RHLSTP Book Club 122 - Marc Morris

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Book Club #122 - The Anglo Saxons - It’s the last Book Club of the year and we’re heading back to pre-conquest Britain for the history of the Anglo Saxons with Marc Morris. Rich and Marc talk about how little people know about this period and how most of the things they do know never happened, why having very few sources to work from doesn’t make this light and easy work, how Marc discovered the best way to cover this sprawling and tumultuous half a millennium was to tell it through the stories of various individuals and why unfortunately all these individuals had to be male, why the Venerable Bede is good if you have an ill cow, but not always so good if you want the facts of what happened, which Anglo Saxon king allegedly shat in the font at his baptism, which king had a threesome with his wife and her mum and which king came close to becoming a cropper in Cheddar Gorge. Plus the skill required to combine academia with readability and whether comedians and historians would have survived the departure of the Romans and the arrival of the Vikings (no they wouldn’t).

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0:00.0	Oh my gosh, my fan is friends.
0:02.0	2024 is almost over.
0:04.0	I hope you are winding down for Christmas.
0:07.0	I certainly am.
0:09.0	If you're looking for Christmas presents for yourself or for someone you love,
0:13.0	then can I have my ballback as available as a book,
0:15.0	and an audiobook and an e-book and all that sort of thing, as are all my other books.
0:19.0	And I'll tell you what, tickets to
0:21.7	one of my 20-25 shows would make a perfect Christmas gift for me. If you want to get me something,
0:27.6	we'd love to sell a few more tickets, as I don't think it's selling fantastically well.
0:32.1	So we've got, can I have my ballback tour starts in January? go to richardherring.com slash ballback slash tour.
0:38.7	I'm doing about 30 or 40 more dates. I can't even count it. We've added Tring and Birmingham
0:42.9	recently, but there's loads more there. And there are some Rhalestoppers in London and Lester.
0:47.7	And I'm going to tell you a little secret. I'm going to be the Edinburgh Fringe. I know I said I'd never go back, but I've been outvoted by my family.
0:55.4	And if you go to richartarian.com slash Rahalisterpah, you can see news of the London
1:00.9	and Lester dates that you can buy tickets for already.
1:05.2	Would love to see you at those gigs. We really need to get people back in the theatres if we're going to carry on doing
1:12.9	them in the theatres. So please support us if you can. But remember just listening to the podcast
1:17.7	and telling people about the podcast is also a fantastic way to support us. Anyway, what do you
1:22.1	want? Let me know and I'll send it to you. I'll get Santa to bring it to you on Christmas Day.
1:28.4	Do you want six best of episodes of Rahalisterpah over the Christmas fortnight?
1:33.6	Then you're in luck, because that's what you're getting.
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