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52 Times Britain Was a Bellend
- The History You Didn't Get Taught at School
- Narrated by: Mathew Baynton
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history of Britain you were never taught at school, chronicling 52 of the most ludicrous, weird and downright 'baddie' things we Brits* have done to the world since time immemorial - before conveniently forgetting all about them, of course. Including:
- Starting wars with China when they didn't buy enough of our class A drugs
- Inventing a law so we didn't have to return objects we'd blatantly stolen from other countries
- Casually creating muzzles for women
- And almost going to war over a crime committed by a pig
52 TIMES BRITAIN WAS A BELLEND will complete your knowledge of this sceptred isle in ways you never expected. So if you've ever wondered how we put the 'Great' in 'Great Britain', wonder no more . . .
*And when we say British, for the most part we unfortunately just mean the English.
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"Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it." (James O'Brien)
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- Glenn Doyle
- 22-01-22
Embarrassingly Brilliant
Brilliant thought but Jesus I have a far better understanding as to why so many people hate us Brits 🙆🏼♂️🙆🏼♂️🙆🏼♂️
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- Karen Maura
- 14-04-21
"Sorry not sorry", the Brits
Jam packing (some of) the times Britain Was a Bellend into 2 hours, can't have been easy. Tute on son! Tute on!
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- Martin Hatch
- 25-02-20
Shamefully funny
Bite sized stories to highlight our elitist history being somewhat off the mark. Funny and tragic in equal measures, with a slice of sarcasm to round thing off nicely.
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- Dr M.
- 22-10-19
When's the sequel coming out?
Brilliant! Can we please have some more? Please? Everyone should read this especially those nostalgic for the British Empire.
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- Garry J.
- 13-02-22
it was amusing
kept me amused on a couple of seafront strolls. all of the stories were equally interesting. Maybe not worth a monthly credit due to it being so short
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- Anonymous User
- 18-10-20
Oh granddad, what have you done now!
A nicely presented and read discription of what granddad got up to during the war.
As a English man I found this very eye opening and makes you question what you think you know. plus the length is about right for us that didn't really like history at school but thought Blackadder and horrible histories where great shows.
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- Darren Holmes
- 10-02-20
Brilliant, very well written and executed.....
Extremely well done writing held my attention and humour, until finished could not stop listening, then played it the following day and listened again with a friend. Fantastic. 52 shortish chapters plus intro chapter, but definitely worth a listen. , please please can we have "another 52 times Britain was a bellend"
Please write a sequel.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-04-21
Horrifyingly Comedic
The narration of this book is pure brutal honesty at it's finest. There will be parts where you'll laugh at the jokes (as you should), and parts where you will gasp in sheer horror as you realise what absolute monsters we were/are. Our nations reaction to minor disagreements is - to put it lightly - very over the top, and really makes you wonder what the **** we were thinking. If I were a history teacher and wanted to educate students, I'd direct them to this book if they think we're the good guys of the world, their reactions would be priceless.
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- Marc telford
- 12-03-21
Great read/listen
Knew most of this history before, but it is told in a humorous way, that helps you realise, actually, we've been bellends more than we'd like to admit!
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- Mike Brownlee
- 24-03-21
I love this book
This is a funny but true book, well written. When I say funny it’s pure black Humour.
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