ever challenges this week - that's right, we're doing the Wars of the Roses!

Join us as we attempt to make sense of one of the most important yet confusing conflicts in British history... with silliness and sound effects.

Thanks to Shane Ivers @ silvermansound.com for the songs 'The Medieval Banquet' and 'Magic of the Season'

Thanks to Scott Buckley for the songs 'Helios', 'Pathfinder', 'Descent', 'Freedom', 'Centurion' plus others! We leaned on you hard this week Scott!

Thanks to Zapsplat for SFX and additional music.

...and finally, thank you for listening!