Masters of Our Domain

No Milo this week so Phoebe and Pat are donning their stockings and heading to Sherwood Forest for a dose of British children's TV from the 80s and 90s - Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Expect a fair few digressions. Get this full episode and loads more on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157862905?pr=true Patrick's new book 'Lost Worlds' is out now - available from all good booksellers: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/lost-worlds-patrick-wyman?variant=43084775817250 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

*Due to a glitch this episode is being released on this fee two weeks late (after the Otho episode) but it should have been released on April 20th* Just Milo and Pat this week, cracking into the relatively thin text of the Emperor Galba - the Roman Liz Truss...or was he? Expect an Australian vibes round-up and also some apposite comparisons with the collapsing American empire. Get tons more like this on the Patreon for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo and Phoebe are deep diving into yet another Liz Truss-coded Roman Emperor: Otho. Expect thrills, spills and castrated boy-wives. Get tons more like this on the Patreon for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe is turning the question time tables on Pat this week (Milo will return next week) to indulge her special interest subject: the Tudors, what's their deal and why do we keep making TV and movies about them? Get this full episode and loads more on Patreon here from just $5: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156665259?pr=true Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Pat this week (due to timezones) so Phoebe has lured Milo into her Tudor corner. Expect ruffs to be ruffled and bodices to be ripped. Why does this movie have Eric Cantona in it? Why is Vincent Cassel in a dress? Questions to be answered. Full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/elizabeth-1998-155405351 See Milo on tour in Australia: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe has recorded a new podcast mini-series with friend of the show Dr Eleanor Janega about Season 1 of the Wolf Hall TV show. If you like this episode, you can access all 7 episodes of the limited series for just $15 at: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2087866 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe and Pat are sans-Milo this week and they're doing another carpet time! On this occasion they're doing a Nero spin-off and tackling the subject of ancient entertainment and theatre. Get twice as much of this podcast on Patreon from just $5 a month here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Check out Milo's Australian tour shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are answering your questions! They cover Phoebe's movie taxonomy, ancient chariot races and their podcasting histories, amongst other things. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/154112049/ Come see Milo on tour in Australia, starting in Perth on April 2nd: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows-aus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are back at the Suetonius and this time it's the turn of the Emperor Nero. This episode tackles the big questions: Was Nero the son of the most conniving MILF of all time? Was he the first guy to get an acoustic guitar out at the afters? How do you get the job of arch-poisoner? Listen to find out. Come see Milo on tour in Australia starting April 2nd: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows-aus Support us on Patreon and get loads more episodes just like this for $5 per month, here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe is away this week because she is ill (sorry), but in recompense to you, the listener, Milo and Patrick have gotten together to watch this peculiar Hollyoaks-esque movie about Boudica. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153115449?pr=true Go see Milo on tour in the UK and Australia: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Returning-Champion Josh Boerman (TWOAPW, Ill Conceived) is back on the pod to talk about the bizarrely long-running UK sitcom 'Plebs', set in Ancient Rome. We get into costume vs period and what happens when you try to map modern society onto ancient Rome and also what to do about protecting our supply of BIG BOYS. Check out Josh here: https://www.joshboerman.com/#1-podcasts Support us on Patreon and get loads more episodes just like this for $5 per month, here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Come see Milo on tour in Australia: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Roman legions are being terrified by adherents of WODE-IDEOLOGY. That's right, it's time we had a deep dive on Queen Boudicca (or Boudica, or Boudicea if you're really fruity) - leader of the Iceni tribe who rebelled against Roman rule in Britain in the 60s AD. Milo, Phoebe and Pat get into one of the original conniving MILFs and attempt to separate the myth from the history. Simple as. Get this full episode and loads more on Patreon, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/151732455/ You can find all Milo's tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Patrick and Phoebe are back at the Suetonius. Patrick is in charge this week for Rome's first ever nepo-uncle: Claudius. Sometimes in a palace coup, you just grab the nearest uncle and make him Emperor and if you're really lucky he conquers Britain. Something like that. Milo's Time for Questions show is being taped at Big Belly in London on Wednesday, a few tickets left if you're a London listener: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/milo-edwards-presents-time-for-questions/ Loads more like this on the Patreon from just $5 per month, here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe and Pat are sans-Milo this week, and having a huge amount of fun talking about teenage demigod Percy Jackson. Milo will triumphantly return next week for the Emperor Claudius. Get this full episode (and loads more) on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/150909844?pr=true Milo has upcoming dates in London, Glasgow and Australia here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 1970s Bob Guccione had a simple dream: to make a serious movie about the emperor Caligula with Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud and Peter O'Toole that also had a bunch of porn in it. Champion, fan-favourite and horny-history expert Eleanor Janega returns to the pod to talk about one of the most insane films ever made. Check out Eleanor here: https://eleanorjanega.com/ Go see Milo in London, Ireland and Australia here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Loads more like this on the Patreon from just $5 per month, here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe and Patrick answer your questions about the Early Roman Empire and anything else that stood out to you from the first few episodes of our Twelve Caesars series. Milo will return next week. Get this full episode (and loads more) on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/149588464/ You can see Milo on tour in Leicester, Birmingham, Ireland and Australia here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time for history's greatest statesman, a man so forward thinking he nearly made a horse a consul (or did he?): Gaius Caligula. Expect palace coups, seashells and slightly over-familiar sister relationships. Loads more like this on the Patreon from just $5 per month, here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Come see Milo on tour in Europe, Ireland, the UK and Australia here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is there anything gayer than two straight men? Arguably no, and we have watched a movie that makes that case loud and clear. Join Milo, Phoebe and Pat as they analyse a movie about two Napoleonic cavalry officers who would literally do anything to each other except kiss. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/148524651?pr=true Follow us on socials here: https://linktr.ee/mastersofpod See Milo on tour here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Milo's turn to explain the Emperor Tiberius to Phoebe and Pat. Augustus' adopted son with a bad reputation and his own, ahem, private island. He is also the biological son of the most confusingly named man in history. Expect ancient scandals and name alerts galore. Get twice as much of this nonsense on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Go see Milo on Tour in the UK, Europe, Ireland and Australia: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What was really going on in Rome during Augustus' reign? We've heard from Suetonius and now it's once again time for Milo and Phoebe to bombard Dr Wyman with stupid questions. Expect a lot of deep cuts about Roman cities and also a revelation about statue botherers. Get this full episode and tons more on Patreon here from just $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/posts/147258003/ Check out Milo on tour in the UK, EU, Ireland and Australia here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pat is in the driving seat this week, explaining to Milo and Phoebe what Suetonius thinks about the man who found Rome a city of brick but did some rather nifty cladding work. We also get into the thorny issue of Nolan's Odyssey and which director we would rather have. Sign up to the Patreon for twice as much of this podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/c/mastersofpod You can see Milo on Tour in Birmingham, Leicester Europe and Ireland here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Merry Christmas and or Saturnalia depending on your preference! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2025: Podcasts are now battlefields. Milo, Phoebe and Pat are joined by returning-champion Eleanor Janega for a festive extravaganza of weevil choice, quick words and sharp actions (not to mention Dresses Pete). Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/145775044/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe and Pat are sans-Milo this week and have decided to tackle the history of storytelling, from archaic Greece to the modern era. Anyway, which Ajax was the big one? You can check out Pat's new podcast Past Lives here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia/posts You can see Milo on Tour in Birmingham, Europe and Ireland here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Get many more episodes like this on our Patreon from just $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/c/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Patrick is launching a new podcast! You can listen to the very first episode here. ---- Most of the history we're taught revolves around "Great Men," the Napoleons and Alexander the Greats of the world, but they're hardly typical of the human experience. History actually revolves around advisors, merchants, laborers, farmers, and slaves, the common clay of humanity and the raw material for any good story of our shared past. Become a member now at https://www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia You'll get access to the Past Lives Discord server and four pieces of bonus content per month (including a historian interview, book club, Q and A, and a sources and evidence discussion). Past Lives is a 100-percent independent production, and your support is what allows us to make this show. So, thank you. Past Lives can be found on all the usual podcast platforms. Masters of Our Domain will return on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To cap off Julius Caesar season (Julius Caeson?) Milo and Phoebe are discussing the 1953 Marlon Brando movie of the Shakespeare play. It's black and white, it's available in full on Facebook and it's VERY slutty. Listen to the full episode for discussions of the socio-political context of the 1590s, the 1950s and the teleology of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Get this episode and more on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144598229/ Check out Milo on tour in Bristol, Bath, Europe and Ireland: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe is in the driver's seat this week, telling Milo and Pat what Suetonius reckons about the second half of Julius Caesar. Expect more sad Bibulus and a bunch of salacious details about Caesar's bottoming experiences. Milo's UK, Paris, BENELUX and Ireland dates are live here: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Get loads more episodes like this (and the entire Seinfeld back catalogue) on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Patrick and Phoebe have once again filled their nose bag with your letters and are feasting upon the nutritious scribblings within. Listen for the gang's favourite turning points of history and Roman nicknames. Get this full episode (and loads more) on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/143707203?pr=true Milo's UK and EU dates are live here: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Pat embark on a new series - discussing every one of Suetonius' Twelve Caesars. This week Milo is taking us through the first half of Julius Caesar's life, with a little help from Roman PopBitch and a certain amusingly named adversary... Get loads more episodes like this (and the entire Seinfeld back catalogue) on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Come see Milo on Tour in the UK: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are reunited to discuss a movie that knows less about the myth of Perseus than you do. They discuss interesting creative choices such as that Perseus is fully Australian. Strewth. Why is Mads Mikkelsen in this? Answers on a postcard. Get the rest of this episode and loads more on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/142444022/ Milo is on tour all over the UK, come to a show: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe has a whole host of questions for the esteemed Dr Wyman about the crusades in this latest carpet time, spurred by our episode on Kingdom of Heaven (on the Patreon now for subscribers!). Expect Popes and dysentery. Milo will return next week. Catch Milo on tour here: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Get loads more episodes like this (and the entire Seinfeld back catalogue) on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Luke from We're Not So Different joins Patrick and Phoebe to talk about 2005's lib-brained 9/11-tinged Crusader epic. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141575602?pr=true Check out We're Not So Different here: https://www.instagram.com/wnsdpod/?hl=en Milo is away on UK tour at the moment, you can find him in Leeds, Edinburgh and Newcastle this week: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What is Rome? How did it get there? Was it very nearly called Reme? Milo and Phoebe have once again gathered round to ask the esteemed Dr Wyman some questions. Come see Milo on tour all over the UK: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Many more episodes just like this on the Patreon, for just $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Pat delve into a film that tells us a lot more about 1966 than it does about Ancient Rome, and boy is it horny... Get this full episode and loads more on Patreon for just $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/posts/140371375 Come see Milo on tour - coming up Brighton, Southampton, Sheffield, Leeds and more! www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo and Pat tackle Robert Eggers' viking epic and ask pertinent questions such as 'Should your revenge take new information into account?' and 'How far would you go for your $3 royalty payment?'. Phoebe will return next week. Get fortnightly bonus episodes and access to our Patron discord server by joining the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Come and see Milo on tour in the UK - 'How Revolting!' is coming to cities up and down the country in October/November: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Part 2 of this episode is already available on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/138756874/ Milo, Phoebe and Pat embark on part one of their epic journey through discussing a long and somewhat confusing movie about Britain and France being at war in upstate New York. In this first episode we discuss the film itself and in part two we get more into the historical and social background. Come see Milo on tour in the UK: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Pat delve into their great sack of listener questions, covering topics from runaway slaves to favourite movies. If you'd like your question to be answered on a future mailbag you can join the Patreon here: https://patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've made this full episode freely available to give a taster of what's available on the Patreon, enjoy! The gang are trying out a new format - Phoebe and Milo ask Pat all the things they've ever wanted to know about barbarians and how the Romans (and Greeks) thought about them. They also get a good riff going about a Scythian Au Pair. You can get the second question time episode, about Roman Britain, on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dr-wymans-time-137782106 Milo is on tour in the UK, you can find all the cities and dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo and Phoebe are back asking Pat questions about ancient history, this week: Roman Britain. How Roman was it? Did the geezer archetype always exist? Let's find out. Get this full episode on Patreon (and much more) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dr-wymans-time-137782106 See Milo on tour in the UK here (September shows in Maidenhead, Cambridge, London, Oxford and Cardiff): https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Patrick tackle the Clive Owen and Keira Knightley attempt at King Arthur which somehow manages to be historically inaccurate about a myth? Anyway, expect thrills, spills, west-country Picts and Mads Mikkelsen. Join the Patreon for twice as much good content like this, from just $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/posts/137099909 Milo is on tour in the UK - tickets here: http://miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week the gang are trying out a new format - Phoebe and Milo ask Pat all the things they've ever wanted to know about barbarians and how the Romans (and Greeks) thought about them. They also get a good riff going about a Scythian Au Pair. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/136567807/ Go and see Milo on tour this autumn here: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are reunited for the final episode of Blood and Sand, including a surprise MILF Judas-kiss... Get twice as many episodes on the Patreon for $5 per month (as well as early access): https://www.patreon.com/c/mastersofpod Check out Milo's upcoming shows all over the UK: https://miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Pat tackle which characters are in fact two different guys and not the same guy and also discuss the supportive environment of the ladies' toilet in the club. Get twice as many episodes on the Patreon for $5 per month (as well as early access): https://www.patreon.com/c/mastersofpod Check out Milo's upcoming shows in Newcastle, Edinburgh and London: https://miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The full gang are back together for a judicial review of the conniving MILF pantheon. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/134646537?pr=true&cr=true Milo's WIP tour dates including Manchester, Newcastle and Edinburgh here: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo and Pat are flying solo this week and they get into the reeds of Spartacus but before doing so they do some taxonomy of Britain's finest content creators... Get twice as many episodes on the Patreon for $5 per month (as well as early access): https://www.patreon.com/c/mastersofpod Grab tickets to Milo's tour shows in BERLIN, MANCHESTER, NEWCASTLE and EDINBURGH here: www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo and Phoebe are sans-Pat this week and get into a discussion of the metaphysics of Hotel California, amongst a great deal of other things. They also touch upon Spartacus. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/133446290 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Patrick attack the big issues such as Thracian surfing, 'thrusting' and ancient Scousers. Get twice as many episodes on the Patreon for $5 per month (as well as early access): https://www.patreon.com/c/mastersofpod Find Milo's tour shows in Newcastle, Edinburgh and Berlin here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The gang are joined by fan favourites Eleanor and Luke from We're Not So Different to discuss the latest Spartacus offering and assess the relative merits of the conniving MILVEs on offer against a Greek Tragedy framework. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/132289051?pr=true Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo and Phoebe are flying solo this week (Dr Wyman to return next ep) and discussing the conniving MILF aspects of the show, and a strangely horny arena battle Get twice as many episodes on the Patreon for $5 per month (as well as early access): https://www.patreon.com/c/mastersofpod Milo's tour dates can all be found here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Patrick are reunited to discuss some of the most mental CGI of the whole series and also why the cut-off-your-face-man reminds Pat of St Augustine. Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/130938660 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo and Phoebe are sans-Pat this week to discuss Spartacus' first fight in the arena, and also get into it about F1, gilets, hats and, to some extent, Oliver Stone's JFK. Milo's tour dates can all be found here (IRELAND THIS WEEK): https://miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Get twice as many episodes on the Patreon for $5 per month (as well as early access): https://www.patreon.com/c/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices