Are You More Squeamish Than A Shakespearean?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
English teacher Mrs Steele gives Greg and Bella a lesson about just how gross life was in Shakespeare's day.
Greg and Bella will work out if they could survive a day in Elizabethan London; hear about the crazy ideas that informed early medicine and their unlikely cures; find out how women's health was treated differently and see how all these ideas played out in the theatre of the day.
Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.
Get in touch with your funny school stories - email us at teachme@bbc.co.uk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Disclaimer, this podcast contains some really disgusting, revolting Shakespearean facts and |
| 0:09.2 | may not be suitable for listeners of a sensitive disposition. |
| 0:11.8 | What like me? |
| 0:13.0 | Well, oh God. |
| 0:15.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, |
| 0:17.9 | are you more squeamish than a Shakespearean? |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Bella Mackie. |
| 0:21.8 | And I'm Greg James. And is Teach Me a Lesson the |
| 0:24.9 | podcast that hunts out the best teachers from all across the UK and ask them to |
| 0:28.3 | give us and teach us their favorite lesson. Give us and teach us. |
| 0:33.0 | This is our daily bread. |
| 0:35.0 | Guys, we think learning is for life, not just for Christmas. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh, this year we welcome these brilliant, creative fun and that's genuinely hilarious |
| 0:50.8 | teachers into our BBC Sounds Porter-Cubbin to hear the |
| 0:54.4 | brilliant lessons that they teach us week in, week out. Question Greg, yes. Is |
| 1:00.0 | there one Christmas party worthy fact that sticks out in your mind from any of the lessons that we've learned this year? |
| 1:05.8 | Yes, okay, my favorite fact that we've learned from this series is that the best way to make a crowd go wild is to mention the |
| 1:13.9 | tolland man. |
| 1:14.8 | Good fact. |
| 1:15.8 | Let's relive the moment from the |
| 1:18.0 | podcast where the tollend man |
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