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Hello, Greg here with some good news, I hope your dead to me is back.

Yes, Series 6 has come rolling into town with a shiny bandwagon of new subjects.

And I'm delighted to say we are launching with a Valentine's special where we're joined

by Carrie Adloybe to learn all about courtship and dating in 18th century Britain.

And then we'll be off to the early mid-lages to learn about the early medieval papacy and

why it was so dangerous being a Pope.

Professor Alison Spital, joining us for that one, will be looking at the ancient Indus

civilization of South Asia back in the Bronze Age with Ahia Shah.

We'll be talking about Sarah Bernhardt, the French celebrity actress of the 19th century,

with Izzy Souti.

Desiree Birch will be back to see if she can become the ultimate quiz queen that episode

is the Colombian exchange, which is all about the world after Christopher Columbus bumped

into the Americas accidentally.

We'll be looking at the history of vital electricity with Olga Koch.

What is vital electricity?

Well, it's sort of the stuff of life, right?

But you know, we'll explain more in the episode.

Atlantis, a total myth, it was never real, but it's a fascinating story, and that's Sophie

Juka in the hot seat for that one.

Agatha Christie, with Sue Perkins and Lucy Wersley, and we're finishing up with Leonardo

Da Vinci.

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