192. Robin Hood

Join Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook as they uncover the origins of Robin Hood.
What was the earliest mention of Robin Hood in text? How has Robin Hood evolved through time to become the legend that he is today? Did he have a real-life counterpart?
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[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

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

[@MrMarccj]

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

[@leopictor]

Great poem

[@avigenuth4395]

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

[@user-vs1ke1rx9e]

I think that's because it's actually a documentary!

[@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

[@michaelbedford8017]

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

[@stephensmith4240]

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

[@mjweber0313]

Well done gentlemen. Good episode.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@corinth492]

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

[@ruthmckittrick6279]

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

[@JC-KeepSmiling]

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

[@ropeburnsrussell]

What about Robin and the 7 Hoods?

[@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?

[@michaelbedford8017]

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