Series 2, Episode 11

WRITTEN BY:

Dave Cohen, Gerard Foster, Jon Holmes, Greg Jenner, Caroline Norris, Giles Pilbrow, Laurence Rickard, Colin Swash, Ben Ward

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ORIGINAL AIRDATE:

13 July 2010

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SKETCHES:

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Caligula recoups by attacking the sea after forgetting to tell the army about his planned British invasion

Life as a legionary

The plague forecast

Scots warriors don’t notice the glaring flaw in their plan to invade plague-weakened England until it’s too late

An English groom encounters some awkward marriage traditions in “My Big Fat (Medieval Scottish) Wedding”

SONG: Funky Monks: It’s not all work and no play for monks- when the bishop’s not around!

Ready Steady Feast: Comparing the diets of a peasant and pyramid builder

Pyramid Weekly magazine offers a stone-of-the-month scheme (advertisement)

Dodgy War Inventions No. 21: the first ironclad ship (animated)

General Stonewall Jackson shows off his narcolepsy and (many) other eccentricities

Spartan High’s parent/teacher night

Stupid Deaths: Draco

HHTV News: Bob Hale’s Catholic Report

HHTV News: King Henry VIII plays tennis while his Queen Anne Boleyn is executed

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PICTURES:

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SONG:

Funky Monks