Heracles? How Do You Like Them Golden Apples (of the Hesperides)? (or Episode 107)
Apples yeah? Everyone LOVES apples. But imagine if they were GOLD! OMGeeees you'd never have to work again.
Where was I? Oh yeah, HERACLES!
Everyone's fave, yet troubled demigod has yet another labour.
To steal the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
We'll meet giant men at the space gym. A dude what is tied to a mountain, and yet MORE sons of Poseidon.
Enchanted apple pie for ZapSplat for Music & SFX
Burn your mouth off apple turnover for extra SFX by FreeSFX
and the whole run of the mythical garden and all the sin he can eat goes to Scott Buckley for his amazing apple (not apple) related music.
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The Lambton Wyrm or John Lambton's The Thing (or Episode 106)
The Lambton Wyrm a medieval monster tail...gets the Silly treatment!
The Silly History boys are ‘wyrm-ing’ their way back into your affections with a monstrous medieval legend…the Lambton Wyrm!
John Lambton is a little Geordie scamp who loves nothing better than going fishing with his best mate Gazza*.
UNTIL he fishes a DRAGON out of the river Weir...we blame water companies!
Cue an adventure of terrifying monsters, terrifying accents** and the terrifying notion of taking responsibility for your actions!***
Music & SFX by ZapSplat
Strings by Jonny Dyer
Extra music by Scott Buckley
Extra Extra music by Futuremono & The Soundings
Extra Extra Extra music by Shane Ivers at Silverman Sounds
*is it that Gazza? You'll have to find out, will he bring the Dragon some chicken?
**Sorry Northumberland
***Yes that could be another crack at the Water Companies
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Colonel Blood and Crown Jewels Robbery of 1671
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!
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!
Then follow our gang of very silly rascals to to dreaded Tower of London itself!
Will the crown of England be theirs....or has someone failed to bring an adequate bag
Join us the Silly history boys for the funniest trip to the 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!
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.
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Colonel Blood Returns
Colonel Blood and the Crown Jewels Robbery of 1671 is this weeks silly offering to you fine folk!
Marvel at the unabridged, hands down silliest robbery in History!
Yes....alright you've heard it before.
Sorry.
We have been a bit busy running about this month...new episodes will be forth coming!
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Exit the Dragon Gruffydd ap Llewellyn part 3 (or Episode 105)
Exit the Dragon…in which the Last King of Wales soars to his highest and…well you’ll see.
The Third branch of the tale of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn see the King of Killer Wales assemble an army of outbreak-able shields and unmanageable accents!
AND UNITE WALES!
And for an encore takes on the Norman Hordes and their suffering Saxon allies in a massive equestrian accident called…the Battle of Hereford!
Its a Good win for Griff…but unfortunately there’s a more than one Godwin this week!
Join the Silly History Boys for a Wales of a time!
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TIDY!
The Glory of old Rome belong to Farya Faraji for his track the Sons of Mars.
Dioch to Puremusic
Dioch to Tuttkile
And of course to ZapSplat for scrums and scrapping noises!
And big sweaty cutch for Time Travelling musicologists Jonny and Vicky at Sounds of Time!
Tom Jones turns his chair round for Lord fast Fingers for the Silly History Boys show theme!
And big up to Dan Danny Bradley of Daniel Bradley Music
A Chippy lane black card for Jez Hewitt's incredible Epic Version of Sosban Fach!
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!
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