Masters of Our Domain

This week on MILF History Month: Milo and Phoebe dive into some of the conniving milves not worth of their own full episode but whom nonetheless we salute for the connivance, including Eleanor of Aquitane, Lucrezia Borgia and Mata Hari. Check out all Milo's tour dates here. Check out Milo's special here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a heatwave and that can mean only one thing at MOOD towers: it's MILF history month, which will actually last for two months due to the importance of milves. We will be tracing the influence of conniving women through the ages, starting with an all-timer: Olympias, the mother of Alexander The Great. We get into ancient Macedonia's political culture, the chaotic sex life of Philip of Macedon a...

Have you ever wondered how all those Roman buildings are still standing but every rental flat seems to be collapsing at the seams? Dr Wyman has the ancient civil-engineering answers for you and also includes many anecdotes from his times working with modern concrete. Get this full episode on Patreon here. Get Milo's new stand-up special on Patreon here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

Phoebe and Patrick tackle the first Flavian - Flavian Flav, the first man to wear a big sundial around his neck: Vespasian. You can buy Milo's new special 'Sentimental' on Patreon for £10 here (Please don't do it in the iOS app or you will be charged more!):patreon.com/collection/2201154You can get Patrick's book LOST WORLDS in all good book shops and you can get the WOLF HALL MINISERIES on the We...

You asked and we listened. We watched Mad Max: Fury Road, a movie that asks the question: what if the future was Australian and weirdly steampunk? Join us for thrills, 2010s nostalgia and a surprising revelation about Meryl Streep. See Milo on tour here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are digging into the big man, the Marcus Lepidus of 69 AD - Aulus Vitellius. He may only have been emperor for 8 months but what an eight months...Milo has a bunch of work-in-progress dates around the UK coming up which you can find here:https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshowsPatrick's book can be found here:https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/lost-worlds-how-humans-tried-fai...

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are reunited once again to talk about Mary Queen of Scots and specifically the slightly puzzling movie about her from 2018. We discuss the accents, the politics and the incredible disguises they've got David Tennant and Guy Pearce in. Get twice as much of this podcast on the Patreon here:https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpodBuy Patrick's book here:https://www.harpercollins.com/...

No Milo this week so Phoebe and Pat are donning their stockings and heading to Sherwood Forest for a dose of British children's TV from the 80s and 90s - Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Expect a fair few digressions. Get this full episode and loads more on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157862905?pr=true Patrick's new book 'Lost Worlds' is out now - available from all good booksell...

*Due to a glitch this episode is being released on this fee two weeks late (after the Otho episode) but it should have been released on April 20th* Just Milo and Pat this week, cracking into the relatively thin text of the Emperor Galba - the Roman Liz Truss...or was he? Expect an Australian vibes round-up and also some apposite comparisons with the collapsing American empire. Get tons more like t...

Milo and Phoebe are deep diving into yet another Liz Truss-coded Roman Emperor: Otho. Expect thrills, spills and castrated boy-wives. Get tons more like this on the Patreon for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe is turning the question time tables on Pat this week (Milo will return next week) to indulge her special interest subject: the Tudors, what's their deal and why do we keep making TV and movies about them? Get this full episode and loads more on Patreon here from just $5: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156665259?pr=true Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Pat this week (due to timezones) so Phoebe has lured Milo into her Tudor corner. Expect ruffs to be ruffled and bodices to be ripped. Why does this movie have Eric Cantona in it? Why is Vincent Cassel in a dress? Questions to be answered. Full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/elizabeth-1998-155405351 See Milo on tour in Australia: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Le...

Phoebe has recorded a new podcast mini-series with friend of the show Dr Eleanor Janega about Season 1 of the Wolf Hall TV show. If you like this episode, you can access all 7 episodes of the limited series for just $15 at: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2087866 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phoebe and Pat are sans-Milo this week and they're doing another carpet time! On this occasion they're doing a Nero spin-off and tackling the subject of ancient entertainment and theatre. Get twice as much of this podcast on Patreon from just $5 a month here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Check out Milo's Australian tour shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about y...

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are answering your questions! They cover Phoebe's movie taxonomy, ancient chariot races and their podcasting histories, amongst other things. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/154112049/ Come see Milo on tour in Australia, starting in Perth on April 2nd: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows-aus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are back at the Suetonius and this time it's the turn of the Emperor Nero. This episode tackles the big questions: Was Nero the son of the most conniving MILF of all time? Was he the first guy to get an acoustic guitar out at the afters? How do you get the job of arch-poisoner? Listen to find out. Come see Milo on tour in Australia starting April 2nd: https://www.miloedwards.c...

Phoebe is away this week because she is ill (sorry), but in recompense to you, the listener, Milo and Patrick have gotten together to watch this peculiar Hollyoaks-esque movie about Boudica. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153115449?pr=true Go see Milo on tour in the UK and Australia: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Returning-Champion Josh Boerman (TWOAPW, Ill Conceived) is back on the pod to talk about the bizarrely long-running UK sitcom 'Plebs', set in Ancient Rome. We get into costume vs period and what happens when you try to map modern society onto ancient Rome and also what to do about protecting our supply of BIG BOYS. Check out Josh here: https://www.joshboerman.com/#1-podcasts Support us on Patreon...

Roman legions are being terrified by adherents of WODE-IDEOLOGY. That's right, it's time we had a deep dive on Queen Boudicca (or Boudica, or Boudicea if you're really fruity) - leader of the Iceni tribe who rebelled against Roman rule in Britain in the 60s AD. Milo, Phoebe and Pat get into one of the original conniving MILFs and attempt to separate the myth from the history. Simple as. Get this f...

Milo, Patrick and Phoebe are back at the Suetonius. Patrick is in charge this week for Rome's first ever nepo-uncle: Claudius. Sometimes in a palace coup, you just grab the nearest uncle and make him Emperor and if you're really lucky he conquers Britain. Something like that. Milo's Time for Questions show is being taped at Big Belly in London on Wednesday, a few tickets left if you're a London li...

Phoebe and Pat are sans-Milo this week, and having a huge amount of fun talking about teenage demigod Percy Jackson. Milo will triumphantly return next week for the Emperor Claudius. Get this full episode (and loads more) on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/150909844?pr=true Milo has upcoming dates in London, Glasgow and Australia here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Learn more...

In the 1970s Bob Guccione had a simple dream: to make a serious movie about the emperor Caligula with Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud and Peter O'Toole that also had a bunch of porn in it. Champion, fan-favourite and horny-history expert Eleanor Janega returns to the pod to talk about one of the most insane films ever made. Check out Eleanor here: https://eleanorjanega.com/ Go see Mil...

Phoebe and Patrick answer your questions about the Early Roman Empire and anything else that stood out to you from the first few episodes of our Twelve Caesars series. Milo will return next week. Get this full episode (and loads more) on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/149588464/ You can see Milo on tour in Leicester, Birmingham, Ireland and Australia here: https://www.miloedwards.co.u...

It's time for history's greatest statesman, a man so forward thinking he nearly made a horse a consul (or did he?): Gaius Caligula. Expect palace coups, seashells and slightly over-familiar sister relationships. Loads more like this on the Patreon from just $5 per month, here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Come see Milo on tour in Europe, Ireland, the UK and Australia here: https://www.milo...

Is there anything gayer than two straight men? Arguably no, and we have watched a movie that makes that case loud and clear. Join Milo, Phoebe and Pat as they analyse a movie about two Napoleonic cavalry officers who would literally do anything to each other except kiss. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/148524651?pr=true Follow us on socials here: https://linktr...