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Horrible Histories
09:20 am - 09:45 am Tuesday, September 8
Horrible Histories
Season 1 · Episode 2
A humorous look at historical events, featuring an unusual way to clean clothes in the Middle Ages, a Stone Age cure for a headache, and a pharaoh's novel way to combat flies. Henry VIII is reminded of all the people he beheaded, and Meera Syal reads the ancient Egyptian version of The Princess and the Pea
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- Richard Bradley — Executive producer
- Kim Shillinglaw — Executive producer
- Giles Pilbrow — Producer
- Chloe Thomas — Director
- Steve Connelly — Director
- Caroline Norris — Series producer
- Mark Blakewill — Writer
- Lucy Clarke — Writer
- James Harris — Writer
- George Poles — Writer
- Steve Punt — Writer
- Laurence Rickard — Writer
- George Sawyer — Writer
- Ben Ward — Writer
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