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Through August, Charlie Higson brings you a summer treat. A series of short daily episodes of Willy Willy Harry Stee which allow you to hear the bits we had to cut from the original series. Interesting facts about all aspects of the monarchy and the country.

In today's episode, Charlie explain how popular legends can sometimes be less than accurate and how Elephant & Castle in London is nothing to do with Eleanor of Castile.

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Through August, Charlie Higson brings you a summer treat. A series of short daily episodes of Willy Willy Harry Stee which allow you to hear the bits we had to cut from the original series. Interesting facts about all aspects of the monarchy and the country.

In today's episode, Charlie explores the evolution of accents.

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Through August, Charlie Higson brings you a summer treat. A series of short daily episodes of Willy Willy Harry Stee which allow you to hear the bits we had to cut from the original series. Interesting facts about all aspects of the monarchy.

In today's episode, what's in a surname?

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Through August, Charlie Higson brings you a summer treat. A series of short daily episodes of Willy Willy Harry Stee which allow you to hear the bits we had to cut from the original series. Interesting facts about all aspects of the monarchy.

In this first episode, Charlie looks at how some English Kings were able to produce vast numbers of illegitimate children, while singularly failing to produce legitimate heirs.

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In this special Bonus episode, Charlie Higson welcomes back a guest from earlier in the series, Nathen Amin, a proud Welshman and self-proclaimed Henry VII super-fan.

Charlie chats with Nathen about his new book Son Of Prophecy: The Rise Of Henry Tudor temporarily shining the spotlight away from Henry's notorious son, Henry VIII

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Historical facts are just that.....facts.....aren't they? Well some are and some are not and lucky for us, Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, who is also known as The Fake History Hunter has devoted much of her life to peeling away the fakes from the facts.

In this special Bonus episode, Jo speaks to Charlie Higson about her book Fake History, 101 Facts That Never Happened. Find out more on X at @fakehistoryhunt.

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In this bonus episode, Charlie Higson welcomes back one his previous guests, Matt Lewis, who originally joined Charlie back on Episode 22 to make the case for 'Dick The Bad', unsurprising as Matt is chair of the Richard III society.

Now though, Matt goes all mediaeval on us as he talks about his newest book, The History Hit Guide To Mediaeval England.

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In this bonus episode, Charlie Higson takes a more detailed look at the greatest challenge in King George VI's reign, The Second World War.

To help Charlie understand some of the key points is a man who, by his own admission, is obsessed with WW2, James Holland, author of over 30 books on the subject, host of the We Have Ways podcast with Al Murray and co-founder of the Chalke and We Have Ways festivals.

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In this special episode, recorded live at the Chalke History Festival in Wiltshire, Charlie Higson invites 3 special guests to discuss whether we can trust history and how it is presented in films and television, books and in our schools.

Joining Charlie on the outdoor stage, in front of a large audience, were broadcaster and writer Alice Loxton, historian, television producer and writer Justin Pollard and 'Ghosts' and 'Horrible Histories' actor and comedian Laurence Rickard.

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