A weekly history based podcast where we discuss lesser known moments from the past, or shine a new light on famous events, in our own distinctive British way.
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
This episode Lorna tells the story of the clairvoyant Cheiro who read the palms of many famous people. She also really struggles to pronounce Cheiro and about a dozen other words this episode which is really just super professional.
Was he genuine or just a con man? You decide!
Get ready for some great anecdotes too like Lorna meeting a real life fortune teller and Matt crying when he googled the year he was going to die!
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Wednesday Oct 04, 2017
Wednesday Oct 04, 2017
It’s Innes’ turn this week and he delves into the mystery behind the Easter Island heads, armed with bad puns and quite a lot of actual facts for him! Why did they make giant heads? How did they move them? All these fascinating questions are answered in this very podcast!
Also there’s a lot of talk about giant rats this episode which I guess is fun.
We’ve got our new favourite segment too: The Big Question!
Enjoy!
It feels like I have to write disclaimers every week now. We don’t own any rights to the Night at the Museum video we used.
Twitter: @IdiotHistoryPod
Email: IdiotHistoryPod@gmail.com
Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17 @lornabarryy @InnesJackson
Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Matt reports this week on the fascinating story of the hero Leif Tronstad and a group of Norwegian saboteurs who took on Hitler. Our boy Matt struggles with the science side of the tale but we forgive him because it’s a history podcast after all!
A phone call interrupted this episode, and we had to cut 10 minutes of fabulous gossiping out! If you can spot the cut we’ll send you a free box of Krave!
And of course as always we round out the episode by asking the Big Question:
Would we have coped in the freezing wilderness?
Definitely not Matt. And Lorna’s optimism would’ve grated on Innes no doubt.
Twitter: @IdiotHistoryPod
Email: IdiotHistoryPod@gmail.com
Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17 @lornabarryy @InnesJackson
Wednesday Sep 20, 2017
Wednesday Sep 20, 2017
Lorna talks us through the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus and the subsequent Papal Bull Inter caetera and the Treaty of Tordesillas. That’s a lot to get through in fifty minutes! As well as all that historical goodness for your bellies, we’ve got a couple of added treats for you:
Matt makes the same (edit: unfunny) joke three times.
We realise none of us quite understand Mexican food.
And put simply, Lorna asks us to guess too many dates.
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Email: IdiotHistoryPod@gmail.com
Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17 @lornabarryy @InnesJackson
Wednesday Sep 13, 2017
Wednesday Sep 13, 2017
This week’s story really does have everything: Pirates! Prostitution! China! Drama! Tragedy! Twists! And Lorna has a really good hearty laugh at Innes’ face (it is a funny face).
If that’s not enough to get you on board we have special guest Dan, who has a real degree in something real, so that’s a selling point I guess.
Pure Speculation (everybody’s favourite!) comes into play as per usual when Innes fails to understand his own story.
Disclaimer – We are not promoting any of the products mentioned on this episode – GU desserts, Krave, badassoftheweek.com; although all are great (maybe?).
Twitter: @IdiotHistoryPod
Email: IdiotHistoryPod@gmail.com
Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17 @lornabarryy @InnesJackson
Wednesday Sep 06, 2017
Wednesday Sep 06, 2017
This week we travel back to Ancient Egypt for a report from Matt. He talks us through Ramses II’s famous Battle of Kadesh. Did he win, lose, draw? Find out!
If you stopped reading there: he drew. Or lost I guess. Or won? I’m not sure.
Ancient times means BC/BCE by the way. Wow dates are so confusing aren’t they?! Who knew?!
We also let Innes do the end of episode plugs this week which was a wonderful car crash, much like this episode description in fact. Enjoy!
Find our real plugs below!
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Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17 @lornabarryy @InnesJackson
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
It’s Lorna’s turn to teach us something this week and she’s chosen WWII tragedy, Operation Tiger. To try and lighten the mood, the group chat about their own dreadful boating experiences and Matt continuously gets confused by Devon and Dover. And as always, important historical questions are answered such as:
What role would we have had in the D-Day landings?
And why is Innes choosing a pedalo as his mode of transport?!
Twitter: @IdiotHistoryPod
Email: IdiotHistoryPod@gmail.com
Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17 @lornabarryy @InnesJackson
Wednesday Aug 23, 2017
Wednesday Aug 23, 2017
This week Innes grabs his axe and a handful of unreliable poems to tell us the tale of Viking Eric Bloodaxe. When facts fail us we once more lean on our favourite historical technique: Pure Speculation!
Don’t worry we address the most vital of questions:
Which one of us would’ve fared best in a Viking village?
If we had to invade Norway today which (obscure) celebrities would we take with us?
And finally, what would our own personal Valhalla look like?
Twitter: @IdiotHistoryPod
Email: IdiotHistoryPod@gmail.com
Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17 @lornabarryy @InnesJackson
Wednesday Aug 23, 2017
Wednesday Aug 23, 2017
This episode we travel back to 17th Century Europe and catch up with Louis XIV and his Palace of Versailles. Matt leads us through the statues, the Hall of Mirrors and even the daily routine of the notoriously vain king. We then try to create our own famous quotes to adorn our own imaginary palaces, and get particularly stuck on one of Innes’ about pugs, pubs and beds.
Twitter: @IdiotHistoryPod
Email: IdiotHistoryPod@gmail.com
Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17 @lornabarryy @InnesJackson
Wednesday Aug 23, 2017
Wednesday Aug 23, 2017
In this episode Lorna takes us back to 1955 and the incredibly brave tale of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Innes gets in on the action with his own story about a spitting man and a baby on a Glaswegian bus and we all get a little confused by parents calling their children their own name.
Twitter: @IdiotHistoryPod
Email: IdiotHistoryPod@gmail.com
Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17 @lornabarryy @InnesJackson