The Silly History Boys Show

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! 

Hardtack and Think of England; Edward England and the Golden Age of Piracy (or Episode 28)

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.

Rum for Your Lives! Blackbeard the Pirate part Two (or Episode 27)

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

A Right Rum Do: The Tale of Blackbeard the Pirate (or Episode 26)

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!

 

Guns N Rogues Is (The Title We Wanted But The Pun Is Awfully Laboured) (or Episode 25)

Join us as we take a trip down memory lane... a lane filled with gun-wielding criminals who'll rob you and leave you in a ditch.

That's right! Highwaymen!

This week is a literal rogues gallery as we tell the tales of our favourite highway ne'er-do-wells!

Thanks to Scott Buckley for the songs 'Pomp and Celebration' and 'Legend of Kvothe'.

Thanks to Lord Fastfingers (as ever) for our theme tune and other musics.

Thanks to John Bartmann for even more music. So much music.

Thanks to Zapsplat for bells, whistles, bangs and thumps.

If you like the show please leave a comment and a rating, then tell all your friends. Then tell your acquaintances, work colleagues and enemies too. Thanks.

Highway to Hull: The Real Story of Turpin (or Episode 24)

We're back!

Join us as we hit the ground running (from the authorities) to start season two!

This week we travel to the 18th Century and examine the story of Mr Richard 'Dick' Turpin with a fine (silly) toothed comb.

Gunfights! Silly voices! Mugging! It's all here for you to enjoy!

Thanks to ZapSplat for SFX and music.

Thanks to Scott Buckley for the songs 'Descent' and 'Legionary'.

and thanks, as ever, to Rob 'Lord Fastfingers' Tristram for his music.

Compose Yourself Man. It’s Christmas! (or Episode 23)

A festive "gift" from the Silly History Boys! Or a stocking of coal. You choose.

It's the Totally (totally not) True (highly fictitious) Tale (incoherent rambling of a madman) of the inception (twentieth or so version) of the famed Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Frederic Austin 1909 version of course. I mean who do you take us for?)

Clinks and clangs from the SFX elf's at ZapSplat

And extra music from the bringer of tidings of comfort and joy Scott Buckley

 

Oh ho ho Merry Christmas?

ANY ACTUAL NAMES OR LIKENESSES TO CELEBRATED COMPOSERS ARE USED IN A FICTITIOUS AND SILLY MANNER

Troy 2 Troy Harder; Greeks part 3 (or Episode 22)

It's the last of our episodes on Ancient Greece (for now) and the conclusion of our retelling of the Trojan War.

Mighty duels, heroic deeds, the end of an entire city (SPOILERS) and, of course, silliness.

Thanks to Zapsplat for the fabulous SFX

Thanks to Scott Buckley from ScottBuckley for the songs 'The Old Ones', 'March of Midnight', 'Catalyst', 'Inflection' and the appropriately entitled 'Helios' (He's the Greek God of the sun you know...)

Super-mega-ultra thanks to the brilliant Henry Mahy and his mighty BattleForge Productions for the song 'Through Fire and War'.

 

Live Free Or Die Troying; Greeks part 2 (or Episode 21)

Oh listener! How do you feel about Squabbling Gods, Trojan wife stealers and the Crushing Anxiety of Zeus that may or may not have huge repercussions throughout the entirety of our History? Well ok, our Mythtory.

Let us tell you the Totes True Tale of Troy in Two Tellings! Told with a wink and a nod and some totally bodacious dudes! Wait, wuhhhh?

 

Thanks to Zapsplat for tings and tangs and the most excellent BattleForge for a sweet musical piece that would make the most hardened Spartan weep with intense joy and ecstasy.

Overwhelmed and confused? Good. Lets Go!

Spartan Is Such Sweet Sorrow; Greeks part 1 (or Episode 20)

This week we Silly History Boys are taking you to Ancient Greece. To Thermopylae via Sparta to be more specific.

What's that? The movie 300 has already perfectly encapsulated the drama and action that took place at the Hot Gates?

Not like this it didn't.

We've got waaaay more slow motion sequences.

Family friendly, fun and, of course...

Silly.

 

Thanks to Zapsplat for the SFX and music

Thanks to Scott Buckley for the songs 'Titan' 'Fate and Fortune' and 'March of the Old Ones'

Thanks to LZtv Entertainment for the song 'Pleasure and Sin' by Sinyells

 

 

Big Knight Out; William Marshall part 3 (or Episode 19)

Sir William Marshall! What a Knight!

Five Kings, five hundred men bested in combat and more than five decades of service for England’s foremost  ‘man in a can with a plan’.

But only three episodes?! Silly!

In this weeks final part of the trilogy the Silly History boys have stripped out the Ewoks and replaced them with ‘death for breakfast’, a Grandma with a cross bow and a really really steep hill!

Join us! As we bid farewell to a great Knight with William’s Marshall’s greatest triumph. The Battle of Lincoln...but at the age of Seventy will he reach the end of it? 

Not telling you! You’ll have to tune in till at least thirty mins in!

 

Thanks to Zapsplat for the clunks and clicks!

The Morning After the Knight Before; William Marshall part 2 (or Episode 18)

The Tale of William Marshall Part Two

A sprawling epic of tournaments, toilets and tragedy across the Angevin empire!

Join your hero and ours William Marshal, the greatest Knight in English history since the Silly History boys Bretton Hall section defeated East 15 in a dance thrown down!

Will he escape that dungeon from last week? Did medieval toilets have flushes and are the Silly History Boys famous yet?

Well you're reading this so no!

 

Thanks to those great guys at ZapSplat for all their noises

Danny Bradley and Lord Fast Fingers for their musical talents!

 

A Knight to Remember; William Marshall part 1 (or Episode 17)

Have at thee listener! Tired of living real history?!

Us too, so why not join the Silly History Boys on a Knight out?

Melee's, montages and medieval hair metal abounds as those very Silly boys tell the true tale of England's greatest Knight William Marshall!

A man so heroic that we've given him the full Hollywood treatment!

Thanks as Always to Zapsplat for their rather excellent free sounds and to Dan Bradley and Lord Fast Fingers for their banging music!

HAVE AT THEE!!!!!!

 

 

Hallo-any one home?-ween (or Episode 16)

Watch out, it's the Halloween special!

An episode so utterly terrifying you'll require spare underpants directly to hand at all times, and so completely chilling your teeth will smash to bits from chattering...

...is probably what we should have done but, seeing as we're the Silly History Boys, we didn't. Instead we made this.

Two scary stories about ghosts, but we've swapped the scary bits for silly bits.

Thanks to ZapSplat for the SFX

Thanks also to Scott Buckley for the brilliant music.

Saint Simeon - Don’t Cramp My Style(ites); The Saints part 3 (or Episode 15)

It's Part 3 of our Saints Trilogy you naughty sinners.

Will our Hellish Demons BeezleBobBob, Pear Beur and TombOse succeed in raising the Dark Master Lucy? (he hates being called that)

Will dear Uncle Bilbo survive to see another majestic sunrise?

Will Myth & Legends Management add to their roster of Saints? Spoilers. It's Saint Simeon.

Will people forgive us for a show within a show within a show?

We'll never know!!!

 

Eternal Thanks to the real Saints at Zapsplat for music & SFX

 

Joan of Arc-Three Times in the Fire - The Dauphinative Story of; The Saints part 2 (or Episode 14)

Saints alive its....Joan of Arc!

The ordinary French/Jane Horrocks who helped free a nation!

Can M&L Management land the massive signing of a genuine true legend in Joan of Arc?

And perhaps more to the point will Uncle Bilbo be able to rescue the rest of the silly history boys from the forces of the seven hells....

Big thanks to Lord Fast Fingers and the nice people at Zapsplat for all their wonderful noises!

 

Saint George Is Cross; The Saints part 1 (or Episode 13)

"Welcome to M&L Management". Take a peek into the cut-throat world responsible for representing the finest Myths & Legends to have walked, fought and died heroically for you! Aren't you grateful? Doubt it.

Our Agents now take on the mammoth task of deciding with whom to work.

Will it be St George?

Or Saint George?

We promise much glitz, glamour and shouting!

 

And at SHB Towers the Silly Boys have to deal with some unwanted guests. It's a DVD clutching, Fanta soaked power hour!

This may get weird for our thirteenth show. Unlucky for some?

 

Thanks to the Angels at Zapsplat for SFX & Music

Additional music by Lord Fast Fingers, Funny The Jester and John Bartmann