0:00:02 > 0:00:04# Terrible Tudors, Gorgeous Georgians Slimy Stuarts, Vile Victorians
0:00:04 > 0:00:07# Woeful Wars, Ferocious Fights Dingy Castles, Daring Knights
0:00:07 > 0:00:09# Horrors that defy description Cut-throat Celts, Awful Egyptians
0:00:09 > 0:00:12# Vicious Vikings, Cruel Crimes Punishment from ancient times
0:00:12 > 0:00:15# Roman, rotten, rank and ruthless Cavemen, savage, fierce and toothless
0:00:15 > 0:00:18# Groovy Greeks, Brainy Sages Mean and measly Middle Ages
0:00:18 > 0:00:20# Gory Stories, we do that
0:00:20 > 0:00:23# And your host, a talking rat
0:00:23 > 0:00:26# The past is no longer a mystery
0:00:26 > 0:00:32# Welcome to Horrible Histories. #
0:00:37 > 0:00:38Hello there.
0:00:38 > 0:00:43Welcome to the Savage Songs special, which has given me a brilliant idea.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45All I've got to do is write a catchy song
0:00:45 > 0:00:49and I'll be as famous as the great Greek leader, Alexander the Great.
0:00:56 > 0:01:01# Alexander is my name Macedonia's most famous commander
0:01:01 > 0:01:04# History calls The Great But I prefer The Greatest
0:01:04 > 0:01:07# A king aged only 20 When my dad assassinated
0:01:07 > 0:01:10# Advisors called for calm But frankly peace is overrated
0:01:10 > 0:01:14# Crushed rebels in Greek city states
0:01:14 > 0:01:17# So thousands of them martyrs
0:01:17 > 0:01:21# Made short labour of my neighbours
0:01:21 > 0:01:24# And that was just for starters
0:01:24 > 0:01:27# Alexander
0:01:27 > 0:01:31# Full-time fighter
0:01:31 > 0:01:35# Made my home rule secure But that wasn't enough
0:01:35 > 0:01:39# I wanted more, more, more
0:01:39 > 0:01:42# And so began my master plan to conquer by invasion
0:01:42 > 0:01:46# Started with Dad's enemy The famous Persian nation
0:01:46 > 0:01:49# Ruler Darius had far more troops An inconvenience
0:01:49 > 0:01:53# But I won, then thrashed Egypt I'm a military genius
0:01:53 > 0:01:56# Founded Egypt's Alexandria
0:01:56 > 0:01:59# Named for the greatest man alive
0:01:59 > 0:02:03# I was now Pharaoh and King of Persia
0:02:03 > 0:02:06# Not bad for 25
0:02:06 > 0:02:09# Alexander
0:02:09 > 0:02:13# Victorious fighter
0:02:13 > 0:02:15# The Greatest sounds flat
0:02:15 > 0:02:17# How about The Living God?
0:02:17 > 0:02:21# Yeah, I'll buy that
0:02:21 > 0:02:24# My loyal followers said "That's the stuff"
0:02:24 > 0:02:27# But I, a born warrior, said, "It's not enough
0:02:27 > 0:02:31# "Let's take India Last man there's a fool"
0:02:31 > 0:02:35# Started wearing Persian clothes Boy, I looked so cool
0:02:35 > 0:02:38# But made my troops suspicious Men called me too ambitious
0:02:38 > 0:02:42# Said they wouldn't follow me Guitar solo, Ptolemy... #
0:02:49 > 0:02:52# Cos of me, Ptolemy, he'll go far
0:02:52 > 0:02:56# He'll found the dynasty that ends with Cleopatra
0:02:56 > 0:02:59# Then there's Hephaestian My best friend, of course
0:02:59 > 0:03:03# Unless you count Bucephalus But he's a horse. #
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Why the long face, my friend?
0:03:05 > 0:03:07HORSE NEIGHS
0:03:07 > 0:03:10# Anyway, together it was going grand
0:03:10 > 0:03:13# Till Heph and Bucy died and my men took a stand
0:03:13 > 0:03:16# I wanted to continue but my hands were tied
0:03:16 > 0:03:22# So I sat in my tent and I cried
0:03:24 > 0:03:30# Oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh
0:03:30 > 0:03:33# Alexander
0:03:33 > 0:03:37# No more a fighter
0:03:37 > 0:03:39# Adventures had to stop
0:03:39 > 0:03:46# Cos 323 BC saw me drop...
0:03:46 > 0:03:47# Dead. #
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Alexander the Great may have been famous,
0:03:55 > 0:03:59but was he as rich as Roman politician Marcus Licinius Crassus?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01I doubt it.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12# I'm Marcus Licinius Crassus No rich man could ever surpass us
0:04:12 > 0:04:14# Wanted people to say I was brave
0:04:14 > 0:04:16# But I lost my first fight and hid in a cave
0:04:16 > 0:04:18# Living there could be a pauper's nightmare
0:04:18 > 0:04:20# But if you're rich like me then you don't care.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22# I called my slave to the cave to ask it
0:04:22 > 0:04:24# To cook a feast and lower in a basket
0:04:24 > 0:04:28# There's Romans think they're minted But they ain't rich like me
0:04:28 > 0:04:32# You can't call yourself loaded Till you can buy an army
0:04:32 > 0:04:34# Ran Rome with Pompey and Caesar
0:04:34 > 0:04:35# They're more famous than me
0:04:35 > 0:04:40# But I'm the world's richest geezer There's no one richer than me! #
0:04:42 > 0:04:43# I'm minted
0:04:43 > 0:04:46# I backed General Sulla Every day my wallet got fuller
0:04:46 > 0:04:48# Took the land off our enemies to flog it
0:04:48 > 0:04:50# Used the cash to fill my pocket
0:04:50 > 0:04:52# If I heard of a house on fire
0:04:52 > 0:04:54# I'd rush over Be a quick cash buyer
0:04:54 > 0:04:56# My firemen would then douse the flames
0:04:56 > 0:04:58# Boom! Another big house to my name
0:04:58 > 0:05:02# There's Romans think they're minted But they ain't rich like me
0:05:02 > 0:05:06# You can't call yourself loaded Till you can buy an army
0:05:06 > 0:05:10# Ran Rome with Pompey and Caesar They're more famous than me
0:05:10 > 0:05:15# But I'm the world's richest geezer There's no one richer than me. #
0:05:16 > 0:05:17# I'm minted
0:05:17 > 0:05:19# I bought an army for fighting Spartacus
0:05:19 > 0:05:21# At the start my men lost heart-acus
0:05:21 > 0:05:23# I killed one in ten in a killing spree
0:05:23 > 0:05:25# So they were more scared of me than the enemy
0:05:25 > 0:05:27# Smashed the slaves It got real gory
0:05:27 > 0:05:29# But then Pompey stole my glory
0:05:29 > 0:05:31# To show it was me that crushed the horde
0:05:31 > 0:05:33# Nailed up the slaves like on a billboard. #
0:05:35 > 0:05:36# They're splinted
0:05:36 > 0:05:38# Not enough to be a politician
0:05:38 > 0:05:40# Wanted triumph Took my army on a mission
0:05:40 > 0:05:42# Got owned by the Parthian Persians
0:05:42 > 0:05:44# They killed me but you'll hear two versions
0:05:44 > 0:05:45# The famous one's quite hard to follow
0:05:45 > 0:05:47# They gave me boiling gold to swallow
0:05:47 > 0:05:49# But the true way they made me pay?
0:05:49 > 0:05:52# They used my head as a prop in a play.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56# Embarrassing
0:05:56 > 0:05:59# There's Romans think they're minted But they ain't rich like me
0:05:59 > 0:06:03# You can't call yourself loaded Till you can buy an army
0:06:03 > 0:06:07# Ran Rome with Pompey and Caesar They're more famous than me
0:06:07 > 0:06:12# But I'm the world's richest geezer There's no one richer than me! #
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Ha-ha, love it! Tell me you don't love it! Ha-ha.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19I haven't actually written the song yet, this is just a list
0:06:19 > 0:06:22of some of the things I plan to do when I'm a rock'n'roll star.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Mainly touring the world and trashing places.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26A bit like being a Viking.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Although Vikings weren't just violent invaders. Oh, no.
0:06:38 > 0:06:43# We Vikings have an awful reputation with your nation
0:06:43 > 0:06:48# But when we'd finished plundering and pillages
0:06:48 > 0:06:52# Made nice villages
0:06:52 > 0:06:57# Any place name ending "thorpe" Or "kirk" or "by" was us, you see
0:06:57 > 0:07:01# Scunthorpe, Ormskirk, Wetherby, Scarborough Fair
0:07:01 > 0:07:04# We named them, yeah
0:07:04 > 0:07:10# We split your isles diagonally From southeast to northwest
0:07:10 > 0:07:16# Our section called the Danelaw King Alfred ruled the rest
0:07:16 > 0:07:18# Think we're scary? No, don't flee
0:07:18 > 0:07:20# Conquered Saxons would find we
0:07:20 > 0:07:26# Settled and lived in harmony
0:07:26 > 0:07:28# Vike-Eng-land
0:07:28 > 0:07:31# Though we began as raiders
0:07:31 > 0:07:33# So well planned
0:07:33 > 0:07:36# You accepted us as traders
0:07:40 > 0:07:43# We introduced some new terms
0:07:43 > 0:07:46# "Husband", "Gasp", "Egg", "Awkward", "Nag", "Leg"
0:07:46 > 0:07:50# More than 50 words to leave your lingo
0:07:50 > 0:07:53# To your liking, thank a Viking
0:07:53 > 0:07:59# Your little town of Swansea city Named for our King Sweyn
0:07:59 > 0:08:04# Waterford and Dublin Us old Norse Vikings again
0:08:04 > 0:08:10# As farmers we made doubly sure To respect agriculture
0:08:10 > 0:08:15# With us, locals felt secure
0:08:15 > 0:08:17# Norse-Scot-land
0:08:17 > 0:08:20# Large parts of that whole region
0:08:20 > 0:08:22# Norse got land
0:08:22 > 0:08:26# Were improved by Norwegians
0:08:29 > 0:08:32# London Bridge is falling down
0:08:32 > 0:08:35# The nursery rhyme comes from our time
0:08:35 > 0:08:37# Vikings played key roles
0:08:37 > 0:08:43# In 1014 it was pulled down by Olafr Haraldsson
0:08:43 > 0:08:45# You can call him Ol
0:08:45 > 0:08:51# In a dispute with King Canute Olafr's side won
0:08:51 > 0:08:56# Ethelred returned as king And could be heard proclaiming
0:08:56 > 0:09:01# "Here's to you, Olafr Haraldsson"
0:09:01 > 0:09:03# Vike-Eng-land
0:09:03 > 0:09:06# We swapped our life of violence
0:09:06 > 0:09:08# Norse-Scot-land
0:09:08 > 0:09:11# To enjoy the sound of silence
0:09:11 > 0:09:17# There's no doubt under Viking rule Britain did improve-y
0:09:17 > 0:09:21# Feelin' groovy
0:09:24 > 0:09:29# And that's no lie La, lie, la, la, lie. #
0:09:38 > 0:09:41You know, writing a hit song may not be all that easy.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44I really need to concentrate on this.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Look, you watch the story of a remarkable French teenage girl
0:09:47 > 0:09:49and I'll get on.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51# OK
0:09:52 > 0:09:54# Pamplemousse
0:09:55 > 0:09:59# Baguette and brie Are you ready?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03# I'm Joan of Arc from Domremy
0:10:03 > 0:10:06# Religious visions came to me
0:10:06 > 0:10:09# God said, "Save France from the English"
0:10:09 > 0:10:11# "And make Dauphin Charles King"
0:10:11 > 0:10:14# Dauphin means heir to the throne
0:10:14 > 0:10:16# But England claimed the crown as their own
0:10:16 > 0:10:19# We'd had 100 years of war
0:10:19 > 0:10:21# This girl had to do something
0:10:21 > 0:10:24# So I did it like a dude Cut my hair
0:10:24 > 0:10:27# Gave up wearing dresses Bought a pair
0:10:27 > 0:10:29# Of trousers, no blouses
0:10:29 > 0:10:31# Said, "I want to fight Angleterre!"
0:10:31 > 0:10:34# Charles let me join the army, army, army
0:10:34 > 0:10:36# Though that might sound barmy, barmy, barmy
0:10:36 > 0:10:39# I proved impressive
0:10:39 > 0:10:41# Hit by an arrow and lived
0:10:41 > 0:10:44# English troops I over-ranny-ranny-ranny
0:10:44 > 0:10:47# Defeated them at Patay, Patay, Patay
0:10:47 > 0:10:49# We saved Orleans
0:10:49 > 0:10:52# And Charles was crowned, tres bon
0:10:54 > 0:10:57# Me leading troops, a long shot
0:10:57 > 0:10:59# But I was a lucky mascot
0:10:59 > 0:11:02# Inspired soldiers with bravery
0:11:02 > 0:11:05# Fought injured and survived
0:11:05 > 0:11:07# But in 1430
0:11:07 > 0:11:09# Burgundians captured me
0:11:09 > 0:11:13# King Charles wouldn't pay my ransom
0:11:13 > 0:11:15# No-one told me why
0:11:15 > 0:11:18# Being prisoner was not my style
0:11:18 > 0:11:20# Tried escaping from my captors vile
0:11:20 > 0:11:23# But then the English who'd fought me, bought me
0:11:23 > 0:11:24# Made me stand trial
0:11:24 > 0:11:27# So where was King Charlie, Charlie, Charlie?
0:11:27 > 0:11:30# He'd given up and left me, left me, left me
0:11:30 > 0:11:32# In the English snare
0:11:32 > 0:11:35# Whole thing so unfair
0:11:35 > 0:11:38# Said "Put me in a a-huh n-nunnery"
0:11:38 > 0:11:40# They said "Don't be uh-uh, f-funnery
0:11:40 > 0:11:43# "If you dress like a male
0:11:43 > 0:11:46# We'll put you in men's jail." #
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Joan of Arc, you're charged with sorcery.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52You're just jealous cos God speaks to me.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54You say you speak to saints in this discourse.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56What language do they speak?
0:11:56 > 0:11:57French, of course!
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Pah! Now you're in prison. They have failed ya.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03I say it's God's plan that you're my jailer!
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Here's a trick question, in that case.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Do you think that you are in God's grace?
0:12:08 > 0:12:11If I am not, may God put me there.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13And if I am, may God so keep me.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Oh, your smart remarks go round the houses.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19You're guilty of heresy and wearing men's trousers.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22# Despite my testimony-mony-mony
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Condemned for reasons phoney-phoney-phoney
0:12:24 > 0:12:27# But my will did not break
0:12:27 > 0:12:29# So they tied me to a stake
0:12:29 > 0:12:32# Burned alive was my destiny-tiny-tiny
0:12:32 > 0:12:36# And here is the irony-rony-rony
0:12:36 > 0:12:38# My death led France to put on war paint
0:12:38 > 0:12:42# And crush the English So now I'm a saint. #
0:12:43 > 0:12:47I've got it, I've got the first line at last!
0:12:47 > 0:12:51# God save our gracious Queen...! #
0:12:51 > 0:12:55Hang on, that sounds vaguely familiar. D'oh!
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Time for a song about a monarch.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02Here's Henry VII, the father of the whole Tudor dynasty.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06Of all the kings called Henry, I'm the one you've rarely heard
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Shakespeare wrote four, five, six, eight
0:13:08 > 0:13:09But seven? Not a word
0:13:09 > 0:13:11People think I'm dreary
0:13:11 > 0:13:13To some extent I am
0:13:13 > 0:13:15But look a little closer...
0:13:15 > 0:13:18# Glam! Bam! Thank you, ma'am! #
0:13:25 > 0:13:28# I didn't agree With King Richard Three
0:13:28 > 0:13:30# So I fought him at Bosworth Field
0:13:30 > 0:13:33# And won victory
0:13:33 > 0:13:35# How cool does this sound?
0:13:35 > 0:13:36# I'm the king who found
0:13:36 > 0:13:40# Rich's crown in a hedge on the winning battleground
0:13:40 > 0:13:44# The only way to end war and avert further disaster
0:13:44 > 0:13:48# There's got to be a way to unite York and Lancaster
0:13:48 > 0:13:52# I'm the original Tu-tu-tu-Tudor
0:13:52 > 0:13:54# Founder of that dynasty
0:13:56 > 0:13:59# The man who closes the Wars of the Roses
0:13:59 > 0:14:03# That's right That's right, that's me
0:14:06 > 0:14:09# I launched attacks On Lords who earned stacks
0:14:09 > 0:14:14# Mine was a noble cause to tap them all for tax
0:14:14 > 0:14:15# They paid their share
0:14:15 > 0:14:17# Was only fair
0:14:17 > 0:14:21# To make England rich And me a millionaire
0:14:21 > 0:14:23# Elizabeth York became My wife for life
0:14:23 > 0:14:25# That make me a bore?
0:14:25 > 0:14:27# Joined our family seat That's neat
0:14:27 > 0:14:29# Made my rule secure
0:14:29 > 0:14:32# I'm the original Tu-Tu-Tu-Tudor
0:14:32 > 0:14:36# Returning power to the state
0:14:36 > 0:14:38# Seemed quite toothless
0:14:38 > 0:14:40# But actually ruthless
0:14:40 > 0:14:42# I make the monarchy great
0:14:46 > 0:14:50# Spent a long time fighting Pretenders to the throne
0:14:50 > 0:14:53# Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck Said my throne was their own
0:14:53 > 0:14:56# They claimed they'd been princes
0:14:56 > 0:14:57# In the Tower, their rule delayed
0:14:57 > 0:15:00# I said, "This crown ain't big enough for the three of us"
0:15:00 > 0:15:02# And had one slayed
0:15:02 > 0:15:06# I'm the original Tu-Tu-Tu-Tudor
0:15:06 > 0:15:08# King of foreign policy
0:15:08 > 0:15:11# To end hostile relations
0:15:11 > 0:15:13# With enemy nations
0:15:13 > 0:15:15# I asked them to make friends with me
0:15:17 > 0:15:21# Yeah, the original Tu-Tu-Tu-Tudor
0:15:21 > 0:15:24# They say dullness my main trait
0:15:24 > 0:15:26# Well, that's a sad indictment
0:15:26 > 0:15:28# Cos if you're looking For excitement
0:15:28 > 0:15:34# My son was Henry VIII. #
0:15:36 > 0:15:38I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42Time for some more inventive types.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44# With imagination
0:15:45 > 0:15:47# Inspiration
0:15:47 > 0:15:50# Innovation
0:15:50 > 0:15:53BOTH: # And perspiration
0:15:53 > 0:15:57ALL: # We revolutionised transportation
0:15:59 > 0:16:02# Stephenson's the name and my steam engine the best you will find
0:16:02 > 0:16:04# It was the Rocket It was called the Rocket
0:16:04 > 0:16:06# It pulled a train To carry passengers
0:16:06 > 0:16:08# And was the first of its kind
0:16:08 > 0:16:11# Caused a commotion Doing the locomotion
0:16:11 > 0:16:14# Was best by miles And won top prize
0:16:14 > 0:16:17# At the Rainhill Trials
0:16:17 > 0:16:20# The Lords said it was dangerous Then saw how many tickets could sell
0:16:20 > 0:16:23# The toffs were off it Till they saw a profit
0:16:23 > 0:16:26# And so, he paved the way for me I'm Isambard Kingdom Brunel
0:16:26 > 0:16:28# An engineer and famous pioneer
0:16:28 > 0:16:32# Railways off pat, a massive hat
0:16:32 > 0:16:34# And to top that
0:16:34 > 0:16:37# I was a tunnel-building bridge-creating, hard-grafting
0:16:37 > 0:16:40# Ship-crafting polymath In search of a way
0:16:40 > 0:16:44# To take my train through my tunnel Cross my bridge to my ship
0:16:44 > 0:16:47# And sail me fastest to the USA
0:16:47 > 0:16:49# My steam ship
0:16:49 > 0:16:52# It made the trip in just 14 days!
0:16:52 > 0:16:54# There across the ocean
0:16:54 > 0:16:56# Was clever old me I'm quite a star
0:16:56 > 0:16:58# He's Henry Ford Yes, that's what he's called
0:16:58 > 0:17:02# My assembly line's the first To make it cheap to buy a motor car
0:17:02 > 0:17:05# From Henry Ford Cars you can afford
0:17:05 > 0:17:06# I think you'll find
0:17:06 > 0:17:08# Made just one kind
0:17:08 > 0:17:10# But never mind
0:17:10 > 0:17:12# I was the fastest-rating Car-creating
0:17:12 > 0:17:16# Introducing mass-producing Original Model-T guy
0:17:16 > 0:17:19# We took his engine A bird wing, some bike skills
0:17:19 > 0:17:23# Worked until we found out How machines could fly
0:17:23 > 0:17:26# Not just a hop But nonstop
0:17:26 > 0:17:28# Going to get high, high, high!
0:17:28 > 0:17:31# I'm Orville, was the brains The brawn, my brother Wilbur Wright
0:17:31 > 0:17:35# We refined the plane To make the first sustained flight
0:17:35 > 0:17:36# Our engine small
0:17:36 > 0:17:38# But powerful
0:17:38 > 0:17:41ALL: # Propelled to a great height!
0:17:53 > 0:17:54# They were supreme
0:17:54 > 0:17:56# Our mean machines
0:17:56 > 0:17:59# The stuff of dreams!
0:17:59 > 0:18:02# We were creative, inventive Progress our incentive
0:18:02 > 0:18:04# Always searching for a solution
0:18:04 > 0:18:06# We took some steel and a wheel
0:18:06 > 0:18:07# Made a plane, car and train
0:18:07 > 0:18:11# And created a revolution
0:18:11 > 0:18:14# Hard to believe What we achieved
0:18:14 > 0:18:17# Looking back We helped change tack
0:18:17 > 0:18:20# Transport was duller We added colour
0:18:20 > 0:18:22# Well, as long as it's black. #
0:18:27 > 0:18:31Time to meet someone who could really write. Good day.
0:18:35 > 0:18:36Ooh!
0:18:39 > 0:18:43# I lived a happy life Till I was ten years old
0:18:43 > 0:18:48# When debt landed Dad in prison And our country house was sold
0:18:48 > 0:18:51# Lodged with a lady In her London flat, so cold
0:18:51 > 0:18:55# Worked at a boot polish factory Labelling jars
0:18:55 > 0:18:56# Quite dull, all told
0:18:56 > 0:19:03# Goodness only knows I was a miserable so-oh-oul
0:19:04 > 0:19:07# For a time, I went to school
0:19:07 > 0:19:09# But then, I found a job
0:19:09 > 0:19:11# As a clerk to a lawyer
0:19:11 > 0:19:13# Oh, it made my poor head throb
0:19:13 > 0:19:17# I failed to be an actor Despite my loud gob
0:19:17 > 0:19:22# Ended up reporting speeches Of the Parliamentary mob
0:19:22 > 0:19:25# Then, as everybody knows
0:19:25 > 0:19:30# I started writing pro-oh-ose
0:19:30 > 0:19:32# Put my life into my books
0:19:32 > 0:19:35# Friends and enemies and crooks
0:19:35 > 0:19:37# Legal bosses, up they crop
0:19:37 > 0:19:39# In The Old Curiosity Shop
0:19:39 > 0:19:41# Fagin, in Oliver Twist?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43# A factory pal - you get the gist
0:19:43 > 0:19:47# And although my memory's Quite foggy
0:19:47 > 0:19:54# Got Scrooge from the grave of Ebenezer Scroo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooggie
0:19:54 > 0:19:58# My first book was An overnight sensation
0:19:58 > 0:20:03# But I drove myself too hard To enjoy the adulation
0:20:03 > 0:20:06# Despite my wealth My family begged for money
0:20:06 > 0:20:09# I wrote of it in Chuzzlewit
0:20:09 > 0:20:11# Which people said was funny
0:20:11 > 0:20:14# Didn't sell like books before
0:20:14 > 0:20:18# My family still asked for mo-oh-ore
0:20:20 > 0:20:22# Little Dorrit is a tale
0:20:22 > 0:20:24# About my dad in debtor's jail
0:20:24 > 0:20:26# While Hard Times tells my life
0:20:26 > 0:20:28# About when I tried to leave my wife
0:20:28 > 0:20:32# Little Nell's death was my poor Dear departed sister-in-law
0:20:32 > 0:20:37# And David Copperfield working In a factory...
0:20:37 > 0:20:43# I must confess that that was Really me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e
0:20:43 > 0:20:48# In my life, felt shame 'Bout poverty in childhood
0:20:48 > 0:20:52# Wrote about sadness Suffering and fears
0:20:52 > 0:20:57# Also wrote about people With funny names
0:20:57 > 0:20:59# Bumble, Smallweed, Scrooge
0:20:59 > 0:21:03# Uriah Heep and Wackford Squeers
0:21:04 > 0:21:07# Whilst writing Edwin Drood
0:21:07 > 0:21:09# A train crash didn't help my mood
0:21:09 > 0:21:11# Still I drove myself on
0:21:11 > 0:21:13# With readings far across the pond
0:21:13 > 0:21:15# Died before I wrote Drood's end
0:21:15 > 0:21:17# This sort of thing drove me Round the bend
0:21:17 > 0:21:23# So Dicken's take a... Dicken's take a bow
0:21:23 > 0:21:27# And Heaven knows I'm miserable
0:21:27 > 0:21:31# No-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow. #
0:21:32 > 0:21:34All right, I give up.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38Unlike American heroine Rosa Parks who simply refused to.
0:21:48 > 0:21:53# I'm Rosa Parks, my story marks The first step towards civil rights
0:21:53 > 0:21:58# Racial inequality, American policy Till I kicked off a fight
0:21:58 > 0:22:00# What act of mine Let havoc to ensue?
0:22:00 > 0:22:03# How come I caused such fuss?
0:22:03 > 0:22:05# What shocking behaviour did I do?
0:22:05 > 0:22:10# Well...
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- # I sat on a bus - You sat on a bus
0:22:12 > 0:22:15- # I sat on a bus - You sat on a bus
0:22:15 > 0:22:18- # You want to know why? - Go ahead, tell us!
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- # I sat on that bus - You sat on the bus
0:22:21 > 0:22:25# In the '50s, all buses were divided Whites in front, blacks behind
0:22:25 > 0:22:26# Are you serious?
0:22:26 > 0:22:30# If the bus filled up we had to Give up our seats or we'd be fined
0:22:30 > 0:22:31# That's ludicrous!
0:22:31 > 0:22:35# I made a stand in my home town Montgomery, Alabama
0:22:35 > 0:22:36# That's dangerous!
0:22:36 > 0:22:40# Refused to stand for a white man So they put me in the slammer
0:22:40 > 0:22:41# Discourteous!
0:22:41 > 0:22:45# December five, 1955 My trial notorious
0:22:45 > 0:22:53# Black people stood side by side And no-one...
0:22:53 > 0:22:55- # Got on the bus - We stayed off the bus
0:22:55 > 0:22:57- # They stayed off the bus - We stayed off the bus
0:22:57 > 0:23:00- # I meant business! - She inspired us!
0:23:00 > 0:23:03- # So we stayed off the bus - We stayed off the bus
0:23:03 > 0:23:08# We organised a boycott Of public transportation
0:23:08 > 0:23:11# To win R, E, S, P, E, C, T
0:23:11 > 0:23:13# And force new legislation
0:23:13 > 0:23:15# Dreamed of the day
0:23:15 > 0:23:18# The USA had no implementation of...
0:23:21 > 0:23:23# Spells segregation
0:23:23 > 0:23:26# From that day on We walked or cabbed
0:23:26 > 0:23:28# Led by Martin Luther King
0:23:28 > 0:23:31# Attacked by mobs, our houses bombed
0:23:31 > 0:23:33# Though peace was our thing
0:23:33 > 0:23:36# Our plight, it made The national news
0:23:36 > 0:23:38# Which was mighty strange
0:23:38 > 0:23:39# Mysterious
0:23:39 > 0:23:42# When word reached the President He had to make a change
0:23:42 > 0:23:44# Delirious
0:23:44 > 0:23:46# One year on, we'd finally won
0:23:46 > 0:23:48# A victory momentous
0:23:48 > 0:23:55# The fight for national civil rights Was begun
0:23:55 > 0:23:58- # Cos I sat on a bus - She sat on a bus
0:23:58 > 0:24:00- # I sat on a bus - She sat on a bus
0:24:00 > 0:24:03- # I sat on a bus - For all of us
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- # I sat on a bus - She sat on a bus
0:24:05 > 0:24:08# Cos I sat, I sat, I sat I sat, I sat, yeah...
0:24:08 > 0:24:11# Our story owes A huge debt to Rosa
0:24:11 > 0:24:14- # We all agree... - I sat on that bus
0:24:14 > 0:24:15# ..She made history
0:24:15 > 0:24:19- # On a bus - She sat on a bus
0:24:19 > 0:24:21# She sat on a bus
0:24:21 > 0:24:23# For all of us
0:24:23 > 0:24:25- # I sat on that bus - She sat on a bus
0:24:25 > 0:24:27- # I sat on a bus - She sat on a bus
0:24:27 > 0:24:30- # On a bus, yeah - She sat on a bus
0:24:30 > 0:24:33- # I sat on a bus - For all of us. #
0:24:34 > 0:24:36I think I'll leave the song writing to Gary Barlow.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38I'll try something a bit easier.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42Like writing a bestselling novel. Cue the big finale.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58# Stone Age brought you speech
0:24:58 > 0:25:01# Farms, the wheel and fire
0:25:01 > 0:25:05# Then, metal was explored Which meant we could make swords
0:25:05 > 0:25:07# To kill and build empires
0:25:07 > 0:25:10# Think ancient Egypt was nicer?
0:25:10 > 0:25:14# Pharaoh's tombs lovely shrines?
0:25:14 > 0:25:17# But some were living graves For hundreds of poor slaves
0:25:17 > 0:25:20# And pig's eye was our cure For the blind
0:25:20 > 0:25:24# Greek civilisation, our creation
0:25:24 > 0:25:26# Drama and philosophy
0:25:26 > 0:25:30# But Sparta praised lying Celebrated dying
0:25:30 > 0:25:32# And Hippocrates drank wee
0:25:32 > 0:25:35ALL: # We're history
0:25:35 > 0:25:40# We brought you bloodshed
0:25:40 > 0:25:43# Greek excursions To battle the Persians
0:25:43 > 0:25:45# Disembowelling our dead
0:25:45 > 0:25:51ALL: # Together, we made the world A little bit grim
0:25:51 > 0:25:54# We're history
0:25:54 > 0:25:57# Could be fairly dim
0:26:01 > 0:26:04# We Romans brought you roads
0:26:04 > 0:26:07# And public medicine
0:26:07 > 0:26:11# Gladiator fighting Feeding men to lions
0:26:11 > 0:26:14# Burning Christians That kind of thing, you know
0:26:14 > 0:26:16# Then came the Middle Ages
0:26:16 > 0:26:20# Saxons, Normans, Vikings, Celts
0:26:20 > 0:26:24# A time of invasion Feudalism, famine
0:26:24 > 0:26:26# Black Death, bubos and welts
0:26:26 > 0:26:29# 1066 saw Harold in a fix
0:26:29 > 0:26:33# As William conquered all
0:26:33 > 0:26:35# What was the bettin'
0:26:35 > 0:26:38# An arrow in his retina Would lead to his downfall?
0:26:38 > 0:26:41ALL: # We're history
0:26:41 > 0:26:46# We brought invasion and strife
0:26:46 > 0:26:49# We attacked monasteries Said, "Give us gold, please"
0:26:49 > 0:26:52# Then, we took your life
0:26:52 > 0:26:55# Our crusades meant slaughter
0:26:55 > 0:26:57# Wherever we'd go
0:26:57 > 0:27:00# We're history
0:27:00 > 0:27:02# Was it pretty?
0:27:02 > 0:27:03# No
0:27:07 > 0:27:10# Tudor, Stuart, Georgian monarchs Next in line
0:27:10 > 0:27:13# Brought progress In science and art
0:27:13 > 0:27:16# Also beheadings, burnings Civil war
0:27:16 > 0:27:19# Freed colonies, for a start
0:27:19 > 0:27:21ALL: # We're history
0:27:21 > 0:27:26# We gave you plague and disease
0:27:26 > 0:27:29# Travelled, found the Incans Spread smallpox in a blink
0:27:29 > 0:27:32# And brought them to their knees
0:27:32 > 0:27:37# Dogs, cats and the French Blamed for plague along the way
0:27:37 > 0:27:40# We're history
0:27:40 > 0:27:44# Not such happy days
0:27:44 > 0:27:48# Victorian technology went Hand-in-hand with poverty
0:27:48 > 0:27:50# Kids up chimneys and down mines
0:27:50 > 0:27:52# Improvements to the world Did pick up
0:27:52 > 0:27:54# Despite some violent hiccups
0:27:54 > 0:27:56# Two world wars, millions died
0:27:56 > 0:27:59ALL: # We're history
0:27:59 > 0:28:03# Our times smelly and gory
0:28:03 > 0:28:07# We reigned over you And told you what to do
0:28:07 > 0:28:10# And that is this story
0:28:10 > 0:28:12# Thought we were amazing
0:28:12 > 0:28:15# Though you may quibble
0:28:15 > 0:28:17# We're history
0:28:19 > 0:28:23# And we made it horri...
0:28:23 > 0:28:30# ALL: ..ble
0:28:30 > 0:28:35# We're history. #
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