WRITTEN BY:
Lucy Clarke, Dave Cohen, Susie Donkin, Jon Holmes, Greg Jenner, Simon Littlefield, George Poles, Steve Punt and Ben Ward
ORIGINAL AIRDATE:
4 June 2009
SKETCHES:
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Stupid Deaths: Edmund II
Valhalla Tours: Come to England for the burning and pillaging, stay for the plunder!
Ready Steady Feast: Sampling the best in cave foods
Movie Trailer: Fearsome Gaulish leader Vercingetorix is unexpectedly stymied by bad weather in “The Battle of Avaricum”
The invention of decimation as a military punishment
Historical Hairdressers: Hair treatments
Holiday presents demonstrate the many useful uses of dung
This is Georgian Food (parody of Marks & Spencer advertisements)
A Georgian dentist prepares to replace a tooth
Outlining the causes of the war, as simply as possible–that is, not very
The evolution of the fighter plane (animated)
The Peasant’s Revolt is led by the confusingly named Wat Tyler
The rules of chivalry, and more importantly how to find the loopholes
SONG:
“Caveman Love”, 1950’s doo-wop parody.
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