Series 5 Episode 8

WRITTEN BY:

Dave Cohen, Gerard Foster, Greg Jenner, Giles Pilbrow, Laurence Rickard and Ben Ward

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ORIGINAL AIRDATE:

18 June 2013

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SKETCHES:

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Edward De Vere passes wind in Elizabeth I’s court

Stupid Deaths: Diane de Poitiers

Shouty Man: New! Runic Alphabet

A merchant hawking Old Norse religious relics has to do some fast thinking to cope with the introduction of Christianity

HHTV Sport: Profiling Lily Parr, only female inductee into the Football Hall of Fame

French performance-art sensation Le Pétomane releases–in every sense of the word–his first DVD

George Stephenson makes the case for his railway plans to some very skeptical politicians

SONG

Black Agnes defends against the Earl of Salisbury’s siege of Dunbar Castle

Interbellum hyperinflation complicates an episode of “Who Wants to Be a German Millionaire?” (parody of Wer wird Millionär?)

Gals’ Magazine: Yankee Crazy! Comparing the (very) average British squaddie with a shiny-new American GI

A farmer protests against the building of the Hadrian’s Wall

HH Movie Pitch: Can Julius Caesar’s unconventional rise to power really earn him the first movie deal?

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PICTURES:

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SONG:

“Transportation” (parody of Greased Lightnin’ from Grease).