WRITTEN BY:
Lucy Clarke, Dave Cohen, Gerard Foster, Jon Holmes, Greg Jenner, Giles Pilbrow and Laurence Rickard
ORIGINAL AIRDATE:
8 June 2010
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Mad King George III’s royal physicians torture him in the name of treatment
Ready Steady Feast: On the run from the cure, the King pauses to plant a beef loin
Emperor Elagabalus’ Romo Lottery Millions–with luck, your prize won’t be poisonous
Paranoid Emperor Tiberius is suspicious of a Capresi peasant bearing gifts
A farmer hasn’t quite thought through his latest attempt to ward off ghosts
Suggestions for coping with famine
SONG: Blackbeard’s Song: Perilous Pirate Blackbeard sings about he got his fame-and name-in his own song
Stupid Deaths: Clement Vallandingham
Dodgy War Tactics No. 23: Battle of the Crater (animated)
Trepanadol, the surefire headache cure
European and Peruvian tribes compete on “Stone Age Family Fortunes” (parody of Family Fortunes)
Cliff Whiteley– advising Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
Schoolchildren forced to learn by rote turn the tables on their teacher
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SONG:
“Blackbeard’s Song”
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