WRITTEN BY:
Dave Cohen, Ali Crockatt, Gerard Foster, Katherine Jakeways, Giles Pilbrow, Steve Punt, Laurence Rickard, David Scott and Ben Ward
ORIGINAL AIRDATE:
18 May 2012
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HHTV News: Mike Peabody live from the last Saxon stronghold on the Isle of Ely
Enjoy hours of fun and conscience-free conquest with Normanopoly (parody of Monopoly)
Diogenes debates life in a barrel with a startled passer-by
Historical Wife Swap: The Tombleby-Pumblechooks of Mayfair swap with the Smikes of the London slums
Belief in various mythological monsters badly complicates a journey
Historical Dates: A peasant doesn’t see why his lack of hygiene should impede his love life
Keelhauling as exfoliating beauty treatment (advertisement)
HHTV Cribs: Blackbeard shows off his ship
Edward VI’s whipping boy, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, faces the wrath of the royal tutors
SONG: Mary I: Mary sings about how her rule became catastrophic, and how she wasn’t really that scary!
PICTURES:
SONG:
“Mary I” (parody of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush).
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