All Episodes

S1 Ep213: 4th June: Billy Joel v Casanova

S1 Ep212: 3rd June: Mohammad Ali v Franz Kafka

S1 Ep211: 2nd June: Tony Hadley v Rex Harrison

S1 Ep210: 1st June: Marilyn Monroe v Paula Hitler

S1 Ep209: May 31st: Terry Waite v Carla Lane

S1 Ep208: 30th May: Joan of Arc v Antonio Banderas

S1 Ep206: 29th May: Vermeer v Herman Goering

S1 Ep207: 28th May: Space Monkeys v the Spanish Armada

S1 Ep206: 27th May: Siouxsie Sioux v Wild Bill Hickok

S1 Ep205: 26th May: Helena Bonham Carter v The Venerable Bede

S1 Ep204: 25th May: Michael Jordan v Han Solo

S1 Ep203: 24th May: Queen Victoria v Samuel Morse

S1 Ep202: 23rd May: The Dalai Lama v Heinrich Himmler

S1 Ep201: 22nd May: Naomi Campbell v Laurence Olivier

S1 Ep200: 21st May: Daniel Defoe v Nadine Dorries

S1 Ep199: 20th May: Jimmy Stewart v the Vengaboys

S1 Ep198: 19th May: Anne Boleyn v Ogden Nash

S1 Ep197: 18th May: Tina Fey v Miriam Margolyes

S1 Ep196: 17th May: Prince Charles v Frank Gorshin

S1 Ep195: 16th May: Marie Antoinette v Elliot Ness

S1 Ep194: 15th May: Emily Dickinson v Jerry Falwell

S1 Ep193: 14th May: Mark Zuckerberg v B.B. King

S1 Ep192: 13th May: St Julian of Norwich v Stevie Wonder

S1 Ep191: 12th May: Edward Lear v Florence Nightingale

S1 Ep190: 11th May: Bob Marley v Cadburys

S1 Ep189: 10th May: Rudolf Hess v Stonewall Jackson

S1 Ep188: 9th May: Edward I v Vidal Sassoon

S1 Ep187: 8th May: Maurice Sendak v Karl Marx (no, not that Karl Marx)

S1 Ep186: 7th May: Vladimir Putin v macaroni

S1 Ep185: 6th May: They Might Be Giants v Stereolab

S1 Ep184: 5th May: Mussolini v Nellie Bly

S1 Ep183: 4th May: Eric of Pomerania v Eric Sykes

S1 Ep182: 3rd May: William Walker v Douglas Carswell

S1 Ep181: 2nd May: Michael Hordern v The Belgrano

S1 Ep180: 1st May: Diocletian v Queen Victoria

S1 Ep179: 30th April: Richard III v Leslie Grantham

S1 Ep178: 29th April: Joan of Arc v Mohammad Ali

S1 Ep177: 28th April: Billy the Kid v Mussolini

S1 Ep176: 27th April: Mumtaz Mahal v Barbie

S1 Ep175: 26th April: General Franco v Melania Trump

S1 Ep174: 25th April: Ella Fitzgerald v the Queen Mum (gawd bless 'er)

S1 Ep173: 24th April: Ernest Shackleton v Shirley Maclaine

S1 Ep172: 23rd April: William Shakespeare v William Shakespeare

S1 Ep171: 22nd April: Richard Nixon v Heinrich Assman

S1 Ep170: 21st April: Haile Selassie v Tony Danza

S1 Ep169: 20th April: Oliver Cromwell v Enoch Powell

S1 Ep168: 19th April: Mae West v Belgium

S1 Ep167: 18th April: Aaarghthelbert v Evil Edna

S1 Ep166: 17th April: The Supreme Court v the most exciting story of all time!

S1 Ep165: 16th April: King Jan the Mad v Kourtney Kardashian

S1 Ep164: 15th April: Guru Nanak v Dr Johnson

S1 Ep163: 14th April: HMS Titanic v ZIP files

S1 Ep162: 13th April: Jallianwalah Bagh v Tom Hanks

S1 Ep161: 12th April: Shirley Temple v Edwin of Northumberland

S1 Ep160: 11th April: Kurt Vonnegut v the Brixton Riots

S1 Ep159: 10th April: Big Ben v the Duke of Savoy

S1 Ep158: 9th April: Dong Zhuo v Isambard Kingdom Brunel

S1 Ep157: 8th April: Kemal Ataturk v Margaret Thatcher

S1 Ep156: 7th April: Matilda v W.K. Kellogg

S1 Ep155: 6th April: ABBA v Myleene Klass

S1 Ep154: 5th April: Alexander Nevsky v the Vickers machine gun

S1 Ep153: 4th April: Piglet v Crufts

S1 Ep152: 3rd April: Woodrow Wilson v Oscar Wilde

S1 Ep151: 2nd April: General Galtieri v Ludwig Bojanus

S1 Ep150: 1st April (really!): Jesus Christ v John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

S1 Ep149: April 1th: Richard Nixon v William Gladstone

S1 Ep148: 31st March: the Fox Sisters v Erik Prince

S1 Ep147: 30th March: Vincent van Gogh v Ronald Reagan

S1 Ep146: 29th March: Richard of York v Warner Baxter

S1 Ep145: 28th March: The Communards v Thomas Clarkson

S1 Ep144: 27th March: Typhoid Mary v coronavirus

S1 Ep143: 26th March: Geraldine Ferraro v Aesop

S1 Ep142: 25th March: Percy Bysshe Shelley v John Lennon

S1 Ep141: 24th March: Richard the Lionheart v Margaret Lindsay Huggins

S1 Ep140: 23rd March: Adolf Hitler v Emperor Paul I

S1 Ep139: 22nd March: Anne Hutchinson v

S1 Ep138: 21st March: Boris Johnson v Rishi Sunak

S1 Ep137: 20th March: Maximinus Thrax v Carl Reiner

S1 Ep136: 19th March: Robert Mugabe v Glenn Close

S1 Ep135: 18th March: The Tolpuddle Martyrs v The Templars

S1 Ep134: 17th March: St Patrick v

S1 Ep133: 16th March: Abraham Lincoln v ghosts

S1 Ep132: 15th March: Julius Caesar v Penny Lancaster

S1 Ep131: 14th March: Gilbert & Sullivan v Jack Ruby

S1 Ep130: 13th March: Ronald Reagan v Uranus

S1 Ep129: 12th March: Gandhi v Graham Coxon

S1 Ep128: 11th March: John Barrowman v Elogabalus

S1 Ep127: 10th March: Robin Thicke v Maud de Lacy

S1 Ep126: 9th March: Adam Smith v loo rolls

S1 Ep125: 8th March: Adam Faith v women

S1 Ep124: 7th March: Ronald McDonald v a Pope

S1 Ep123: 6th March: Norman Rockwell v female cosmonauts

S1 Ep122: 5th March: Henry VII v Rosa Luxemburg

S1 Ep121: 4th March: Pennsylvania v Charlie Chaplin

S1 Ep120: 3rd March: Juan Ponce de Leon v Fatima Whitbread

S1 Ep119: 2nd March: Good King Wenceslas v Lembit Opik

S1 Ep118: 1st March: RESULTS Charles I v Dominic Cummings

S1 Ep117: 29th February: Christopher Columbus v Tintin

S1 Ep116: 28th February: Zero Mostel v the Wombles

S1 Ep115: 27th February: Lord Byron v Leonard Nimoy