New Series, those about to die only on prime video.

Let the game spagge!

Win or lose.

All must fight to survive.

My son, sure then you can fight.

Enter the arena of the Gladiators, starring Anthony Hopkins.

Nothing is more important than our beloved role.

From the Director of Independence Day.

The moment is upon us.

Kill or be killed.

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Welcome. Welcome to the History Extra Podcast,

Fascinating historical conversations from the on a set of 14th century tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decamaran follows the raucous exploits of a group of

medieval Italian nobles after they flee to the hills to escape an outbreak of the Black Death.

The original text of the Decamarin is one of the key literary sources that scholars have

on the plague pandemic that ravaged Europe in the 1340s. And so with the release of the new series,

we thought it might be interesting to bring you an episode from our archive, all about

the Black Death. Recorded back in 2021,

it features David Musgrove putting your questions on the pandemic

to historian John Hatcher.

Today I'm joined by John Hatcher, who is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Cambridge and author of the Black Death and Intimate History. So today, as always with our Everything You Want to Know, Podcast, we've asked you the audience to submit questions on an interesting topic, and the topic today is the Black Death.

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