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PastMaster: Reshaping History

If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive — or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? Welcome to PastMaster, the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each episode, hosts Ryan and Tan are joined by a special guest comedian who is sent back in time with nothing but their modern knowledge and the shirt on their back. Under the guidance of a benevolent robot Game Master, they navigate to a different era each episode and find out if they’ve got what it takes to reshape the past. Will it b...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Cricket: Qin Dynasty China ft. Caroline McEvoy

61 hours 38 mins; March 30, 2026

How to conquer Greenland ft. Ashley Haden

61 hours 58 mins; March 16, 2026

Hot Dog Hijinks at the Great Library of Alexandria, ft. Lexx Education podcast

46 mins; March 02, 2026

Accidental Mayan Blood Sacrifice ft. Bilal Zafar

54 mins; February 16, 2026

A few sherbets for the Silk Road ft. Esther Manito

56 mins; February 03, 2026

What next for PastMaster... ?

12 mins; January 06, 2026

"Modern Knowledge / Medieval Consequences" — TRAILER

3 mins; December 30, 2025

The Santa Claude Intervention: PastMaster Christmas Special

72 hours 8 mins; December 22, 2025

Nuns of Death: The Beastmaster Cometh (Part 3)

24 mins; December 15, 2025

Nuns of Death: Death Wish Speedrun. Burn the witch! (Part 2)

18 mins; December 13, 2025

Nuns of Death: Death Wish Speedrun in a 7th Century Nunnery (Part 1)

32 mins; December 01, 2025

MC Wicked Drops the Beat at Woodstock (ft. Nick Horseman)

35 mins; November 24, 2025

Persia McPersia goes to Persia: PastMaster Live at the Cheerful Earful

51 mins; November 17, 2025

The Man who Destroyed Civilisation While Trying to Share a Bowl of Frosties with Charlie Simpson.

57 mins; November 10, 2025

Miracle tea at the Great Exhibition

45 mins; September 29, 2025

Mr Blobby tries to Save the Titanic

61 hours 41 mins; September 22, 2025

Michael Jackson at The Battle of Hee Hee Hastings

52 mins; August 19, 2025

The Greased up Apprentice: Quantum Leap Gone Wrong

72 hours 40 mins; August 06, 2025

Cthulhu Calling: The Greatest Conspiracy in History, ft. The Apocalypse Players (Part 2)

63 hours 51 mins; July 21, 2025

Cthulhu Calling: The Arkham Investigation, ft The Apocalypse Players (Part 1)

42 mins; July 14, 2025

Red Dead Sensation: Stopping a War in the Wild West (with the Power of Music)

57 mins; July 07, 2025

Short message: back in July!

2 mins; June 02, 2025

Death Wish Down Under: The "Aussie Rules" Speed Run

39 mins; May 19, 2025

The Medieval African Billionaire Space Program: Mansa Musa and the Golden Rocket

62 hours 20 mins; May 05, 2025

Battle Magic: Cocaine Diplomacy in 55 BCE

40 mins; April 28, 2025

Matthew Crosby and the Satanic Cult

63 hours 49 mins; April 21, 2025

Upgrading The Trojan Horse: The Trojan Diplodocus

56 mins; April 14, 2025

The Haunting of Henry VIII (ft Fetch the Smelling Salts)

64 hours 4 mins; April 07, 2025

Ancient MesoPOOtamia: A Death Wish Speed Run (ft Nick Horseman)

39 mins; March 24, 2025

Danny Dyer calls The Void a Slag: The Big Bang, and The Garden of Eden meet the East End

46 mins; March 17, 2025

ChatGPT vs Claude – AC vs DC - Tesla vs Edison – Player vs Player

50 mins; March 10, 2025

Claudanum-dreams. A literary revolution featuring Thots TV

67 hours 10 mins; March 03, 2025

Claude of the Rings

41 mins; February 24, 2025

An imposter with Buzz Aldrin's face joins the race to space

43 mins; February 17, 2025

The Social Network Stealer

51 mins; February 10, 2025

Comedian Micky Overman heads to Pride & Prejudice times to give sexism a punch on the nose.

51 mins; February 03, 2025

The Ghost of Christmas PastMaster

58 mins; December 16, 2024

The Truth Behind Stonehenge – [REPLAY]

55 mins; December 09, 2024

True Crime Special – Jack the Ripper's identity revealed [REPLAY]

40 mins; December 01, 2024

PastMaster Live – How to become worshiped as a god

62 hours 54 mins; November 11, 2024

Freaking out the Founding Fathers of America

49 mins; October 07, 2024

Plato's Wrestlemania & the Search for Atlantis

40 mins; September 29, 2024

HardMode 3.0 - Hard Claude with a Vengeance

42 mins; September 22, 2024

Important PastMaster Announcement(s)!

3 mins; September 17, 2024

‘Lady Claudius’ vs Robin Hood (ft Heidi Regan)

62 hours 13 mins; July 09, 2024

Cockney GameMaster vs Samurai Warriors

54 mins; July 01, 2024

Does AI believe in Aliens? The Truth behind Area 51 (ft Sunil Patel)

43 mins; June 24, 2024

Infiltrating Pablo Escobar's Cartel. "El contacto y las tartas"

44 mins; June 17, 2024

Cancel Your Piss Buckets Sir Issac Newton. Today we Science! (ft Nick Horseman)

44 mins; June 10, 2024

Pheasants & Phlatulence. The best drama. Period. (ft Kim and Alice from Fetch the Smelling Salts)

67 hours 46 mins; June 04, 2024

Sunil Patel's Roman Rampage

49 mins; May 27, 2024

AgathAI ChristiGPT – Can we make a compelling murder mystery drama?

37 mins; May 20, 2024

Saving Walt Disney (ft Verbal Diorama’s Em McGowan)

43 mins; May 13, 2024

Becoming a God in Ancient Sparta. How Hard Can it Be?

49 mins; May 06, 2024

Season 3 Trailer – The Past and the Furious

6 mins; May 03, 2024

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - Season 2 Finale

41 mins; February 19, 2024

The Mary Celeste - Mystery Solved (kinda)

49 mins; February 05, 2024

The Sausage of World Peace (Dinner Party Master)

40 mins; January 29, 2024

Bear-Baiting and Swan Burgers: A day out in 1613 London (ft. Marc Zakian)

88 hours 16 mins; January 22, 2024

Harder, faster, Past-ier: Being Outrageously British at the Boston Tea Party

42 mins; January 08, 2024

Operation: Save Jesus (ft. Nick Horseman)

33 mins; December 18, 2023

FutureMaster – We've been to the year 3000. Can confirm, they don't live underwater

70 hours 26 mins; December 11, 2023

Stop the Berlin Conference! (ft. Chinny Ukata & Astrid Madimba from It's a Continent)

61 hours 19 mins; December 04, 2023

Solving the Mystery of Stonehenge

56 mins; November 27, 2023

Labour of Time: Changing British Politics Forever (ft. Tom GK)

47 mins; November 20, 2023

We solved Jack The Ripper!

40 mins; November 13, 2023

Napoleon Stows Away on HMS Victory (ft. Nick Horseman)

50 mins; November 06, 2023

Sorcery Slam: Wrestling the Witch Finder General (ft. Tom GK)

53 mins; October 30, 2023

A blast from the PastMaster — Season 1 Finale (featuring special guest ‘Dave’)

39 mins; August 29, 2023

Barbenheimer (2 Player PastMaster)

42 mins; August 22, 2023

Cap’n F**k-C**tle’s Sweary Sea Shanty

52 mins; August 14, 2023

Ancient Olympic Wheelbarrow Racing (ft Louise Banham)

50 mins; July 31, 2023

Elizabethan Jazz Hands (ft Louise Banham)

59 mins; July 24, 2023

Aria of Death: A Mission to Kill Hitler (ft. Nick Horseman)

39 mins; July 17, 2023

A Cat-God with a Death Wish (ft. Nick Horseman)

75 hours 22 mins; July 10, 2023

Al Capone and the Windy City Wedding Whisky Plot (ft. Nick Horseman)

74 hours 33 mins; July 03, 2023

Super-Gladiator-Chariots of Fire: Dominating the Roman Arena

52 mins; June 26, 2023

Ancient Egypt: Building a Theme Park in the Underworld Theme (Part 2)

48 mins; June 19, 2023

Ancient Egypt: The Pharaoh's Beard Modelling Secrets (Part 1)

50 mins; June 12, 2023

"Bible Times": Jesus Ranks His Best Miracles (Part 2)

51 mins; June 05, 2023

"Bible Times": Baron Saffron Spices up Things in Galilee (Part 1)

40 mins; May 28, 2023

The Land Before Time (and Logic)

35 mins; May 22, 2023

Inventing ‘the box’ and avoiding Agincourt (ft. Sunil Patel)

65 hours 2 mins; May 15, 2023

Charles Darwin: On the origin of "On the Origin of Species"

50 mins; May 08, 2023

Fixing The Lord of the Rings

23 mins; April 30, 2023

Headbutting into the Viking Times

45 mins; April 30, 2023

Medieval Breakdancing Badgers

34 mins; April 30, 2023

Kentucky Fried Western

35 mins; April 30, 2023

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