Mostly Unsung
The weekly comedy history podcast that brings you bitesize biographies of the extraordinary, eccentric, outrageous and occasionally ordinary lives that until now have gone mostly unsung... mostly. Join your hosts Annie and Andrea as they bring you stories that your history teacher never taught you!
If you like stuffy lectures then you're not going to be a fan, sorry! But if you are looking to hang out with two old friends who love story telling, a good laugh and forgotten figures from history then welcome!
Covering everything from scientists to Grandmothers, survivors of wars to eccentric millionaires, all via ghost stories, anecdotes and terrible impressions of Hollywood legend Tim Curry. Come and hang out, have a giggle and join us every Friday.
Mostly Unsung
#20 An Animal Training Eccentric & Story Worthy of Science Fiction
Happy Friday! Happy Mostly Unsung Day!! Welcome back to another hilarious episode of historical biography madness. Join your podcast friends for more stories you've never heard before.
This week Annie is in beautiful Yorkshire with a true English Eccentric. Causing a bit of a stir with his eccentric attire, outlandish mode of transport and his unusual pets. People may have laughed but he absolutely managed the last laugh with possibly the finest sounding funeral ever planned.
Then Andrea is off to explore Kentucky in the United States where an equally eccentric man is looking for a new calling after leaving the armed forces. His inspiration coming from an unlikely combination of Saturn's rings and the migration patterns of animals.
For this episode Andrea used these sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleves_Symmes_Jr.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1873/04/the-symmes-theory-of-the-earth/631214/
For this episode Annie used these sources:
https://gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-animal-expert-who-ever-lived-5767995
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemmy_Hirst
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