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Scottish Sun
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Iconic BBC kids TV series has a live show in Glasgow TODAY
The second half has special 'bogglevision' effects Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A DOUBLE bill of frightfully fantastic theatre is currently showing in Glasgow. From the creative crew behind the Horrible Histories books and TV shows, comes a live stage version that kids will love. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 2 Terrible Tudors and Awful Egyptians are on now 2 There's brilliant special effects Showing at the city's Theatre Royal this weekend are Terrible Tudors and Awful Egyptians. And we got a chance to see the former last night. The production took the audience through the almost 120-year period when the Tudor family reigned in England. Marked by bloodshed, beheading and familial fallings-out it's the perfect fodder for the Horrible Histories treatment. The three main stars took on different characters from the era, from the reprehensible Richard III to the horrific Henry VIII, all the way up to evil Queen Elizabeth. The show was packed full of brilliant facts about the ghastly royals, with plenty of fart and poo jokes to keep my five-year-old - and us adults - hooked. Throw in some catchy tunes and up-to-date references and everyone was swept along for the raucous ride. After the break, the troupe brought out the big guns in the shape of 'boggle-vision'. We all had to pick up a pair of 'boggle-goggles' and pop them on for the second half. Then, as the show started, the stage came to life with the scenery popping out. And special effects made it look like fireworks were shooting right at you and giant bugs were hovering in front of your face. Horrible Histories with guest appearances from a host of famous faces It was truly spectacular and my son was blown away, trying to grab in the air for the shooting shrapnel. The audience were up on their feet as the performers brought the house down with their witty, daft and compelling show. And they reminded the audience that Awful Egyptians is also on at the moment, telling the story of fascinating Pharaohs with plenty of foul facts of death, decay and menacing mummies. Both shows are on at the Glasgow theatre today, for tickets log onto
BBC News
31-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
The Faversham explosion that killed 108 and rocked the town
During World War One, Faversham in Kent was rocked by an enormous explosion which killed at least 108 men and boys and left a permanent mark on the Sunday 2 April, workers at a gunpowder site were loading shells when the explosion the cause of the explosion was never discovered, there were theories of a dropped cigarette, sparks from the boiler house hitting TNT sacks, and the sacks naturally combusting in the Tonge, one of the authors of Terrible Tudors in the Horrible Histories series, said: "The gunpowder still haunts Faversham, so it still lives in the history of the town." The site caught fire and there was an enormous explosion which was followed by other detonations as the flames reached other explosion was ruled to be accidental following an a worker later gave a testimony and said staff had become careless and stacked sacks of TNT outside without any consideration of what could happen to Tonge said: "That was the principle problem, is that they had to produce as much as possible for the Western Front to obviate this terrible scandal that was erupting about the shell shortage."Many of those who died were buried at Love Lane Cemetery in the town, and a memorial grave was placed there. Mr Tonge added: "The problem was when they tried to recover bodies, they were recovering parts of bodies, so some were never identified."Some boys as young as 12 were thought to have been working at the site."There are some really very poignant photographs of the parade [and] the funeral cortege through the town and it's attended by inevitably hundreds of people," Mr Tonge the war ended it was decided that the gunpowder business was vulnerable to attacks from Europe, so it was moved to Ayrshire in Scotland.
