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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…

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Emperor Constantine the Great: Christianity and the Roman Empire 2026-09-04 · 59m
History of Underwear: from shirts and stays to bras and briefs 2026-08-28 · 61m
Akhenaten and Nefertiti: religious revolution in ancient Egypt 2026-08-21 · 58m
Anne Bonny and Mary Read: real-life pirates of the Caribbean 2026-08-14 · 60m
Medieval Saints: miracles, relics and pilgrimage 2026-08-07 · 56m
Francis Galton: Victorian scientist and pioneer of eugenics 2026-07-31 · 59m
The Iliad and Odyssey: heroic epics from ancient Greece 2026-07-24 · 59m
El Cid (Radio Edit) 2026-07-10 · 28m
Empress Dowager Cixi (Radio Edit) 2026-07-03 · 28m
History of the Telephone (Radio Edit) 2026-06-26 · 28m
Announcing Series 12 2026-06-24 · 2m
Why do British people love tea? (from Here For The History) 2026-06-19 · 33m
History of Spices (Radio Edit) 2026-06-19 · 28m
Epic of Gilgamesh (Radio Edit) 2026-06-12 · 28m
Hypatia of Alexandria (Radio Edit) 2026-06-05 · 28m
Geoffrey Chaucer (Radio Edit) 2026-05-29 · 28m
Lena Horne (Radio Edit) 2026-05-22 · 28m
Philippe, Duc d’Orléans (Radio Edit) 2026-05-15 · 28m
Renaissance Medicine (Radio Edit) 2026-05-08 · 28m
Emperor Nero (Radio Edit) 2026-05-01 · 28m
The Terracotta Army (Radio Edit) 2026-04-24 · 28m
Medieval Irish Folklore (Radio Edit) 2026-04-17 · 28m
El Cid: the life and legend of a medieval Spanish warrior 2026-04-10 · 58m
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China 2026-04-03 · 58m
History of the Telephone: 150th anniversary special 2026-03-27 · 55m
History of Spices: commerce, colonialism and culinary innovation 2026-03-20 · 58m
Epic of Gilgamesh: myths and heroes in ancient Mesopotamia 2026-03-13 · 59m
Hypatia of Alexandria: mathematician, martyr and feminist icon 2026-03-06 · 55m
Geoffrey Chaucer: the medieval father of English literature 2026-02-27 · 59m
Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood 2026-02-20 · 60m
Philippe, Duc d’Orléans: in the shadow of the Sun King 2026-02-13 · 58m
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England 2026-02-06 · 57m
Emperor Nero: ancient Rome’s most infamous ruler 2026-01-30 · 58m
Marie Antoinette (Radio Edit) 2026-01-23 · 28m
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit) 2026-01-16 · 28m
Alexandria (Radio Edit) 2026-01-09 · 28m
The Brontës 2026-01-02 · 14m
Justinian and Theodora 2026-01-01 · 14m
Emma of Normandy 2025-12-31 · 14m
King John and the Magna Carta 2025-12-30 · 14m
Witch Craze 2025-12-29 · 14m
Marie Curie 2025-12-26 · 15m
Kingdom of Benin 2025-12-25 · 14m
Owain Glyndŵr 2025-12-24 · 14m
Indus Civilization 2025-12-23 · 13m
Zheng Yi Sao 2025-12-22 · 14m
Ramesses the Great 2025-12-19 · 15m
Josephine Baker 2025-12-18 · 14m
Aztecs 2025-12-17 · 13m
Hadrian's Wall 2025-12-16 · 13m
History of Football 2025-12-15 · 14m
Introducing... Dead Funny History 2025-12-13 · 1m
Jane Austen (Radio Edit) 2025-12-12 · 28m
India Between Empires (Radio Edit) 2025-12-08 · 28m
Renaissance Beauty (Radio Edit) 2025-12-05 · 28m
Viking Women (Radio Edit) 2025-11-28 · 28m
Kellogg Brothers (Radio Edit) 2025-11-21 · 28m
Alexandre Dumas (Radio Edit) 2025-11-14 · 28m
Empress Matilda (Radio Edit) 2025-11-07 · 28m
American War of Independence (Radio Edit) 2025-10-31 · 28m
Early Medieval Papacy (Radio Edit) 2025-10-24 · 28m
The Columbian Exchange (Radio Edit) 2025-10-17 · 28m
Jane Austen: the life of a Regency literary icon 2025-10-10 · 56m
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain introduce Curious Cases 2025-10-08 · 31m
Marie Antoinette: last French queen before the Revolution 2025-10-03 · 58m
Hannibal of Carthage: fearsome enemy of ancient Rome 2025-09-26 · 55m
Alexandria: city of knowledge and culture 2025-09-19 · 57m
India Between Empires: the long 18th century 2025-09-12 · 57m
Renaissance Beauty: hair, makeup and skincare in the 16th century 2025-09-05 · 58m
Viking Women: wives, weavers and warriors 2025-08-29 · 58m
Kellogg Brothers: a family feud and the creation of a cereal empire 2025-08-22 · 59m
Alexandre Dumas: author of The Three Musketeers 2025-08-15 · 56m
Empress Matilda: civil war in medieval England 2025-08-08 · 57m
Marco Polo (Radio Edit) 2025-07-11 · 28m
History of Coffee (Radio Edit) 2025-07-04 · 28m
American War of Independence: Fourth of July Special 2025-07-04 · 58m
Announcing Series 10 2025-06-27 · 1m
Arctic Exploration (Radio Edit) 2025-06-27 · 29m
Cuneiform (Radio Edit) 2025-06-20 · 28m
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin (Radio Edit) 2025-06-13 · 29m
Legends of King Arthur (Radio Edit) 2025-06-06 · 28m
Sojourner Truth (Radio Edit) 2025-05-30 · 28m
Catherine de’ Medici (Radio Edit) 2025-05-23 · 28m
The Arts and Crafts Movement (Radio Edit) 2025-05-16 · 28m
Causes of the British Civil Wars (Radio Edit) 2025-05-09 · 28m
Aristotle (Radio Edit) 2025-05-02 · 28m
The Indus Civilisation (Radio Edit) 2025-04-25 · 29m
Georgian Courtship (Radio Edit) 2025-04-18 · 29m
Marco Polo: history’s most famous travel writer? 2025-04-11 · 56m
History of Coffee: from devil’s brew to our favourite beverage 2025-04-04 · 57m
Arctic Exploration: the fatal quest for the Northwest Passage 2025-03-28 · 59m
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system 2025-03-21 · 57m
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico 2025-03-14 · 58m
Legends of King Arthur: from medieval literature to modern myth 2025-03-07 · 58m
Sojourner Truth: American abolitionist, suffragist, preacher 2025-02-28 · 58m
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France 2025-02-21 · 58m
The Arts and Crafts Movement: William Morris and his circle 2025-02-14 · 57m
Causes of the British Civil Wars: Royalists versus Parliamentarians 2025-02-07 · 57m
Aristotle: Ancient Greece’s greatest philosopher? 2025-01-31 · 56m
Announcing Series 9 2025-01-03 · 2m
Happy Christmas from Greg and the team! 2024-12-23 · 4m
History of Broadway (Radio Edit) 2024-12-20 · 28m
Introducing History's Youngest Heroes 2024-12-16 · 10m
Leif Erikson (Radio Edit) 2024-12-13 · 28m
Introducing Best Medicine - A Small Dose 2024-12-10 · 8m
Palaeolithic Cave Art (Radio Edit) 2024-12-06 · 28m
Benedetta Carlini (Radio Edit) 2024-11-29 · 28m
Alexis Soyer (Radio Edit) 2024-11-22 · 28m
Edo Japan (Radio Edit) 2024-11-15 · 28m
Robert Bruce (Radio Edit) 2024-11-08 · 28m
Minoan Civilisation (Radio Edit) 2024-11-01 · 28m
LGBTQ Life in Weimar Germany (Radio Edit) 2024-10-25 · 28m
Mary Anning (Radio Edit) 2024-10-18 · 28m
Printing in England (Radio Edit) 2024-10-11 · 28m
Frederick Douglass (Radio Edit) 2024-09-27 · 28m
Cleopatra (Radio Edit) 2024-09-20 · 28m
History of Broadway 2024-09-13 · 57m
Leif Erikson 2024-09-06 · 56m
Palaeolithic Cave Art 2024-08-30 · 56m
Benedetta Carlini 2024-08-23 · 49m
Alexis Soyer 2024-08-16 · 57m
Edo Japan 2024-08-09 · 54m
Robert Bruce 2024-08-02 · 58m
Minoan Civilisation 2024-07-26 · 57m
LGBTQ Life in Weimar Germany 2024-07-19 · 56m
Mary Anning 2024-07-12 · 56m
Printing in England 2024-07-05 · 56m
Announcing Series 8 2024-07-02 · 1m
Emma of Normandy (Radio Edit) 2024-06-21 · 28m
The Inca Empire (Radio Edit) 2024-06-14 · 28m
The Queen of Sheba (Radio Edit) 2024-06-07 · 28m
Introducing History's Secret Heroes Series 2 2024-06-04 · 12m
The History of Bollywood (Radio Edit) 2024-05-31 · 29m
Simón Bolívar (Radio Edit) 2024-05-24 · 28m
Madam C.J. Walker (Radio Edit) 2024-05-17 · 28m
Pythagoras (Radio Edit) 2024-05-10 · 28m
The Bloomsbury Group (Radio Edit) 2024-05-03 · 28m
The History of Kung Fu (Radio Edit) 2024-04-26 · 29m
Catherine the Great (Radio Edit) 2024-04-19 · 29m
Mozart 2024-03-29 · 71m
Old Norse Literature (Radio Edit) 2024-03-22 · 28m
Ramesses the Great (Radio Edit) 2024-03-15 · 30m
Emma of Normandy 2024-03-08 · 58m
The Inca Empire 2024-03-01 · 59m
The Queen of Sheba 2024-02-23 · 55m
The History of Bollywood 2024-02-16 · 58m
Simón Bolívar 2024-02-09 · 57m
Madam C.J. Walker 2024-02-02 · 57m
Pythagoras 2024-01-26 · 58m
The Bloomsbury Group 2024-01-19 · 61m
The History of Kung Fu 2024-01-12 · 56m
Catherine the Great 2024-01-05 · 58m
Announcing Series 7 2023-12-29 · 1m
Christmas with Charles Dickens (Radio Edit) 2023-12-15 · 29m
Introducing… Being Roman with Mary Beard 2023-11-24 · 7m
Shakespeare (Radio Edit) 2023-11-10 · 28m
Shakespeare 2023-11-03 · 69m
Medieval Ghost Stories 2023-10-27 · 58m
Victorian Bodybuilding (Radio Edit) 2023-09-30 · 29m
Ivan The Terrible (Radio Edit) 2023-09-23 · 28m
Agrippina the Younger (Radio Edit) 2023-09-16 · 28m
P.T. Barnum (Radio Edit) 2023-09-09 · 28m
Hatshepsut (Radio Edit) 2023-09-02 · 29m
Leonardo da Vinci - Live (Radio Edit) 2023-08-26 · 57m
Atlantis (Radio Edit) 2023-08-19 · 29m
Medieval Science (Radio Edit) 2023-08-12 · 28m
Nell Gwyn (Radio Edit) 2023-08-05 · 28m
Ancient Athenian Democracy (Radio Edit) 2023-07-29 · 29m
Zheng Yi Sao (Radio Edit) 2023-07-22 · 28m
The History of Timekeeping (Radio Edit) 2023-07-15 · 28m
Agatha Christie (Radio Edit) 2023-07-08 · 28m
Introducing... History's Secret Heroes 2023-06-30 · 10m
Medieval Irish Folklore (Live) 2023-06-02 · 61m
We'll be back soon! 2023-05-26 · 1m
Agatha Christie 2023-05-19 · 56m
Leonardo da Vinci (Live) 2023-05-12 · 75m
Coming soon: Leonardo LIVE! 2023-05-10 · 2m
Victorian Bodybuilding 2023-05-05 · 55m
The Rise of the Tudors 2023-04-28 · 56m
Cleopatra 2023-04-21 · 58m
Al Andalus 2023-04-14 · 56m
The Jacobites 2023-04-07 · 52m
Atlantis 2023-03-31 · 57m
Sarah Bernhardt 2023-03-24 · 60m
The Columbian Exchange 2023-03-17 · 56m
Frederick Douglass 2023-03-10 · 49m
Vital Electricity 2023-03-03 · 56m
The Indus Civilisation: life in Bronze Age South Asia 2023-02-24 · 55m
Early Medieval Papacy 2023-02-17 · 56m
Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England 2023-02-10 · 58m
Announcing Series 6 2023-02-03 · 2m
Grainne O’Malley (Radio Edit) 2023-01-21 · 29m
Ancient Greek & Roman Medicine (Radio Edit) 2023-01-14 · 28m
The Asante Empire (Radio Edit) 2023-01-07 · 28m
Prohibition in the USA (Radio Edit) 2022-12-31 · 28m
Medieval Christmas (Radio Edit) 2022-12-09 · 29m
Christmas with Charles Dickens 2022-12-05 · 61m
Greg Jenner talks to Lucy Worsley about Lady Killers 2022-11-11 · 16m
The Haitian Revolution (Radio Edit) 2022-10-22 · 29m
Saladin (Radio Edit) 2022-10-22 · 29m
Mary Shelley (Radio Edit) 2022-10-14 · 29m
The Ancient Olympics (Radio Edit) 2022-10-14 · 29m
The Tang Dynasty (Radio Edit) 2022-10-07 · 29m
Eleanor of Aquitaine (Radio Edit) 2022-10-07 · 28m
The History of Fandom, 1700-1900 (Live) 2022-09-16 · 62m
Medieval Animals 2022-09-10 · 59m
Ibn Battuta 2022-09-02 · 56m
The History of Timekeeping 2022-08-26 · 57m
Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba 2022-08-19 · 57m
The Terracotta Army 2022-08-12 · 57m
Black Georgian England 2022-08-05 · 56m
Julius Caesar’s Rise To Power 2022-07-29 · 58m
Julie d'Aubigny 2022-07-22 · 57m
Istanbul in the Ottoman Golden Age 2022-07-15 · 56m
Captain Cook's First Voyage 2022-07-08 · 58m
Ancient Athenian Democracy 2022-07-01 · 56m
The Bayeux Tapestry 2022-06-24 · 55m
Hatshepsut 2022-06-17 · 55m
Frederick the Great of Prussia 2022-06-10 · 62m
Announcing Series 5 2022-06-07 · 1m
Medieval Christmas 2021-12-17 · 62m
Zheng Yi Sao 2021-11-26 · 54m
Mary Wollstonecraft 2021-11-19 · 54m
The History of Ice Cream 2021-11-12 · 52m
Mary Seacole 2021-11-05 · 53m
Disability in the Ancient World 2021-10-29 · 60m
Owain Glyndŵr 2021-10-22 · 53m
Paul Robeson 2021-10-15 · 53m
Çatalhöyük and the Neolithic Revolution 2021-10-08 · 54m
Sake Dean Mahomed 2021-10-01 · 53m
Medieval Science 2021-09-24 · 54m
The History of High Heels 2021-09-17 · 52m
Nell Gwyn 2021-09-10 · 52m
Ramesses the Great 2021-09-03 · 53m
Fairy Tales 2021-08-27 · 52m
Ivan the Terrible 2021-08-20 · 49m
Announcing Series 4 2021-08-13 · 2m
Genghis Khan (Radio Edit) 2021-06-19 · 29m
The Egyptian Pyramids (Radio Edit) 2021-06-12 · 29m
Joan of Arc (Radio Edit) 2021-06-05 · 29m
The Battle of Salamis (Radio Edit) 2021-05-29 · 28m
Lord Byron (Radio Edit) 2021-05-22 · 29m
Boudica (Radio Edit) 2021-05-15 · 29m
P.T. Barnum 2021-04-23 · 52m
Prohibition in the USA 2021-04-16 · 51m
Sacagawea 2021-04-09 · 50m
Becoming America 2021-04-02 · 51m
The Harlem Renaissance 2021-03-26 · 52m
Chevalier de Saint-Georges 2021-03-19 · 52m
Old Norse Literature 2021-03-12 · 49m
The Tang Dynasty 2021-03-05 · 52m
King James VI of Scotland 2021-02-26 · 50m
The Asante Empire 2021-02-19 · 54m
The Borgias 2021-02-12 · 55m
Ancient Greek & Roman Medicine 2021-02-05 · 57m
Grainne O’Malley 2021-01-29 · 54m
The Ancient Babylonians 2021-01-22 · 55m
Agrippina the Younger 2021-01-15 · 55m
The Mughal Empire (Radio Edit) 2021-01-06 · 29m
The History of Chocolate (Radio Edit) 2020-12-26 · 29m
The Victorian Christmas (Radio Edit) 2020-12-21 · 29m
Josephine Baker (Radio Edit) 2020-12-16 · 29m
The Mayflower (Radio Edit) 2020-12-12 · 29m
The Witch Craze (Radio Edit) 2020-12-08 · 29m
The History of Football (Radio Edit) 2020-12-05 · 29m
Stonehenge (Radio Edit) 2020-12-01 · 30m
Harriet Tubman (Radio Edit) 2020-11-28 · 29m
Young Napoleon (Radio Edit) 2020-11-21 · 29m
Neanderthals (Radio Edit) 2020-11-21 · 29m
The Aztecs (Radio Edit) 2020-11-14 · 29m
Blackbeard (Radio Edit) 2020-11-14 · 29m
A message from Greg 2020-10-09
The Joe Wicks Podcast: Teaser Episode 2020-09-28 · 11m
The Egyptian Pyramids 2020-09-11 · 53m
Genghis Khan 2020-09-04 · 28m
Notting Hill Carnival 2020-08-28 · 47m
Jack Sheppard 2020-08-21 · 50m
The Haitian Revolution 2020-08-14 · 51m
Vampires in Gothic Literature 2020-08-07 · 48m
The Battle of Salamis 2020-07-31 · 55m
The Mughal Empire 2020-04-03 · 54m
Eleanor of Aquitaine 2020-03-27 · 50m
The History of Chocolate 2020-03-20 · 50m
Josephine Baker 2020-03-13 · 50m
The Ancient Olympics 2020-03-06 · 48m
The Mayflower 2020-03-06 · 48m
Mary Shelley 2020-02-28 · 48m
Neanderthals 2020-02-28 · 47m
You’re Dead To Me 2 2020-02-25 · 6m
The Victorian Christmas 2019-12-13 · 48m
The History of General Elections 2019-11-22 · 48m
Saladin 2019-10-25 · 45m
The Witch Craze 2019-10-21 · 47m
Lord Byron 2019-10-18 · 45m
Stonehenge 2019-10-11 · 47m
The Aztecs 2019-10-04 · 45m
Joan of Arc 2019-09-27 · 48m
Young Napoleon 2019-09-23 · 46m
Justinian and Theodora 2019-09-20 · 48m
Mansa Musa 2019-09-20 · 46m
LGBTQ History 2019-09-20 · 47m
Blackbeard 2019-09-13 · 45m
The History of Football 2019-09-13 · 46m
Harriet Tubman 2019-09-13 · 46m
The Spartans 2019-09-13 · 47m
Boudica 2019-09-13 · 45m
Welcome to You're Dead To Me 2019-09-12 · 3m
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