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You're Dead to Me

BBC Radio 4

The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. In each episode of You’re Dead to Me from BBC Radio 4, Greg Jenner is joined by a comedian and an expert historian to learn and laugh about the past. History isn’t just about dates and textbooks – it’s about extraordinary characters, amazing stories, and some very…

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You're Dead to Me

Anne Bonny and Mary Read: real-life pirates of the Caribbean

Medieval Saints: miracles, relics and pilgrimage

Francis Galton: Victorian scientist and pioneer of eugenics

The Iliad and Odyssey: heroic epics from ancient Greece

El Cid (Radio Edit)

Empress Dowager Cixi (Radio Edit)

History of the Telephone (Radio Edit)

History of Spices (Radio Edit)

Epic of Gilgamesh (Radio Edit)

Hypatia of Alexandria (Radio Edit)

Geoffrey Chaucer (Radio Edit)

Lena Horne (Radio Edit)

Philippe, Duc d’Orléans (Radio Edit)

Renaissance Medicine (Radio Edit)

Emperor Nero (Radio Edit)

The Terracotta Army (Radio Edit)

Medieval Irish Folklore (Radio Edit)

El Cid: the life and legend of a medieval Spanish warrior

Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China

History of the Telephone: 150th anniversary special

History of Spices: commerce, colonialism and culinary innovation

Epic of Gilgamesh: myths and heroes in ancient Mesopotamia

Hypatia of Alexandria: mathematician, martyr and feminist icon

Geoffrey Chaucer: the medieval father of English literature

Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood

Philippe, Duc d’Orléans: in the shadow of the Sun King

Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Emperor Nero: ancient Rome’s most infamous ruler

Marie Antoinette (Radio Edit)

Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)

Alexandria (Radio Edit)

The Brontës

Justinian and Theodora

Emma of Normandy

King John and the Magna Carta

Witch Craze

Marie Curie

Kingdom of Benin

Owain Glyndŵr

Indus Civilization

Zheng Yi Sao

Ramesses the Great

Josephine Baker

Aztecs

Hadrian's Wall

History of Football

Jane Austen (Radio Edit)

India Between Empires (Radio Edit)

Renaissance Beauty (Radio Edit)

Viking Women (Radio Edit)

Kellogg Brothers (Radio Edit)

Alexandre Dumas (Radio Edit)

Empress Matilda (Radio Edit)

American War of Independence (Radio Edit)

Early Medieval Papacy (Radio Edit)

The Columbian Exchange (Radio Edit)

Jane Austen: the life of a Regency literary icon

Marie Antoinette: last French queen before the Revolution

Hannibal of Carthage: fearsome enemy of ancient Rome

Alexandria: city of knowledge and culture

India Between Empires: the long 18th century

Renaissance Beauty: hair, makeup and skincare in the 16th century

Viking Women: wives, weavers and warriors

Kellogg Brothers: a family feud and the creation of a cereal empire

Alexandre Dumas: author of The Three Musketeers

Empress Matilda: civil war in medieval England

Marco Polo (Radio Edit)

History of Coffee (Radio Edit)

American War of Independence: Fourth of July Special

Arctic Exploration (Radio Edit)

Cuneiform (Radio Edit)

Hernán Cortés and Malintzin (Radio Edit)

Legends of King Arthur (Radio Edit)

Sojourner Truth (Radio Edit)

Catherine de’ Medici (Radio Edit)

The Arts and Crafts Movement (Radio Edit)

Causes of the British Civil Wars (Radio Edit)

Aristotle (Radio Edit)

The Indus Civilisation (Radio Edit)