The Silly History Boys Show

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

 

 

A Man For All Caesarns; Julius Caesar part 3 (or Episode XII)

It's the finale of our Caesar trilogy!

This week Caesar will face down all opponents, cross a river, go to Egypt and have a meeting at work that ends terribly for him.

Let the silliness commence!

Special thanks to Zapsplat for their smashing sound effects. 

The Caesarning; Julius Caesar part 2 (or Episode XI)

The tale of Gaius Julius Caesar continues in part two of our trilogy! Caesar is gathering power, fame and notoriety this week... he'd like you to join him!

By 'like' he of course means 'commands you to join him on pain of death'.

SFX by Zapsplat

The song 'Freedom' by Scott Buckley

 

It’s Dangerous to Run with Caesars; Julius Caesar part 1 (or Episode X)

Veni vidi vici friends! Lend us your ears! (and a fiver for Pear Bear).

Part one of our Gaius Julius Caesar trilogy.

Travel back in Time with the Silly History Boys to find out what made GJC the cuddly and benevolent dictator we all know and love today. Why else would they name the cute dog food and the awesome salad after him? 

 

Extra SFX & music sting care of the fine people at Zapsplat

Huge tribute to Lord FastFingers for the intro

Oar-some Samurai Beach Party; Miyamoto Musashi part 3 (or Episode 9)

Part three of the tale of mighty Samurai Miyamoto Musashi!

Smouldering Samurai Musashi gets a shot at the big time when he takes on Sasaki Kojiro a kindly community man who can cut a sofa in half.

Prepare for a trip to the Samurai seaside, with deadly duels, searing sword play and massive artisan breakfasts.

And we finish on a song!

Thanks for additional music from Power Music Factory and TeknoAXE's Royalty Free Music 
“Additional sound effects from Zapsplat

Schools out for Samurai!; Miyamoto Musashi part 2 (or Episode 8)

Part two of the tale of mighty Samurai Miyamoto Musashi!

Our hero emerges from the wild to challenge Japan's greatest sword masters in action packed explosion of duels to the death, musket smoke and frothy coffees!

Viewer discretion; Uncle Bilbo is absolutely smouldering this week!

 

 

Thanks for additional music from Power Music Factory and TeknoAXE's Royalty Free Music

“Additional sound effects from Zapsplat

 

Pretty Fly for a Samurai; Miyamoto Musashi part 1 (or Episode 7)

 

Miyamoto Musashi swordsman, author, terrible hair cut…but all the Geisha’s think he’s pretty fly…for a Samurai!

Join the Silly History Boys for a true legend of old Japan!

Hissing Katana's, duels to the death and grumpy Dads abound in this first episode of our first Samurai trilogy!

 

 

 

 

There’s Norse Such Thing as a Free Lunch; Thor part 3 (or Episode 6)

We close the book on our Thor Trilogy with the Utgarda-Loki Saga.

There' a free dinner up for grabs!

Is Thor strong enough?

Is Thor brave enough?

Is Thor sober enough?

Thanks to ZapSplat for hammer thwacks and body injuries! 

In Like Thrym; Thor part 2 (or Episode 5)

It's episode 5!

In this, the second of our Thor trilogy, the God of Thunder must journey to the realm of Jotunheim to retrieve something most dear to him... but first he's going to have to deal with the King of the Frost Giants!

Shenanigans ahoy! 

ZapSplat we thankyou for letting us hammer murder giants through SFX

Manners Cost Norse King; Thor part 1 (or Episode 4)

The Silly History Boys stride on with vigour and purpose before stubbing their toe right into their Thor Trilogy!

This is a tale of bad manners, anger and mighty combat!

Can Thor keep his head with his gigantic guest and be the host with the most?

Clinks, Clanks & Boings courtesy of Zapsplat