Episodes
1. Queen Vic's Home Vids
June 3, 2019
30 min
Featuring Victorian fake news, paparazzi, and cameramen strapped to the front of moving trains, Queen Victoria shows you how her subjects invented and became obsessed with films!
Guest Stars:
Fred Sirieix, Danielle Vitalis, Mike Wozniak, James McNicholas
2. Fashion Faux Pas
June 10, 2019
30 min
The Horrible History of (sometimes literally) dressing to kill. Henry VIII has beef over whose armour is best and Louis XV dresses as a hedge.
Guest Stars:
Ellie White, Mike Wozniak
3. Chaotic Collabs
June 17, 2019
30 min
History is filled with tales of great minds coming together, and collaborating, to achieve incredible things. It’s also full of idiots working together to create an unholy mess, and people forming partnerships for decidedly sinister reasons - welcome to Horrible Histories’ Chaotic Collabs!
Guest Stars:
Gemma Whelan, Javone Prince, Mabel Read, Samson Read, Ellie White
4. Mind Your Manners!
June 24, 2019
30 min
Rattus is panicking, as the Rat Queen is visiting the sewer and he has no idea how to behave nicely around royalty! Not only that, if he can somehow appear attractive to the Queen, maybe he could be the next Rat King?! Luckily, help is at hand in the (very well-mannered) shape of First Dates’ Fred Sirieix, a man who knows all about how to behave politely in high society. Fred will guide Rattus through the Horrible History of Manners and Etiquette, in a bid to help him on his quest.
Guest Stars:
Iain Stirling, Fred Sirieix, Ellie White, Mike Wozniak
5. Fearsome Families
July 1, 2019
30 min
Families - sometimes you love them, sometimes you bicker with them, and sometimes you marry them off to consolidate your power in Europe. Welcome to a look at some of history’s most fearsome families.
Guest Stars:
Fred Sirieix, Ellie White, Mike Wozniak
6. Bizarre Beasts
July 8, 2019
30 min
A look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals.
Guest Stars:
Gemma Whelan, Danielle Vitalis, James McNicholas
7. Moon Mayhem
July 15, 2019
30 min
Comedian and space nerd Dara O Briain joins Rattus as guest host for a special show that marks the anniversary of the 1969 moon landings.
Guest Stars:
Gemma Whelan, Dara Ó Briain, Javone Prince, Danielle Vitalis, Mike Wozniak
8. Putrid Politics
July 22, 2019
30 min
Dani Dyer becomes Rattus’ political advisor as we look at everything from the birth of democracy to Margaret Thatcher having to change her voice so she would be taken more seriously.
Guest Stars:
Dani Dyer, Mabel Read, Samson Read, Ellie White, Danielle Vitalis
9. Heroic Home Front
September 9, 2019
30 min
A look at how World War II played out on the home front, featuring Churchill's secret loo, the heroic 'ATA Girls' and German spies being caught out by their delicious sausages.
Guest Stars:
Rachel Cash, Ellie White, Danielle Vitalis, Mike Wozniak
10. Fierce Females
March 8, 2020
30 min
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.
Guest Stars:
Fred Sirieix, Iain Stirling, Ellie White, Danielle Vitalis, Mike Wozniak
11. Outrageous Olympics
July 17, 2020
30 min
Alex Scott joins Rattus for a sport-themed special. Mary Queen of Scots goes grief-golfing, the H2 Freestylers take on a whole village, and the sports-mad Henry VIII sings Get Sweaty.
Guest Stars:
Gemma Whelan, Javone Prince, Mabel Read, Samson Read, Alex Scott
12. Mayflower Malarkey
September 14, 2020
30 min
The Puritans set sail, Queen Elizabeth I loses a colony, and the Founding Fathers sing!
Guest Stars:
Gemma Whelan, Rachel Cash, Mike Wozniak
13. Holly H Song Special
July 17, 2020
30 min
Rattus has launched his own radio station (‘BBC Radio Number Two’) and who better to advise him on the songs he should be playing than social media star Holly H? Together, they bring us a collection of some of the best songs of this series, plus new material from some of the famous historical faces we meet along the way.
Guest Stars:
Holly H, Ellie White, Danielle Vitalis, Tia Gatwood
14. Fantastic Firsts Special
July 27, 2020
30 min
A special show featuring some of history’s greatest firsts, including the first ever library, Olympic Games, people on the moon and rat roller-skating on TV!
Guest Stars:
Gemma Whelan, Mike Wozniak
