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Hello, I'm Greg Jenner, and good news,

Your Dead to Me, is back for a new series.

Here we go.

Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Mary Beard and Patton Oswald.

I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire.

We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dolion with Tom Allen.

I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down.

And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihelina.

I'm excited.

You're dead to me.

The comedy podcast that takes history seriously.

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I remember finishing work one day, doing my plumbing job, coming back and thought,

oh hang on, I'm passing a DESE pub, and I went in for a medium mixed grill.

Everyone's at the bar laughing at me, now, what are they laughing at?

Because this thing come in, like a rugby ball, a steaming meat.

It's just like sitting in a pub and then they brought the food out and it was incredible.

It was something else.

When you hear about the history of it, the Asian community working in the factories around here,

probably a bit annoyed at pie and mash at lunchtime and thought, you know, let's go to booze and let's do our food

with a pint of beer.

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