Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain

Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain

14 Episodes

With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy Bikers.

Join David Myers and Si King as they tour around Britain’s most notable and notorious pubs, telling an alternative history of Britain and sampling the best and most unusual drinks and food the regions have to offer.

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Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain
  • The Lake District

    Episode 1

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy ...

  • Manchester

    Episode 2

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy ...

  • Yorkshire

    Episode 3

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy ...

  • Cornwall

    Episode 4

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy ...

  • Liverpool

    Episode 5

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy ...

  • Lincolnshire

    Episode 6

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy ...

  • South Wales

    Episode 7

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy ...

  • Home Counties

    Episode 8

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy ...

  • Glasgow

    Episode 9

    Si and Dave's historic pub tour takes them to Glasgow, where they explore the city's shipbuilding history. Meeting former shipyard workers, they discover what pub life was like when the yard's whistles blew. Si tries his hand at welding in a shipyard. And the Bikers celebrate the city's illustrio...

  • East End London

    Episode 10

    In London's East End, the Hairy Bikers learn about the criminal enterprises of the Kray twins, notorious mobsters of the 1950s and '60s. Si takes a ride with an old Kray associate, and Dave learns to fight like the Krays at their former boxing club.

  • Edinburgh

    Episode 11

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and trades unionists across the centuries and will now host two more infamous fellows – The Hairy ...

  • Bristol

    Episode 12

    As an old starting point for voyages of discovery, Bristol offers the bikers fascinating stories about its seafaring past, from an inn with a hole in the wall to spy on press gangs to a landlord who was an ardent abolitionist. Dave also samples some cider, the West Country's most famous export.

  • Oxford
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    Episode 13

    Oxford

    Episode 13

    Si takes a solo trip to the campus of Brasenose College, exploring a hoppy age-old ritual.

    With their trade-mark enthusiasm and facial hair, Si King and Dave Myers are back to reveal the history behind the pubs of Britain.

    British pubs have played host to crusaders and pirates, pop stars and tr...

  • Great Fire of London

    Episode 14

    Si and Dave's historic pub tour takes them to London, where they discover inns that witnessed the Great Fire and pubs that watered the workers during the massive 50-year rebuild of the city. The Hairy Bikers start at a pub on the banks of the Thames where Samuel Pepys watched the fire sweep throu...