Podcast · 134 episodes
Fin vs History, page 6
by Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould · English
For people who like history but don't care what actually happened. Join comedians Fin Taylor and Horatio Gould as they guess/explain every event in human history, from Neanderthals to 9/11. Guaranteed to give you an entirely new and incorrect perspective on world events. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor
All episodes, page 6
Start The Boats ! | Dunkirk Part 4: MiracleDunkirk evacuation (Dunkirk Part 4: “Miracle”), focusing on how 338,226 troops were evacuated from 29 May–4 June 1940, especially via small boats and improvised infrastructure like a “lorry pier,”…14 Aug 2025 · 45 min · 16 chapters
Boss Baby’s Darkest Hour | Dunkirk Part 3: CorneredThe episode covers Dunkirk “Part 3: Cornered,” focusing on Britain’s political leadership in late May 1940, the narrowing evacuation corridor, and the start of Operation Dynamo.11 Aug 2025 · 53 min · 21 chapters
Hitler’s Farty Pig Forest Party | Dunkirk Part 2: BlitzkriegPart 2 of a Dunkirk series explaining how Germany’s Blitzkrieg succeeded in the 1940 invasion of France, focusing on the Maginot Line, the Ardennes “pig forest” gap, British Expeditionary Force (BEF)…7 Aug 2025 · 55 min · 23 chapters
Neville Chamberlain’s Broken Bum | Dunkirk Part 1: Phoney WarThe episode covers the early Western Front in World War II, focusing on Dunkirk’s “small boats” evacuation as a defining British myth, and then backtracks to explain how Britain and France reached…4 Aug 2025 · 1 h 4 min · 26 chapters
History’s Biggest Blabbermouths (with Bebe Cave) | Medieval WomenMedieval women and the limited roles available to them in a patriarchal society, focusing on how religion, marriage, sexuality, and “female mystics” offered alternative paths.31 Jul 2025 · 1 h 2 min · 33 chapters
The Woman Who Died For A Pair of Trousers | Joan of ArcFinn vs. History covers Joan of Arc, focusing on her role during the Hundred Years’ War, her claimed visions, her rise from a peasant girl to a symbol of France, and the arc from the siege of Orléans…28 Jul 2025 · 1 h 2 min · 24 chapters
France is a Toilet (with Tom Gilbey) | The History of WineThe episode traces the history of wine from Spanish colonization in the Caribbean and early vineyards in Mexico, through the spread of European grape varieties, the devastation of phylloxera, and…24 Jul 2025 · 1 h 7 min · 26 chapters
No Bacon, No Beer, Loads and Loads of Gear | Dionysus & The Ancient Gods of WineThe episode traces wine’s origins and cultural role from 8000 BC fermented plums in the South Caucasus (Georgia/Armenia) to ancient Greek Dionysus worship, Roman Bacchus regulation, Christian…21 Jul 2025 · 54 min · 19 chapters
Gunned Down in Diamanté Panties | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 5/5)Final installment of a comedic history series on the Russian Revolution (Aug–Oct 1917 through early civil war).17 Jul 2025 · 1 h 1 min · 21 chapters
Travelling Back In Time to Throw American Cheese at Lenin’s Head | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 4/5)The February Revolution of 1917 and the lead-up to the Bolshevik takeover, focusing on bread shortages, International Women’s Day protests, the fall of Tsar Nicholas II, “dual power” between the…14 Jul 2025 · 58 min · 24 chapters
The Original 'Worst Guys At A House Party' | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 3/5)Part 3 of a 5-part series on the Russian Revolution, focusing on Lenin’s rise and the Bolshevik/Menshevik split, leading toward the 1917 upheavals.11 Jul 2025 · 50 min · 20 chapters
Rasclaatputin & The Hebephile Prince | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 2/5)Part 2 of a 5-part series on the Russian Revolution, focusing on Rasputin’s rise and influence around Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, and how court mysticism, war, and political repression…10 Jul 2025 · 50 min · 21 chapters
Why is Russia so F*cked in the Head? | The Russian Revolution of 1917 (Part 1/5)The podcast’s Part 1 of a 5-part series on the Russian Revolution, framed as “why Russia is so fucked in the head,” tracing long-run causes from early Russian statehood (as described by Putin)…7 Jul 2025 · 1 h 4 min · 16 chapters
Amelia Aircrash & The Big Nazi Tit In The Sky | The History of Flight (Part 2/2)How early aircraft evolved during World War I (recon photos, fighter planes, air combat, bombing, Zeppelins), then how Nazi Germany’s Hindenburg symbolized luxury and propaganda before its 1937…3 Jul 2025 · 58 min · 22 chapters