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Fin vs History

The Worst Prime Minister You’ve Never Heard Of: Alec Douglas-Home | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

Comedy

4.7995 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Alec Douglas-Who? A Prime Minister who was so boring and ineffective he’s too obscure even for pub quizzes, that’s who 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 00:00 Enter The GOAT  06:20 Chandeliers to Puppies  13:07 The Right to Fag 19:44 The Last Patrician  24:05 Entirely Encased In Plaster  28:28 Special Relationships  33:28 Terrible On Telly 36:33 At Least Truss Was Memorable Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Finn versus history.

0:16.7

It's the big one.

0:17.6

The big one.

0:18.5

It's Alec Douglas Hume time.

0:20.2

The one you've been waiting for. You can rest easy. We're finally getting to the goat. It's here. The big one. Finally. Don't worry. We have listened to your comments. Yeah. Every week we have people begging us to do this topic. Douglas Hume, when? Yeah. And we're like, look, we want to establish ourselves first.

0:39.1

We want to, we want to practice what it means to do, a comedy history podcast. Douglas Hume, when, when, when? Cowards. Cowards. Release it. You won't do it. Release it now. You won't do it. You won't do it. being censored. You're scared. You're scared of touching the great man.

0:53.2

Sir Alec Douglas Hume, the man, the myth, the legend.

0:57.3

Sir Alec Douglas Hume, the man, the myth, the legend.

0:57.3

Sir Alec Douglas, who? Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. I'd not heard of him before we

1:02.9

started doing this series. I think I'd heard of every post-war British Prime Minister, at least

1:06.8

in a passing way. Yeah. But this is the only one I had literally no idea.

1:11.0

Genuinely thought it went

1:11.7

at Millen Wilson.

1:12.6

Yeah.

1:12.7

We could have arguably skipped this one

1:14.5

if we weren't doing the test cricket

1:15.7

approach to the series.

1:17.3

You can't skip a session of test cricket.

1:19.2

There's lulls.

1:19.8

That's not test cricket.

1:21.0

There will be lulls.

1:22.1

That's what makes it exhilarating

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