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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.
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Latest Episodes:

Which Came First: The Toilet or The Deep Fried Roast Dinner? | William Wallace (Part 1) Jan 19, 2026

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William Wallace: Scotland’s Osama Bin Laden - who was the very tall angry man who incited England's 9/11?

William Wallace (Part 1)

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Chapters:

00:00: Scottish Epstein

05:52: Medieval dildos

08:31: Porridge and death

10:32: The Great High Five

14:35: Fishing for Sturgeon

17:04: Scottish Bin Laden

20:30: Tennis Tiger Mum

23:15: Pure Porridge Bunda

27:26: The Scottish Mujahideen

30:26: Scone Scoffing

33:16: Fin’s too horny

38:06: Deep fried roast

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A Voodoo Schizophrenic Molesting Himself | Papa Doc: Haitian Dictator (Part 2) Jan 15, 2026

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Papa Doc’s back, immortal & bathing with the dead. How did the President for Life die after being reborn as a God?

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Chapters:

00:00 – A Lesbian and Dicktator

03:19  - Spiritual cross dressing

05:33 – Burgatory

09:59 – Just Poo it

12:34 – Papa for life  

15:32 – The Vampire of the Caribbean

17:35 – International law can F*ck off

21:10 – The stinking sixties

22:53 – Papa Doc killed JFK

25:40 – Bathtime

28:20 – Kidnapping to get good customer service

31:13 – Dead guy in arrivals

36:43 – Public executions on Dave   

38:09 – Steely Dan, MILFs and divorce tourism

42:03 – Scores on the doors

44:45 – Molesting yourself    

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Don’t Even Talk To Me Before You’ve Picked My Coffee | Papa Doc: Haitian Dictator (Part 1) Jan 12, 2026

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Coffee, Voudou & Lesbians - Haiti or Hackney? How one man went from doctor to dictator armed with nothing but folklore and a lesbian sidekick.

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00:00 – Island Gaddafi

04:00 – But first coffee

06:30 – Haiti is in the group of death

09:15 – Voodou revolt

11:20 – Supporting black business

13:25 – The worst people occupy the worst country

16:15 – Papa becomes a Doc

20:05 – Alan Akbar

22:45 – Reads one book and becomes a dictator

23:55 – Voodou sex doll (the

28:24 – 8 man coup

30:48 – Zombie gangsters

34:30 – Madam Adolphe

38:30 – No more Mr Normal guy

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Fleshlights to Fleshlights, Dust to Dust (with Joanne McNally!) | The History of Sex Work (Part 2) Jan 08, 2026

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Comic powerhouse Joanne McNally joins us to talk sex work from the Victorian era onwards, and also to act as the Pope’s representative on the Quickshot Launch Masturbator 3000

The History of Sex Work (Part 2/2)

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00:00 - serving c*nt

04:03 - Do you like neckbeards?

07:58 - He strumpets

11:17 - Arcane slurs

14:31 - Molly houses

16:12 - Mother Clap

21:24 - Victorian Prostitutes

24:03 - overrun with whores

27:59 - contagious diseases act

31:22 - Modern day sex work

34:22 - Victorian laws

36:14 - World War sex

40:37 - Wine and Women

44:20 - German prostitutes

47:52 - Chemical prophylactic

49:34 - Nazi brothels

54:48 -Pinophile

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When Britannia Kink-Shamed The Waves | The History of Sex Work (Part 1) Jan 05, 2026

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For as long as there have been fat ugly men, there have been women who charge to have sex with them. But who knew it was us free-loving, sexually liberated brits who invented all the stigma and shame?

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Chapters;

00:00 - Happy ending?

02:40 - Cockallation

06:42 - oldest profession

08:21 - The epic of Gilgamesh

10:01 - Gay sheep

12:30 - Shamhat the harlot

15:29 - Cumscription

20:57 - Ancient Greece

25:39 - When in Rome

28:57 - Lupanar

36:52 - Medieval brothels

39:18 - Cunny for your thoughts

41:44 - Gropecunt lane

45:01 - Cucks

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Pull Yourself Up By Your Buttplugs | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 6/6) Jan 02, 2026

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By mummy’s third term she’s so high on her own supply that she thinks teaching kids about homosexuality will give them AIDS and decides taxing people for being poor is a great idea

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Mummy’s last term

03:36 - Mystery Bum disease

08:50 - Gaydemic

15:15 - X-Thachtor

16:50 - Don’t die of ignorance

18:26 - Section 28

23:18 - Poll Tax

28:04 - Tories turn on Thatcher

31:42 - Mummy’s gone mad

34:47 - Miner stroke

37:28 - Ding Dong

40:02 - Thatcher’s Legacy

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The National Union of Racist Burnt Toast | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 5/6) Jan 01, 2026

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For too long, Britain’s communities had been indulging in a weird fetish for digging burnt toast out the ground whilst blacked up- so having defeated the Argies, Thatcher has a new target in her sights

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - This lady’s not for cumming

03:59 - What is coal?

09:39 - The Miners

12:43 - The Battle of Orgreave

15:56 - Scargill, Thatcher in blackface

20:28 - History of coal

23:43 - Paddy McGee

27:53 - Aftermath of the bomb

31:34 - Arming the Khmer Rouge

35:04 - Opening the bottle of Pinochet

37:10 - The Queen Vs Thatcher

41:16 - Apartheid

43:13 - The Big Bang

47:06 - 2008 Finance crisis

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A Duke of Edinburgh Award With Live Ammunition | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 4/6) Dec 29, 2025

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The British land on West Falkland and the land war begins, fighting hand-to-hand combat over terrain built for lesbians, until finally, 1800 islanders and half a million sheep are free

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 All roads lead to the Falklands

05:39 The final offensive

08:19 Boots on the ground

14:45 Boggy terrain

16:43 Lesbian Devision

17:59 Airpedos

23:00 The Battle of Goose Green

25:13 Yomping

27:54 Night time fighting

29:32 The Battle of Mount Harriet

31:57 Ear trophies

34:58 Surrender

38:45 Victory for mummy

43:51 Guilt free war

46:38 Rejoice

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The Belgrano was a War Fine | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 3/6) Dec 26, 2025

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Thatcher starts performing as a Drag King Winston Churchill and unleashes the British Task Force, armed to the teeth with cutouts of Page 3 Models.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - It’s War!

05:38 - Deploy the our boys

8:42 - The Empire Strikes Belly

14:11 - The Country get behind mummy

18:48 - Freedomo Flotilla

21:27 - The Andrew formally known as Prince

27:59 - A War Fine

31:20 - The Sun misjudge the vibe

38:25 - The French get involved

41:11 - Operation Narwal

44:33 - Old man goin home!

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Our Poor, Innocent Antarctic Model Village | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 2/6) Dec 25, 2025

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Mummy’s premiership is on the brink, when a fascist invasion of a Model Village on our very very southern border brings Mags a path to redemption

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - WWII (reprise)

08:16 - Britain’s Southern border

10:31 - The History of Falklands

14:45 - Argentina’s Daddy issues

18:10 - Permanent DofE

21:20 - Military Junta

27:33 - Giving it the biggun

29:22 - The Whisky General

37:24 - Don’t mess with the British Antarctica Survey

39:35 - Flicked Mummy’s tit

41:43 - Operation Rosario

43:50 - Governor Hunt

46:06 - Radio DJ live streams the invasion

49:03 - Mummy lets the dads loose

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