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 May 13, 2022
For All The Tea in China; A Silly History of Tea part 1 (or Episode 47)
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
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
Rate and review and say hi on the socials why not.
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Colonel Blood Part 2; A Kick in the Crown Jewels (or Episode 47)
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
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...
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Colonel Blood Part 1: More Heist Less Speed (or Episode 45)
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
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...
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Radish Mail Order Ate Cupids Hat - The Pardoner’s Tale (or Episode 45)
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
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.
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Caesar The Reins Of Power (or Episode XLIII)
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
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
Friday Feb 25, 2022
A Gardeners World (or Episode 42)
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
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).
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
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
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Ragnarok-ing in the Free World (or Episode 40)
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
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
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
The Song of Roland or a Song for Norman! (or Episode 39)
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
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
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Christmas Clangers (or Episode 38)
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
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!!!!
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Won‘t Take This Lion Down; Heracles part 2 (or Episode 37)
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
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
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Trial & Hera; Heracles part 1 (or Episode 36)
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
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!)
Friday Nov 12, 2021
The Artist Informally Known as Louis Le Prince (or Episode 35)
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
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)
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
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
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
The Boys are Sorry...as Usual.
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Hello!
Sorry we've been uncharacteristicly quiet recently!
Don't worry we're all fine...especially Uncle Bilbo.
The reason we've been away it partially cos Wars of the Roses killed us off....but mostly because!
LIVE SHOWS ARE BACK!
7th and 8th of August all four silly boys will be a Scarborough castle knocking the rust off each other with big lumps of metal!
Wanna watch?! See the event below!
We're also at Burton Constable Hall on August 31st...full details to follow but we're being Pirates!
Anyway! Come if you can but if not don't worry....more Silly Shows on the way SOON!
https://www.burtonconstable.com/
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/scarborough-grand-family-day-out-7---8-aug-2021/
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Bosworth the Wait - Wars of the Roses Part 5 (or Episode 33)
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
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!
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Tew-king it out for the Throne! - Wars of the Roses Part 4 (or Episode 32)
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
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
Friday May 28, 2021
Silly History Fight Bros Special!
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Come gather ye friends round your flickering camp fires and listen...to something slightly different from the usual...an actual podcast!
Wars of the Roses Part Four will be with you shortly but first...
Did you know that the Silly Historys Boys include some pretty tasty sword fighters!?
Pear Bear, Uncle Bilbo and Tombo have been fighting one another (pretend mostly) for twenty years...since before Uncle Bob Bob was born!
Hear some of their incredible tales like....
What it's like behind the backseat of pointy bit of metal? Fun.
Does it hurt getting stabbed? Yes.
Could you fight and beat anyone from history in fight? No, of course not.
Enjoy those Silly Boys in a diffrent rodeo, with a few light ales!
Back to normal next time....sorry...if you don't like deviation!
Friday May 14, 2021
You’re Getting On My Warwick - Wars of the Roses Part 3 (or Episode 31)
Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
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
Come rally to our cause on Facebook @ sillyhistoryboysshow and SHB_Show on Twitter
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
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 :/
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
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!
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Hardtack and Think of England; The Golden Age of Piracy (or Episode 28)
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Pirates were so Silly that we decided to come back for one last serving of lime juice!
Hear the learning spurt forth from the Silly History Boy's knowledge arteries!
Want to learn about cannons? We got ya!
Chain Shot & Rigging (BobBob's post-university failed doom-core outfit)? We shin up there!
And have an eavesdrop on the life and times of pirate Captain Edward England
CROSS-PROMOTION KLAXON!
We have some special guests press-ganged into silly service this week too. Big thanks to Sam & Tom from the That Was Genius Podcast
SFX and Epic Music from the creatures of the deep otherwise known as ZapSplat
The Track Aloha & Aloha by the wonderfully cannon rammed Møme
Struggling for air in the hold, begging for grog with promise of music in return is Scott Buckley
Fiddling with himself, he just won't stop, is Kofi Young
And a big thanks to Danny Bradley for yet more music! We really are pirates.
Friday Mar 19, 2021
Rum for Your Lives! Blackbeard the Pirate part Two (or Episode 27)
Friday Mar 19, 2021
Friday Mar 19, 2021
Sequel Me Silly Timbers mate!
Them Silly History Coves is back...wi the conclusion by the powers!
Daring blockades, kidnap and the world record for headless backstroke await this week in the second part of the tale of Blackbeard the Pirate...which ironically in the same number of bits he ends up it! Spoilers!
Join the scurvy history boys in weevil infested adventure across the high seas and finish the (mostly) true tale of the most famous Pirate of all!
Drink up me hearties yo ho!
Hearty Thanks to Sam Kofi Young for his wonderful score! Kofi Young
Special Thanks to ZapSplat for all the noises of people falling in the water!
And Rob 'Lord Fast Fingers' Tristram for his music!
And more musical thanks for Daniel Bradley
Friday Mar 12, 2021
Captain Blackbeard’s Voyage of Self Promotion
Friday Mar 12, 2021
Friday Mar 12, 2021
To whip up support for part two of his tall tale, Captain Blackbeard is a guest on the popular pirate call-in show 1717 The Locker.
Our host Davey Jones interviews Blackbeard and takes your calls!
Blackbeard Part 2 Coming Soon!
If you've enjoyed The Locker why not rate and review us Silly History Boys? It'll be like striking gold for we boys I tells ya!
Music & SFX care of Zapsplat
Extra Music care of Kofi Young
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
A Right Rum Do: The Tale of Blackbeard the Pirate (or Episode 26)
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
Silly me Timbers! Tis the Silly History Boys Show!
Grab your parrots/patches me hearties and have a pull of mummy's secret rum!
It's the tale of the most feared Pirate of all!
Blackbeard!
Join the scurvy history boys in weevil infested adventure across the high seas and hear the (mostly) true tale of the most famous Pirate of all!
Drink up me hearties yo ho!
Hearty Thanks to Sam Kofi Young for his wonderful score! Kofi Young
Special Thanks to ZapSplat for all the noises of people falling in the water!
And Rob 'Lord Fast Fingers' Tristram for his music!