Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Season 0 Episode 10 Staggering Storytellers

The history they don't teach you in school. 2025-05-16 92 minutes.
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Season - Episode

11 Season 11 Feb 07, 2025
10 Season 10 Jun 16, 2023
9 Season 9 Apr 30, 2021
8 Season 8 Jun 03, 2019
7 Season 7 Jun 15, 2017
6 Season 6 Feb 13, 2015
5 Season 5 May 27, 2013
4 Season 4 Apr 09, 2012
3 Season 3 May 30, 2011
2 Season 2 May 31, 2010
1 Season 1 Apr 16, 2009
0 Season 0 Jul 27, 2010

Overview

Who wrote the first detective novel? When were books invented? Why do we like stories so much? In its own distinctive and irreverently accurate style, the episode takes a look at some of literature's greatest works and history's wackiest writers. Along the way we see the development of storytelling technology. We learn how a party at Lord Byron's house led to the writing of the Gothic masterpiece Frankenstein, and how Charles Dickens was the Harry Styles of his day. Spanning 3,000 years of recorded history we take a look at the funny and ridiculous ways some of our finest writers cured their writing block - did you know Tennyson used to pretend to go the loo as a party trick? Also, of course, our trusty host Rattus guides the way.

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