History Radio / ThePennyDreadfulsPresent

* LegionOfLostSouls: Horatius joins the French Foreign Legion after high society shuns him for attempting to drown his girlfriend's mother in a fountain. Several of his comrades [[WhatAreYouInFor describe their own crimes]]; one [[EatTheDog ate a live puppy for a bet]]; another tricked a busload of pensioners over a cliff "and into a [[{{Ponzi}} pyramid scheme]]".

* LegionOfLostSouls: Horatius joins the French Foreign Legion after high society shuns him for attempting to drown his girlfriends mother in a fountain. Several of his comrades [[WhatAreYouInFor describe their own crimes]]; one [[EatTheDog ate a live puppy for a bet]]; another tricked a busload of pensioners over a cliff "and into a PyramidScheme".

* BadassCape: Hereward's is green.

* MasterActor: Marcus Faversham is Victorian Britain's greatest actor. Unfortunately, he also becomes a huge [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]].
--> '''Marcus's epitaph''': All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. But I was the best at acting.

* MonumentalDamage: Lady Alexandra chases a villain into the tunnels below London, and informs him that the explosives he has set are in the wrong place if he wants to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But she is completely incorrect about his target; he's going to blow up the ''Thames''.

* BigNo: Lady Alexandra lets one out when Le Chevalier curses her unborn child.

* CoolSword: Hereward's father's sword, [[ICallItVera The Sexy Camilla]] which is inherited by Hereward. Hereward's father found it [[ExcaliburInTheStone mysteriously lodged in a stone]]; [[SubvertedTrope Gareth Stone, the local village idiot, to be precise]].

* AcceptableTargets:
** The Welsh. Although, as the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue to "Richard III Rebothered" notes, they may not take mockery from university-educated Englishmen who think their accents are funny lying down forever...
** Germans. Horatius is able to worm his way out of "conduct unbecoming an officer" charges (he slept with a German man's wife, then [[GroinAttack "hoofed him in the spuds"]] when the man confronted him) by citing the "fact" that Germans are awful.
---> '''Theseus''': [[{{Mummy}} Mummies]] can no more walk than Germans can dance.

* ''Hereward The Wake'' (December 2012): a Boxing-Day special about 11th Century would-be folk hero Hereward the Wake, narrated by Justin Edwards.

* BlingOfWar: Captain Robert Fitzroy of the HMS Beagle petitioned his superiors to have his iron cannons replaced with gold ones ([[ChekhovsGun as the large masses of iron interfered with his magnetic navigation equipment), but they refused as they thought it was "[[HelloSailor too fabulous, even for the Royal Navy]]".

* ''The Curse of the Beagle''(July 2016): a special telling the tale of UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin's spooky encounters during the voyage in which he first developed his theory of evolution.

-->'''Judge:''' We therefore find the defendant, [[spoiler:His Grace, the Bishop of Gloucester]], guilty on four counts of premeditated murder; five counts of arson with malice aforethought; eight of embezzlement; twelve of fraud; and one count of conspiracy to fix the results of Calvalley village fête tombola.