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Historical sketch show, based on the successful books by Terry Deary.

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Michael Abubakar

Richard David-Caine

Jalaal Hartley

Harrie Hayes

Emily Lloyd-Saini

James McNicholas

Jessica Ransom

Tom Stourton

Fred Sirieix

Danielle Vitalis

Ellie White

Mike Wozniak

John Eccleston

Jon Culshaw

Iain Stirling

Greg Jenner

Terry Deary

Lisa Mitchell

Matt Lamont

Steve Connelly

Richard Bradley

Melissa Hardinge

Ben Ward

James Kettle

Claire Wetton

Lucy Porter

Howard Read

Lucy Clarke

Susie Donkin

Will Porter

Daniel Peak

Simon Welton

Adam  Windmill

Simon Cruse

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Ancient wonder women, a Spartan queen on Historical Love Island and the Tudor Queens sing!

A celebration of some of history’s greatest females, including Spartan Queen Gorgo terrorising Historical Love Island, supergroup The Tudor Queens, and the original Wonder Women.

A show celebrating some of history’s greatest and most formidable females. We begin with ancient tales of the Scythians – incredible warrior women who were part of the inspiration for the wonder women that we’re more familiar with today (seemingly, the Scythians were a little more boozy and fighty than their comic book counterparts of today). Great women have often had to struggle to get their messages across, and this is something that Joan of Arc has to deal with when the director of Joan of Arc: The Movie has some ideas about killer lines for her to deliver as part of the film. 

Elsewhere, Marie Antoinette has a revolutionary go at social media, and we take a trip to Historical Love Island, where modern pencil salesman Sam gets way more than he bargained for after choosing to couple with Spartan warrior queen Gorgo. Queen Cleopatra also goes on Historical First Dates in search of a husband who is not her brother. 

We look at some specifically female jobs from history: in 1930s America, we meet the Hello Girls – women employed to work in the huge telephone exchanges, who wore rollerskates for speed and headsets that weighed roughly the same as two bags of sugar, as they navigated their way through miles of switchboards. Also, in Don’t Call the Tudor Midwife, we peer into the mysterious world of Tudor midwifery, a place in which only women were allowed, and one that men would try to infiltrate in a bid to learn their birthing secrets (which included the use of snake skins, rabbit milk and reading). There’s an epic a cappella-off between the suffragettes and the suffragists, and the show ends with some of history’s most powerful female rulers - Queen Elizabeth I, Mary I, Mary, Queen of Scots and Lady Jane Gray, aka supergroup The Tudor Queens – joining together for a song celebrating the fact that they had the power.

Horrible Histories: Series 8

Series 8

The BBC's multiplatform offering bringing the very best programmes to 6-12 year olds.

CBBC is the BBC's multiplatform offering for 6-12 year olds bringing the very best drama, entertainment and factual programmes to its young viewers.

Historical sketch show based on the successful series of books.

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