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Tales Yet Told

Tales Yet Told

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Tales Yet Told is an award-winning Actual Play podcast, focused on collaboratively telling stories at the intersection of queerness and horror using Indie TTRPGs. Our stories center on troubled characters struggling to be true to themselves in uncompromising worlds that would rather bend and break them than allow them to exist as they are. From cold-hearted killers driving down school hallways to naval soldiers rising from the depths of the ocean, Tales Yet Told is filled with heart-wrenchin ...
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The Silly History Boys Show

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Gather round your camp fires and listen! To tales of daring, horror and high adventure from the worn pages of our History Book Not a talky Podcast. More like Action Radio! Join the man known only as the Pear Bear, the unflappable Tombo and your new favourite Uncles BobBob & Bilbo. Let us take a questionably queasy trip through the squishy bits of history and myth. Fun for all the family? We don’t know yet... But we promise it’ll be silly, it’ll be fun!
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Welcome to Mirage Travel Writing Podcast, I’m your host William Barlow. After two decades of indigent wanderings, I’m coming to you with stories, curiosities, and questions. In this first season, there will be narratives of sleeping on the streets in European capitals. There will be tales of crocodile men in remote Central African Republic and armed groups in eastern DR Congo all told through the experience of an aid worker. We will try to understand what it means to be a foreigner in clanic ...
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A sea captain barges into the office of a shipping merchant, dragging in a barrel of water. He’s here on business, with a humble proposition. He opens the lid and reveals a newt. Inspired by the work of Czech science fiction pioneer Karel Čapek, Newts! chronicles an alternate history of the 20th Century in which the western world discovers, exploits, educates, arms, and is ultimately overthrown by a species of highly intelligent amphibians. It’s a farcical yet deadly serious tale about self- ...
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Humans have shared stories for millennia. For most of that time, telling tales was a verbal process. A storyteller would regale an audience with accounts of adventure, bravery, compassion, despair, enlightenment, and fear. Stories were a shared experience, until the advent of inexpensive mass-printing processes in the 19th century which allowed most of us to read to ourselves. Yet, that desire to have a story read aloud is still ingrained in our collective soul. While we still read books for ...
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For centuries tales were told to convey stories from past and beyond, fiction and non-fiction alike. Each tale had a story to tell - few recounting history, some folklore stories and many more of them with messages for life eternity.I grew up listening to these wonderful tales from my grandma (whom we lovingly called Jayamma) who always had an interesting tale to share with us. These tales have grown to be a part of me and I constantly find ways to retell and share these tales with the next ...
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A sentimental short story praised for its moving plot and condemnation of scientific experimentation on animals, Mark Twain efficiently delivers a truly captivating piece. First appearing in Harper’s Magazine in 1903, A Dog's Tale was later published as a pamphlet for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. The tale focuses on the life of Aileen, a misunderstood dog who experiences the ups and downs of life, while cruelly subjected to suffering because of the shallow belief of her inferiority ...
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Value Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stands with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take actio…
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Hello Listener you look tired! Come on you’ve worked hard enough today its time to cuddle up in bed with…a story! A new feature for us silly boys with a little screeching and explosions to lull you to sleep! But don’t worry the screeching and explosions will be back next time. For now cosy up with…some Tales from Wales. The Eagle and the Wren and t…
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Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take actio…
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This is a confession to a breaking and entering in Germany. This is not an alibi but rather a justification for why I did it. This is a love story and a story of a golddigger. So come travel to France and Germany in an attempt to prove probate fraud. All music by Christopher Mathis from the album Woodlandsgaze. Outro by the South Hill Experiment, B…
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Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take actio…
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Someone has cut off the hair of the Goddess Sif, and she's super unhappy about it. So unhappy that she's made the Silly Boys all be in the same room to record her saga! Join us as we venture back to Asgard again, live before ourselves. It's a tale of origins, of weapons, of stubby handles. Thanks to www.Zapsplat.com as always for their zips, zaps, …
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Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take actio…
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Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take actio…
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Our hero is struggling with his mental and personal wellbeing as he approaches his 7th labour. Is Heracles having a mid-labour crisis? Has he fallen out of Love with Labouring? Perhaps wrestling a good looking bull will help? We're talking Chris Hemsworth levels of beefcake yo. Join Heracles as he goes on a bit of a jaunt with daddy Zeus to visit U…
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In this episode, we rehabilitate a house in France, we get married (almost), and travel to Germany to bug my father-in-law's house. This begins a longer narrative (continued in future chapters) of battling a golddigger, a younger woman, who tried to extort money out of my girlfriend's father. So if you’re interested in German inheritance law, demen…
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Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take actio…
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OMGosh are we wilfully niche for you this time listener! What starts off as an episode about The Percy Family, turns into a deep dive on Wressle Castle and it's ownership! Some say this conflict over Wressle Castle starts the feud between the families Percy & Neville; which in turn may have given the Wars of the Roses a big old push in the fight di…
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Nail the doors shut, barricade the fridge, the Silly History Boys are back…and so are the Vikings! Rollo and his gang of idiots return laying siege to the mighty city of Paris. Only two hundred brave souls, a few croissants and quite a lot of hot wax stand between the Viking Horde and the conquest of France…only bickering can stop them…and giant cr…
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In this episode, we go on a vertiginous tour through the Western World, guided by one night stands, aging parents, and a lone suicide bomber. From Cape Town, Sydney, Istanbul, Athens, Sevilla, Madrid, Paris, Mexico City, to Havana we look for love in all the wrong places, we search for grit in city centers a century too late, and like a debt collec…
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The Bangui Magnetic Anomaly, refers to a variation in the Earth's magnetic field centered at Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. I wrote a story with the same name in response to a friend's question—what is a day like in the life of an aid worker in Central Africa? The article was written, beer soaked and sunburnt on a back porch, …
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Its the Silly History of England Part two: Return of Jafar! Swotty Uncle Bob Bob is back for part two of the Silly History of England! A special 'talky' podcast where everyone's favourite History Pervert attempt to bridge gaps in people's knowledge and explain complicated history...in terms that a silly person can understand. This week he over stre…
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Mr Ritchie there’s something happening in 9th Century France! VIKINGS! There's many a Dane axe to be ground in the story of ROLLO THE WALKER...not to mention FEUDS, people falling in the water and HAIRCUTS worse than DEATH! Join the exiled ROLLO and his extremely SILLY band of VIKINGS as they travel to FRANCE in search of riches and ADVENTURE...whi…
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I’m calling as I drive through Saxony Anhalt, in eastern Germany, because I’ve drank more coffee than water and need to talk. We've talked a lot about travel in the past, you know, in our 20s, always writing to one another with the question of where to live. From ever-changing locations, we would hand in our trip reports via email. I would attach c…
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Thumping techno, thumping monsters and over flowing toilets! It's the silliest telling of the labours of Heracles ever!* This week...the taming of the Stymphalian Birds! But where has our favourite Demi God been for almost a year?! Rightings wrongs? Being righteous?** He's not completely sold out has he?*** Join us for the 'unbearable weight of bei…
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I once thought each culture had its neuroses, I now think each culture is a neurosis. Neurosis is defined as a particular atrophied behavior, the expression of which results from some sort of malady. Mental conditions that are not caused by organic disease, but involve symptoms of stress, such as obsessive behavior, but not a radical loss of touch …
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FIRE! STILL FIRE! If you thought the first part of our tale was overcooked, then get in on this chewy action! The Great Fire of London is taking hold! The Pear Bear is in search of Samuel Pepys and the other Silly Boys! Mayor Bloodworth is flapping and there is nary a fire-hook to be seen! Can the boys help this fine old city? Or will their family …
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Multiple times a day, on a whim or by demand, I sing my son the song The Wheels on the Bus. He's just turned two and loves repetition. He watches my lips as I describe the movements of wheels, wipers, and the driver as the driver says move on back. All over an idealized town, this bus drives over a dozen times a day. At any time of the day, I can r…
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Travel writing is always going on about place. And travelers are forever comparing and positioning themselves between home and away. But if you travel long enough, the home you think you know will vanish in time and as you touch down in your home country or hometown, you’ll suddenly realize there's often nowhere to return to. Leave us a message or …
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FIRE! FIRE! That's right, it gets everywhere, even the school national curriculum! So if you know anyone on KS1, force them to listen to this! They'll cry, they'll resit, they'll learn (?) They'll learn everything from [INSERT HISTORY FACT HERE] to [DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN MUMMY? HERE]. Oh the fun you'll have! Join the Silly Boys and a special liter…
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A blow by blow of a humanitarian aid distribution in eastern DR Congo The aid industry is selling you a lie but it’s one that’s necessary. The poignant photos on aid organization websites showing beneficiaries in Africa and Asia as grateful recipients of aid are misleading. The lie is necessary because you, the viewer might not know that Giving Thi…
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The Silly History Boys are on trial...and they plead silly! This weeks episode puts the 'ARGH' in Courtroom Drama as we are flung screaming into the bubbling cauldron of medieval justice...with Trial by Ordeal. Water, Fire and Combat are the only to freedom this week via the stories of... Queen Emma of Normandy's red hot trial by FIRE The PAINFUL t…
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He's back! Katana's sing and hearts flutter as one of the show's early heroes returns! Miyamoto Musashi is thirteen going on forty (judging by his voice) He yearns to be the best swordsman in all Japan but his Father wants him to commit to the family business... Unfulfilling Saturday jobs and duels to the death are the order of the day in this defi…
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Oh hi there our lovelies. You looked stressed and/or full of sugar. It must be half term! That means the Silly Boys aren't here, but babysitting your ungrateful brood of-... little darlings. The Pear Bear and Bilbo have been at the Jorvik Viking Festival (at least one of them will have broken their hand in sword school) and it gave the us an idea f…
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And here we go listener. Closing the Sarcophagus lid on our first (but hopefully not last) Egyptian tale. Big thanks to the nation of Egypt for being a good sport with all the fun liberties taken with your rich history. A weighty box of gold talons for ZapSplat for all the music and murder noises. A bit of the Pyramid of Unas (that Pear Bear chippe…
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Mummy! Mummy! The Man Mummy! It's Myth time again dear listener! Let us away to ancient Egypt to hear the suntanned tale of how the first mummy came to be. We don't actually do that here but we lay all the ground work! There's sibling, er, lets say Rivalry. Fratricide! And Braiding of Hair! All the things your stuffy history prof wouldn't teach you…
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In this episode we have a crash course in clanic values in Palestine when yours truly is robbed and the question of justice—formal justice or informal justice is forced upon me, the wayward traveler. Intro music by Sam Widaman, episode music by Bull of Heaven, He is Not Dead, but Sleepeth Leave us a message or question 🫠 If you enjoy what you're li…
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Anyone who has ever had his or her heart shit on, enjoyed needle drugs, or rotted away in Sub-Saharan Africa might have witnessed things and could have things worthwhile to say. Worth what? I haven't the faintest idea. At least not yet. This is a story. It could be mine, or it could be yours. In all reality, it is of little significance, the Africa…
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In this episode we have the politics of foreign aid as it relates to the KONY 2012 campaign told through a story about an aid worker kicking painkillers in the Central African Republic. We have crocodile men, a cameo by Celine Dion, and we turn the narrative of Central Africa as a warzone full of witch hunts on its head. Intro music by Sam Widaman,…
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Happy 2024! Now that the new year is here...we all deserve a holiday! So pack your sun cream, chainmail and Song of Roland double cassette! Cos it’s a Norman holiday! It’s 999AD and everyone’s least favourite French Vikings on horses are off to see Jerusalem! Hopefully the journey will stop them being quite so horrible*, certainly once they see the…
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CRUSAAAAAAAADE!!!!! The Third Crusade to be precise! Join the Silly Boys as they examine the motivation of all the key players of the Lionheartiest of all the crusades. Oh alright, it's silly voices, sword noises and facts. Get amongst it! Thanks as ever to ZapSplat And to Scott Buckley And to... You. See you in 2024 dear listener! OKTHANKSBYEEEEEE…
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Here's the Google form for sending in your questions and comments for our Whispers in the Sea Talk Back Talk Back Question Form ------------------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for updates and additional content! You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.com Join our growing community Dis…
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Content Warnings for this episode: Description of insects, violence/death, sounds of the ocean ------------------------------------------------ It all comes to an end here. But many ends are just new beginnings. ------------------------------------------------ Hosted and GM’d by Kendrick/Kendo Smith (@KendoMakesFilms) Featuring: Dr. Hilda as Avery …
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Join us as we continue the tale of Richard I 'The Lionheart'... greatest King ever? Find out this week! Alright, you won't find out as that's an answer entirely too subjective to tackle in a show with silly voices and sword noises... but the silly voices and sword noises are extra good this week to make up for it. Thanks for... Music & SFX ZapSplat…
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This week we're taking a look at a King so famous he's on the football clothes - Richard I, The Lionheart! But how did he become known as 'Couer de Lion' (The Lionheart)? Join us as we deconstruct the events of the day and provide fresh analysis on the early life of probably the best King to ever have Kinged... or was he? He wasn't he was terrible.…
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Herbert Marcuse's book "Eros and Civilization" proposes a non-repressive society by attempting a synthesis of the theories of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. He describes a utopia based on aesthetics, sensuality and play, as opposed to our current construction of civilization based on reason, production and repression. When I was a horny twenty-year-o…
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Content Warnings for this episode: Description of insects, violence/death, blood, burning skin ------------------------------------------------ Thanks to Brynn's last ditch effort, a Dragon Lord of old has been summoned onto the island alongside the hunters who were hoping to bring it down. Now our crew must face off against the Dragon if they want…
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Content Warnings for this episode: Themes of sanism, death, mention of off-screen death of a child, ghosts, drowning, description of insects, blood loss ------------------------------------------------ With Captain Hano hanging on by a thread and the ship spirited away, our crew of the Bois Perdu must fight off the encroaching Navy ----------------…
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Watch out listener! It's Halloween and the passing of the season of the sun has brought a thinning of the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead... Or it's just people putting on costumes and wandering the neighbourhood begging for sweets... Either way it's time for another SpOoOoky episode of The Silly History Boys Show! This week the …
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A bit of an update on what you can expect from us in the future! ------------------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for updates and additional content! You can support the show by checking out our merch at: merchyetsold.com Join our growing community Discord server! You can email us at talesyettoldpod@gmail.com for …
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Who are the most famous family in history? The Tudors? The Stuarts? The Osmonds? No! Wrong! Silly! Just before 1066 and all that...the Godwin Family were 'god winning' the Dark ages! Mainly through murder plotting and ACID. So join the Silliest Boys in history and Tremble at the torrid tale of the house that Earl* built... right before Anglo Saxon …
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