Episodes

  • Peterborough Chronicle: So Much Pain and Woe--and that's just the drink
    Feb 14 2026

    The barrage of William's assholery as he wrecks his own people, and the barrage of high Scoville agony as David wrecks Matt.

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    58 mins
  • Richard the Redeless: Terrible Poem Terrible Drink
    Jan 31 2026

    Ex post facto fake news propaganda for Henry 4 with a purple ass-crap Nixonian cocktail.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Old English Daniel: Minds Destroyed - Belshazzar's and Matt and David's
    Jan 17 2026

    Tyrants resists dreams and a tiki exploding fire brain breaker

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    57 mins
  • The Knight's Tale and a Tropical Planet: Canonical and Imperial Despite or Because its Art
    Dec 20 2025

    Is Chaucer out of control? Is the Canterbury Fails studio out of control? Is this whole thing completely out of control? With tiki drinks.

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    49 mins
  • The Old English Verse Genesis: Shiny Satan and Apple Brandy Power
    Dec 12 2025

    5 minutes after David gets home from a late flight and breaks into his own house, we have to answer the simple question: "Can a poem be both a justification and an interrogation of the ways of God to man?" We try and mostly fail to figure out this Biblical epic, but we enjoy a potent monastic Calvados Pow! Right in the kisser. .

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    59 mins
  • The Trotula: Medical Cures for Women and a Murky Bilge Flower Drink
    Nov 22 2025

    Can a compendium of terrifying recipes for female health problems represent resistance to patriarchal authoritarianism? And can a violet brandy disaster taste any worse? Find out on this week's Canterbury Fails.

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    58 mins
  • Cynewulf's Elene: Troubling True Cross and a Licorice-Lemon Quaff
    Nov 8 2025

    A bearded Coley and plain faced Hussey debate Cynewulf's ethnic ideological steamroller with special guest appearance by a demon, Judas (not the one you think), and a very stern war-lady. Plus an anisette and smoke blasted cocktail.

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    58 mins
  • Special Episode: Siân Echard and Alexandra Gillespie on Thomas Gascoigne's Precepts
    Oct 27 2025

    CHAUCER'S DEAD. So dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dr. Gillespie and Dr Echard discuss this, plus John of Gaunt's decaying phallus, Gower's poseur tomb, King Arthur's butterfly bishop, and more.

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    47 mins