Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

You've been immature and you've lied.

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

I was trying to manipulate you.

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

I don't know.

I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,

it's just between us. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthorn.

Welcome to our new four-part mini-series, in which we'll be looking back at festive food from down the ages,

from the fairly revolting to the downright delicious and sadly forgotten dishes that have graced our Christmas tables over the centuries.

I'm joined in this culinary adventure by Annie Gray,

food historian and the author of At Christmas We Feast,

festive food through the ages.

In this first episode, Annie takes us back to the raucous world

of festive feasting in the medieval and Tudor

eras, touching on plum potage, subversive merrymaking, spectacular dinner time entertainments

and even brawn. Thank you so much for joining me to talk about different Christmas

feasts through the ages. We're going to start in this opening episode with a look at

the Tudor and medieval period. To start us off, what sums up the Christmas spirit in the medieval

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