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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me,

a history podcast for everyone.

For people who don't like history, people who do like history and people who forgot to

learn any at school.

My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster and I'm the chief nerd

on the BBC comedy show Horrible History.

You may also heard my other podcast, Home School History, although that one's mostly

for the kids.

In this podcast we take a bit of serious and a sliver of silly to serve up a steaming hot

slice of history pie.

Mmm.

Today we are popping on our togas and tunics and journeying all the way back to classical

Rome, to the first century CE, to meet Agrappina the Younger, an Empress, Mother of

An Emperor, and one of the most astonishing, slash dangerous, women in the ancient world.

And to help me separate the truth from the Tatltales, I'm joined by two very special

guests.

In History Corner, she has a PhD in Ancient History and is an expert on all things Roman,

she's the author of a magnificent new book, a fatal thing happened on the way to the

forum about murder in the Roman world, Andy.

But more handy, of course, is that she's also the biographer of Agrappina the Younger.

And you'll remember her from our episode about Budica, it's Dr Emma Southern.

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