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Uranus has a star called Miranda.

And he pleasureed the ladies with it.

Just the ladies?

I'm poetry is such bobbets, isn't it?

I know.

I mean, come on.

He's easy-peasy.

Did Cromwell have a massive penis?

Brum-Bum!

She's a Canadian, too. Hello and welcome to.

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Where Politics Meets History podcast.

I'm Ian Dale sounding very, very sexy today with my cold.

Well, that's what I like to think.

I'd probably sound like a horrible old pervo or something.

But we have a new guest host today because Tessa is on the last day of her Spanish holiday.

I don't think Tessa is somebody who goes very brown.

So I'm going to make the most of that when I see her at the weekend in Edinburgh.

Miranda Malins is here. If we were on the Steve Wright Show, we'd all be whooping and clapping now. So, but given there's only two of us in the studio, that doesn't seem appropriate. Welcome. Thank you, Ian. Thank you so much for having me. And you do sound very sexy. I can confirm that as the person in the studio. You have to say that, don't you? I do. I do. Just introduce yourself because for people who don't know you, I think I build you as an Oliver Cromwell, officiando. Is that the right word? Yes. It's interesting. That terminology, isn't it? Because I think you might have used the word obsessive or fan or something. I should just clarify from the outset that I don't have a tattoo

of Cromwell in the way that Charlotte does of Charles II. Just put that out there so the visual is clear.

But I'm a historian of the English Civil Wars of the mid 17th century and of Oliver Cromwell and his family in particular.

And I've published a couple of

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