WRITTEN BY:
Dave Cohen, Gerard Foster, Giles Pilbrow, Steve Punt, Laurence Rickard, Colin Swash and Ben Ward
ORIGINAL AIRDATE:
12 April 2012
SKETCHES:
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Spartans have the battle phalanx down to an art–until the warrior on the end notices a problem
“Pausanias: A True Story” tells the full story of the General’s badly thought-through betrayal (movie trailer)
HHTV News: Mike Peabody live from the Norman siege of Palermo
Stupid Deaths: Gyrth and Leofwine, King Harold II’s brothers, at the Battle of Hastings
Words We Get From The: Normans
The first settlers at Jamestown, Virginia nearly lose the battle with their own naivety in “Colonisation, Colonisation, Colonisation”
SONG
The Fuhrer’s guards refuse to disturb his lie-in for anything–even the news of D-Day
Dodgy War Machines No. 81: Poor toilet planning on the U-Boat(animated)
Historical Apprentice: Team Neanderthal and Team Homo Sapiens vie to demonstrate who’s more advanced
A less-than-ethical ice cream salesman
DI Bones: Historical Crime Squad: The case of the dodgy slum diet
PICTURES:
SONG:
“It’s a New World (Pilgrim Fathers)” (parody of Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keyes)
Horrible Histories TV 