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You're Dead To Me
You're Dead To Me

You're Dead To Me

  • Radio factual
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2020 - 2025
  • 80 episodes (10 series)

Greg Jenner talks to a comedian and an expert about various historical topics.

  • Due to return on 4th January 2025

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You're Dead To Me

Key details

Genre
Factual
Broadcast
2020 - 2025
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
80 (10 series), plus 2 other episodes
Features
Greg Jenner
Writers
Greg Jenner, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Emma Nagouse
Producers
Dan Morelle, Cornelius Mendez, Emma Nagouse, Greg Jenner and Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow
Companies

Beginning as a podcast in 2019 and later airing on BBC Radio 4 in 2020, You're Dead To Me is a history podcast for people who don't like history - or at least people forgot to learn any at school.

Each episode Greg Jenner is joined by a historian and a comedian to look at a different historical topic. They begin by asking: "So what do you know?", in which they go through what most people will know about the subject, before Greg and his guests discuss the topic in depth. Afterwards Greg's historical guest gets to talk about one particular aspect of the topic in question, uninterrupted, for two whole minutes, in a segement called "The Nuance Window". Finally, the comic guest is asked: "So what do you know now?" and are given a quick-fire 10 question quiz on what they have learned.

Topics covered in the show have included the Aztecs, the history of football, LGBTQ history, the ancient Olympics, the Mughal Empire.

Catch-up

Additional details

Tagline
A history podcast for people who don't like history, or at least people forgot to learn any at school.
Also known as
  • YDTM (Acronym)
Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Saturday 8th August 2020 at 10:30am on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats

Recording details

  • Hay Festival
  • BBC Radio Theatre
  • Shakespeare North Playhouse

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