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The history podcast for people who don’t like history… and those who do. Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh about the past.
Greg is the host of the smash hit BBC podcast series ‘You’re Dead To Me’, which pairs up top comedians with top historians to deliver funny, fascinating explorations of the most interesting subjects from global history. It debuted at Number 1 in the Apple Podcast Charts in 2019, was named among their Best of 2019, and is one of BBC Sounds’ flagship podcasts, with 27 million downloads in the first 18 months. Series 3 was shortlisted for the Listeners’ Choice Award at the British Podcast Awards 2021. Series 4 was the most successful series yet for audience figures, becoming BBC Sounds’ top rating podcast. Series 5 is currently in production.
Episode List
- S01E01 – Blackbeard
- S01E02 – Boudica
- S01E03 – Harriet Tubman
- S01E04 – The History of Football
- S01E05 – The Spartans
- S01E06 – Justinian And Theodora
- S01E07 – Mansa Musa
- S01E08 – The History Of LGBT
- S01E09 – The Witch Craze
- S01E10 – Young Napoleon
- S01E11 – Joan of Arc
- S01E12 – The Aztecs
- S01E13 – Stonehenge
- S01E14 – Lord Byron
- S01E15 – Saladin
- S01E16 – The History of General Elections
- S01E17 – The Victorian Christmas
- S02E01 – Neanderthals
- S02E02 – Mary Shelley
- S02E03 – The Ancient Olympics
- S02E04 – The Mayflower
- S02E05 – Josephine Baker
- S02E06 – The History of Chocolate
- S02E07 – Eleanor Of Aquitaine
- S02E08 – The Mughal Empire
- S02E09 – The Battle of Salamis
- S02E10 – Vampires in Gothic Literature
- S02E11 – The Haitian Revolution
- S02E12 – Jack Sheppard
- S02E13 – Notting Hill Carnival
- S02E14 – Genghis Khan
- S02E15 – The Egyptian Pyramids
- S03E01 – Agrippina the Younger
- S03E02 – The Ancient Babylonians
- S03E03 – Grainne O’Malley
- S03E04 – Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine
- S03E05 – The Borgias
- S03E06 – The Asante Empire
- S03E07 – King James VI of Scotland
- S03E08 – The Tang Dynasty
- S03E09 – Old Norse Literature
- S03E10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges
- S03E11 – The Harlem Renaissance
- S03E12 – Becoming America
- S03E13 – Sacagawea
- S03E14 – Prohibition in the USA
- S03E15 – P.T. Barnum
- S04E01 – Ivan the Terrible
- S04E02 – Fairy Tales
- S04E03 – Ramesses The Great
- S04E04 – Nell Gwyn
- S04E05 – The History of High Heels
- S04E06 – Medieval Science
- S04E07 – Sake Dean Mahomed
- S04E08 – Catalhoyuk and the Neolithic Revolution
- S04E09 – Paul Robeson
- S04E10 – Owain Glyndŵr
- S04E11 – Disability in the Ancient World
- S04E12 – Mary Seacole
- S04E13 – The History of Ice Cream
- S04E14 – Mary Wollstonecraft
- S04E15 – Zheng Yi Sao
- S04ESP – Medieval Christmas
