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Weird UK history by idiots abroad. Or rather, an idiot and a broad.

Albion

  • Apr 8, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • monthly NEW EPISODES
  • 28m AVG DURATION
  • 16 EPISODES


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S2 // Episode 3: Cycles of Violence

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2020 36:31


Elliott learns that racists are everywhere. Casey learns never to send back a glass of wine. Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/48873611 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton#Personal_life https://www.casquette.co.uk/people/queens-of-pain-beryl-burton https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/13/tour-de-france-beryl-burton http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/government/scholastica.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/10/day-1355-university-fracas-ends-93-dead-birth-600-year-long/ https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9200746.rioting-wine-led-90-deaths/

S2 // Episode 2: Flea the Crime Scene

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2020 35:59


Grannies out here making bank, and all ya'll care about is the sharp end of an egg. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/women-of-the-plague/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-strangest-weird-laws-enforced-christopher-sargeant-sturgeon-armour-a7232586.html https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/laws-uk-weird-door-knock-12755849 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17610820 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/calls-for-dead-laws-to-be-repealed-7618201.html

S2 // Episode 1: This Fucking Guy

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2020 47:12


A monarch with a penchant for fertile uteri, plus a pair of innkeepers with a nasty whisky habit, they'll all soon learn that murder is the solution to any problem.

S1 // Episode 12: Fun Times in Prison, Funner Times in Hospital

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2020 40:04


Need to shed a few pounds before mankini season? Try the hot new incarceration diet, and if that doesn't work, try chopping your balls off.

S1 // Episode 11: Butt Tobacco & Milky Pudding

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2020 32:41


Half the nation is fleeing workhouses by any means necessary, while the other half is wearing 6 coats and ripping up lawns. Classic.

S1 // Episode 10: Ol' Hard Face & the Pewter Tray

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2020 29:38


Harry wasn't the first royal to flee the throne, and your sister Peggy's bachelorette party wasn't the first penis straw.

S1 // Episode 9: Free Beer and Loose Women

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2019 23:31


London is a murderous place to be, whether you're a 1950's single mother with killer legs, or a 19th century servant girl drowning in all the hard work.

S1 // Episode 8: Two Wheel Thrills To Titty Hill

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2019 26:28


Hen on a hog with a one-way ticket to Shitterton. It doesn't make sense now, but it will. Elspeth Beard mini-doc: https://vimeo.com/256934157

S1 // Episode 7: Gummy Pranksgiving

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2019 27:28


The troubles that women take for beauty will amaze you. The laughs that rich men feel entitled to will not.

S1 // Episode 6: Boss Baby Monarch & The Great Stink

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2019 32:11


White wine baths and petticoat dogs. Poopoo paths and tunnel hogs. This is England, ok.

S1 // Episode 5: Greasy Johnny's Backalley Blubber Bonanza

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2019 29:09


Make a few bob splooshing a half litre of soapy water in a vagine, or hire a brass band to play off an autopsy. Baby's gotta hustle before it's too late.

S1 // Episode 4: Cry-Me-A Driveller

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2019 30:52


A story about the mother of modern nursing, and the Cotswaldian athletic prowess that puts the sober to shame. EPISODE GLOSSARY DRIVELLER - stick 2-3 ft long DWILE - wet wash rag ELLIOTT - total gimp FLONK/FLONKER - to play, player GAZUNDER - chamber pot full of ale, from "goes-under the bed" GIRTING - dancing in a circle, ring-around-the-rosie JOBANOWL - referee, a dull-witted person MORTHER - body hit RIPPER - leg hit SNURD - team SWADGE - missed play, penalty WANTON - head hit

S1 // Episode 3: The Greatest and Most Destructive Buffet Of All Time

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2019 27:31


Witchpickers, Pizza Hut, and Zoophagy. Oh my!

S1 // Episode 2: Secretion Intelligence

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2019 21:25


Many profound discoveries have been accomplished by the best minds of our time. Penicillin, the combustion engine, the hormonal contraception pill, and the clearance pages of Argos. Among them is MI6's disappearing ink, and an appreciation for why it was quickly retired. For more reading on the Tuam Mother & Baby Home, visit: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/07/europe/ireland-mother-and-baby-homes-intl/index.html

S1 // Episode 1: Hartlepool is Bananas

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2019 13:23


Women doing the sportsing, that's preposterous! Then things get weird when a foreigner washes up on a beach with no trace of his past.

Introducing Albion: Series 1

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2019 0:52


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