192. Robin Hood

[@MarcInTbilisi]

I'm belly laughing listening to you two. Great stuff!

[@James-o2u9x]

Nicholas Grace plays the finest sheriff to ever grace our screens. Gisbuuuurne!!!!!

[@MarkL-we8uk]

100000%

[@mjweber0313]

Well done gentlemen. Good episode.

[@TheGreatWhiteScout]

Robin and Marian is my favorite. Sean Connery' as an aging Robin with Audrey Hepburn as Marian were terrific. Robert Shaw's Sheriff of Nottingham and Richard Harris as King Richard are also the best character portrayals imaginable.

[@stephensmith4240]

As a Spurs fan I am delighted to find that ‘Gazza’ has a connection to Robin Hood via Raoul Moat. Great episode.

[@grahamparkin5568]

In the 1200s, popularly thought to be the time of Robin Hood, Sherwood covered about 100,000 acres, which was a fifth of the entire county of Nottinghamshire. The main London to York road, the Great North Way, ran straight through Sherwood, and travellers were often at the mercy of robbers living outside of the law.

[@SarahBeecroft]

Yeah. No mention of Alan Rickman!!! But the usual charming, delightful conversation. Thank you gentlemen

[@ogvikinggoddess724]

Really enjoyed the content. It says your channel is new, keep it up and yall will blow up in no time. I found yall when I ran out of dan carlins, the historcrat and other podcasters/podcast of the sorts.

[@SarahBeecroft]

At last!!!! Alan Rickman. Sorry, should have waited. Worth it

[@offbeatinstruments]

My stepmother lives in Little Johns Cottage in Hathersage on the site of a house he lived in. He is buried in the local graveyard and there is a stone headstone that details his history there.

[@James-o2u9x]

I know, I visit it all the time.

[@illinoisan]

The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn was my childhood entre into the concept of Englishness followed instantly by the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies. My older brothers explained the time and setting as we watched together as well as the fact that these people with the elegant or funny sounding accents and odd ways represented the world of our ancestry. When I was 5 my parents went on a long trip to Europe and I was terrified that they would get their heads cut off in London.

[@avigenuth4395]

You didn’t mention Robin Hood: Men in Tights! The greatest and most accurate of all Robin Hood films!!!

[@ManiSRao-bt3xw]

Also, the movie has the 1st mention of Jews in England

[@avigenuth4395]

@@ManiSRao-bt3xw 😂😂😂 A Jew, in England???

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

Unlike some other Robin Hoods, Carey elwes can speak with a British accent

[@beverleyfranco4348]

That movie was hilarious. Especially when Robin Hood said he was the only Robin Hood to speak with a British accent. 😂😂😂

[@launiesoult3248]

This is a show about history not comedy get off the freaking are you idiot

[@dorotakorsak3107]

I absolutely love this podcast!

[@leopictor]

Great poem

[@Vassatta]

I love the Time Bandits depiction of accurate violent merry men and the storybook version of Robin Hood

[@astondriver]

No mention of the Robin Hood movie with Basil Rathbone and Erryl Flynn? Or Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn?

[@robertdarby6553]

Errol Flynn does get a mention. "It's the injustice I hate, not the Normans."

[@dontcare5998]

I think there needs to be a podcast dedicated to Alan Rickman.

[@robertdarby6553]

He completely acted Kevin Costner off the stage.

[@dontcare5998]

@@robertdarby6553Of the stage, out of the theatre and ran him out of town. His greatest role in my opinion is in Galaxy Quest.

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Best baddy ever, never be surpassed

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

If they don’t bring up the Mel brooks film, I’m gonna lose my shit

[@Sarsfield-jm2bg]

Don't forget "When Things Were Rotten."

[@michaelbedford8017]

You forgot to mention Richard Greene, 'whoosh.... thunk...dooiing'.

[@j0nnyism]

I’m sure Toms epitaph will be as a top vampire expert

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

Seems like a kind of medieval comic book hero to me. He's probably about as real as Batman.

[@brianvanderspuy4514]

I liked the notion that Robin Hood became a generic name for an outlaw, maybe because there was someone with that, or a similar name, who was a real outlaw. One can imagine a future in which they tell stories about, say, Bernie Madoff and his merry men, who steal from, er, everyone, and give unto themselves. Another thing that I find interesting is how the Robin Hood stories change over time to suit the culture of the time. We still see the same thing going on: film versions of myths and legends are often an interesting glimpse into the time, culture and mores of the producers rather than into the "original versions" (whatever that might even be) of the stories. Hence all the "wokester" remakes of films, for example. And of course, children's versions of stories tell you something about what people at the time considered "child-friendly" literature. Come to think of it, a podcast on the history of children's books might be quite interesting...

[@beverleyfranco4348]

I thought the TV series Robin of Sherwood was pretty accurate as appearances went. Gisborne and the Sheriff of Nottingham were great characters too.

[@HerbertDuckshort]

I never knew Tom couldn't sing...... 😂

[@mojo199]

surely just refers to a medieval robber who wears a hood.

[@ropeburnsrussell]

What about Robin and the 7 Hoods?

[@ruthmckittrick6279]

Instantly became one of my favourite podcasts and quite the feat to be blasphemous and atheistic, in the same breath.

[@jemfrankel4099]

I thought the French connection’ came via an outlaw called Jean le Pied!

[@ceilingsintheireyes6288]

So in the earliest tale all Robin does is renege on a bet with his mate, gets captured and then rescued by his mate he reneged on?

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Only book that sticks in my mind with Robin hood is Ivanhoe

[@nealolson8814]

Sob the story arc of Robyn le Hood is simple yeoman who is an outlaw because he's first and only truly loyal to an earthly virgin mother of god, and it ends with him bled out as an immortal by the murderous mouth of a vampire abbess? Is that a longbow flexed to the round?

[@JC-KeepSmiling]

I'm from Nottingham and we don't talk like that round here me duck.

[@noodleperson17]

“There IS many examples…” ?

[@pauljohansen8043]

I doubt anyone got Robin’s 7th century accent right! 😂

[@IanCross-xj2gj]

Lady books aside, King Richard was among the worst British monarchs ever. He spent little time in his Kingdom, preferring to Crusade. He allowed his young brother John to pillage the realm.

[@antoniovaccaro2160]

Robin Hood = "Robbing Hood"

[@michaelbedford8017]

Berkshire!? Was he the former stockbroker who had to hide in the greenwood following some bouncing cheques.

[@ktom5262]

Costner's version "the worst"? Absolutely not. Guy Ritchie directed the worst movie about Robin Hood.

[@j0nnyism]

Raoul moat raoul moat no doesn’t really work

[@granthurlburt4062]

Are there people who enjoy hearing a couple of people talking about their personal reasons for liking Robin Hood, their partial knowledge of Robin Hood, and making weak jokes, instead of learning about Robin Hood?

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Yes, if they are Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.

[@eatpraybrightboquet]

I really like this podcast but you do have a point...

[@keshetamazona]

Yes!

[@barbararice6650]

French 🙄

[@abdulal-hodl8861]

Robin Hood is French.... FFS

[@MarkL-we8uk]

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