Date Fight!
A new podcast for every day of the year, in which we present our most cogent, reasoned, and occasionally shouty arguments to decide what each date should be best remembered for. Every episode features fun historical facts, a vote on the winner, and tearful recriminations.
S2 E56 · Tue, March 30, 2021
31st March: the Fox Sisters v Erik Prince
Is there anyone called Fox who isn't terrible? Is it meant to bend like that? Who's that rapping? How much money does it take to buy your own army? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E56 · Mon, March 29, 2021
30th March: Vincent van Gogh v Ronald Reagan
What were Ronald Reagan's best (stolen) jokes? Who invented gambling on Native American reservations? Should you cut off your own ear? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E56 · Sun, March 28, 2021
29th March: Richard of York v Warner Baxter
I love the way Jake says "Warner Baxter!" Who invented a searchlight and then got a lobotomy? Who should play Edmund of Langley in the film? What is the male gaze? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E56 · Sun, March 28, 2021
28th March: The Communards v Thomas Clarkson
What are the two voices in French comedy? Who wrote 'The Way You Look Tonight'? Who is the most racist Clarkson? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E56 · Sat, March 27, 2021
27th March: Typhoid Mary v coronavirus
Where was Typhoid Mary born? Who was Typhoid John? And Typhoid Tony? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E56 · Fri, March 26, 2021
26th March: Geraldine Ferraro v Aesop
Where would you hide religious text? Did Natt mean Frank Carson? Who knows all the results of all the elections? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E56 · Thu, March 25, 2021
25th March: Percy Bysshe Shelley v John Lennon
Who changes the sheets after a bed-in? Why are the Beatles awful? Is there a God? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E56 · Wed, March 24, 2021
24th March: Richard the Lionheart v Margaret Lindsay Huggins
What were Richard the Lionheart's songs like? What is the Matilda Effect? Are spectroscopes better than children? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E56 · Tue, March 23, 2021
23rd March: Adolf Hitler v Emperor Paul I
Who did Hitler make promises to before the Enabling Act? How many times do you have to kill Paul I? What's the best way of robbing a train? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E56 · Mon, March 22, 2021
22nd March: Anne Hutchinson v the Massachusetts Bay Company
Who really annoyed Oliver Cromwell? Do we really ned more chick sexers? Has anyone read anything by Louis L'Amour? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E55 · Sat, March 20, 2021
20th March: Maximinus Thrax v Carl Reiner
What happens when you double all the soldiers' wages? What was Walter Raleigh's podcast called? What is a treatise? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E55 · Fri, March 19, 2021
19th March: Robert Mugabe v Glenn Close
Now that's a match up! With Nathaniel Tapley & Jake Yapp!
S2 E55 · Thu, March 18, 2021
21st March: Boris Johnson v Rishi Sunak
In some ways this was where the rot set in. We never really recovered from this. What's gone wrong with Date Fight? Whose balls have been dropped this week? Who recanted his recantation? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Thu, March 18, 2021
18th March: The Tolpuddle Martyrs v The Templars
Where is Tolpuddle? How do you get back into a space capsule when your suit is all blown up? What's the best folk song? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Wed, March 17, 2021
17th March: St Patrick v The Sheep
What's the likely cause of death when your sheep all their pop their clogs while standing next to a nerve-agent-testing-facility? Was St Patrick really kidnapped by pirates? What went on in Maori fortified villages? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Tue, March 16, 2021
16th March: Abraham Lincoln v ghosts
How do you make toilet roll spaghetti? What's Natt's ancestor up to today (being dead)? Should you have kings? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Mon, March 15, 2021
15th March: Julius Caesar v Penny Lancaster
Whose story has the most stabbing? Who was the Margrave of Baden-Baden? Who were the Two Fat Ladies? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Sun, March 14, 2021
14th March: Gilbert & Sullivan v Jack Ruby
What is the funniest place name? Who was Jack Ruby? Was Tony Benn nice? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Sat, March 13, 2021
13th March: Ronald Reagan v Uranus
Whose anus was Uranus names after? How did a bank holiday save capitalism? Who flew Adolf Hitler to the wrong place? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Fri, March 12, 2021
12th March: Gandhi v Graham Coxon
Who were the Williamites? Who was the best 19th century novelist? Who invented guest-fighting? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Thu, March 11, 2021
11th March: John Barrowman v Elogabalus
What's the Date Fight news of the day? Find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Wed, March 10, 2021
10th March: Robin Thicke v Maud de Lacy
What happened to Jesus' foreskin when he was resurrected? Should royals go skiing? How do raise money to fight the Scots? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E54 · Tue, March 09, 2021
9th March: Have our heroes noticed the coronavirus yet?
You're peering back in time, to a place before the first lockdown. What's it like back there? Find out in today's episode...
S2 E53 · Mon, March 08, 2021
8th March: Adam Faith v women
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Zoe Battley talk for your entertainment!
S2 E53 · Sun, March 07, 2021
7th March: Ronald McDonald v a Pope
What in the holy hell are Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley up to today?
S2 E53 · Sat, March 06, 2021
6th March: Norman Rockwell v female cosmonauts
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley screech in each other's faces until they both collapse, exhausted, never to speak again.
S2 E53 · Fri, March 05, 2021
5th March: Henry VII v Rosa Luxemburg
Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp shout about history!
S2 E53 · Thu, March 04, 2021
4th March: Pennsylvania v Charlie Chaplin
JY & NT do it date style!
S2 E53 · Wed, March 03, 2021
3rd March: Juan Ponce de Leon v Fatima Whitbread
THESE EPISODES JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER WITH RELISTENS!
S2 E53 · Tue, March 02, 2021
2nd March: Good King Wenceslas v Lembit Opik
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley do a Date Fight!
S2 E53 · Mon, March 01, 2021
1st March: Charles I v Dominic Cummings
Wow, this seems like a long time ago! With Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley
S2 E52 · Sun, February 28, 2021
28th February: Date Fight Light
What is a Date Fight Light? Who knows? Well, Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & now YOU do! Hooray!
S2 E51 · Sat, February 27, 2021
27th February: It's a whole thing
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley work out what the most important thing to have happened today is in Date Fight!
S2 E51 · Sat, February 27, 2021
26th February: Who likes the twenty-sixth of things?
Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley fight over the date in Date Fight.
S2 E51 · Sat, February 27, 2021
25th February: Late, but still brilliant
Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp do Date Fight!
S2 E50 · Wed, February 24, 2021
24th February: Steve Jobs v Clement Attlee
What happened today? Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E50 · Tue, February 23, 2021
23rd February: Dick Turpin v Josh Gad
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out what happened today in Date Fight!
S2 E50 · Mon, February 22, 2021
22nd February: Steve Buscemi v Dolly the Sheep
What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E50 · Sun, February 21, 2021
21st February: Karl Marx v Malcolm X
What happened today? Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E50 · Sat, February 20, 2021
20th February: Lusty toads v Patty Hearst
What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E50 · Fri, February 19, 2021
19th February: Copernicus v Seal
What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E50 · Thu, February 18, 2021
18th February: Molly Ringwald v John Travolta
What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E50 · Wed, February 17, 2021
17th February: Bruno Giordano v Geronimo
What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E50 · Wed, February 17, 2021
16th February: Richard Beeching v Ice-T
Who's your favourite UN Secretary General? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E49 · Mon, February 15, 2021
15th February: Valentine's Boxing Day
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley bimble through some historical nonsense for you!
S2 E49 · Sun, February 14, 2021
14th February: Happy Valentine's Day!
What did you get us? Is it new Patreon subscribers? Is it? Is it?
S2 E49 · Sat, February 13, 2021
13th February: Beware... Saturday the 13th!
Yes, it's those chaps again. Separating the historical wheat from the aged chaff.
S2 E49 · Fri, February 12, 2021
12th February: USS Macon v Rommel
Phwoar! What a history!
S2 E49 · Thu, February 11, 2021
11th February: Nelson Mandela v The Robots
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley work out what the best thing to happen on this day in history was.
S2 E49 · Wed, February 10, 2021
10th February: Tom v Jerry
Little do these fools know how little time they have before they'll be locked in for a year, the idiots.
S2 E49 · Tue, February 09, 2021
9th February: Joe Pesci v Shergar
Who will win? In case you can't remember from last year...
S2 E49 · Mon, February 08, 2021
8th February: Jack Lemmon v Peter the Great's bladder
Yeah, it started to run out of steam at about this time last year, too.
S2 E49 · Mon, February 08, 2021
7th February: Only a week until Valentine's Day!
Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley argue about the best things to have happened on this day in history.
S2 E49 · Mon, February 08, 2021
6th February: What a day!
More Date Fight!
S2 E49 · Mon, February 08, 2021
5th February: Exactly the fifth day of February
Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp in Date Fight!
S2 E48 · Thu, February 04, 2021
4th February: The Very 4thest of February
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley fight to work out what the most important thing to happen on this day in history was.
S2 E47 · Wed, February 03, 2021
3rd February: Harold Macmillan v Warwick Davis
This is the big one! Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley fight it out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E46 · Tue, February 02, 2021
2nd February: RESULTS! Scratching Fanny v Punxsutawney Phil
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley are fighting about the date again!
S2 E45 · Mon, February 01, 2021
1st February: Edward II v Edward III
Pinch, punch, you know the rest! Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley are babbling February-style.
S2 E44 · Sun, January 31, 2021
31st January: Happy Tax Day!
How much mortgage interest is deductible? What is an appropriate share of the broadband? Do you have any losses from previous years to offset against this return? Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E44 · Sat, January 30, 2021
30th January: Will this month ever end?
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley start to lose it. Seriously.
S2 E44 · Fri, January 29, 2021
29th January: Finally! The 29th!
What fun can be had today? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E44 · Fri, January 29, 2021
28th January: 28th of January
What year-old, tepid nonsense are we serving up today?
S2 E43 · Wed, January 27, 2021
27th January: IT'S NOT MONDAY MORNING!
Who can make you incandescent with beeswax? Who is the farting man from the lamp? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E42 · Tue, January 26, 2021
26th January: "I was trying to lure you into saying how brilliant democracy was!"
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & the Dads In The History Shed are here!
S2 E42 · Tue, January 26, 2021
25th January: In Which We Misjudge Coronavirus
Wow. Last year was quite a long time ago, wasn't it? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley do Date Fight a year ago...
S2 E41 · Sun, January 24, 2021
24th January: Caligula v L. Ron Hubbard
How long does it take to ship spades from New York to California?
S2 E41 · Sat, January 23, 2021
23rd January: Rabelais v John Hancock
Flying poo-pigs! People so fat they have so slit their own skin to let the fat slosh out! Signatures! Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley chat about all of this in today's Date Fight!
S2 E41 · Sat, January 23, 2021
22nd January: Arthur Tooth v Walter Raleigh
What is a chasuble? Who gave everyone lung cancer? Which romantic poet started his own chain of burger restaurants? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E40 · Thu, January 21, 2021
21st January: Fanny Apthorp v Rasputin
How angry to epistolary novels make Natt? Who's our favourite unkillable Russian wizard? Who's the best actress to be an Olympic archer? Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E39 · Wed, January 20, 2021
20th January: Simon de Montfort v the Cisco Kid
Just how many times do you need to hear the same story about the Cisco Kid? Where did St Hugh live? Who was the highest paid woman in the USA in 1944? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E38 · Tue, January 19, 2021
19th January: Jake Yapp v Natt Tapley
What have the listeners decided? Who won? No really, who won? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight?
S2 E38 · Mon, January 18, 2021
18th January: A.A.Milne v Mel Appleby
Who had Little Voice written for them (hint: it's the star of Little Voice)? Who tried to get ransomed by Ptolemy? Who snuck into Julius Caesar's house to seduce his wife? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E38 · Sun, January 17, 2021
17th January: Charles Ponzi v The Scheme
Where should Popes be? What are the most unusual punishments? Is Holidaysburg a trap? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E38 · Sun, January 17, 2021
16th January: Lin Manuel Miranda v bees
How many times a day should you eat tripe? What is big of Natt? Should vegans eat honey? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E38 · Sun, January 17, 2021
15th January: Captain Cook v molasses
Who was the great Jaguar Paw? What are the six virtues of Irish womanhood? How do you dam Buffalo Bill? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E37 · Thu, January 14, 2021
14th January: Elvis Presley v Uta Hagen
When should you think about urine? What is the most-watched broadcast by an individual entertainer? Who wrote Herniated Blues? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E37 · Wed, January 13, 2021
13th January: Julia Louis-Dreyfus v Shonda Rhimes
Who's got the longest walk? Is beef tea better than pork wine? Which magazine is best for severed heads?
S2 E36 · Tue, January 12, 2021
12th January: Hermann Goering v Mel C
What did Hattie Caraway do? What is the best model for overcharging people for cups of tea? What's underneath Stonehenge? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E35 · Mon, January 11, 2021
11th January: Pietro Bembo v Arthur Scargill
Why does Natt not have a Wikipedia page? How do you duct-tie a dog? Who invented madrigal? Where did stockbrokers come from? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E34 · Sat, January 09, 2021
10th January: Julius Caesar v Coco Chanel
Who established the Order of the Golden Fleece? Who loves andouilette? Whose essence should you splash all over yourself? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E33 · Sat, January 09, 2021
9th January: John F Kennedy v Susannah Yorke
Who was in two episodes of Casualty? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E32 · Fri, January 08, 2021
8th January: King Alfred v Terry Thomas
Where was the Battle of Ashdown battled? Is there intelligent life on Date Fight? Who made a Treaty with Magnus Barefoot? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E32 · Thu, January 07, 2021
7th January: Nicolas Cage v Annie-May Hayes
Can we beat the cod in a war? Who bought a haunted house so he could write a horror novel in it? Who was Richard II's craziest uncle? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E31 · Wed, January 06, 2021
6th January: Gertrude the Great v Richard II
How long has Natt been alive? What did Alfred Nobel invent? Is Maria Montessori terrible? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E31 · Tue, January 05, 2021
5th January: Thomas Bopp v Godot
Why should you avoid Richard of Cornwall? What party did the Munich Workers' Party become? Who was their most famous member? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E30 · Mon, January 04, 2021
4th January: Louis Braille v Topsy the Elephant
Who is Jake's favourite sexologist? What's Britain's number-one reason to wear shorts? Who are often delighted by people's odours? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E30 · Sun, January 03, 2021
3rd January: Mel Gibson v Greta Thunberg
When did oil break $100 a barrel? Do polar bears hide when we do and count them? Who is Britain's premiere gnome-describer? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E30 · Sat, January 02, 2021
2nd January: Winston Churchill v the Anarchists
What is aerogel? What was Apsley Cherry-Gerrard haunted by? What was the largest espionage trial in US history? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E30 · Fri, January 01, 2021
1st January: Verne Troyer v Betsy Ross
What's the appropriate hashtag for someone who sews stitches on a flag? Who was the most impressive person born in 1980? What's the only non-annoying thing from Austin Powers? Jake & Natt find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E29 · Thu, December 31, 2020
31st December: Richard Madeley v Boris Yeltson
What was Jake doing for the Millennium? What did Richard Madeley stockpile? What did Jake stockpile? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E29 · Thu, December 31, 2020
30th December: The Duke of York v Super-Murder
Why were the boys waiting for the year to end? Can you plant bush clippings? How many times did Rasputin get murdered? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E28 · Tue, December 29, 2020
29th December: Jon Voight v Charlie Chan
Who played Charlie Chan? What shouldn't you do with a Lion bar? Who did an advertising campaign after his death? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E28 · Mon, December 28, 2020
28th December: Max Hastings v the Maccabees
Who won the Falklands War? Is it easy to play Richard Clayderman? Who is to comics what Steve Jobs was to the iPod? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E27 · Sun, December 27, 2020
27th December: Charles Darwin v Marlene Dietrich
Where was Britain's biggest avalanche? Who used to be a journalist and is now a Loose Woman? Why doesn't Natt like John of Gaunt? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E27 · Sat, December 26, 2020
26th December: Ronnie Corbett v Charles Babbage
What happened in Rendlesham Forest on Boxing Day in 1980? What is the 39th anniversary present? What is a Jesus Goal? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E27 · Fri, December 25, 2020
25th December: William the Conqueror v Lord Sugar
Who stole the Stone of Scone? Who buzzed a cobble at William the Conqueror? Who is the best Dido? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E27 · Thu, December 24, 2020
24th December: Lemmy v Stephanie Meyer
How many beverage-based riots have there been? Who invented Les Schtroumpfs? How would Jake describe Jake Thackray? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E27 · Wed, December 23, 2020
23rd December: Carol Smilley v Ralph Roister Doister
Who wrote a precursor to Love Island? Where is sketchy as heck? What do Jake Yapp's birthdays sound like? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E27 · Tue, December 22, 2020
22nd December: Ladybird Johnson v Richard the Lionheart
Who was taken prisoner in Worms? What is a beautification expert? How many Popes were there in 1419? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E26 · Mon, December 21, 2020
21st December: Elvis Presley v Roger Williams
What is a purse seine net? Who wrote the first word-cross puzzle? Who's the best Cnut? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E26 · Sun, December 20, 2020
20th December: Richard the Lionheart v Alfred the Great
Who took a year to write a song for his sister? What would be solved by banning Martin Scorsese? Who fancied Aethelbald's mum?
S2 E25 · Sat, December 19, 2020
19th December: Alfred Dreyfuss v Ronan Farrow
What was the worst thing to ever happen in a swamp? What's the difference between Robert The Bruce and Robert V Bruce? What's the danciest film about a steelworks? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E24 · Fri, December 18, 2020
18th December: Oliver Cromwell v King James I (and VI of Scotland)
Who revoked the Edict of Expulsion? What was Saki's real name? What sort of pastry is a Vaclav Havel? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E23 · Thu, December 17, 2020
17th December: Blackbeard v Voltaire
What was the world's first office Christmas party? Doing anything nice for Saturnalia? Who looks just like that Jake Yapp? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E23 · Wed, December 16, 2020
16th December: Jane Austen v The Brothers Grimm
Who is a "big, old waste of beverage"? What does Jake Yak sound like? How many children do you need to have to get a medal? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E23 · Tue, December 15, 2020
15th December: Salvador Dali v Sitting Bull
Who invented the shoe? Whose disappearance didn't entertain the troops? Who benefitted from Glenn Miller's death? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E22 · Mon, December 14, 2020
14th December: Tycho Brahe v George Washington, the timber-toothed traitor
What makes the poos go outside the castle? What is a put-hole? What is Caernarfon Castle a copy of? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E22 · Sun, December 13, 2020
13th December: Mary Todd Lincoln v Gustav LeBon
Who's your favourite stigmatist? What is Simon Le Bon's dad's name? When did the Walloon half of Belgium declare independence? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E22 · Sat, December 12, 2020
12th December: Sammy Davis Jr v Tallulah Bankhead
Who is America's Bruce Forsyth? What American stars are named after Midlands towns? Why did Joseph Heller never write a book as good as Catch 22? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E22 · Fri, December 11, 2020
11th December: Edward VIII v Edward I
What did Ribbentrop send to Wallis Simpson? What is Jermaine Jackson's son called? Whose cult members did a bad mass poisonings? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E21 · Thu, December 10, 2020
10th December: King Birge of Sweden v Joseph Skoda
Can you believe that it is not butter? Who had the worst Christmas dinner ever? Who performed an illegal vivisection? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E21 · Wed, December 09, 2020
9th December: Abraham Lincoln v Louella Parsons
Who invented the roller skate? Who was a Shaker and what did she make? Has Jake founded a school for Muslim girls? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E20 · Tue, December 08, 2020
8th December: Madonna v Sinead O'Connor
Who stuck back together a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live? Who was Charles the Child? Who is demeaning the struggle for equality? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E19 · Mon, December 07, 2020
7th December: Nicole Appleton v Willa Cather
Why do the albatrosses keep bursting? What is the most solemn humiliation of the British people? What does Jake hate about Marley & Me? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E19 · Sun, December 06, 2020
6th December: Jefferson Davis v Roy Orbison
Why do people pronounce aluminium differently? Who was the top Soviet female flying ace in the Second World War? What is a guitar rock interpretation of the Big Ben Chimes? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E19 · Sat, December 05, 2020
5th December: Ramon Berenguer II v Christina Rosetti
Whose sex was on fire? Who wrote the best Christmas carol? Who's the best antisemitic mouse-botherer? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E18 · Fri, December 04, 2020
4th December: Marie Celeste v Cardinal Richelieu
Who was the first person to be put to death in the USA after the amnesty? Did the Muskehounds get Natt into history? What did the other Griff Rhys Jones do? Natt Tapley and Jake Yapp find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E18 · Thu, December 03, 2020
3rd December: Edwina Currie v Vladimir Putin
Where did Edwina Currie take Jimmy Savile for supper? What flag was launched today? What is the best named Basil in Russian history?
S2 E17 · Wed, December 02, 2020
2nd December: Britney Spears v the Marquis de Sade
What was the Monroe Doctrine? What is the most exciting thing to happened under the bleachers? Who was the first inkjet? Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E17 · Tue, December 01, 2020
1st December: Charlemagne v Pope Adrian
Who should be allowed to be Pope? What is an Oath of Purgation? Who is better than Sherlock Holmes? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E16 · Mon, November 30, 2020
30th November: Thomas Jefferson v G Gordon Liddy
How many people spent a penny when it first became possible? What could happen in a monkey closet? Can Jake take the lead? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E16 · Sun, November 29, 2020
29th November: Nathaniel Tapley v Erwin Schrödinger
Should you open Schrödinger's cat's box? Is India more significant than a hypothetical cat? Did the Nazis pay repeat fees? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E16 · Sat, November 28, 2020
28th November: Isaac Newton v John Bunyan
How did the Royal Academy invent science? Who invented Boyle's Law? Who was imprisoned not far from Jake's house? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E16 · Fri, November 27, 2020
27th November: Anders Celsius v Alexander Dubçek
What is the equivalent of No Points Each? What was in the first Macy's Day Parade? What killed Ragamuffin Day? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E15 · Thu, November 26, 2020
26th November: Stephen Hopkins v Colley Cibber
Which of Natt's ancestors was the most cowardly? Why shouldn't you call your child Oceanus? Who was the worst Cibber? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E15 · Wed, November 25, 2020
25th November: Catherine of Braganza v Malcolm the Destroyer
Who did the seating plan for the Wars of the Roses? Who hosts Pulling Back The Curtain? Who made the planet uninhabitable? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E15 · Tue, November 24, 2020
24th November: Australopithecus Lucy v Hiram Maxim
Who invented disposable bedpans? Who has the Maxim Gun when they have not? What did Dodie Smith write? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E15 · Mon, November 23, 2020
23rd November: Doctor Who v Roald Dahl
Which Pretender to the Throne has the best name? What was Harpo Marx famous for saying? Who was Mary Whitehouse? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E14 · Sun, November 22, 2020
22nd November: John F Kennedy v George Eliot
Who was the Minstrel Collector? Was JFK important? You know how to dial a telephone, don't you? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E13 · Sat, November 21, 2020
21st November: Larry Hagman v Nando's
When did people start being pathetic? Who wrote 20,000 letters? Who made a bear leave its cave? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E12 · Fri, November 20, 2020
20th November: Joe Biden v Caroline of Ansbach
Who Weekend-at-Berniesed the Roman Empire? Who was the Hammer of the Scots? What is the best Nicolas Cage film? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E12 · Thu, November 19, 2020
19th November: Nick Knowles v Mr Bean On The Moon
Why is Jake obsessed with Alexander Armstrong & Nick Knowles? Who lived at the Gettysburg Address? Who designed the Suez Canal? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E11 · Wed, November 18, 2020
18th November: Jim Jones v Notch
How does Minecraft make children into Tories? Who shouldn't drink the Kool-Aid? Why do we think the past is sepia? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E10 · Tue, November 17, 2020
17th November: Charles the Fat v St Agnes of Noel Edmonds
How old was St Agnes when she really got into Jesus? Why do Natt & Jake think it's Sunday? Why are Dudley Moore & Hugh Laurie better than Peter Cook & Stephen Fry? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E9 · Mon, November 16, 2020
16th November: Julie Andrews v Saint Margaret of Scotland
Whose head was owned by Mary Queen of Scots? Which was lost by careless Jesuits? Who escaped from prison four times? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E8 · Sun, November 15, 2020
15th November: Pirate Queen Anne Bonny v Richmal Crimpton
What is the worst plant? What's the best Wetherspoons in Bromley? Who suffered Hattie Jacques? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E7 · Sat, November 14, 2020
14th November: Nellie Bly v Nell Gwynn
How old was Warren Mitchell when he started playing Alf Garnett? What is the Westlothian Question? What was Christmas like at the Boleyn household? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E7 · Fri, November 13, 2020
13th November: Rosa Parks v St Augustine of Hippo
Who is most famous for their Quim? What is Mariner 9? How old was the rich heiress St Augustine of Hippo wanted to marry? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E7 · Thu, November 12, 2020
12th November: Tim Berners-Lee v Julia Sawalha (DFC)
What did Natt's parents like to watch on television? Who starred in the Mexican version of Dracula? What should you take to the Antarctic instead of dogs? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E7 · Wed, November 11, 2020
11th November: Stephen Hopkins v June Whitfield
Who doesn't love June Whitfield? Who invented mustard gas? Should you trust Jake with a scientific calculator? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E6 · Tue, November 10, 2020
DFC 10th November: Walt Disney v Tracy Morgan
How can you beat David Hasselhoff? How did Jake ruin a barbecue? Who presumed to find Dr Livingstone? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E5 · Mon, November 09, 2020
DFC 9th November: Leo Baxendale v Ed Wynn
Who loved to laugh? Whose prints are hanging on Jake's wall? What is Spiro Agnew an anagram of? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E4 · Sun, November 08, 2020
DFC 8th November: Edmund Halley v Ken Dodd
What was Natt doing on the 8th November 2002? Do you want to hear Jake's song about Kabul? Who designed all the road signs? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight! If you’d like to support the podcast, do go over to www.patreon.com/datefight where you can find all sorts of exciting rewards. If you want someone of your choice to appear in the Birthdays or Deathdays do it at: https://ko-fi.com/nattt Find us on Twitter at @date_fight
S2 E3 · Sat, November 07, 2020
DFC 7th November: Engelbert of Berg v Eleanor Roosevelt
Who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Where was Engelbert of Berg from? What is the oldest continuously-published newspaper in the world? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S2 E2 · Fri, November 06, 2020
DFC 6th November: Gustavus Adolphus v Nana Moon
Don't we sound young? What cakes should you eat today? How does Natt think we'll all die? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight Classic!
S2 E1 · Thu, November 05, 2020
5th November: Jake Yapp v Natt Tapley v Lizzie Roper
It's our birthday! We've been doing this for a whole year! Can we make it through one more episode? Why are we doing this? Is anyone still listening? Send help.
S1 E362 · Wed, November 04, 2020
4th November: Ruth Handler v The Welsh
What did the Chartists want? Who attacked the chimps? Who was Papua New Guinea's first female judge? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E361 · Tue, November 03, 2020
3rd November: Garibaldi v Dolph Lundgren
Which master of chemical engineering was also European Karate Champion? How many of the people who committed the Greensboro Massacre were successfully prosecuted? Did Garibaldi look like his biscuit? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley and Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E360 · Mon, November 02, 2020
2nd November: Rod Hull v Ralph Fiennes
Whose vegetarian sushi did Jake eat? Which country lost a war against birds? What were James Thurber's last words? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E360 · Sun, November 01, 2020
1st November: Samuel Gregory v Yma Sumac
Who should look at ladies' undercarriages? How many Prime Ministers should have been assassinated? What is the best singer names after a condiment? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E359 · Sat, October 31, 2020
31st October: Gutzon Borglum v Studs Terkel
How many faces should there be on Mount Rushmore? What is the best name? Why does this all sound vaguely familiar? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E358 · Fri, October 30, 2020
30th October: Nat Turner v Sarah Greene
What does Lizzie have against Paul Daniels? And Sarah Greene? And Orson Welles? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E357 · Thu, October 29, 2020
29th October: Sir Walter Raleigh v Fanny Brice
What is the joke about the Kennedy White House and the chimp habitats? Who is America's Doyenne of Decorum? How many carats was the Star of India? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E356 · Wed, October 28, 2020
28th October: Ladislaus the Posthumous v John F. Kennedy
What's so good about Cuba? Which founding father was also a mother? Who made rifles and typewriters? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E355 · Tue, October 27, 2020
27th October: Emperor Constantine v Nigel Lawson
Hoe violent is Jesus? Who is Australia's greatest gangster? Who is the best Baxendale? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E354 · Mon, October 26, 2020
26th October: Aethelwald v Carlo Collodi
Does anyone read these? Does it make any difference? Really, who cares? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper don't find out because no one knows anything and what's the poi
S1 E353 · Sun, October 25, 2020
25th October: Ramsay Macdonald v Bob Geldof
Can you swap Dairylea Lunchables for MDMA? What are the best colour of trousers? Who was the Naziest radio presenter in the 1930s? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E352 · Sat, October 24, 2020
24th October: Queen Anne v Anita Roddick
Who can be seen on Youtube swelling up "like a water bottle"? What makes up Great Britain? Why didn't Charlie Chaplin like the first of the month? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E351 · Thu, October 22, 2020
23rd October: Jesus v Jenkins' Ear
What was The Great Disappointment? Does Lizzie have an anecdote about Pete Burns? What other parts of Jenkins could have started a war?
S1 E350 · Wed, October 21, 2020
22nd October: Jean-Paul Sartre v Dudley Sutton
Who beat the Dutch East India Company? Who sent back their Nobel Prize? Who ruined a performance of Crime Passionel at Wadham Theatre in 1997?
S1 E349 · Tue, October 20, 2020
21st October: Nelson v Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What was the best dog at the Battle of Trafalgar? Who did all the good cement? Is this just a podcast about dog poo now? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E348 · Mon, October 19, 2020
20th October: Dalton Trumbo v Mrs Mangel
When was the best period of Neighbours? Does anyone remember when Lucy lost her eyesight but pretended not to be able to see when her dad (Jim) was going to split up with his doctor girlfriend? And when Mike killed Bouncer? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E347 · Sun, October 18, 2020
19th October: Hitler v bacteria
What's the worst year for Bordeaux? How many years did the Hundred Years' War last? Which French king thought he was made of glass? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E346 · Sun, October 18, 2020
18th October: Michael the Brave v Nicholas Culpeper
What do anemones cure? How brave was Michael the Brave? Is Jake his own uncle? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E345 · Sat, October 17, 2020
17th October: Jake Yapp v Joan Hickson
Where is Natt? How many people lived in London in 1091? What does OPEC stand for? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight.
S1 E344 · Thu, October 15, 2020
16th October: Augusto Pinochet v Liam Neeson
What did Mrs Thatcher send Augusto Pinochet when he was unfortunate enough to be arrested for crimes against humanity? Who fibbed about being an excellent hangman? How do you carve a stone giant's winky? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E343 · Wed, October 14, 2020
15th October: Herman Goering v Mel Blanc
Who invented the oral contraceptive? Who ruined their parents' 25th wedding anniversary party by shooting themselves? What is FORTRAN short for? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E342 · Wed, October 14, 2020
14th October: James II v Rolf Harris
Can we put today's podcast out? Where did the 14th October 1582 go? Who is the best Prince? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E341 · Mon, October 12, 2020
13th October: Keir Hardie v Nana Mouskouri
Who was helping Sylvia Pankhurst insert? What was the first thing a woman said in the Houses of Parliament? How much of an abbey Westminster Abbey? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E340 · Sun, October 11, 2020
Edith Cavell v Everyone
How many people should there be in the world?How do you smuggle out a soldier? Can you wish that someone takes their own life? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E340 · Sat, October 10, 2020
11th October: King John v Eleanor Roosevelt
What should you do with pigs that are too fat to eat? How long was the first spacewalk? Who was the giggliest king? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E340 · Fri, October 09, 2020
10th October: Mrs O'Leary's cow v Edith Piaf
How many Windscales make up a Chernobyl? Does Edith Piaf regrette being dead? What's Matthew Pinsent got to do with anything? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E339 · Fri, October 09, 2020
9th October: Roger Williams v Ini Kamoze
Look, if that title doesn't make you click, nothing will. With Jake Yapp, Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper.
S1 E338 · Thu, October 08, 2020
8th October: Mr Buboes v Ardal O'Hanlan
Who was married to Mrs Goitre? Who branded their Willy? Who built a human cyclopede? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E337 · Tue, October 06, 2020
7th October: Leon Gambetta v Edgar Allan Poe
Why are all the worst people born today? How did Leon Gambetta escape the Prussian siege of Paris? Who's the best French pirate? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E336 · Mon, October 05, 2020
6th October: Queen Victoria v
Who is more generous than Queen Victoria? Is there anything worse than Hotmail? Who travelled 960 miles in 1777? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E335 · Mon, October 05, 2020
5th October: Louis the Pious v Timothy Treadwell
Who almost got the part of Woody in Cheers? Where does the phrase 'fifth column' come from? What did Louis the Pious do? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E334 · Sun, October 04, 2020
4th October: Arthur Conan-Doyle v You, The Listener
How do you get to be a presenter on Date Fight? Have the team organised the cake-orgies? Who's got the best Danny Dyer stories? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E333 · Sat, October 03, 2020
3rd October: Vercengetorix v James Herriott
How long do you get for aggravated assault? Where is Shep buried? Where did Gaul surrender to the Romans? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E332 · Fri, October 02, 2020
2nd October: Rod Serling v the Washington Sniper
Why did Jake jiggle his head on a garage forecourt? Is Kraft's cheese worse than their television plays? Who's your favourite cross-dressing 18th century abbot?
S1 E331 · Thu, October 01, 2020
1st October: Mrs Beeton v Jimmy Carter
Why did Jake Google Renoir's boobies? Who was attacked by a swamp rabbit? Who are our favourite cookbook authors? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E330 · Wed, September 30, 2020
30th September: Roberto Clemente v Fish
How do you please a fish? Who rose from a harem to achieve wonderful things? Why is Natt talking about sport? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E329 · Mon, September 28, 2020
29th September: Frederick II v Asterix
Who was Toutatis? What language did people speak in the Garden of Eden? Where has Lizzie attached her lips? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E328 · Mon, September 28, 2020
28th September: General Cornwallis v William the Conqueror
Who abolished slavery in England? What was the first castle? Who couldn't even win a war against the insects? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E327 · Sat, September 26, 2020
27th September: Larry Page v Sergey Brin
Why are we going to have to pay the Beatles some money? What shouldn't you name your paddle steamer? Who was the best Pankhurst? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E326 · Sat, September 26, 2020
26th September: Ringo Starr v Margaret Thatcher
Who cares about Gibraltar? Who embarrassed the Queen? Is the Athenaeum the bit between the... never mind? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E325 · Thu, September 24, 2020
25th September: Erich Maria Remarque v Revenge
Why hasn't Natt pluged his microphone in? And where was he last night? What accent is Jake doing? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & LIzzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E324 · Wed, September 23, 2020
24th September: Trudi Styler v Dr Seuss
What the actual f*** is going on? What's the best tantric stuff? Who's resigned most from the government? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E323 · Wed, September 23, 2020
23rd September: Zeppelina Williams v Makosi Musambasi
Who becomes a life coach? Do you want to become a Vicar of Date Fight? Who had an affair with Lord Curzon and wrote 28 screenplays? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E322 · Mon, September 21, 2020
22nd September: Shaka Zulu v J.J. Abrams
Did Jake enjoy lost? How many Dead Sea Scrolls are there? Did Shaka Zulu have pliers? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E321 · Sun, September 20, 2020
21st September: Caupo the Accursed v Jerry Hayes
Can we ever get enough Magellan chat? Where were the best Crusades? What does the Pope give as presents? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E320 · Sat, September 19, 2020
20th September: Magellan v Garibaldi
Can you take unbagged garden waste to the Ragga Tip? Can we get through a story about Brazilians and jerky without being rude? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E319 · Fri, September 18, 2020
19th September: Montauciel the Sheep v the Virgin Mary
Which of Mary's is biggest? What is the matter with Marlon Brando? Which of Lizzie's is bigger? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E318 · Thu, September 17, 2020
18th September: Laurence Llewelyn Bowen v Blind Willie Johnson
Why did we have to strap St Joseph of Cupertino down? What is like having a nut on your chest? How quickly will today's episode devolve into filth? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E317 · Wed, September 16, 2020
17th September: Benjamin Franklin v The Littlest Hobo
What was the Connecticut Compromise? What's it like to be a crime-solving alsatian? Has he finally snapped? Natt Tapley finds out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E316 · Wed, September 16, 2020
16th September: Anarchists v Wall Street
Who used sash weights for bombs? Who got a new job because of all the bombings? Who commandeered a vehicle, just like in the movies? Natt Tapley finds out in today's Date FIght!
S1 E315 · Mon, September 14, 2020
15th September: Gilles de Rais v anything else
What serial killer did Edinburgh? Who did Joan of Arc do a fun run with? Is there any way of discussing this that is non-horrifying? Natt Tapley finds out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E314 · Sun, September 13, 2020
14th September: President McKinley v bullets
Who was President McKinley? No, really, what did he do? Anything? Natt Tapley finds out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E313 · Sun, September 13, 2020
13th September: Phineas Gage v Lonesome George
What does tortoise taste like? What shouldn't you tamp explosives with? What was rushed to San Francisco as food to deal with the influx of people during the Gold Rush? Natt Tapley finds out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E313 · Sat, September 12, 2020
12th September: Gabriele D'Annunzio v tyres
What king of car should you drive when taking over a city? Before Clark Gable, who didn't give a damn? Why shouldn't you shake hands with King Leopold II of Belgium? Natt Tapley finds out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E312 · Thu, September 10, 2020
11th September: New York v Waterloo Bridge
What Bulgarian dissident was killed by the Penguin? What's the GDP of New York? Who is this mysterious stranger we haven't heard from in ages? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight.
S1 E311 · Thu, September 10, 2020
10th September: Henry VIII v James Martin
Who is the worst James Martin? Whose rough wooing ruined their pinkie? What should you do if you're a murderer? Natt Tapley finds out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E310 · Wed, September 09, 2020
9th September: Cornelius Tromp v sunshine
How many native Americans were killed by mumps? Have we scoured the bottom of Natt's soul? Can I go to bed now? Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E309 · Tue, September 08, 2020
8th September: Adeline van Buren v Augusta van Buren
Why is football? Who is a Bernie Sanders? Also, what are legs? Natt Tapley finds out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E308 · Sun, September 06, 2020
7th September: Louis the Stammerer v premature babies
What 9th century leader shouldn't you invite around for lunch? What's the funnest way of spreading fertiliser? Can you pronounce Henry Campbell-Bannerman? Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E307 · Sat, September 05, 2020
6th September: Ferdinand Magellan v Akira Kurosawa
Who discovered the Strait of Magellan? Who wrote motets for the Virgin Mary except when she was short of cash? How long did it take to circumnavigate the globe? Natt Tapley finds out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E306 · Sat, September 05, 2020
5th September: Peter the Great v booze
Who imposed a beard tax? What's Natt been drinking? Is it over yet? Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E305 · Thu, September 03, 2020
4th September: Beyonce Knowles v the RAF
Who was the first prisoner of war in World War 2? Where is Trebizond? how many MTV Music Awards are enough? Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E304 · Wed, September 02, 2020
3rd August: Saint Marinus v the Cocaine Grandmother
Who was the Cocaine Grandmother? What should you do when an insane woman accuses you of being their estranged husband? What does "distracted by the evil of the world" really mean? Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E303 · Tue, September 01, 2020
2nd September: Great Fire of London v Great Fire of Copenhagen
What does 'pudding' mean? Why won't the Danes do as they're told? Who was the last monarch of Hawaii? Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E302 · Mon, August 31, 2020
1st September: Siegfried Sassoon v John Audubon
Who was the most numerous bird on the planet in the 19th century? Why shouldn't you throw sand at someone who's had a stroke? How much money should you give James Joyce? Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E302 · Sun, August 30, 2020
31st August: Jimmy Printbum v Benito Mussolini
Who threw their 'p' in the river? Which dictator had the bounciest car? When was the longest play ever staged? Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E301 · Sat, August 29, 2020
30th August: Lenin v Samuel Whitbread
What was the Cambrian Explosion? What is Samuel Whitbread known for? What is the best song about Jake Yapp? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E300 · Fri, August 28, 2020
29th August: Mikhail Gorbachev v Lenny Henry
Why did Boris Yeltsin ride a tank? What are the best shows to watch during lockdown? Do DVDs even fit through a postbox? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E298 · Thu, August 27, 2020
28th August: Henry Hudson v Rhodes Boyson
What was originally called "Brad's Drink"? What was HUdson Bay called before Henry Hudson got to it? Who is the oldest Olympic archer? Jake Yap & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E297 · Wed, August 26, 2020
27th August: Bernard Cribbins v Louis Mountbatten
Who invented the theremin? What was the world's shortest war? Who invented oil? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E297 · Wed, August 26, 2020
26th August: Edward III v Canada
What noise does a crossbow make? What is with Canadians? What was Blind King John of Bohemia's big mistake? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E296 · Mon, August 24, 2020
25th August: Lion-O v Hitler
Who found life on the moon? When did Jesus meet the Thundercats? How awful is Sean Connery? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E295 · Sun, August 23, 2020
24th August: Abbie Hoffman v Catherine de Medici
What was the St Batholemew's Day Massacre? What is the worst wedding present? What exactly was Pete Townshend researching? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E294 · Sun, August 23, 2020
23rd August: Charles the Fat v Sacco & Vanzetti
After whose execution were there riots across the world? How did Teutberga prove her innocence? Who was the first person to get Stockholm Syndrome? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E287 · Sat, August 22, 2020
22nd August: Charles the Bald v Steve McQueen
What is the correct term for Breton javelins? When was Papillon filmed? What does Lizzie's new passport look like? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E285 · Fri, August 21, 2020
21st August: Usain Bolt v Henry the Navigator
Who entered the Louvre through the tradesman's entrance? Who was Who thought that everyone was "fixated on money"? Can you beat Usain Bolt on a mobility scooter? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E286 · Wed, August 19, 2020
20th August: Richard the Lionheart v H.P. Lovecraft
Who said paying taxes was for little people? Who left her dog $12 million? Could Lizzie be a dog? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E284 · Tue, August 18, 2020
19th August: Adolf Hitler v Atlantic salmon
What do Atlantic salmon do in the Pacific? What film did Ring Lardner secretly win an Oscar for? Who started the Gargoyle Club for pyjama-and-bottle parties? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E283 · Tue, August 18, 2020
18th August: Pendle witches v Steve Biko
Why exactly was Bruce Forsyth a national treasure? Where did Virginia Dare's family all go to? Is Lizzie a witch? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E282 · Sun, August 16, 2020
17th August: Davy Crockett v Otto Stern
What's everyone's favourite admin? What is a phantasmagoria? Why should you never put a hot tub in a conservatory? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E281 · Sat, August 15, 2020
16th August: Idi Amin v Ali Bongo
Will Lizzie's opinions about Saudi Arabia make the cut? Who has the cheekiest voice? How is Peterloo like Sachsgate? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E280 · Sat, August 15, 2020
15th August: Blind Jack Metcalfe v Hamburglar
What was the last thing Hamburglar saw? What time is it in Pyongyang? What is phenol used for? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E280 · Fri, August 14, 2020
14th August: Lech Walesa v Richard O'Brien
What is the Plaza Hotel most famous for? What terrible people have given you Tom MacRae CDs? Who fancied an astronomer so much she chased him down and married him? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E279 · Thu, August 13, 2020
13th August: Nigel Farage v H.G. Wells
Who was a eugenicist in the 1930s? Who used to draw their initials in the shape of the National Front logo? Who really invented stainless steel, though? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find in today's Date Fight!
S1 E278 · Wed, August 12, 2020
12th August: Diamond Jim Brady v Joseph Lister
What's the best thing about the East India Company? What does bad air cause? Will you be grouse hunting? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E277 · Tue, August 11, 2020
11th August: Hedy Lamarr v A Substitute Teacher
What is going on in this episode? No, really. What? What do they think this is achieving? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E276 · Sun, August 09, 2020
10th August: Byhrtnoth v Jeffrey Epstein
Why should you only use the WAP? What's up with David Icke's belly? And his thumbs? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E276 · Sat, August 08, 2020
9th August: Smokey the Bear v the Moomins
Why is Tove Jansson the worst person ever to have existed? Whose your favourite Jewish atheist nun? How many trees can you plant in one day? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E276 · Fri, August 07, 2020
8th August: Tycho Brahe v The Beatles
From where do you observe your Urania? What is a naked-eye astronomer? Who died because they were too polite to wee? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E275 · Fri, August 07, 2020
7th August: Mata Hari v Godzilla
Who was the world's worst mother-in-law? What language do they speak in the Dutch East Indies? Who swam from the USA to the USSR? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E274 · Wed, August 05, 2020
6th August: Geri Halliwell v the Holy Roman Empire
Who was the sixth Spice Girl? No, really, can you libel the dead? Who was the best Duke of Lesbos? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E274 · Tue, August 04, 2020
5th August: Alec Guinness v Tullia
Who put 8 miles of wires in his mother's back garden? Who has an 8-foot finger? Whose lamp burned for a thousand years? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E272 · Mon, August 03, 2020
4th August: Meghan Markle v Marilyn Monroe
Who invented champagne? Who cares about the shards? What accent do monkeys have? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E273 · Sun, August 02, 2020
3rd August: Hitler v Santa Claus
Who was the richest woman in Germany? Who started their broadcasting career as a banker? What is Zoombabwe? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E273 · Sun, August 02, 2020
2nd August: Confucius v Betsy Bloomingdale
Who are the ideal guests at a dinner party? What happened on 2nd August at the Treblinka concentration camp? Apart from hot air balloons, what else did the Montgolfiers invent? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E271 · Fri, July 31, 2020
1st August: George I v Cilla Black
Who vowed to restore discipline to the Praetorian Guard? And who do you think they were killed by? Who were the Elephant & the Maypole? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E270 · Fri, July 31, 2020
31st July: Emilia Fox v Gore Vidal
Who had a tuft of hair above their bum? What made sodomy and the lash bearable? What is the chemical symbol for potassium? Jake Yapp, Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E269 · Thu, July 30, 2020
30th July: Richard II v Chalky Spinsters
What does LBJ stand for? What does the American Medical Association hate apart from people's health? Where does "In God We Trust" come from? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper (sometimes) find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E268 · Tue, July 28, 2020
29th July: Margaret Thatcher v Ken Bruce
Did anyone ever call it the Chunnel? What film did Natt's New York tour guide talk about at every stop around Central Park? Did Mama Cass die of a ham sandwich? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E267 · Mon, July 27, 2020
28th July: King Raedwald v Beatrix Potter
What floated like a butterfly but burned like a... never mind? Have you read Beatrix Potter's series of erotic choose-you-own-adventure novels? Sutton Hoo? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E266 · Sun, July 26, 2020
27th July: Hilaire Belloc v Lindy Boggs
What's wrong with all the religions? Who loves their breakfast booze? Who was the first woman elected to represent Louisiana? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E265 · Sun, July 26, 2020
26th July: Clement Attlee v Daisy Greville
How long does it take Nick Knowles to build a prefab house? Will Black & Decker sponsor the podcast? How do you nationalise coal? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E264 · Sat, July 25, 2020
25th July: Horatio Nelson v ALF
Who's had Jake Yapp? Can Natt say Cadith? Do cloth-padded oars make it quieter? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E263 · Thu, July 23, 2020
24th July: Bosch Chat!
What does the Zanussi Man sound like? Who invented world peace? Can anyone ever really discover Machu Picchu? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E262 · Wed, July 22, 2020
23rd July: John Landis v Woody Harrelson
What does Woody Harrelson eat when he gets the munchies? What is Guernsey Gash? Who did Leo McKern play? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E261 · Tue, July 21, 2020
22nd July: Kathy Bates v the Red Vicar of Thaxted
What does Jake's dad want for his birthday? Who wrote America the Beautiful? Who was the only Indian flying ace in the First World War? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E260 · Mon, July 20, 2020
21st July: Neil Armstrong v [redacted]
What was the best Wonder of the Ancient World? How much did Lizzie get paid for the Aunt Bessy's ads? How did they televise the moon landings? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E259 · Mon, July 20, 2020
20th July: Henry Ford v Amanda Holden
Who worked with Louis Daguerre to make the daguerreotype? Who invented telly? In which medium is Amanda Holden best witnessed? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E258 · Sun, July 19, 2020
19th July: Peter Pomegranate v Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who wanted votes for women? Who was full of black fluid? What is a fascist's favourite breakfast? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E257 · Fri, July 17, 2020
18th July: Caravaggio v Jane Austen
Who stabbed that vicar in the eye? What is a Parthenon? What shouldn't you use to take fuses out of grenades? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E256 · Fri, July 17, 2020
17th July: Henry V v Cannon & Ball
Who almost went to bed too early? Which bits of the Hundred Years' War do we like to forget? Why is this so late? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E255 · Wed, July 15, 2020
16th July: Orvile Redenbacher v Ann of Cleves
Who hated gravity? Who done all the bad poisonings in France? Who was not as fair as had been reported? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E254 · Wed, July 15, 2020
15th July: Napoleon v Emmeline Pankhurst
How can you enlarge Monty Don's spuds? Why don't aliens know about vulvas? Who beat off a doctor using a jug? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E253 · Mon, July 13, 2020
14th July: Not Bastille Day
What's Jane Goodall's favourite animal? What was Billy the Kid's real name? Why shouldn't monks write history? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E252 · Mon, July 13, 2020
13th July: Marat v Bob Geldof
Who fixed Ethiopia? Who invented the British Empire? What is better than Cars 2? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E251 · Sat, July 11, 2020
12th June: The Filthiest Episode Ever v Humanity
What's Lizzie Roper's favourite curry? What does the Aboriginal flag of Australia look like? Who was Catherine Parr? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E250 · Fri, July 10, 2020
11th June: Richard Branson v Baldwin the Leper
Who is Necker Island named after? Who did the best Gershwins? What will happen to Lizzie after she dies? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E249 · Thu, July 09, 2020
10th July: Nikolai Tesla v Jelly Roll Morton
Who is Necker Island named after? How much is an ear worth? What amount of ransom paid is tax deductible? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E248 · Wed, July 08, 2020
9th July: Zachary Taylor v John F Kennedy
Who was the pooiest president? What shouldn't you eat before a long-haul flight from Mexico? Who chased down Klaus Barbie? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!!
S1 E247 · Tue, July 07, 2020
8th July: Vasco da Gama v Hugo Boss
Who was the cleanest con man of them all? What does Jay Aston teach at her school of Being In Bucks Fizz? How much did Natt forget to record? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E246 · Mon, July 06, 2020
7th July: Arthur Conan Doyle v sliced bread
Who invented a bread slicer? Who made sourdough? Should tell all of the story or just the bits he remembers? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E245 · Mon, July 06, 2020
6th July: Dracula v John Lennon
Who was more of a father to Julian Lennon than his actual father? Where are the dirty bits in Guy de Maupassant? Who invented the NHS? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E244 · Sat, July 04, 2020
5th July: Thomas Cook v Monty Python
Whose statues have we been arguing about for half a century now? Is this the war? Who was the best colonialist? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E243 · Sat, July 04, 2020
4th July: Thomas Jefferson v Lewis Carroll
How creepy is Alice in Wonderland? Whose signature on the Declaration of Independence is the biggest? Who is the earthquake of eroticism? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Helen Lederer find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E242 · Thu, July 02, 2020
3rd July: The Popes v the Great Auks
What is the comfiest bird? Who was the world's biggest miser? How did Lembit Opik fall in love? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Helen Lederer find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E241 · Wed, July 01, 2020
2nd July: Florence Nightingale v Mary Seacole
Who went to the most boring lecture in early twentieth century Germany? Which heavy metal frontman is also a qualified pilot? How many times more likely are you to get stopped-and-searched if you make the mistake of being non-white in Dorset? Jake Yapp & Nathaniel Tapley & Helen Lederer find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E240 · Tue, June 30, 2020
1st July: Boots Poffenburger v Mollie Sugden
What is the breakfast of champions? How many subjects did Luther Vandross cover in his songs? Who was the first female film director? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Helen Lederer find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E239 · Mon, June 29, 2020
30th June: Harry Blackstone Jr v Mike Tyson
Who suffered from intermittent pain in their side? Who beat the Pinkertons? How hot should bile be? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Helen Lederer findout in today's Date Fight.
S1 E238 · Sun, June 28, 2020
29th June: William Shakespeare v Ronnie Corbett
Is Bob Monkhouse impressive? Who stole a whole theatre, beam by beam? What is a tincture? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Helen Lederer in today's Date Fight!
S1 E237 · Sat, June 27, 2020
28th June: Kathy Bates v Elon Musk
Which instrument maker had the most childhood accidents? What is Miss Mitchell's Comet better known as? Who was the Baron of Arizona? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Helen Lederer find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E236 · Sat, June 27, 2020
27th June: Cornish pasties v Catherine Cookson
Why did Natt let that Longbottom slip through his fingers? Where was the Sikh empire? Why does Tessa hate the Moomins? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Dr Tessa Dunlop find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E235 · Thu, June 25, 2020
26th June: Lavrentiy Beria v Richard Whiteley
What did Jake do in Richard Whiteley's bedroom? Who likes a rusty can of Boddington's? How low can Natt talk? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Tessa Dunlop find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E234 · Wed, June 24, 2020
25th June: Sonja Sotamajor v General Custer
Who is custard named after? What should you definitely not put on your eyelashes? Who designed the rainbow flag? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Tessa Dunlop find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E233 · Tue, June 23, 2020
24th June: Glenn Medeiros v Lucrezia Borgia
Who wrote about a wrinkly bottom? Who was the world's worst peace activist? What was the Banquet of the Chestnuts? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Tessa Dunlop find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E232 · Mon, June 22, 2020
23rd June: Edward VIII v Ganesha
Who was become death? Where does the word Cajun come from? Who wishes they didn't have Gibraltar? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Tessa Dunlop find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E231 · Sun, June 21, 2020
22nd June: Simon Cowell v Judy Garland
Whose career was over before everyone else's had barely begun? Who speaks too high? Will Natt rant about Enoch Powell again? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Tessa Dunlop find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E230 · Sun, June 21, 2020
21st June: Nicholas Rimsky-Korsokov v Prince Andrew
When is the world going to end? Who are all the statues of women of? Why does Natt despise Mittel-Europeans? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Dr Tessa Dunlop find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E229 · Fri, June 19, 2020
20th June: Pirates v Famine
Who is responsible for keeping the ashtrays in the White House clean? Who's the CEO of Murder Inc? Where is Baltimore? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Julia Raeside find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E228 · Thu, June 18, 2020
19th June: Christopher HItchens v Terry Wogan
What was on telly 36 years ago? What sign does Julia have in her kitchen? Where was Piers Gaveston's head cut off? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Julia Raeside find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E227 · Wed, June 17, 2020
18th June: Charles de Gaulle v Amelia Earhardt
Where is Perdu University? Who was buried in their wedding dress because they felt that their wedding was the last day of their life? Which Scottish Antiburgher wrote Stayin' Alive? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Julia Raeside find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E226 · Wed, June 17, 2020
17th June: Vlad the Impaler v M.C. Escher
What was the tax paid by non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire? Who was the the Bravest Boleslaw? Who wrote Dick & Jane?
S1 E225 · Mon, June 15, 2020
16th June: James Joyce v Enoch Powell
Who has the record for most elections lost? How many reasons are there to be a vegetarian? Will Jake ever ask the question? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Julia Raeside find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E224 · Mon, June 15, 2020
15th June: Nellie Melba v Chris Morris
Who chose between necklaces and a nunnery? Whose name looks like Ray MacAnally's? Whose microphone was made from a cigar box? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Julia Raeside find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E223 · Sun, June 14, 2020
14th June: Henry the Lion v Charles Babbage
Who invented the first computer programme? Who is the Tangerine Wazzock? Who invented Big Brother 6?
S1 E222 · Sat, June 13, 2020
13th June: John of Gaunt v Charles Lindbergh
Who had a very good cellar? Who invented ticker tape? Who left a year of cartoons behind them? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Athena Kugblenu find out in today's Date Fight?
S1 E221 · Thu, June 11, 2020
12th June: Medgar Evers v Billy Butlin
Did the Boer War inspire holiday camps? Who won Olympic gold and was convicted of a murder? Who was the voice of Penelope Pitstop? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Athena Kugblenu find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E220 · Wed, June 10, 2020
11 June: Horatio Nelson v George I
Which British monarch had their remains bombed by the British? Which metal shouldn't you make cars out of? What did Toyota make before cars? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Athena Kugblenu find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E219 · Tue, June 09, 2020
10th June: Prince Philip v Hattie McDaniel
Whose mute looks like a pepper pot? Who was banned from Spain in 1492? Just how violent did Alexander the Great want to be? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Athena Kugblenu find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E218 · Mon, June 08, 2020
9th June: Margaret Thatcher v Joe McCarthy
What would the world be like if the internet were any good? Who forged whose signature to get a pass for the Senate Baths? What were the seven Rockefeller sisters called? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Athena Kugblenu find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E217 · Sun, June 07, 2020
8th June: Kanye West v Shilpa Shetty
Is anyone interested in Richard le Scrope? Why would Jake choose the Pitcairn Islands? Can you just not be British while you do horrible things? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Athena Kugblenu find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E216 · Sat, June 06, 2020
7th June: Benito Mussolini v Bear Grylls
Which explorer's father was a disgraced MP? Who was Pope Pius XI's favourite fascist dictator? Who is the most exciting Aelfthryth? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Athena Kugblenu find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E215 · Fri, June 05, 2020
6th June: John Paul Getty v Anne Bancroft
Who would only pay a tax deductible ransom? What part of Daniel Radcliffe's body did Lizzie Roper see? Has Lizzie's guesting descended to the lowest possible level? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E214 · Thu, June 04, 2020
5th June: Christine Keeler v Field Marshall Haig
Who was on all those posters in the First World War? How did Mel Torme write The Christmas Song? Who invented cryptography? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E213 · Wed, June 03, 2020
4th June: Billy Joel v Casanova
Which country accepted the immigrants on the MS St Louis? What was the first balloon flight? Was Mary de Bohun's brother Giveadoga de Bohun? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E212 · Tue, June 02, 2020
3rd June: Mohammad Ali v Franz Kafka
What does stinging like a bee consist of? What were the Opium Wars all about? What's the first thing the aliens will hear? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight.
S1 E211 · Tue, June 02, 2020
2nd June: Tony Hadley v Rex Harrison
What is KGB sauce? What is the most violent sport that Lizzie has played? Who was the wife of Charles the Bald? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E210 · Sun, May 31, 2020
1st June: Marilyn Monroe v Paula Hitler
What's the best sore throat cure? Who invented scotch whisky? Who drew THAT picture of Gerald Scarfe? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E209 · Sun, May 31, 2020
May 31st: Terry Waite v Carla Lane
Why does Jake hate comedy written by women? Who produced The Tingler? Who got married when she was three, but got divorced at seven? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E208 · Fri, May 29, 2020
30th May: Joan of Arc v Antonio Banderas
Can Catholics lie? What is Lizzie Roper's favourite kind of gate? who founded the Bank of New South Wales? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E206 · Thu, May 28, 2020
29th May: Vermeer v Herman Goering
Who was Naughty but Naz? Why can't Jake lie? Who was the Swedish Nightingale? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E207 · Wed, May 27, 2020
28th May: Space Monkeys v the Spanish Armada
Who's the most Nazi monarch? Why did Ribbentrop give Wallis Simpson carnations? Who made Christian festivals less fun? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E206 · Tue, May 26, 2020
27th May: Siouxsie Sioux v Wild Bill Hickok
What did Cilla Black sound like? What only happens once every thousand years? What did Nehru do? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E205 · Mon, May 25, 2020
26th May: Helena Bonham Carter v The Venerable Bede
What sort of gnome is Jeremy Corbyn? What was John Wayne's real name? Who invented the Dow Jones index? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & LIzzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E204 · Sun, May 24, 2020
25th May: Michael Jordan v Han Solo
What tickles a spinster? What is simony? What got ten Oscar nominations? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E203 · Sat, May 23, 2020
24th May: Queen Victoria v Samuel Morse
What was the fish version of the Reese's Piece called? Why is Natt so down on Queen Victoria? What goes "Ha Ha Shh"? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E202 · Fri, May 22, 2020
23rd May: The Dalai Lama v Heinrich Himmler
What do waterboarding and duck calls have in common? Which is worse: waterboarding or accordion? Why is today's episode all about waterboarding? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Maddy Anholt find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E201 · Thu, May 21, 2020
22nd May: Naomi Campbell v Laurence Olivier
Who killed who in a Robin Reliant? What is the Iraq War you don't know about? Who are the only canon Misses Marple? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Maddy Anholt find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E200 · Wed, May 20, 2020
21st May: Daniel Defoe v Nadine Dorries
Who does Norman Lovett do stand up about? Who was Olaf the Black? What did August Kundt invent? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Maddy anholt find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E199 · Tue, May 19, 2020
20th May: Jimmy Stewart v the Vengaboys
How long is a piece of string that is a metre long? Whose political downfall happened on the Vengabus? What makes Pope John XXI so special?
S1 E198 · Mon, May 18, 2020
19th May: Anne Boleyn v Ogden Nash
What is Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis best known for? What dishes are named after Nellie Melba? What was the darkest day in New England's history? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Maddy Anholt find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E197 · Mon, May 18, 2020
18th May: Tina Fey v Miriam Margolyes
Who mugged Jean Harlow right off? Why are we still going on about that same bottle of bourbon? Who had a magical nose? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Maddy Anholt find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E196 · Sat, May 16, 2020
17th May: Prince Charles v Frank Gorshin
Who invented the fax machine? Who invented the d*ck pic? What's the worst thing about picky eaters? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Maddy Anholt find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E195 · Fri, May 15, 2020
16th May: Marie Antoinette v Elliot Ness
How did Jim Henson inspire Date Fight? Where should you poop in Versailles? Who sang "Don't cry for me, Tattooine"? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight.
S1 E194 · Thu, May 14, 2020
15th May: Emily Dickinson v Jerry Falwell
Whose arse was international? What is an annular eclipse? Who was the first person to fly around Spain? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E193 · Wed, May 13, 2020
14th May: Mark Zuckerberg v B.B. King
Who is surrounded by duvets with the voices of madmen in their head? What was the best lab in the sky? Who got eaten to found America? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E192 · Wed, May 13, 2020
13th May: St Julian of Norwich v Stevie Wonder
What's up Lizzie's bum today? Where's the best place to see Jesus? What mysteries did Marie of Brabant solve? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E191 · Mon, May 11, 2020
12th May: Edward Lear v Florence Nightingale
Who was the most famous playwright of the Shakespearean age? How many toilet jokes are there? How many Norwegians can you fit in a semi-rigid flying machine? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E190 · Sun, May 10, 2020
11th May: Bob Marley v Cadburys
What is the least sexy sutra? What should you do after shooting the Prime Minister? How do you shield a pensioner? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E189 · Sat, May 09, 2020
10th May: Rudolf Hess v Stonewall Jackson
Who painted all the bikini-ladies on dragons? Where does Lizzie Roper stand on Rudolf Hess? Did Edward have a dodgy accent? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E188 · Sat, May 09, 2020
9th May: Edward I v Vidal Sassoon
Did Natt really forget to upload this until he was in bed? It's that why this is so vague? Because he can't listen to the episode to find out what it's about without waking his wife? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Sooz Kempner find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E187 · Thu, May 07, 2020
8th May: Maurice Sendak v Karl Marx (no, not that Karl Marx)
What is the Thames Barrier based on? Why is vaccination called vaccination? Why is quarantine called quarantine? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Sooz Kempner find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast, go to www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E186 · Wed, May 06, 2020
7th May: Vladimir Putin v macaroni
Is Madonna worse than the Nazis? Does Jake have any Michael Rosen stories to tell? Whose murder hotel probably was mainly lies? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Sooz Kempner find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E185 · Tue, May 05, 2020
6th May: They Might Be Giants v Stereolab
What were the Unequal Treaties? Who wrote The Schnozboz of Oz? Who's the fattest, bulgiest king? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Sooz Kempner find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E184 · Mon, May 04, 2020
5th May: Mussolini v Nellie Bly
Who got themselves committed to an asylum just for a newspaper story? Who invented Cliff's Notes? Who was the MP for Fermanagh in the early 1980s? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Sooz Kempner find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E183 · Mon, May 04, 2020
4th May: Eric of Pomerania v Eric Sykes
Who discovered chromosomes? What political society did the author of the Railway Children found? Who popularised Tiannenmen Square? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Sooz Kempner find out in today's Date Fight.
S1 E182 · Sat, May 02, 2020
3rd May: William Walker v Douglas Carswell
Who's the most hypocritical Date Fight presenter? What's the difference between Jackie Cooper and Jilly Cooper? Did Barbara Windsor live with Barbara Castle in Windsor Castle? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Sooz Kempner find out in today's Date Fight
S1 E181 · Sat, May 02, 2020
2nd May: Michael Hordern v The Belgrano
What are your feelings about the European Central Bank? Are you happier than Hedda Hopper? Which way was the Belgrano sailing? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Alex von Tunzelmann find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E180 · Thu, April 30, 2020
1st May: Diocletian v Queen Victoria
What's your favourite schism? Which is the most lickable monarch? Who was Matilda of Scotland? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Alex von Tunzelmann find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast, go to www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E179 · Wed, April 29, 2020
30th April: Richard III v Leslie Grantham
How much did the Louisiana Purchase actually cost? Where did Joseph Smith hide his golden plates? What's the funnest thing to do in the Tower of London? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Alex von Tunzelmann find out in today's Date Fight.
S1 E178 · Tue, April 28, 2020
29th April: Joan of Arc v Mohammad Ali
Who invented tabloid journalism? How many bombs does it take to assassinate a tsar? Who was the bride of Frankenstein but nor the Bride of Frankenstein? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Alex von Tunzelmann find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E177 · Mon, April 27, 2020
28th April: Billy the Kid v Mussolini
What did Mussolini invent? Who settled Polynesia? Who shot Billy the Kid? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Alex von Tunzelmann find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E176 · Sun, April 26, 2020
27th April: Mumtaz Mahal v Barbie
Is there such a name as Lidian? Where were the British the worst? What did Barbie's inventor do that resulted in 2,500 hours of community service? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Alex von Tunzelmann find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E175 · Sat, April 25, 2020
26th April: General Franco v Melania Trump
How radioactive is a banana plantation in the Ukraine? Which massacres provoked the best pictures? What sort of visa do you need to do modelling work? Jake Yapp, Natt Tapley & Alex von Tunzelmann find out in today's Date Fight. To support the podcast, go to www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E174 · Fri, April 24, 2020
25th April: Ella Fitzgerald v the Queen Mum (gawd bless 'er)
Whose hair is the goldest? What are the sequels to Black Beauty like? And who will win this week? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Rebecca Rideal find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast, visit www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E173 · Thu, April 23, 2020
24th April: Ernest Shackleton v Shirley Maclaine
Why didn't Queen Marau like Tahiti? Who introduced T.S. Eliot to the Swedes? Who was the most handsome man in history? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Rebecca Rideal find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E172 · Wed, April 22, 2020
23rd April: William Shakespeare v William Shakespeare
Should you be doing World Book Day? Who thought Shirley Temple was a 30-year old dwarf? Who invented jogging? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Rebecca Rideal find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast please go to www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E171 · Tue, April 21, 2020
22nd April: Richard Nixon v Heinrich Assman
Where should you draw the line? What was Nixon's favourite car? What surname links Ada & Linda? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Rebecca Rideal find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast, please go to www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E170 · Mon, April 20, 2020
21st April: Haile Selassie v Tony Danza
What is Grounation Day? Which English poet had extraordinarily long arms? Who was "the evil genius of an evil administration"? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Rebecca Rideal find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast, go to www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E169 · Sun, April 19, 2020
20th April: Oliver Cromwell v Enoch Powell
Who was The Roman? What is the deliberate mistake in today's episode? What parts of the body would make good parliaments? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Rebecca Rideal find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E168 · Sat, April 18, 2020
19th April: Mae West v Belgium
What of waffles? What of sex? What will proper historian Rebecca Rideal make of the whole thing? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast, please visit www.patreon.com/datefight .
S1 E167 · Fri, April 17, 2020
18th April: Aaarghthelbert v Evil Edna
Who frightened the fish? What was the Pass Law? Why would you want to be King of Northumbria in the late 700s? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight. To support the podcast, go to www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E166 · Thu, April 16, 2020
17th April: The Supreme Court v the most exciting story of all time!
What does Jake think is the most exciting story of all time? Is it really, though, we have had a lot of good stories? Seriously? The best? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast on Patreon, click here: www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E165 · Wed, April 15, 2020
16th April: King Jan the Mad v Kourtney Kardashian
What was the most boring battle in British history? Who popularised the term "Cold War"? Who is the best Estonian wrestler the world has ever seen? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast and get exclusive, extra podcasts go to www.patreon.com/datefight
S1 E164 · Tue, April 14, 2020
15th April: Guru Nanak v Dr Johnson
What are the jokes in the dictionary? Who makes the best milkshakes? Have they done the same one? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E163 · Mon, April 13, 2020
14th April: HMS Titanic v ZIP files
How many lifeboats is enough? What was the world's quickest gunfight? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E162 · Mon, April 13, 2020
13th April: Jallianwalah Bagh v Tom Hanks
What was the worst thing the British ever did? What do you have to do to briefly restore interest in the Apollo program? Who teamed up with Lou Bega in 2019? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E161 · Sat, April 11, 2020
12th April: Shirley Temple v Edwin of Northumberland
Whose life is like the sparrow's? What's the Greek's secret? Who was the beefiest Tudor? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E160 · Fri, April 10, 2020
11th April: Kurt Vonnegut v the Brixton Riots
What effect does firebombing somewhere have on people? How do you arrange a city using seashells? Will we ever get to the 4th November? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E159 · Thu, April 09, 2020
10th April: Big Ben v the Duke of Savoy
How do you lift a bell up a tower? What does The Strand mean? Who owned the Savoy Palace? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E158 · Thu, April 09, 2020
9th April: Dong Zhuo v Isambard Kingdom Brunel
What's Elon Musk doing now? Who was the most successful kamikaze pilot? What's the best way of having prisoners of war for dinner? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E157 · Wed, April 08, 2020
8th April: Kemal Ataturk v Margaret Thatcher
How did they solve a problem like sharia? What dessert did Mrs Thatcher invent? Who was Dr Gonzo based on? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E156 · Mon, April 06, 2020
7th April: Matilda v W.K. Kellogg
Who was the coolest king of the twelfth century? Whose cereal cured appendicitis? What's the best way to evacuate yourself when confronted by a volcano? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E155 · Sun, April 05, 2020
6th April: ABBA v Myleene Klass
What should you do when the slaves are revolting? What was the best single about a dictator? Which member of Hear'say had an argument with Ed Miliband? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E154 · Sun, April 05, 2020
5th April: Alexander Nevsky v the Vickers machine gun
Why does Jake have to apologise for the World Wars? Is armour useful in ice battles? Who is the legs? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight.
S1 E153 · Fri, April 03, 2020
4th April: Piglet v Crufts
What shape should a dog be? Who was the last person convicted of espionage in the UK? Can Natt get through the bit where he has to describe the Dix Museum? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E152 · Thu, April 02, 2020
3rd April: Woodrow Wilson v Oscar Wilde
Who invented boxing? When shouldn't you have the flu? Who was the best Wilson? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E151 · Wed, April 01, 2020
2nd April: General Galtieri v Ludwig Bojanus
Where are the Bojanus glands? What should you do to find out comparative hospital law? Who was the first female balloonist in Germany? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight.
S1 E150 · Wed, April 01, 2020
1st April (really!): Jesus Christ v John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Who's the best imaginary gynaecologist? What was the best thing airlifted into Berlin? When was the Last Supper? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E149 · Tue, March 31, 2020
April 1th: Richard Nixon v William Gladstone
Who was Mr Sandman really about? How many slaves did William Gladstone have? Who was England's most controversial bowler? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E148 · Mon, March 30, 2020
31st March: the Fox Sisters v Erik Prince
Is it meant to bend like that? Who's that rapping? How much money does it take to buy your own army? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E147 · Sun, March 29, 2020
30th March: Vincent van Gogh v Ronald Reagan
What were Ronald Reagan's best (stolen) jokes? Who invented gambling on Native American reservations? Should you cut off your own ear? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E146 · Sun, March 29, 2020
29th March: Richard of York v Warner Baxter
Who invented a searchlight and then got a lobotomy? Who should play Edmund of Langley in the film? What is the male gaze? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E145 · Sat, March 28, 2020
28th March: The Communards v Thomas Clarkson
What are the two voices in French comedy? Who wrote 'The Way You Look Tonight'? Who is the most racist Clarkson? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E144 · Fri, March 27, 2020
27th March: Typhoid Mary v coronavirus
Where was Typhoid Mary born? Who was Typhoid John? And Typhoid Tony? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E143 · Thu, March 26, 2020
26th March: Geraldine Ferraro v Aesop
Where would you hide religious text? Did Natt mean Frank Carson? Who knows all the results of all the elections? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E142 · Wed, March 25, 2020
25th March: Percy Bysshe Shelley v John Lennon
Who changes the sheets after a bed-in? Why are the Beatles awful? Is there a God? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E141 · Tue, March 24, 2020
24th March: Richard the Lionheart v Margaret Lindsay Huggins
What were Richard the Lionheart's songs like? What is the Matilda Effect? Are spectroscopes better than children? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E140 · Mon, March 23, 2020
23rd March: Adolf Hitler v Emperor Paul I
Who did Hitler make promises to before the Enabling Act? How many times do you have to kill Paul I? What's the best way of robbing a train? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E139 · Sun, March 22, 2020
22nd March: Anne Hutchinson v
Who really annoyed Oliver Cromwell? Do we really ned more chick sexers? Has anyone read anything by Louis L'Amour? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E138 · Sat, March 21, 2020
21st March: Boris Johnson v Rishi Sunak
What's gone wrong with Date Fight? Whose balls have been dropped this week? Who recanted his recantation? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E137 · Fri, March 20, 2020
20th March: Maximinus Thrax v Carl Reiner
What happens when you double all the soldiers' wages? What was Walter Raleigh's podcast called? What is a treatise? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E136 · Thu, March 19, 2020
19th March: Robert Mugabe v Glenn Close
Which one is the record button? How many times can you record an episode and feign interest? What is loads of interest, mathematically? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E135 · Wed, March 18, 2020
18th March: The Tolpuddle Martyrs v The Templars
Where is Tolpuddle? How do you get back into a space capsule when your suit is all blown up? What's the best folk song? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E134 · Tue, March 17, 2020
17th March: St Patrick v
What's the likely cause of death when your sheep all their pop their clogs while standing next to a nerve-agent-testing-facility? Was St Patrick really kidnapped by pirates? What went on in Maori fortified villages? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E133 · Mon, March 16, 2020
16th March: Abraham Lincoln v ghosts
How do you make toilet roll spaghetti? What's Natt's ancestor up to today? Should you have kings? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E132 · Sun, March 15, 2020
15th March: Julius Caesar v Penny Lancaster
Whose story has the most stabbing? Who was the Margrave of Baden-Baden? Who were the Two Fat Ladies? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E131 · Sat, March 14, 2020
14th March: Gilbert & Sullivan v Jack Ruby
What is the funniest place name? Who was Jack Ruby? Was Tony Benn nice? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E130 · Fri, March 13, 2020
13th March: Ronald Reagan v Uranus
Whose anus was Uranus names after? How did a bank holiday save capitalism? Who flew Adolf Hitler to the wrong place? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E129 · Thu, March 12, 2020
12th March: Gandhi v Graham Coxon
Who were the Williamites? Who was the best 19th century novelist? Who invented guest-fighting? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E128 · Wed, March 11, 2020
11th March: John Barrowman v Elogabalus
What's playing at the Roxy? And how much over-budget did it go? Why shouldn't you make a 14-year old boy emperor? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E127 · Tue, March 10, 2020
10th March: Robin Thicke v Maud de Lacy
What happened to Jesus' foreskin when he was resurrected? Should royals go skiing? How do raise money to fight the Scots? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E126 · Mon, March 09, 2020
9th March: Adam Smith v loo rolls
Where was William Pitt from? How many drinks it too many drinks to do a podcast after? Who was the most sextacular Minister of War? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E125 · Sun, March 08, 2020
8th March: Adam Faith v women
What is Zoe's scurrilous gossip? Who played in Mr Toad in the 1993 misfire Wind In The Hood? What stars would you take financial advice from? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E124 · Sat, March 07, 2020
7th March: Ronald McDonald v a Pope
Does history give up events for Lent? What are the world's worst 219 ideas? What was Noel Edmonds' best show? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's episode!
S1 E123 · Fri, March 06, 2020
6th March: Norman Rockwell v female cosmonauts
How did Isaiah Berlin destroy the world? Why should you always close the door on a ferry? What dod cosmonauts do on the wheels of their buses? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E122 · Thu, March 05, 2020
5th March: Henry VII v Rosa Luxemburg
Who got distracted by Perkin Warbeck? How do trains' brakes work? Who was the first person to die in the American Revolution? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E121 · Wed, March 04, 2020
4th March: Pennsylvania v Charlie Chaplin
What do you say to a bereaved Bolshevik? Who was the first Muhammad Ali? What was Mussolini's favourite dance? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E120 · Tue, March 03, 2020
3rd March: Juan Ponce de Leon v Fatima Whitbread
What celebrity shows would Jake do? What was the USA's original national anthem? What are the brilliant things about Ivor Cutler? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E119 · Mon, March 02, 2020
2nd March: Good King Wenceslas v Lembit Opik
Who is the chair of the Parliament of Asgardia? Where is Bohemia? Who was the son of the preacher man? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E118 · Sun, March 01, 2020
1st March: RESULTS Charles I v Dominic Cummings
What does victory taste like? Who shouldn't have left whom in charge while they went away on holiday? What is a France? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E117 · Sat, February 29, 2020
29th February: Christopher Columbus v Tintin
Why can't they agree on a pronunciation of Tintin? When was there a February 30th? Who was the funniest pope? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E116 · Fri, February 28, 2020
28th February: Zero Mostel v the Wombles
Who died while trying to fly a drone? Why did Zero Mostel limp? What's Natt's favourite nuclear power station? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E115 · Thu, February 27, 2020
27th February: Lord Byron v Leonard Nimoy
How big can ears get? No, really, how big an ears get? Do you have big ears?Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E114 · Wed, February 26, 2020
26th February: Nick Leeson v S Club 7
Is there any real difference between a million and a billion? What happened to the ship that was even more unsinkable than the Titanic? What was the plot of A Visit To Aldershot? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E113 · Tue, February 25, 2020
25th February: Joseph Stalin v Bill Paxton
Why do people watch cricket? What's the best way of convincing people you're a scientist? What percentage of people would have rather died in their beds than going to an Anderson shelter? How many did? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E112 · Mon, February 24, 2020
24th February: Steve Jobs v Clement Attlee
Who was the first President to be (almost) impeached? Which Grimm brother had the least comprehensive mind? Who founded Canterbury Cathedral? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E111 · Sun, February 23, 2020
23rd February: Dick Turpin v Josh Gad
Who was really thrown to the lions? Why should you never annoy a teacher? Who discovered Einsteinium? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight.
S1 E110 · Sat, February 22, 2020
22nd February: Dolly The Sheep v Steve Buscemi
What did the Republicans think about polygamy in 1856? Why was Dolly called Dolly? Why did Natt include the Dowager Empress Wang in today's podcast? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E109 · Fri, February 21, 2020
21st February: Karl Marx v Malcolm X
What's the worst short story ever written? What was in the worst Communist Manifesto? Was all of history based on bets in the Royal Geographic Society? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E108 · Thu, February 20, 2020
20th February: Lusty toads v Patty Hearst
Who pawned Shetland? How much is a woman worth? What does Jeremy Clarkson think constitutes good poetry? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E107 · Wed, February 19, 2020
19th February: Nicolaus Copernicus v Seal
What was where Wall Street is now? Who came up with temporary insanity? How many wars has Britain had with the Dutch? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight
S1 E106 · Tue, February 18, 2020
18th February: Molly Ringwald v John Travolta
What did the cow fly over? WHo was the manager at Crawley Rumbelows in 1983? What kings id Warwick the Kingmaker actually make? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E105 · Mon, February 17, 2020
17th February: Bruno Giordano v Geronimo
Who was the first person to solo all of the north faces of the Alps? Is Campoin better than The Inspector Wexford Mysteries? Who was the One Who Yawns? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E104 · Sun, February 16, 2020
16th February: Richard Beeching v Ice-T
Who is the unserious tennis brat? Who is your favourite UN Secretary General? Who killed the most guinea pigs? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E103 · Sat, February 15, 2020
15th February: Christopher Columbus v Isaac Newton
How unfortunate was Piero the Unfortunate? What was the funniest thing Margot Asquith said? How many farthings in a peck? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E102 · Fri, February 14, 2020
14th February: Richard II v Zoella
Who gets all the money off of Peter Pan In Scarlet? Who sat on the ground and told sad stories of cabbages and kings? How many hours of Youtube are there? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E101 · Thu, February 13, 2020
13th February: Galileo Galilei v Chuck Yeager
Why can't we rebuild Ely Cathedral? Who went rummaging around Elisabeth Murdoch's garden? What minority did Harry Truman's wife hate the most? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E100 · Wed, February 12, 2020
12th February: the USS Macon v Rommel
What is the world's second-biggest dirigible? Who took poison to protect their family? Where exactly is Her Indoors? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley have given over their seats to the Two Dads in the History Shed.
S1 E99 · Tue, February 11, 2020
11th February: Nelson Mandela v the Robots
Who invented robots? Why did Jake ruin a barbecue? What's history's most famous salamander? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E98 · Mon, February 10, 2020
10th February: Garry Kasparov v Tom v Jerry
What does Keeley do? How many animals could Manimal turn into? What did the French swap Canada for?
S1 E97 · Sun, February 09, 2020
9th February: RESULTS! Joe Pesci v Shergar
What is the most gracious way to win? How much money is Jake Yapp worth? What on earth is Daylight Savings Time about? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E96 · Sat, February 08, 2020
8th February: Jack Lemmon v Peter the Great's bladder
What's worth rioting about? What is an Order in Council? Who set all their ships on fire? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E95 · Fri, February 07, 2020
7th February: Charles Dickens v Hattie Jacques
Where do the bowls go in a dishwasher? Who was head of state in Russia after the Russian Revolution? Why is Natt speaking from inside a bin? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E94 · Thu, February 06, 2020
6th February: Sheryl Crow v Ms Piggy
When were history's worst recorded bushfires? When do women become sensible? What was Coolio's cookbook called? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E93 · Wed, February 05, 2020
5th February: King Leopold II v Charlie Chaplin
What should happen to people who leave teabags on the draining board? No, really, who? We're not going anywhere until we get an answer. Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley demand a satisfactory response in today's Date Fight!
S1 E92 · Tue, February 04, 2020
4th February: Rosa Parks v George Washington
What texture is Jake's scrotum? Who knows the most about corn circles? How many people voted for George Washington? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E91 · Mon, February 03, 2020
3rd February: Harold Macmillan v Warwick Davis
What kind of plane goes up but doesn't come down? Why should Buddy Holly have stayed on the bus? What happens when you run out of cash? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E90 · Sun, February 02, 2020
2nd February: RESULTS! Scratching Fanny v Punxsutawney Phil
Why do dogs get all the credit? What should you do if a badger sees its own shadow? Who's the rudest ghost of all time? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley dind out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E89 · Sat, February 01, 2020
1st February: Edward II v Edward III
What were The Beatles best songs? They put a red-hot poker where? Can Natt upload episodes from his phone? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E88 · Fri, January 31, 2020
31st January: Guy Fawkes v Justin Timberlake
Why should you wee on your hanky? Who booed Strom Thurmond? Should submarines have one of those reversing noises? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E87 · Thu, January 30, 2020
30th January 2020: Oliver Cromwell's head v Dick Cheney
What was the other Hindenburg disaster? What was Jake doing in New Jersey in winter? Who was the US's first female tattoo artist? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E86 · Wed, January 29, 2020
29th January: Stamford Raffles v Eurovision
How many Rubik's cubes can you stack before you hit space? How many Popes can you go through in a year? Ball or Bowe? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E85 · Tue, January 28, 2020
28th January: Lego v Charles the Mad
What was the Harrying of the North? Can there be any more camel facts? Who was the first female fellow of the Royal Society? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E84 · Mon, January 27, 2020
27th January: Thomas Crapper v Sir Francis Drake
What did Humphry Davy keep in his basement? Whose pilot shaft broke into a bore hole? Who did Susan Boyle find in her flat? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E83 · Sun, January 26, 2020
26th January: RESULTS! Maria von Trapp v Australia Day
Who invented organised crime? Why shouldn't you hang a red light in Helsinki? Who has the longest constitution in the world? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E82 · Sat, January 25, 2020
25th January: Coronavirus v Al Capone
What on earth is payola? What's the biggest diamond? What are they up to in Russia today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E81 · Fri, January 24, 2020
24th January: Caligula v L. Ron Hubbard
Who is the most beautiful camel? What widens by itself every night? When did Caligula stop holing in his farts? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E80 · Thu, January 23, 2020
23rd January: Flying Poo Pigs v Gorden Kaye
Who is the most celebrated cat? What is the right number of jazz fingers? Who inspired Home Alone? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E79 · Wed, January 22, 2020
22nd January: Walter Raleigh v Fanny Bullock Workman
Who invented the potato? Are there any good foetus jokes? Will they or won't they? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E78 · Tue, January 21, 2020
21st January: Laurence Fox v the Super Blood Wolf Moon
Who is the fourth-best Spice Girl? Who invented public relations? What is an Octopus Moon? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E77 · Mon, January 20, 2020
20th January: Simon de Montfort v the Cisco Kid
Who was Hugh of Lincoln? What's the sound of bisque being eaten? Who was the original Rosie the Riveter? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E76 · Sun, January 19, 2020
19th January: RESULTS! & Pierre-Joseph Proudhon v Tippi Hedren
Who won? Who was the first woman to simulate orgasm onscreen? What did Charles VI think he was made of? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E75 · Sat, January 18, 2020
18th January: Jane Horrocks v Hugh Gaitskell
What's the most delicious island? How do you seduce Caesar's wife? What's the difference between driving a car and flying a plane? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Flight!
S1 E74 · Fri, January 17, 2020
17th January: Pope Boniface VIII v Samantha Mumba
How long do you have to beat a Pope up for? What was the original Ponzi Scheme? How nice is it in Hollidaysburg? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E73 · Thu, January 16, 2020
16th January: the Medicis v Star Wars
Which President of Cuba had the best name? How did the Egyptians make the pyramids? Who died of sadness after the Siege of Bayonne? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E71 · Tue, January 14, 2020
14th January: Colonel Tom Parker v Allen Ginsberg
Who sang Mutton-Licker Blues? What do 75 turkeys have to do with the Summer of Love? What was the dirtiest book you could get in the very early 90s? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E72 · Tue, January 14, 2020
15th January: Buffalo Bill Cody v Claudia Winkleman
How much molasses is far, far too much? What are the 6 virtues of Irish womanhood? How progressive was Buffalo Bill? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E70 · Mon, January 13, 2020
13th January: St Remigius v Shonda Rhimes
Who did the longest walk? Should you poop where you eat? Is ti wise to start land wars in Afghanistan? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E69 · Sun, January 12, 2020
12th January: Hermann Goering v Mel C
Where's the biggest henge in Penge? Who has the coldest shoulder in the world? Which of the Spice Girls would you like to have a chat with? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E68 · Sat, January 11, 2020
11th January: Mary J Blige v Emperor Justinian
Who should you support in a chariot race? How do pigs keep their blood sugar down? Who was the best English sculptor (hint: he wasn't English)? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E67 · Fri, January 10, 2020
10th January: Julius Caesar v Jared Kushner
What is the best castle to look at while eating mustard? How did Coco Chanel try to end the Second World War? Who was the 18th century's Ann Summers? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E66 · Thu, January 09, 2020
9th January: Joan of Arc v Ernest Shackleton
What's the next best thing to getting to the South Pole? Who's the good Halliburton? Ball or Bowe? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E65 · Wed, January 08, 2020
8th January: Alfred the Great v Stephen Hawking
Can you understand Vatican 2 without seeing Vatican 1? How many feet do French UFOs have? Who was Fearless Nadia? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E64 · Tue, January 07, 2020
7th January: Nicolas Cage v Bill Clinton
What does SOS really stand for? What shape is Nicolas Cage's grave? Who is the worst uncle in the world? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E63 · Mon, January 06, 2020
6th January: Maria Montessori v Richard II
What was Franklin Roosevelt's Lizard Speech all about? Who hated the Montessori Method? And who bought the world's worst car? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E62 · Sun, January 05, 2020
5th January: Sonny Bono v Blessed Gaspar de Bono
How many curtain calls are appropriate after the audience has walked out? Who was Zebulon Pike? Can Natt say the word 'crusade' while he's got a cold? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E61 · Sat, January 04, 2020
4th January: Craig Revel Horwood v Topsy the Elephant
What does Jake's dream about Craig Revel Horwood mean? What was the first snuff film? What was in the first hit parade? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E60 · Fri, January 03, 2020
3rd January: J.R.R. Tolkein v Greta Thunberg
What are all the polar bears complaining about? What is it with all the Henries? Where did all the dimes march to? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E59 · Thu, January 02, 2020
2nd January: The Battle of Sidney Street v Cuba Gooding Jr
How many Latvians does it take to shoot Winston Churchill's hat off? What did Cuba Gooding Sr do? Who had the worst journey ever? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E58 · Wed, January 01, 2020
1st January: Verne Troyer v Betsy Ross
What are we all still doing here? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E57 · Tue, December 31, 2019
31st December: Donald Trump Jr v the New Willennium
What is Val Kilmer short for? What was the most disappointing thing about the Millennium? Can we do a whole second year? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E56 · Mon, December 30, 2019
30th December: Rasputin v Tracy Ullman
Just how enthusiastic is it possible for two podcast hosts to be about a murder? Just how sassy was Heidi Fleiss? How fast did race drivers drive in the 1920s? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out the answers to all of these things in today's Date Fight!
S1 E55 · Sun, December 29, 2019
29th December: Jon Voight v Bob Monkhouse
What happened on the most uneventful day in human history? Who came second to the Spice Girls in their race for a Christmas Number One? How many chickens do you kill a minute? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E54 · Sat, December 28, 2019
28th December: Stan Lee v the Maccabees
What does Natt's dad think of Richard Clayderman? Who was the first woman with a seat on the New York Stock Exchange? Who played Rob Roy in Rob Roy? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E52 · Fri, December 27, 2019
27th December: Osip Mandelstam v Radio City Music Hall
How many people can you get into Radio City Music Hall? Where was the UK's worst avalanche? What on earth is wrong with the people of Hastings? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out, and maybe outline exactly how awful they both are.
S1 E53 · Thu, December 26, 2019
26th December: Aliens v Big Bird
What are the rules of the football? What were the mysterious lights seen in Rendlesham Forest 39 years ago? How did Friends deal with the sensitive subject of Kwanzaa? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley do their very darnedest to find out in today's Date Fight!
S1 E51 · Wed, December 25, 2019
25th December: William the Conqueror v Dorothy Wordsworth
When would J.J. Abrams like to die on Christmas? What are all the stories about Westminster Abbey, please? How did W.C. Fields want water used on his deathbed? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out all of these things and many more in today's Date Fight. Written, Performed & Produced: Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley
S1 E50 · Tue, December 24, 2019
24th December: Howard Hughes v the Smurfs
How much eggnog is needed before a riot occurs? Why should you definitely listen to Jake Thackray? How do you avoid your children joining the Ku Klux Klan? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley worry at these and other questions in todays's Date Fight!
S1 E49 · Mon, December 23, 2019
23rd December: Ralph Roister Doister v Matt Baker
How big is Chichen Itza? What was the first comedy in the English language? Can one podcast accommodate both Carol Smillie AND Matt Baker? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out!
S1 E48 · Sun, December 22, 2019
22nd December: Jeffrey Archer v the Antipope
How long do cloves last? Why doesn't Jake remember Richard the Lionheart? What was the Americans' response when the Germans invited them to surrender? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out all of this and much, much more.
S1 E47 · Sat, December 21, 2019
21st December: Elvis Presley v F Scott Fitzgerald
Who is more exciting than Knut Rasmussen? What is the study of Inuit people called? What is _ _ R _? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley discover all of this and much, much more in today's Date Fight!
S1 E46 · Fri, December 20, 2019
20th December: Richard the Lionheart v the Berlin Wall
How long does it take a king to write a song? What is the best gif? What Roman got everyone Lexuses (lexi?)? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out all of these things and all of the other things. Listen now!
S1 E45 · Thu, December 19, 2019
19th December: Robinson Crusoe v Emily Bronte
Jake learns what Flashdance is. Natt learns all about the Wuthering Heights musical. There's just so much in today's episode of Date Fight.
S1 E44 · Wed, December 18, 2019
18th December: Scientology v Kirsty MacColl
It's just a lovely episode full of facts and funs. Join Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp are here to laugh and learn with you. And then they will try to blah blah blah.
S1 E43 · Tue, December 17, 2019
17th December: The Wright Brothers v Turgid Voltaire
Who's the rudest postman in the world? Where is Kitty Hawk? What was Kim Jong Il's morning show on Radio 1 like? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out.
S1 E42 · Mon, December 16, 2019
16th December: Jane Austen v The Brothers Grimm
Who was the New World Symphony nicked from? What is the best number of children to have? Could you live on a kite? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out!
S1 E41 · Sun, December 15, 2019
15th December: Salvador Dali v Sitting Bull
Who invented the shoe? What's the second-most-exciting thing ever to have happened on Guernsey? How did Aslan die? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley discover all of these things today!
S1 E40 · Sat, December 14, 2019
14th December: Napoleon v video games
Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp fight about all sorts of history.
S1 E39 · Fri, December 13, 2019
13th December: New Zealand v Flemish independence
How many stigmas in a stigmata? How Golden Bay became Murderers' Bay? And why we don't use the word "discover" any more. All of these things and more are grist to the mills of Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley in today's Date Fight.
S1 E38 · Thu, December 12, 2019
12th December: Sammy Davis Jr v Guilelmo Marconi
How many cigarettes did Tallulah Bankhead smoke every day? What don't we know about Kenya? What was the worst thing about Willie Rushton? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out.
S1 E37 · Wed, December 11, 2019
11th December: Edward VIII v Edward I
How many sexy carnations did Ribbentrop send to Wallis Simpson? What was the Thirteenth Step for Alcoholics Anonymous? What is Wet Brain syndrome? Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp find out today.
S1 E36 · Tue, December 10, 2019
10th December: Richard Pryor v the Great Emu War
That time people rioted about a brown dog? How many metres of bananas in a litre? An uncle-killing banquet? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out about all of this today!
S1 E35 · Mon, December 09, 2019
9th December: Charlie Chaplin v conspiracy theories
The world's worst candyman! Yacht murders! Roller skates! Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley explore all of these things and more in today's Date Fight!
S1 E34 · Sun, December 08, 2019
8th December: Sinead O'Connor v Bagpuss
Repeats of Columbo! Treaties! Penguins! Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley search through all of history to find the most important things ever to have happened on the 8th of December.
S1 E33 · Sat, December 07, 2019
7th December: Napster v New King Wenceslas
Exploding albatrosses! John the Blind! People who are better than Rube Goldberg! So much stuff today for Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley to sink their fangs into.
S1 E32 · Fri, December 06, 2019
6th December: Russian women fighter aces v The Washington Monument
How do you jump over the Washington Monument? Why don't Americans say the "i" in "aluminium"? What was the world's most violent water polo match? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley answer these and more questions in today's Date FIght!
S1 E31 · Thu, December 05, 2019
5th December: Nelson Mandela v Shoeless Joe Jackson
We find out about the fifteenth century's sexiest witches, French Frank(c), and the mysteries of Catalonian nomenclature. Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley laugh and learn about all of this...
S1 E30 · Wed, December 04, 2019
4th December: Cardinal Richelieu v the Marie Celeste
Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley take on one of the biggest mysteries in history: what happened to the Marie Celeste? Find out what they learned in this episode...
S1 E29 · Tue, December 03, 2019
3rd December: The Stars & Stripes v Ozzy Osbourne
Mermaids! Flags! Dog poos! Basil the Adequate! Laugh and learn about all these things with Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley in today's Date Fight!
S1 E28 · Mon, December 02, 2019
2nd December: Britney Spears v the Marquis de Sade
What did the Great Fire of London destroy? What's most explosive thing to have happened under the bleachers? Who invented lo-res painting? Find out with Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley in today's Date Fight!
S1 E27 · Sun, December 01, 2019
1st December: Pope Leo III v Bette Midler
How do you inquisit a Pope? Who am the best Sherlock Holmes? What does Alan Titchmarsh do in Manhattan? Find out all of this in today's Date Fight, as Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley trawl the past for nuggets of the future.
S1 E26 · Sat, November 30, 2019
30th November: Oscar Wilde v G Gordon Liddy
Yet more historical nonsensery with Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp. Today, we learn about the Crystal Palace, what a monkey closet is, the first extraterrestrial, and more.
S1 E25 · Fri, November 29, 2019
29th November: Schroedinger's cat v the East India Company
More dates, more fighting. Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp are deciding what the most important thing to have happened today was.
S1 E24 · Thu, November 28, 2019
28th November: Margaret Thatcher v David van Day
Today we learn how to catch water in a teacup attached to your head, how to found the Royal Society, and how to be best friends with Timmy Mallett. Join Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley as they learn all of this and then fight about it.
S1 E23 · Wed, November 27, 2019
27th November: Ada Lovelace v inflated zebras
How do you make an address into the most popular address in London? Which was the most right-wing McWhirter brother? What was in the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? Natt Tapley and Jake Yapp try to find out.
S1 E22 · Tue, November 26, 2019
26th November: Dracula v The Mummy
We've got the Curse of King Tut, The Curse of Squidward, The Curse of the Sykes-Picot Agreement! Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley argue once again about the most important things ever to have happened on the 26th of November.
S1 E21 · Mon, November 25, 2019
25th November: Loch Ness Monster v Malcolm the Destroyer
Whole new week! Whole new facts! Join Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp as they find out the truth behind the Wars of the Roses, the first domestic terrorists to attack Manhattan, the Loch Ness Monster and Malcolm the Destroyer.
S1 E20 · Sun, November 24, 2019
24th November: Frozen v Darwin
Missing links, bed pans, rugby, and ANOTHER TIE! Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley once again hurl events at each other to see what can survive the conker fight of facts!
S1 E19 · Sat, November 23, 2019
23rd November: Doctor Who v A Different Doctor Who
It's finally happened. Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley, in their search for the most exciting, illuminating and funniest things in history, they have finally crossed events. It's the event horizon. And it's all about Doctor Who. And the Dow Jones. And Andromeda.
S1 E18 · Fri, November 22, 2019
22nd November: JFK v The Templars
The competition is heating up and having a strange effect on our two hosts. They discuss the assassination of John F Kennedy, the disbanding of the Templars and much, much more. Created & Produced by: Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley
S1 E17 · Thu, November 21, 2019
21st November: Police Brutality v Nandos
Well, today is a bit of a mixed bag. The tone is, frankly, all over the place as Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp trawl through the detritus of history to try to find nuggets that make life worth living.
S1 E16 · Wed, November 20, 2019
20th November 2019: The Rock v Pope Leo XIII
Native Americans in Alcatraz, the Bill of Rights, crusades, encyclicals! Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp discover all of this and more in their hunt to find the best things that ever happened on a November 20th.
S1 E15 · Tue, November 19, 2019
19th November: Lunar Mr Bean v The Gettysburg Address
What were the first words of the third man on the Moon? Which Belgian painter is mostly famous for being the subject of a They Might Be Giants song? Who was the Man In The Iron Mask? Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp sort of find out some of these things and more in today's podcast.
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