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“Stop Pegging Grandad!”: Harold Wilson (Part 2) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

Comedy

4.7990 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Harold Wilson's second term, those were the days- when a civil servant could get away with sexually dominating a dementia-ridden prime minister.  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 Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠https://surfshark.com/fvh 00:00 Live from the toilet 08:25 Pants are fizzing for snooker   13:58  Parliament is hung 16:42  Wilson's dominatrix 22:43  Adolf Bowie 28: 48 When beers were coffee 33:30 The Grumble in the jungle 37:56 The angriest growler 44:68  pEUdo 47:17  Dirty grandpa 54:03  Absolutely knackered    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome Welcome back to FitV versus History.

0:27.0

We are fucked.

0:28.3

I'm here with the race show gold.

0:29.7

This is part nine.

0:31.3

Nine!

0:32.0

Of our post-war British Prime Minister series.

0:35.1

It's all gone to shit.

0:36.1

It's gone to fucking shit.

0:37.6

Yeah. This country's in the toilet. It's gone to fucking shit. Yeah.

0:37.8

This country's in the toilet.

0:38.9

We are podcasting live from the bottom of the toilet.

0:42.0

This is a special episode live from Paris, which is now Britain, unbelievably.

0:47.0

40 years ago, Britain had the biggest empire of the world had ever seen.

0:51.5

And now we don't even have a fucking working toilet. The toilet. You know when you were in the toilet? Yeah. And it's automatic light and you're sat on the toilet doing this. Yeah. That's Britain in 1974. The humiliating reach across. Humiliation. Just, can someone up and you have to stand up with your trousers down and clap? A shitty ass. It's put up in your legs, waving at a, like, begging for some... We're in her Harold Wilson's second term, which is... As fun as it gets, pretty much. I think it's as fun as it gets. Harold Wilson, at this point, I don't think there's a better before and after prime ministerial shots.

1:28.6

It's up there with Blair. Charlie, can you get before? Harold Wilson in 1964 and then

1:33.8

Howard Wilson in 1976. We've gone from the rudest man ever to sit in office to the tiniest man.

1:39.2

I love you, baby. Heath, poor one out for Heath. God but not forgotten. I love Ed Heath. The nation's best. No one ever hated women more. No one's ever been a better misogynist than Heath. He's taught through misogyny. Beyond misogyny. What is beyond misogyny? Where do you go? They become invisible. They are invisible. Yeah. Heath does not see women. Howard Wilson is back for another stint. Yeah. 1974 is the crisis year. Yeah. Britain has two elections. Yeah. No one really wins either of them. No. How many times does Wilson go up against Heath? I think it's four. Four times that they face each other in elections. So Heath versus Wilson is the real grudge match. Yeah. It's two knackered heavyweights slug in each out. Yeah. And also when they say Harold Wilson, oh, he won four elections, he barely. Yeah. They're all like three, four. Yeah. In 66, he wins 60 seat majority. But apart from that, they're all like they're just and from the the white

2:35.6

heat vibrant kind of uh social reformer big old bird it works for part nine part who's doing this what

2:42.1

podcast is doing a 10 part series yeah i don't think anyone's going to see this and go like we need to do

2:48.0

that you know what i got when i set this up uh someone who works with us said, do you think about part two does they never do as well as part ones? Yeah. What about part nine? Who's still here? Who's still here? I mean, this is the kitchen afters, isn't it? This is very much for question after. This is 5am, the birds are tweeting, and a guy who, you don't remember when he arrived,

3:09.6

you don't know who he's friends with, is now telling you who did 9-11.

3:14.2

Well, no, it's not.

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