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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 – The Aztecs
- S01E02 – Josephine Baker
- S01E03 – Stonehenge
- S01E04 – The Witch Craze
- S01E05 – Young Napoleon
- S01E06 – The History of Chocolate
- S01E07 – The Mughal Empire
- S02E01 – Blackbeard
- S02E02 – Neanderthals
- S02E03 – Harriet Tubman
- S02E04 – The History of Football
- S02E05 – The Mayflower
- S02E06 – LGBT History
- S02ESP – The Victorian Christmas
- S03E01 – Boudica
- S03E02 – Lord Byron
- S03E03 – The Battle of Salamis
- S03E04 – Joan of Arc
- S03E04 – The Egyptian Pyramids
- S03E05 – Genghis Khan
- S04E01 – The Ancient Olympics
- S04E02 – Mary Shelley
- S04E03 – Saladin
- S04E04 – The Haitian Revolution
- S04ESP – Medieval Christmas
- S05E01 – Frederick the Great of Prussia
- S05E02 – Eleanor Of Aquitaine
- S05E03 – The Tang Dynasty
- S05ESP – Christmas with Charles Dickens
- S06E01 – Prohibition in the USA
- S06E02 – The Asante Empire
- S06E03 – Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine
- S06E04 – Grainne O’Malley
- S07E01 – The History of Ice Cream
- S07E02 – Mary Wollstonecraft
- S07E03 – Agatha Christie
- S07E04 – The History of Timekeeping
- S07E05 – Zheng Yi Sao
- S07E06 – Ancient Athenian Democracy
- S07E07 – Nell Gwyn
- S07E08 – Medieval Science
- S07E09 – Atlantis
- S07E10 – Leonardo da Vinci – Live
- S07E11 – Hatshepsut
- S07E12 – P.T. Barnum
- S07E13 – Agrippina the Younger
- S07E14 – Ivan the Terrible
- S07E15 – Victorian Bodybuilding
- S07SP1 – Shakespeare
- S07SP2 – Medieval Ghost Stories
- S08E01 – Catherine the Great
- S08E02 – The History of Kung Fu
- S08E03 – The Bloomsbury Group
- S08E04 – Pythagoras
- S08E05 – Madam C.J. Walker
- S08E06 – Simón Bolívar
- S08E07 – The History of Bollywood
- S08E08 – The Queen of Sheba
- S08E09 – The Inca Empire
- S08E10 – Emma of Normandy
- S08E11 – Ramesses The Great
- S08E12 – Old Norse Literature
- S08ESP – Mozart
- S09E01 – Printing in England
- S09E02 – Mary Anning
- S09E03 – LGBTQ Life in Weimar Germany
- S09E04 – Minoan Civilisation
- S09E05 – Robert Bruce
- S09E06 – Edo Japan
- S09E07 – Alexis Soyer
- S09E08 – Benedetta Carlini
- S09E09 – Palaeolithic Cave Art
- S09E10 – Leif Erikson
- S09E11 – History of Broadway
- S09E12 – Cleopatra
- S09E13 – Frederick Douglass
- S10E01 – Aristotle
- S10E02 – Causes of the British Civil Wars
- S10E03 – The Arts and Crafts Movement
- S10E04 – Catherine de’ Medici
- S10E05 – Sojourner Truth
- S10E06 – Legends of King Arthur
- S10E07 – Hernán Cortés and Malintzin
- S10E08 – Cuneiform
- S10E09 – Arctic Exploration
- S10E10 – History of Coffee
- S10E11 – Marco Polo
- S10E12 – Georgian Courtship
- S10E13 – The Indus Civilisation
- S11E01 – American War of Independence
- S11E02 – Empress Matilda
- S11E03 – Alexandre Dumas
- S11E04 – Kellogg Brothers
- S11E05 – Viking Women wives, weavers and warriors
- S11E06 – Renaissance Beauty hair, makeup and skincare in the 16th century
- S11E07 – India between empires the long 18th century
- S11E08 – Alexandria city of knowledge and culture
- S11E09 – Hannibal of Carthage fearsome enemy of ancient Rome
- S11E10 – Marie Antoinette last French queen before the Revolution
- S11E11 – Jane Austen the life of a Regency literary icon
- S11E12 – The Columbian Exchange
- S11E13 – Early Medieval Papacy
