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   *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 

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 ofinfo@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.

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!

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! Please do rate and review and why not tell a friend or a neighbour who you one day seek to supplant as the greatest Kingdom in all Britain! Enjoy this rip roaring Norman stomping romp through some little known history? Buy us a Ko-Fi and keep the show going! 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!

Previously on the Silly Boys Show!   Here are Parts 1 and 2 of the tale of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn the last King of Wales.   Part three is on the way but here’s a recap because Uncle Bob Bob is slow at editing! Another deep dip in the dark ages with the Silliest Boys in history! ...this week we're swimming with Wales!   Join us for battles, betrayal, Brummies and boyos as we begin the tale of... Gruffydd ap Llewellyn the Last Action King of Wales!   Can squirty young Griff become King of the Britons because a stew told him he would...or will his wicked Uncle, mean Sister and legions of Mercian Brummies blunt his horns? There only one way to find out...the silly way…tidy!   A cutch for  ZapSplat for music and SFX for this tale from the land of song.   Dioch to Scott Buckley for his epic music.   A peck on the cheek from Katherine Jenkins for Lord Fast Fingers for the intro.   Dioch to Dan Bradley of Dan Bradley music and a Sospan of Cuddles for Jen Hewitt Music!   Come scrum down in our socials Insta & FB @SillyHistoryBoys or buy us some cheese on toast and a SA Dark on Ko-Fi    Listen butt why not give us a rate and review on your chosen platform? You knows it clart!    Thanks all!    SHB

Snuggle up listener! It's time to drift off to sleep with the relaxing tones of The Silly History Boys (well... Bilbo and Pear Bear) and the Enchanting music of Guild of Ambience once again!   This time we're doing Norse stories... which we'll probably end up making full blown episodes one day as they're great fun and full of adventure!   ...but also very relaxing.   Thanks to Guild of Ambience for their track Enchanted Lands Vol 1.

You can't keep history imprisoned for long listener! Join the Silly Boys as they look at a couple of examples of historical great escapes... if you like it we might do more in the future!   Thanks as ever to zapsplat.com for SFX and music Thanks to Scott Buckley for the amazing music Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the intro music ...and thanks to you listener! Now quick - leg it while the guards are distracted!!

No new episode this week folks - we've been running around being Vikings and whatnot for half term! Instead here's an info dump of where we are going to be performing live this year... that's nearly as good as an episode isn't it? Oh, alright, it's not. Don't look at us like that. We'll be back as soon as we can with a fresh episode of squishy and silly history we promise! Until then... k thanks bye!!!!   Thanks to ZapSplat as usual!

Let’s get this labour MOO-ving dear listener! No, it’s not the Cretan Bull again, but the famed red cattle of Geryon! (you remember them kids!) Roll up Roll Up to the poorly lit carousel of slightly different voices – TWENTY-TWO this week! We really need to stop those boys, they’re out of control… Larks of course! The boys do a great job under trying circumstances. Those circumstances being ACTUAL SUBSTANCE to this episodes Myth. We’ll meet Giants! Rando God’s we probably won’t see again! A Herdsmen and his dog (for those fans of Countryfile) And so many demi-gods getting whacked you’d think they’re an endangered species. Big thanks to ZapSplat for music and general screaming Henry Mahy at BattleForge Productions for his sweet track Through Fire and War (which I’m now calling Heracles’ lovely club-spree choon) Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro AND YOU DEAR LISTENER for giving us some support on Kofi ...drat…we’ll get you next time. If you’re unable to kofi, why not give us a rating and review on your chosen podcast platform? Cheers all and happy labouring!

Back once again with the renegade master... of England. It made sense when I started writing it. It's the grand finale of the story of Bad King John STOP CALLING ME THAT! GIVE ME THE KEYBOARD YOU LITTLE PUNK. HEAR THE TALE OF HOW I, JOHN THE GREAT, CONQUERED NOT ONLY EUROPE BUT STUCK IT TO THE POPE TOO. THEY ALL THOUGHT THEY COULD MESS WITH JOHNNY BUT I HAD THE LAST LAUGH. Did you? YES!!! Thanks as ever to Zapsplat for the awesome noises and music. Thanks to Scott Buckley for his incredible music. And thanks to you for listening, Dear Listener!

Uncle Bob Bob is nowhere to be found and the Silly Boys are once again suffering under the lash of ENGLAND'S GREATEST KING! WHO READS THIS RUBBISH ANYWAY? BLAH BLAH BLAH EPISODE CONTENTS BORING. COME AND LISTEN TO MY TALE, ME, JOHN I, BEST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE MONARCH ENGLAND IRELAND AND SCOTLAND AND FRANCE AND WALES HAS EVER KNOWN. Thanks as ever to Zapsplat for the zips and zaps and music. Thanks to Scott Buckley for the music. Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the intro music. And thanks to you for listening!

100 Episodes! Can you even believe it, dear listener?   Also Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!   This week we're telling the tale of KING JOHN THE GREAT WHO WAS SUPER GREAT AND THE BEST KING EVER AND EVERYONE THOUGHT HE WAS MINT   Thanks as ever to Zapsplat and to Scott Buckley for the amazing sfx and music. Thanks to Lord Fastfingers for the Theme Tune And thanks to YOU for listening to over one hundred of these things!    

He’s back in the booth dear listener! It’s Heracles! This week he has to go shopping for a belt, or is it a girdle? Come join our hero, and some of the Argonauts, for the mother of all shopping trips to the Edge of the Known World (accessories dept.) A nice Kate Spade holdall for our friends at ZapSplat Some sort of nice floaty scarf for Lord Fast Fingers for his intro music! Come give us some girdle money on our Ko-fi Check us out on our socials, Insta & Facebook Please do leave us a review, they help they really do!

Pop your jim-jams on dear listener and get ready to be snug as a bug in a rug. It's bedtime 3! Join the Pear Bear as he indulges in some classic tales from the county of Norfolk, in a lovely bedtimey way. Thanks to The Guild of Ambience for the relaxing and snuggly music. Thanks to Hugh Lupton. Nice book sir. Nighty Night!  

The King of Killer Wales rides again! The Second branch of the tale of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn pits our army of idiots against a deluge of dark aged danger!* Waling Mid Walians, lethal Irish Vikings and very Nasty Normans are all set to topple the Last King of Wales from his cheese of toast throne! Will they succeed? Or will the Last Action King of Wales side step them with a surprisingly Saxon alliance with an absolute Svein of a Godwin! Join the Silly History Boys for a Wales of a time! Please do rate and review and why not tell a friend or a neighbour who you one day seek to supplant as the greatest Kingdom in all Britain! Enjoy this rip roaring Norman stomping romp through some little known history? Buy us a Ko-Fi and keep the show going! 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!         *alright early medieval 

Hi Listener, Sometimes it's very hard to make things silly, so this time we're not going to. This is a show Tombo wrote many moons ago after he spoke to some people who were genuinely in the history and did the history... and it wasn't always nice. CONTENT WARNING!!! This episode features actual history where not everyone makes it to the end in an actual serious way that isn't funny. It's really important though, because perhaps if we hear what people in the past had to do we can try and avoid having to do it again... Thanks to Zapsplat for the SFX as always. Thanks to Scott Buckley for his amazing music. Thanks for listening. Remember what others did folks... Then maybe we and our children won't have to do it.

It's spooky season once again, dear Listener, and the Silly Boys are off earning a crust all over the land. Pear Bear and Bob Bob present a pair of ghastly tales to give you the chills.   PREPARE THE BACKUP UNDERPANTS!!!   Thanks to ZapSplat for zips zaps boings and music and thanks Scott Buckley as always for the awesome music.   Happy Halloween!  

Hello Listener you still look jiggered! Come on luv, you’ve worked hard enough, running round pits school yard crying "Surprise! I'm Richard III" (as your mam downloads all the Heracles episodes). Its time to cuddle up in bed with your flat cap…and a story! Continuing our new feature, Bedtime Stories But don’t worry the screeching and explosions will be back next time. For now cosy up with…some Forgotten Yorkshire Folk and Fairy Tales; The Donkey, The Table and The Stick The Potato and the Pig and Potter Thompson Sithee on t'morrow Stories Sourced from Forgotten Yorkshire Folk and Fairy Tales Music used with Kind Permission of the Guild of Ambience.    

Hold your horse’s listener, it’s dinnertime! And Heracles is taking us out on a hot date to the Kingdom of Thrace. But wait- are we the appetiser? On the menu are Wicked Kings, Troubled Gods and Flesh-Eating Horses! Call ahead for a reservation to avoid disappointment!     A big thanks to ZapSplat for scuffles and tussles. A heavily reduced Mount Olympus summer ski-lift pass to Scott Buckley for his tracks The Summoning and Titan. All the veggie porridge Lord Fast Fingers can eat for the intro. Come get us on our Socials (Insta & Facebook) Pay the ferryman for us? No silly, not Charon, but Ko-Fi Please do rate and review and why not tell a friend (or even better, an enemy?)

Another deep dip in the dark ages with the Silliest Boys in history! ...this week we're swimming with Wales! Join us for battles, betrayal, Brummies and boyos as we begin the tale of... Gruffydd ap Llewellyn the Last Action King of Wales! Can squirty young Griff become King of the Britons because a stew told him he would...or will his wicked Uncle, mean Sister and legions of Mercian Brummies blunt his horns? There only one way to find out...the silly way...tidy!   A cutch for  ZapSplat for music and SFX for this tale from the land of song. Dioch to Scott Buckley for his epic music. A peck on the cheek from Katherine Jenkins for Lord Fast Fingers for the intro. Dioch to Dan Bradley of Dan Bradley music and a Sospan of Cuddles for Jen Hewitt Music! Come scrum down in our socials Insta & FB @SillyHistoryBoys or buy us some cheese on toast and a SA Dark on Ko-Fi  Listen butt why not give us a rate and review on your chosen platform? You knows it clart!  Thanks all!  SHB