BUNKER DAILY: Horrible Historian GREG JENNER on crisis, Corona and celebrity

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🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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He advises on the BBC’s Horrible Histories and now he’s podcasting to keep kids from going stir-crazy on lockdown. Historian GREG JENNER tells Ian Dunt what the Plague in 17th Century Florence can tell us about public emergencies, why past crises are no guide to what could happen in this one, and his new book Dead Famous: An Unexpected History Of Celebrity From Bronze Age To Silver Screen. It seems political celebrity is 300 years old, and one Dr Henry Sacheverell was the incendiary Nigel Farage of 1709… “I’ve seen people on Twitter asking ‘Is this how socialism arrives?’ Are these the test conditions for things like Universal Basic Income? This is not a normal crash.” “As a historian I’m fascinated, but as a person I have no idea what’s going to happen next.” There’s a BUNKER DAILY every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and the main full-length panel show every Wednesday morning. Lockdown conditions mean we’re having to use available audio tech, so please bear with our variable sound quality. We’re working on it. Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.1	can't find in Tesco's anymore I'm Ian Duntt from politics dot-code at UK and before we meet
1:18.9	our guest a quick reminder that we're doing the bunker versus Romaniacs live stream on Thursday
1:24.0	evening right after the NHS round of applause at 8 p.m. We're finalizing the
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1:35.2	The coronavirus has created a historic moment in Britain and the world and our
1:39.3	guest today probably influences more young minds about history than anyone else.
1:44.0	Greg Jenner advises horrible histories on CBBC, hosts the You Dead to Me podcast on BBC Sounds
1:50.1	and his new book, Dead Famous and Unexpected History of Celebrity, is out now.
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