Comedy

Fin vs History

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

Latest Episodes:

Smashing The Glass Floor As Well As The Ceiling | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 1/6) Dec 22, 2025

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In 1979 Britain had unemployment fever, and then Margaret Mummy Thatcher came along and gave us so much calpol we OD’d.

Part 1 of 6

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Mummy’s home

06:53 - Margret Hilda Roberts

11:45 - Thatchers woke dad

15:13 - Dangerously self-opinionated

18:05 - The flood gates have opened

21:13 - Milk snatcher

24:50 - Thatcher as party leader

27:06 - Iron Lady

31:22 - First female PM, are you wet?

35:43 - Britain be shopping

39:43 - Thatcherism

45:32 - Bobby Sands

49:02 - Ronnie and Mags

51:46 - Not looking good until…

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The Sound of Blue Balls | Beethoven: The Great Composers (Part 2) Dec 18, 2025

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Ludwig van Beethoven: the thinking incel's composer. How did a smelly, almost certainly autistic virgin come to produce music still listened to today?

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00:00 OG keyboard warrior
05:00 Permanently smug
10:48 Auxtistic
14:41 Germany were romantic
17:05 Teen years
22:53 Beethovens got no Riz
28:31 Blue balled to funk
33:31 Spunk coming out of his ears
38:15 Da Da Da Dymmm
40:26 Creepy uncle
42:47 Burning the files
45:48 9th Symphony (Ode to a Young boy)
48:19 Music bump
51:11 Für Elise

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A Fritzlian Slip | Mozart: The Great Composers (Part 1) Dec 15, 2025

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Amadeus Mozart: The child genius, responsible for the some of the greatest music humanity ever produced, as well as what can only be described as an ode to rimming. He was Austrian, after all.

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Chapters;

00:00 Fruity wigs 06:21 Ass and titties
08:48 He/Hyms
12:45 Tiger mum
16:52 Austria-Netherlands
20:02 Mozart on Tour
25:39 Castrati
30:49 Mozart goes freelance
34:41 Scatology
40:03 Symphony No. 40
41:55 The Requiem
48:02 Freud again

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W.O.P. | The Mafia (Part 2) Dec 11, 2025

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The Mafia (part 2) | W.O.P. Having been smashed by Mussolini, the Mafia rebuild in Prohibiton America, but not before they’ve given the Statue of Liberty a good goosing Tickets for Fin's 2026 Stand-up Tour now onsale fintaylorcomedy.komi.io The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon patreon.com/fintaylor

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Natural Born Killers Who Kiss Their Mum On The Mouth | The Mafia (Part 1) Dec 08, 2025

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The Mafia (Part 1) | Natural Born Killers Who Kiss Their Mum On The Mouth What was it about 19th Century Sicily that allowed greasy mummies’ boys to form the most notorious organised crime syndicate in history? Tickets for Fin's 2026 Stand-Up Tour now onsale at fintaylorcomedy.komi.io The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon patreon.com/fintaylor

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Buzzt-a-Nut Aldrin’s Lunar Land Acknowledgement | The Space Race (Part 2) Dec 04, 2025

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With dead dogs and Russian women floating through space, the American Nazis at Nasa start to pull ahead in the contest to land man on the moon- but not before the Zambian Space Programme enters the race.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - One Small Dick For Him

05:08 - Astronauts are Boring

10:37 - Prostate’s Knackered

16:10 - First Woman in Space

20:15 - Spacewalking & Spacedogging

25:05 - Clangers Land Acknowledgement

29:40 - Dark Horse of the Space Race

34:03 - Apollo 7/8 and 9/11

37:11 - Posh Wanks in Space

40:17 - Man’s Greatest Achievement

44:51 - The Other Moon Landings

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In Space No One Can Hear You Sieg Heil | The Space Race (Part 1) Dec 01, 2025

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As the 2nd World War drew to a close, the Nazis’ rocket programme would form the basis of Man’s quest to conquer space. But why is this always framed as a race between the USA and the USSR, when Hitler got there first?

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - The Sauna of Nazi Science

06:55 - Rocket Botherer

10:25 - Hitler on Drums

14:12 - Cool/Nasty

22:40 - Operations Paper Clip

28:14 - Soviet Strap on

32:09 - Sputnik 1

36:47 - RIP Laika

43:10 - Make Mars Our Bin

49:01 - The Overview Effect

54:40 - Micropenis Learning Support

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Stagecoach W*anker (with James Buckley) | Dick Turpin & Highwaymen (Part 2) Nov 27, 2025

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Essex Black Tie 05:09 The Gregorysphere 11:24 Turpin’s On One 17:00 The Hunt for Dick Continues 21:19 Tracing a White Horse 26:37 Turpin Flees to Yorkshire 31:31 Orange Roles for Orange Actors 36:08 You Couldn’t Write It 42:01 Dick’s Execution 47:42 The Kryptonite of a Highwayman

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Tough on Blackface, Tough on the Causes of Blackface | Dick Turpin & Highwaymen (Part 1) Nov 24, 2025

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Gautism and Blautism 04:05 Dick Turnip 09:12 Golden Age of the Highwayman 17:25 Pooey Cuffs 24:09 To Bribe a Horse Botherer 27:36 The Bad Samaritan 30:47 The Human Cry 33:34 Rizwan Turban 38:29 The Essex Gang 44:05 Joseph Lawrence Attack & Capture 49:39 You Can’t Park There Mate

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Britain's Shiny New Pacific Toilet | Captain Cook & The First Fleet (Part 2) Nov 20, 2025

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As the American War of Independence kicks off, Britain needs to find a new sewer - and in Hawaii, Captain Cook finally gets Cooked.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 He just loves maps

05:58 Himbo Island

10:54 Botany Bay Penal Colony

11:29 Banks and Prisons