Elliott learns that racists are everywhere. Casey learns never to send back a glass of wine.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/48873611 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/48873611)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton#Personal_life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton#Personal_life)
https://www.casquette.co.uk/people/queens-of-pain-beryl-burton (https://www.casquette.co.uk/people/queens-of-pain-beryl-burton)
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/13/tour-de-france-beryl-burton (https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/13/tour-de-france-beryl-burton)
http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/government/scholastica.html (http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/government/scholastica.html)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/10/day-1355-university-fracas-ends-93-dead-birth-600-year-long/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/10/day-1355-university-fracas-ends-93-dead-birth-600-year-long/)
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9200746.rioting-wine-led-90-deaths/ (https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9200746.rioting-wine-led-90-deaths/)
23 Mar 2020
S2 // Episode 2: Flea the Crime Scene
Grannies out here making bank, and all ya'll care about is the sharp end of an egg.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London)
https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/women-of-the-plague/ (https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/women-of-the-plague/)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-strangest-weird-laws-enforced-christopher-sargeant-sturgeon-armour-a7232586.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-strangest-weird-laws-enforced-christopher-sargeant-sturgeon-armour-a7232586.html)
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/laws-uk-weird-door-knock-12755849 (https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/laws-uk-weird-door-knock-12755849)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17610820 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17610820)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/calls-for-dead-laws-to-be-repealed-7618201.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/calls-for-dead-laws-to-be-repealed-7618201.html)
2 Mar 2020
S2 // Episode 1: This Fucking Guy
A monarch with a penchant for fertile uteri, plus a pair of innkeepers with a nasty whisky habit, they'll all soon learn that murder is the solution to any problem.
16 Feb 2020
S1 // Episode 12: Fun Times in Prison, Funner Times in Hospital
Need to shed a few pounds before mankini season? Try the hot new incarceration diet, and if that doesn't work, try chopping your balls off.
29 Jan 2020
S1 // Episode 11: Butt Tobacco & Milky Pudding
Half the nation is fleeing workhouses by any means necessary, while the other half is wearing 6 coats and ripping up lawns. Classic.
17 Jan 2020
S1 // Episode 10: Ol' Hard Face & the Pewter Tray
Harry wasn't the first royal to flee the throne, and your sister Peggy's bachelorette party wasn't the first penis straw.
31 Dec 2019
S1 // Episode 9: Free Beer and Loose Women
London is a murderous place to be, whether you're a 1950's single mother with killer legs, or a 19th century servant girl drowning in all the hard work.
5 Dec 2019
S1 // Episode 8: Two Wheel Thrills To Titty Hill
Hen on a hog with a one-way ticket to Shitterton. It doesn't make sense now, but it will.
Elspeth Beard mini-doc:
https://vimeo.com/256934157 (https://vimeo.com/256934157)
20 Nov 2019
S1 // Episode 7: Gummy Pranksgiving
The troubles that women take for beauty will amaze you. The laughs that rich men feel entitled to will not.
6 Nov 2019
S1 // Episode 6: Boss Baby Monarch & The Great Stink
White wine baths and petticoat dogs. Poopoo paths and tunnel hogs.
This is England, ok.
Make a few bob splooshing a half litre of soapy water in a vagine, or hire a brass band to play off an autopsy. Baby's gotta hustle before it's too late.
9 Oct 2019
S1 // Episode 4: Cry-Me-A Driveller
A story about the mother of modern nursing, and the Cotswaldian athletic prowess that puts the sober to shame.
EPISODE GLOSSARY
DRIVELLER - stick 2-3 ft long
DWILE - wet wash rag
ELLIOTT - total gimp
FLONK/FLONKER - to play, player
GAZUNDER - chamber pot full of ale, from "goes-under the bed"
GIRTING - dancing in a circle, ring-around-the-rosie
JOBANOWL - referee, a dull-witted person
MORTHER - body hit
RIPPER - leg hit
SNURD - team
SWADGE - missed play, penalty
WANTON - head hit
26 Sept 2019
S1 // Episode 3: The Greatest and Most Destructive Buffet Of All Time
Witchpickers, Pizza Hut, and Zoophagy. Oh my!
11 Sept 2019
S1 // Episode 2: Secretion Intelligence
Many profound discoveries have been accomplished by the best minds of our time. Penicillin, the combustion engine, the hormonal contraception pill, and the clearance pages of Argos. Among them is MI6's disappearing ink, and an appreciation for why it was quickly retired.
For more reading on the Tuam Mother & Baby Home, visit:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/07/europe/ireland-mother-and-baby-homes-intl/index.html (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/07/europe/ireland-mother-and-baby-homes-intl/index.html)
28 Aug 2019
S1 // Episode 1: Hartlepool is Bananas
Women doing the sportsing, that's preposterous! Then things get weird when a foreigner washes up on a beach with no trace of his past.
25 Aug 2019
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