Blackbeard (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Greg Jenner is joined by comedian Stu Goldsmith and historian Dr Rebecca Simon for a hilarious look at the life of the infamous pirate, Blackbeard.
Produced by Dan Morelle Scripted by Greg Jenner Researched by Emma Nagouse Radio edit by Cornelius Mendez
A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Greg here. How are you? Hope you're well. Right. Good news, first of all, we are busy recording |
| 0:05.4 | series three of your Dead To Me. Takes a lot of work in fairness, but we are recording a new episode |
| 0:09.6 | this week, and we hope that these series will launch in the early new year just after Christmas. |
| 0:14.4 | That's the plan. So that's exciting. In the meantime, you are possibly aware that we've been playing |
| 0:20.2 | out shorter, swear free versions of your Dead To Me on Radio 4 on Saturday mornings. So we are now |
| 0:27.0 | putting them into the feed for you to be able to access. They will be here permanently. |
| 0:30.7 | The short versions and the full length versions are going to be in the same feed. So just scroll |
| 0:35.2 | down and you'll see the originals. And these are yet half an hour long. They're a bit less rude. |
| 0:40.1 | And of course, we'll see you after Christmas for the new episodes of series three, which is |
| 0:44.8 | shaping up to be a lot of fun. Anyway, I wish you well. Take care yourselves. And we'll see you |
| 0:50.7 | in the new year. Thank you. Bye. |
| 0:57.6 | Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, the history podcast for everyone. People who don't like |
| 1:02.2 | history, for people who do like history, and people who forgot to learn a near school. |
| 1:06.4 | My name is Greg Jenner. I'm a public historian, author, broadcaster, and I'm the chief nerd on the |
| 1:11.9 | BBC comedy show Horrible Histories. And you might have heard my Radio 4 series, Home School History, |
| 1:16.9 | although that was for the kids. So what's this one all about? Well, everything really. In each |
| 1:21.2 | episode, I'm joined by an expert historian who knows their onions and a not remotely expert |
| 1:26.1 | comedian who can do jokes about onions. And today we are splicing the main sale, uncorking our |
| 1:31.7 | rum ration and sealing the high seas with the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Joining me to sort |
| 1:37.9 | fact from fiction and talk all things maritime are two beardless land lovers who thankfully have |
| 1:43.5 | shown no signs of scurvy, at least not yet. In History Corner, we've politely kidnapped her while |
| 1:48.4 | she visits the UK from America because she's literally writing a book on 18th century piracy. |
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