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The Canterbury Fails — 70 episodes

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1

Hereward the Wake: Neofascist Guerrilla Resistance Lackey

2

Pride of Life: Life will Never Die! and a Layered Toasty Citrus Special

3

Rising of 1381: A 'Florlegium' of 'Rebellious' 'Literature' and a Spiced Apple Brandy 'Cocktail'

4

Peterborough Chronicle: So Much Pain and Woe--and that's just the drink

5

Richard the Redeless: Terrible Poem Terrible Drink

6

Old English Daniel: Minds Destroyed - Belshazzar's and Matt and David's

7

The Knight's Tale and a Tropical Planet: Canonical and Imperial Despite or Because its Art

8

The Old English Verse Genesis: Shiny Satan and Apple Brandy Power

9

The Trotula: Medical Cures for Women and a Murky Bilge Flower Drink

10

Cynewulf's Elene: Troubling True Cross and a Licorice-Lemon Quaff

11

Special Episode: Siân Echard and Alexandra Gillespie on Thomas Gascoigne's Precepts

12

Gower's Virginius and Chaucer's Physician's Tale: The Commons and the Creeps

13

Beowulf: Imperial Epic / Insurgent Poetry

14

5ails 5ive: the Antifascist Middle Ages

15

Kalamazoo Fails 3

16

Thre Prestis of Peblis: Threefold Bait and Switch with a Mid Whisky Sour

17

Proverb from Winfrid's Time: A Macronic Prosimetric Shorty with a Burly and Surly Complexity of a Drink

18

Money, Money, Money: A Dour maybe-anti-Money poem and a gross drink you might have had stealing liquor from your parents

19

Ælfric's Mid-Lent Sunday: Stirring Metaphors and a Stirred Drink

20

Insta-Fails: Four Middle English Lyrics and Four Breweries

21

The Rime of King William: Chonky Anglais Fizz and Angry Rhyming Couplets

22

The Fraternity of Drinkers: Initiation Rites with Quarts of English Ale

23

Ælfric's Homily on the Nativity: Invisible Wolf and Thicc-Dranks

24

On the Corruptions of the Times: Bad Poetry, Matt Weeps, and a Pencil Shaving Cocktail

25

A Voice Crying Out and a Fortified City: Old English Prose Psalm 30

26

The Juggler and the Baron's Daughter: Dicey Magic Seduction and a Citrusy Gin Bomb

27

Old English Saint Pantaleon: Dumb Ways to Die

28

How the Plague Was Ceased at Rome: Shoddy Sticky Bun and Fungal Bourbon

29

Kalamazoo Fails II

30

Capture of the Five Boroughs: Political Lackeyism (or how to kiss Edmund's heroic ass)

31

Feast of Tottenham: Impossible Food in a Bad Parody

32

Wulfstan On Isaiah's Visions: David and Matt Wander East Van Breweries

33

Bird with Four Feathers: Flimsy Penitential Allegory and Repugnant HubbaBubba Juice

34

Old English Hexameron: Creation and Libation!

35

Jack and his Stepdame: Explosive Farts and Compulsive Dancing

36

Special Episode: The Pastons

37

Peri Didaxeon: How to make yourself blind

38

Special Episode: Beetles, Buttholes and Bowel Movements

39

Complaint Against Fortune: Meh

40

Bede's Death Song: Library Superhero

41

The Colkelbie Sow: Utter Insanity

42

Passion of Saint Maurice: Old English Carnage

43

Tale of the Five Beasts: Scots Goodness

44

Enigmatic Cryptography Incest Riddle

45

A Very Special Episode Live from the International Congress on Medieval Studies

46

A Delightful Rustic Burlesque Tournament

47

An Old English Poem about Bones Cooked by Cooks in a Cooking Pan

48

A Description of Man's Members (really!)

49

The Old English Chrodegang

50

Very Special Episode: Council of Trees and the Knight's Tale

51

Rats Away! A Middle English Charm

52

Excommunication! Curses! Woe!

53

The Book of Quint Essence

54

Lorica of Laidcenn

55

WPHP Monthly Mercury x Canterbury Fails: MONKS !!!

56

Voice Crying in the Wilderness

57

The Babee's Boke

58

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT plus two micro-fails and hotdogwater beer

59

A wayle whyt as whalles bone

60

Whitsunday (Tongues of Fire and a Dove)

61

A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle

62

Adrian and Ritheus

63

Adam Davy's Dreams

64

Old English Boethius Meter 30

65

A Talk of Ten Wives on their Husbands' Ware

66

Old English Life of Saint Machutus

67

Quatrefoil of Love

68

Kentish Hymn

69

Wright's Chaste Wife

70

Pharaoh