Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.

My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.

It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,

but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.

And because the team is such a diverse range of skills and strengths.

We have trained journalists, people who love digging through archives,

we've got drama and even comedy experts.

We really can do those stories justice.

So if you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find

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Hello, I'm Greg Jenner.

I'm the host of Your Dead to Me.

We are the comedy show that takes history seriously,

and we are back for Series 8 starting with a live episode

recorded at the Hay Literary Festival all about the history of the medieval

printed book in England our comedian there is Robin Ints and then we'll be moving on to the life of Mary Anning, the famous paleontologist of the 19th century with Sarah Pasco.

Then it's off to Germany in the 1920s for an episode on LGBTQ Life in Weymah, Germany with Jordan Gray, and then we'll hop on a ship

all the way back to Bronze Age Crete to learn about the ancient Minoans with Josie Long.

And then back to medieval Scotland to learn about Robert Bruce with

Marilane Robertson. Plus loads more. So that's Series 8 of your dead to me back on Friday, the 5th of July on BBC

Sounds and the 6th of July on Radio 4.

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