Hi everybody, I hope you're all keeping safe and well and 99% indoors. I just wanted to let you

know about a very exciting guest we've got on the show today. It is historian Greg Jenner,

you'll probably recognize him from his previous appearances on this show or from his own podcast,

Your Dead To Me, which is sort of a comedy history podcast. He gets fantastic guests on. It's

really a great listen. And he also has a book out at the moment. He has a brand new book called

Dead Famous. It's about the history of celebrity. I've already started reading it. It's a

relicking good read. It covers a whole bunch of historic celebrities from the 1700s onwards.

And if you thought that throwing your underwear at celebrities was a modern phenomenon, then

don't you worry, it's got historic precedent. You can always use that as your defence.

You'll find out that and lots more stuff in his book, so that's Dead Famous. Go all to the book

now, Dead Famous by Greg Jenner. And spoiler alert, you're about to hear about one of those

historic celebrities in the upcoming podcast. So without further ado, let's get on with the show.

Hello and welcome to another working from home episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly

podcast coming to you from our respective solitary pods. My name is Anna Toshinsky and I am sitting

here in my home and in their homes we have James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray and historian Greg Jenner.

And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last

seven days in no particular order. Here we go, starting with you Greg. Thank you very much.

Okay, my fact is in 1825, Britain's most famous actor was nearly murdered by his own furious

audience. Was he murdering a role at the time? No, no, it's quite a complicated story. His name

was Edmund Keane and he was an absolute genius. He was the greatest actor of the 19th century.

Still to this day greatly revered as a Shakespearean actor, but he was an absolute bellend. He was

just the worst guy. I love him. He's my favourite. He's sort of the star of my new book because he

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