Mostly Unsung

About Mostly Unsung

The weekly comedy history podcast that brings you bitesize biographies of the extraordinary, eccentric, outrageous and occasionally ordinary lives that until now have gone mostly unsung... mostly. Join your hosts Annie and Andrea as they bring you stories that your history teacher never taught you! If you like stuffy lectures then you're not going to be a fan, sorry! But if you are looking to hang out with two old friends who love story telling, a good laugh and forgotten figures from history then welcome! Covering everything from scientists to Grandmothers, survivors of wars to eccentric millionaires, all via ghost stories, anecdotes and terrible impressions of Hollywood legend Tim Curry. Come and hang out, have a giggle and join us every Friday.

Publisher

Mostly Unsung

Category

comedy · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 May 2025

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

80 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   #77 The Ballerina Street Rat & The Darling of the Seas (Marie van Goethem & Grace Darling)

   Welcome back to Mostly Unsung, the weekly comedy history podcast where Annie and Andrea uncover the fascinating people and forgotten stories your history teacher probably never mentioned! First up Andrea is telling the tragic story of Marie van Goethem, the young Parisian dancer who became immortalised in one of the most famous sculptures in art history. A student at the Paris Opera Ballet, Marie was the model for Edgar Degas’s controversial Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. But behind the famous ...

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   #76 The Legendary Black Lawman of the Wild West & The Heartbroken Woman Who Fought For All Children (Bass Reeves & Eglantyne Jebb)

   Welcome back to Mostly Unsung the weekly comedy history podcast where Annie and Andrea bring you two bite-sized biographies about the fascinating people history forgot! First Annie heads to the American Wild West to meet Bass Reeves, one of the most remarkable lawmen of the era. Born into slavery, Reeves went on to become a legendary U.S. Deputy Marshal, working across the vast and often lawless Oklahoma Territory. He arrested thousands of suspects, faced some seriously dangerous situations, ...

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   A Special Edition of Nonsense!!

   This week on Mostly Unsung, your weekly, comedy history podcast Annie and Andrea only went on holiday! Not together we hasten to add, we do sometimes do stuff without each other. We didn't like to leave you dear listeners with none of our usual nonsense to brighten your week and so may we present our SECOND EVER OUT TAKES REEL!! All the drama bought to you for your enjoyment: the arguments, the Igloo collapsing, a debate on cruise ships and Andrea having to get ice cubes like A DORK. We'll be...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

66

Social presence

90

YouTube

0

Engagement

32