Mostly Unsung

Strap in for another fun filled and hilarious episode of your favourite history Podcast! History alongside the usual nonsense about transport in the eighties, how not to accidentally work in mental health and what EXACTLY is a burglar?

On this episode, you can jog onto the soccer pitch and join our sports phobic hosts as Annie tells us about a woman who played for a team so great, did the Football Association change the rules to sto...

Hey there listeners, ready for some new historical biographies? This week was an accidental LGBT celebration with two feel good stories to start your weekend with a smile!

Join Andrea as she tells us all about the creepers she used to Salsa with, then heads to gay Paris! Heavy emphasis on the gay, as we join The Countess, an author recording her adventures in the trans community of 19th Century France. Expect Champagne, frilled robe...

Welcome back to Mostly Unsung! Be warned this episode is a very weird one and you enter at your own risk!

Join Annie as we get to talk all about our favourite dinosaurs (Triceratops and Diplodocus if you were wondering) and show a complete and total lack of scientific knowledge of electricity. We're meeting a lady searching the Dorset cliffs for fossils and changing the understanding of prehistory.

Then come along with Andrea wh...

Welcome back, lovely listeners! It's Friday, it's nearly the weekend, and it's time for another couple of historical japes!

Content Warning: Andrea's story does talk about a man with an addiction to alcohol, if that's something you'd rather not listen to, please do skip to the second story which is much sweeter.

Both stories this week tell the tale of what can happen if very young people suddenly inherit...

It's Fourth of July! As a British Podcast hosted by two English women it has absolutely nothing to do with us. So we dedicated an entire episode to all things American! Cue the marching band, organise a pot luck (whatever the heck one of those is) and crack open some overly sugared beverages!

Join Annie as she tells the story of a scientist who used not one, but two of his children as guinea pigs; upset some people with his swe...

It's Friday! You know what that means, Andrea and Annie are back with another two stories from history, and this time the stories come with SINGING. Don't say we don't treat our listeners like royalty.

Andrea is taking us off to South Africa where one young man is writing some new songs; will he get what's due to him? It's mid Century South Africa, and he's a young black man. I think we can probably gue...

What's Friday without a good laugh before the start of the weekend? Welcome to Mostly Unsung a comedy history podcast packed full of interesting stories and a lot of big questions, such as, who is the Greg and who is the Alex in this relationship? and do we both exist? 

Come journey with Annie to old London Town where one man has a very cunning plan or three, to make himself a lot of money and hob nob with the government, all w...

The weekend is nearly upon us and that can mean only one thing, more Mostly Unsung!!! Join us for another episode featuring two new bitesize biographies and the usual helping of nonsense!

This week Andrea is in the slums of Chicago, where you can change your name, rewrite your history and demand a guillotine! Remember, if you find yourself disappointed by the overall lack of dynamite belching in the episode, you have only the capita...

Happy Unsung Friday everyone! We're back for another episode of the podcast that brings you two bitesize biographies every single week! Join our hosts Annie and Andrea as they try their best to stay on topic while also working out if Bambi or Watership Down is more  traumatic for children.

This week join Annie as she heads over to America to learn how to count deer, upset your 'dead' wife and cause mayhem by turning u...

Welcome back to another episode of Mostly Unsung, the comedy history podcast that brings you stories you've never heard of, all served up with a big dollop of nonsense.

This week come along with Andrea as she takes us to San Francisco where a man faces the ups and downs of rice investments and then decides he'd rather be crowned royalty and hang out with some infamous dogs.

Annie takes us to the mud of the trenches of ...

Happy Unsung Friday everyone!

It's Friday and that means two new stories from your hosts Annie and Andrea.

This week on Mostly Unsung, grab your trumpets and banners as Annie takes us on a rollicking ride with a woman proudly sticking two fingers up to Tudor London to win a brilliant bet. Then Andrea takes us to the other side of the globe to the frozen Arctic, where one determined woman got left holding the fort and battled the...

Welcome back to another episode of Mostly Unsung! 

Get settled in with all your nice bits: A drink, maybe a little snack, and buckle in for two new tales from history, complete with the best outtakes.

 Andrea tells us of fox hunting fashion designer who came to a very sticky end, and wonders if the foxes got away with it, all while letting the power of the bleep button go to her head.

Annie loses the ability to speak for a moment, the...

Join us for a new weekly podcast that brings you the interesting and lesser known figures from history! Do you enjoy lots of well researched facts, dates and lists of dusty accomplishments? Then this probably isn't the podcast for you.

In this episode, Andrea uses her D in A level History to tell us  how world events affected one woman who was both blessed and cursed with a famous surname, and Annie tells us about her affinity ...

Welcome to Mostly Unsung! A new podcast that tells you all about interesting people they don't bother to tell you about in school!

 Be prepared to have your bodice ripped as this week Annie goes to France and deals with nuns, duels and a dash of Opera infamy. Once you've re-laced your corset, Andrea will be taking us to Belgium to hear all about a man that was every mother's nightmare and we can blame for a heck of a ...

Everybody, its time to put your history hats on and be patient while Andrea and Annie go off on some wild tangents involving ghosts, privacy screens and a call to arms for the citizens of Guildford.

This week on Mostly Unsung, Andrea is off to Japan to tell the story of a tragically short life of courage and the never-ending battle to rid the world of creeps trying to look at ladies with no clothes on. Then Annie is going to make An...

Join Annie and Andrea for another pair of exciting stories from the annals of forgotten history.

This week Annie brings you the story of an unwitting medical donor, and insults all Lord of the Rings fans everywhere. Honestly, if you're a Tolkien fan, come at her bro. Andrea tells the story of a hopeless romantic, emphasis on the hopeless, all while expressing her upset at film remakes and Annie's reluctance to join her on ...