Bin Sniffers, Wicket Keepers, Lily Gilders & Chuff-Slingers: Winston Churchill | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

Comedy

4.7 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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It’s Winston’s difficult second album, how do you follow beating Hitler? You drink brandy for breakfast , cut off some Malaysian heads, and frame all homosexuals as spies, that’s how. The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor CHAPTERS: 00:00 The Difficult Second Album 04:30 Petrol, Eggs and Maize 09:53 Winston the Travel Baddie 14:50 Daddy’s Back 20:49 Punching People for Tellies 24:38 Gilding the Lily 27:10 Mau Mau Uprising 32:23 The Last True Imperalist 37:21 All Gay People Are Spies 41:34 The Real One Died On The Toilet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Finn versus History.
0:18.6	I'm joined by Horatio Gould.
0:22.4	It's part three of our epic romp through post-war British prime ministers.
0:27.5	And we've arrived at Winston Churchill once again.
0:30.4	Winston.
0:30.7	The first Jamaican prime minister of this country.
0:35.1	Ragatonic wine before any cabinet meeting.
0:38.2	This isn't,
0:39.2	obviously Churchill's one of the big
0:40.6	historical figures,
0:41.5	but this is just going to be
0:42.4	a focused look
0:43.6	on his less discussed
0:45.8	second term in office.
0:47.5	The difficult second album.
0:48.7	Yes, exactly.
0:49.6	He's seen off Hitler
0:50.2	and Mussolini in the first.
0:51.7	He's drunker,
0:52.3	he's tireder, he's older,
0:53.7	it's peacetime. He's so drunk. Yeah. I think people don't, when they think of Churchill, they don't realize that he has this four-year coda of nailing brandy. Let's get Churchill's drinking diet up again. We want to see what we're working with. This is an important context for everything
1:11.8	we're going to discuss. It is very important to... There's a drunk driver to the entirety of the
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